skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a perfectly fine approach to life to acknowledge the role played by luck. I don't pretend I'm completely in control and all my success is solely due to my superior grit and intellect (and, of course, even having those traits at all is still just luck). Nonetheless, I've done perfectly fine. My life has improved fairly consistently for about 20 years to the point it is better than I ever reasonably expected it would ever be.

So no, I don't think you need to buy into myths to improve your life. By all means, make the smartest moves you can with the hand you're dealt, but you have absolutely no control over what hand you're dealt. If you got lucky, good for you. Plenty of others got lucky and squandered it. I'm not saying don't feel proud of yourself. But don't forget the many people who never even got the chance. You're not better than them and neither am I.
How about you explain to me your proposal for SARS-2 eradication, and then I’ll explain why it’s unrealistic?
I didn't mean to say the fact that the interval exists makes it uncertain, I meant to say the fact that it is a 67% spread makes it uncertain. They are saying that they have narrowed the effect down to within that spread with a 95% chance. That combined with sources of uncertainty not covered by that intervale (Listed in their limitations: missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and of course inconclusive results) definitely make it sound pretty inconclusive.

There is also the limitation that there was "no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others."

The article explicitly states "The findings, however, should not be used to conclude that a recommendation for everyone to wear masks in the community would not be effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infections, because the trial did not test the role of masks in source control of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
>We assess the impact of newspaper closures on polarized voting, using genetic matching to compare counties that are statistically similar but for the loss of a local newspaper. We identify a small but significant causal decrease in split-ticket voting in presidential and senatorial elections in these matched communities: in areas where a newspaper closed, split-ticket voting decreased by 1.9%.

A 1.9% decrease as a result in a social science experiment does not exactly feel like a lot to me. The paper is paywalled, but I'd love to see their community matching methods and confidence intervals.

EDIT:
Found it [0]

The paper tests how 66 communities (defined as only the county that the newspaper is headquartered in) with closed newspapers voted in 2012. The experiment tests for how many people split their vote only among President and Senator. Those communities skew very white (76% vs. 60% US average) and way over-represented the US East Coast + Midwest.

Even taking all of that for granted, when they ran a placebo test on the 2008 election, they found literally the same difference (1.9%), just with a higher standard deviation (so they could call the result not significant).

I don't think Facebook is good for news at all (we probably agree that it is by design polarizing), but local papers are not the salvation many make them out to be.

0: https://joshuadarr.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/8/1/51819147/darr_...
Moderna seems to ve bettee overall (more effextive, effectice against variants, fewer side effects). I ghess time will tell on the safety of mRNA vaccines.
I have lived in Mexico for about three years. I'm sure its not as fabulous as what you were imagining. But it is affordable for me working on startup 'wages' (contracting income from individually funded 'startups').

First I lived in a little shack in front of someone's house for $700 on AirBnb for like two weeks. Then I moved to a place right on the beach but a very loud and touristy area for $800 per month.

Then I moved to a bigger apartment in a normal less loud beach area for $550 a month.

Now about six months ago I am in a little apartment at the edge of a mansion in a gated community in Ensenada. Only paying $450. The annoying thing is last two months there has been some major remodeling upstairs.

Honestly I have been working mostly from home for like ten years. I rarely go out. The closest thing to socializing for me is usually Eleven Table Tennis in VR or sometimes Demeo. Spend way too much time on YouTube.

In TJ there was a big issue with water being turned off over the whole city sometimes. The place I am in now further south has a very large backup water tank so that hasn't impacted me recently except that I was conserving water a bit more.

I mostly just order food or groceries on Rappi or Uber Eats.

For someone who is kind of a hermit like me, things haven't changed a ton. And in this area many people speak some English so that hasn't been a huge deal. Although I have got lots of practice for my awful Spanish with Uber drivers etc.
We either should take all variables into account or we shouldn't you can't have it both ways. Or was that not what you meant?
Yes, but slightly different dosing interval as well.
Moderna estimated to have half the risk of break through infection by delta variant.

Moderna and Pfizer both have comparable (low) risk of hospitalization and death when infected with delta variant.

Primary difference vaccines is dosage (Moderna had a bit over 3x amount of material per shot) and maybe scheduling (Pfizer was scheduled for 21 days between shots, Moderna for 28 - though given how shots were actually administered in reality, this is probably a wash).

Study design has many limitations, but is probably reasonably generalizable.

