skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, we're putting unnatural selection pressure on the viruses by leveraging vaccines that are leaky, this has in at least one example been shown to produce a deadlier pathogen for unvaccinated. So, maybe you had ought to be a little more skeptical about your risk assessments when the data isn't yet in and may never be until it is. And as for the philosophical conundrum, I'd posit that it's far safer to maintain the known function than it is the novel, keep the defaults. We've of course more or less crossed the Rubicon.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...
> we will help you find a good place, where you will earn more and work even less

Wow what an underhanded insult. “We can help you be the lazy, unmotivated slacker you secretly aspire to be”
Like I said, contrived example. Though, it's a specific example of a more general pattern where you have a bunch of objects that you need to send a message to. You might use this for event handling in the guts of a game engine.
The bandwidth usage is low unless you're DDoSed.

It may be prudent to have some of your own distributed servers act as hidden masters, and then use a DNS anycast service for the publicly listed servers.
One major point of OP was that the functions defined in operators are faster. Grandparent comment argued that there is a measurement error that invalidates this point, since properly defined lambdas (or defs) are just as fast.

Of course the point regarding the simplicity of importing a function instead of defining it still stands.

I personally wouldn't mind defining those functions as they are very immediate. So from the article I would take only the part about the more exotic "operator".
> Our vision is for a World Wide Web that is more inclusive, and more respectful of its users: a Web that supports truth better than falsehood, people more than profits, humanity rather than hate.

I support the principles, but I can't give the real implementation a passing grade.
I don't know if it's true but we were always taught in the History of Maths course at Cambridge[1] that Pythagoras did not exist, or at least there was no evidence of a specific person called Pythagoras. Further if you followed the footnotes in most any research on the subject (especially claims that the Egyptians or Babylonians knew the theorem) you almost always end up at a loose end.

[1] https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/tutor/pier...
Good point. The FAQ needs updating anyway, so I'll get this on my to do list ASAP. BTW I might have switched the two video links.
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The problem is that you think a high school biology class is sufficient to understand the broader implications.

What is the limitation of this study? For example, in the context of the paper, "immunity" means that your immune system mounts an immediate response. Do the antibodies created attack variants equally effectively relative to vaccines? Are they better? Worse?

This paper is one data point. Your high school biology class won't teach you how to understand the limitations of the paper. That's why we have people who study this for decades.

Don't mistake your "high school biology class" with expertise.
https://www.allencarr.com/easyway-stop-smoking/how-to-quit/

Really, just buy the book. But don't worry about the ceremonies of having that final cigarette. What's important is the base idea. Your mind has been tricked and tricked you in return, and all you need to do is decide to stop playing its games.
Yes, that’s how it worked. The rather major point you are missing is that things change.
right : the article points out CD* killer cells target shared across variants nucleotide protein sequences, which the vaccines don't?
> In a very real sense, if natural antibodies are durable, persistent, and effective; the vaccine is an unnecessary medical procedure. Doctors would not cut off your legs for no reason; that would be unethical.

Taking a vaccine is not equivalent to cutting off someone's legs. It's an accepted practice in every modern society to prevent unnecessary pain, suffering, and death.

> Yet, we have an increasing number of venues, workplaces, and events which are requiring proof of vaccination to participate. This is forcing both people who already have antibodies, and even people who can't make antibodies (e.g. immunocompromised, solid organ transplant, etc), to undergo a medical procedure for little to no benefit.

Getting a COVID vaccine is the only way you can help someone who is immunocompromised since they can't take it. They have to rely on the rest of us to provide relative herd immunity. Even if you think you have antibodies, getting a vaccine is the best way to make sure, and allows health officials to make informed decisions based on vaccination rates.

Why would you think there's no benefit to preventing painful sickness and death for your neighbors? I have zero tolerance or patience left for fair weather patriots who refuse wear a mask or get a shot because maintaining their political identity is more important than doing their best to make sure a fellow citizen doesn't die alone in a COVID ward. It's a staggering display of cowardice and selfishness.

Grow the fuck up. Wear a mask. Get the shot. It's the very least you can do.
The stabilized spike used in several of the vaccines appears to offer better resistance to new infection than convalescent immunity.

(The theory is that the vaccine antibodies do a better job of binding to the active site on infectious virus particles than the antibodies induced from infection, which bind to whichever part of the virus, and may bind to the form the active site takes after attaching to a cell, rather than prior)

Also, getting the vaccine as early as it is available is a better way to avoid long Covid than getting the vaccine after you've had a course of infection.
What working from home looks like around the world
This study shows that those who have had COVID but are unvaccinated have 2.3x the risk of reinfection compared to those who had COVID and are vaccinated. 246 patients, 492 controls.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
A broader set of antibodies does not necessarily have to be beneficial. They might be targeting parts of the virus that could change without it losing its function. The spike protein seems to be close to indispensable for this virus. Targetting it specifically instead of just 'something', might therefore be the preferable thing.
Good post! It's an interesting role reversal. Usually Unix is all about passing raw strings around whereas Windows is much more comfortable with passing structured data (see also COM).

I would warn that "CommandLineToArgvW" does not necessarily do what the C runtime does. They are different implementations.

Also your main problem in that post seems to have been in using `cmd.exe` and DOS utilities. The command prompt is all about mimicking DOS and not breaking .bat files from 80s and 90s. It's essentially stuck in stasis. Powershell is the actively developed shell (now on version 7).
> These companies think they’re the patricians of internet discourse. The reality is they’re the plumbing.

That was true until they started promoting and demoting content in order to drive engagement and juice their ad revenues.

Big tech is not plumbing. The minute Facebook invented the news feed they became editors and content promoters.

If they really want to just be plumbing, they can shut down their algorithms any time.

As an aside, I picked on that part of the post because the rest of it quickly pivots away from tech and reads as a self-promoting