As a Canadian with combo Pfizer+Moderna, I am personally curious what my risk profile would look like. I wonder if a similar study on Canadian data could be useful - an intermediate risk profile for the combo shot would sure be persuasive evidence.

Edit: Removed ambiguity in second sentence.
Just to play devil's advocate here what about somebody who has a superior DPI laser mouse versus somebody who has a standard rollerball mouse. What about people who use monitors with higher refresh rates like 144 Hertz, what about keyboards that have no ghosting and unlimited key rollover.

Do players who can afford these premium gaming and hardware devices have an unfair advantage?

Just to be clear I don't really have any skin in the game I don't play competitive multiplayer video games at all.
Adobe Flex data grid had it all figured out. It was by far the best data grid component I ever had an opportunity to work with.

Back in 2010 I contracted for an aircraft spares supplier in the UK. All their work was based on the grids. The main ones were a supply order and a purchase order. Creating either order was done through an editable grid with many items per order, one per row. Tabbing through to the end of the row added a new editable row, focused the part number field and allowed the user to start typing the part number. While typing, suggestions would show up. Once the part number was in, they would move through the columns and put stuff like price, quantity, unit of measure, select oldest batches in case of a sales order and an item with a shelf life. In case of a PO, it would automatically bring in items booked in for items on a back order.

It was awesome. Worked flawlessly regardless of the resolution, I could put any Flex component in a cell with just a few lines of actionscript. Flex would scale everything properly with its percentage based sizing.

It’s fascinating that 11 years later, we still don’t have anything comparable to Flex. There are some good grid components out there but none are as simple to program as Flex grid.
Unfortunately, we don't plan to support fighting games in near future.
hmmm, I think you should be able to use four leading spaces on HN to get monospaced text:

| class | handles payments | video lessons | interactive |
| Udemy | Y | Y | N |
| Slip | Y | Y | Y |
| XYZ | N | N | Y |

edit: sweet! worked like a charm
Does it matter how much money you have when you walk into an empty store?
Partly because in my experience this:

> Everyone knows the rules and uses signals on bike lanes as well.

… is not true. Mostly because I’ve been on too many separated bike lanes that really aren’t separated—in really dangerous ways—and can’t be without eliminating the car traffic entirely.

As an example: there is a separated lane in downtown Seattle. It runs along a one way road, on the left hand side. The road has frequent signals for left hand turns, with separate stop signals for cyclists and cars. The stop signals for cyclists are smaller and uncommon, so they’re easy to miss. And they’re timed in an unusual order that frequently confuses cyclists and drivers alike.

All of those things led to several cases where I was nearly hit by a car anyway, under conditions that just don’t exist in shared traffic.

And this lane like many others has a beginning and an end, where cars can and frequently do mistakenly enter.

If all of that is not enough, some parts of the lane also has parking to its right, with ramps on either side for pedestrians to access/exit their vehicle, which are often used for deliveries to local businesses, often large deliveries where the delivery person has limited vision.

All of those things are more dangerous, and more likely to result in collisions and accidents (at least in my mostly bike-friendly city) than just normal traffic flow.

Sure this example is particularly badly designed. But it’s not dissimilar to many others I’ve ridden.

This is all not to mention dedicated but non-separated lanes where getting doored by people parking is common and drivers frequently use as a passing lane.

In those cases, the otherwise well accepted (here) “if it’s unsafe beside car traffic, take the lane” is considered an affront by a lot of drivers who expect you to stay in the bike lane. So now you have the added risk of road rage for no good reason.

I can absolutely understand why anyone would prefer these trade offs. But to me they make everything about riding in mixed traffic more perilous, and I’d prefer the risk where I know everyone is following the same set of rules.
Mainly as a form of art - I was getting into generative art at the time and wanted to be able to print a few posters. I haven't gotten back into it for several months now but I've been meaning to :)
In fraud analysis, we look for too much access (what we call improper segregation of duties). This is pretty common at smaller organizations, so it can help to look for additional red flags. Fraudsters commonly show up earlier and stay later. They rarely take vacations. The goal is to control as much as possible and avoid having others review your work!
It works mostly well (if the webpage is not trying to be too smart). There're Safari and Chrome extensions.
I'm surprised the conversation is just around the mechanics of Uber making money, clearly, they can't. How about the middling (affectionately known as "disintermediation) of the restaurants then demanding they join uber eats? These businesses have finally banded together and are suing Uber, but damn, they're small businesses. This is a fight they can ill afford.
While there is probably some benefit to the concept of impostor syndrome being discussed now and then, most discussions wreak of false humility.

Very rarely are coveted positions acquired by merit alone, getting there required some degree of Machiavellianism, some amount of self-promotion, and some level of calculated risk taking.

Imagine hiring/promoting someone who wasn't in that headspace -- it would be a major risk because of the risk that the person's ego is not going to be able to handle it.

Humans telegraph subtle signs of Machiavellianism during the selection process as a way of conveying a lack of naivete.

But humans also telegraph hints of impostor syndrome to counteract the possibility that they be perceived as overly Machiavellian.

Statistically, most social, business and political leaders are high in "dark triad" personality traits. This is not an accident. Such traits are considered ethical and acceptable in moderation.

So per the article, a real "impostor" is someone trying to deceive. By definition, impostor syndrome is someone who is not trying to misrepresent her skills/qualifications.

I suspect that a psychological test that measured the desire to conceal dark triad traits would find a correlation between such concealment and the deliberate display of insecurity about impostor syndrome.

Imagine Usain Bold holding his head in his hands and saying "I don't think I'm really the fastest, how did I get here?" It wouldn't happen because Bolt has nothing to gain from saying that to anyone.
They said that 97% of their users are already on subscriptions. I get that local vault users are disappointed, but there's an app for you and it's called Bitwarden.

I think 1Password made a smart business decision. By cutting loose the need to support local vaults, they can focus more development energy on other things that 97% of their users will appreciate. It's a numbers game.

That said...Electron? Ugh. I already spend half my day grumbling about the Slack app.
Pfizer is 30 micrograms per dose, Moderna is 100 micrograms per dose.
> If the same thing happens with Netflix, it also won't keep me from watching Netflix content, I'll just stop paying for it

The Disney+ one sounded like a (hilarious) bug in their logic. Not sure why that would translate to Netflix

Edit: I may have misunderstood. I thought Disney+ was blocking the user from paying for Disney+ but not from streaming Disney+. I missed the implication that they started pirating the content.
I see a bunch of people who are so disheartened with their prospects of buying a house etc that they are YOLO/FuckItAll regarding money.

There was a HN story a few onths ago saying they are borrowing big to gamble on the stock market. And why not? They have little money. To go bankrupt is not much of a loss compared to a potential financial lotto payoff. I wouldn't try it, but I see why some think that way.
I wasn't really disagreeing with you, just pointing out that Youtube's idea of what should be censored is not as settled as basic first grade math is, yet they act like A) it is and B) they are teachers and their users are first graders and it's their job to ensure only the right answers are taught.
AstraZeneca vaccine: rare blood clot syndrome has high mortality rate
They aren't as expensive as you'd expect[1][2] ($70-$200). Hell, you could use a RPi for many use cases.

In my case, my homelab is my laptop (which I connect to from my desktop). I don't actually have a server blade lying around (although those can also be relatively cheap when big cloud upgrades their servers).

[1]: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dell+optiplex+3040+micr...
[2]: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=intel+nuc&_udhi=200&_ud...
Yes, I would agree that private arms rarely, bordering on never, have much effect either way, unless a government is already extremely weak, and then the arms often aid in establishing (perhaps another, rather than a new one) tyranny, not ending it.
> Moderna and Pfizer both have comparable (low) risk of hospitalization and death.

This is still probably the most important overall point.
I propose that impostor syndrome sometimes has more to do with the system rather than the individual. A well-meaning and bright individual working within a fraudulent system will catch glimpses of the fraud: "things my superiors tell me don't quite make sense" - and blame themselves: "I guess I'm just not smart enough"
So only fanatics can disagree with you, is that how we should understand your setup?

Regardless, call me a fanatic, but a big part of individual rights, and I believe liberal democracy, not just libertarianism, is not to be subject to other people's panic. Whether that is a border wall or its enforced mobility and gathering restrictions, there are things the government should just not be allowed to do, because they allow for a tyranny of the majority.

There have been discussions, long before covid and largely precipitated by Trump, about how our system only works if we all generally follow some norms and don't abandon them in some kind of populist panic. I would argue this is what's happened here.

It's not acceptable that there are magic words (science says, "public health is a real thing that matters" as you say) that anyone can say that allows government to bypass civil liberties and impose stuff on people. Freedoms only actually exist if there is weight behind them and they can't just be discarded when someone shouts that lives are at stake.

For me it's not a question of disagreeing with any science about how covid is transmitted or vaccines or severity. People should behave sensibly about it and do what they can to limit the impact. Giving power to government just creates populist measures designed to cater to the masses and make them feel good (exactly like a border wall). This is not a power government should have. Call me a fanatic (religious type as you say)
Germany arrests British diplomat suspected of spying for Russia
Yes, I am aware. I was responding to this bit:

> This seems preferable - the editor runs on your local machine with low latency, but you still run tests on the cloud machine.
Really, I would suggest you read up about Peru. They're one of the more multicultural countries in the Americas, they've got multiculturalism enshrined in their constitution.
Maybe measure - and hear me out on this one - all team members equally, factoring in their total comp. How much more productive is the team for having the individual on the team, regardless of their demographics.
"This is what the night sky would look like here if you didn't live within 100 miles of a pokestop."
> There is no study showing that masks slow the spread of sars-2 in a community

You say that, and yet "At least ten studies have confirmed the benefit of universal masking in community level analyses"

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

And the website goes on to list each of them, as well as a number of other studies relating to the effectiveness of masking.
The actual CDC best estimate is a 99.4% survival rate overall in the US since the pandemic started.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Of course the survival rate is much higher than that now for vaccinated people.
sigh ... _no_

I thought the selection would give a pretty idea of what people mean by "no new normal".
My marriage license. My wife enriches my life immensely.
In fraud analysis, we look for these red flags! Fraudsters come to the office earlier and stay later than others. They take on as much as possible to expand their access and take no vacations to make it so that others never review their work.

Fraudsters looks a lot like a great employee! To avoid this, implement healthy segregation of duties. Trust is great but also the fraudsters greatest weapon.
I have the money to pay for this but right now this app is called bittorrent.

I maybe am making too much of an assumption about your financial status, but I don't think you do. Because there's not like... an actual market for media.

The price, like any monopoly, is how effectively they can price discriminate combined with what they think they can ask. You ask "How much?", the answer is "What you got?".
Crafting Product Tours in Vue JavaScript
Couldn't you look yourself up and adjust your playstyle accordingly? Like "oh, these guys will be expecting me to do X, but now I'm going to do Y instead to throw them off".
Ran into a kid at a birthday party that had an unhealthy obsession with sneaking the matches away. The look on their face when They realized I was watching, and the other parents were distracted, was disturbing. Their parent blew it off, but the obsession was intense.
It's too easy to for Google&Apple to tip the scales. Choice will mostly be an illusion as almost everyone will choose Google or Apples store. You can see it on Android today.
I think there's some value in a product that lets you make data driven insights. My own analysis usually means VOD review, which is great, but if I had useful data to explore in a more unstructured way I suspect I could derive some value for myself.

But every product I see is hyper focused on doing the actual analysis for you in a way that is always overly simplistic and virtually never useful.
As an aside, you can see the way the parent (comment you replied to) wanted to shift the conversation to some kind of definition of terms argument instead of actually discussing any salient points. And how they jumped on your example and used it as a kind of strawman to dismiss and explain why your point is baseless.
Yes, and that is how they will train the AI that will replace us all. It's a brilliant strategy, so I can't help but play along.
Wait, was your combo shot one of each? or two of each? I've been curious to learn more about getting both (already had two Pfizer) but resources on the matter are hard to find
> Do you really think the US government should have the power to force you to "debunk" something?

You're the only one suggesting that the government might be forcing anyone to do anything.

Calling this a blatant first amendment violation is an over the top knee-jerk reaction to the headline; it's a hot take that is completely unsubstantiated in the article itself.
But some of the businesses we’re selling your data to, are small businesses. See? See how that turns everything around?
IIRC, the early consensus wasn't that they were useless, it's that there was no RCT that said they were effective. That's a big difference. Our understanding now is different.

If this was Sen. Paul's only statement--that most masks are ineffective--that would have been a bigger judgement call.

Sen. Paul, however, continued by saying that not only is it a fact they are ineffective, but Dr. Fauci knows this and is thereby lying to the American people.

That's way out of bounds for scientific discourse, and even for differences of opinion in normal discourse.
> They have names, addresses,

This is a phrase I have seen numerous times before on the internet, always in contexts which make clear this is a call to violence.
We’re All Investors Now (2013)
How about increase the budget for education and include critical thinking in classes
Running Doom on a Landline
Time already told.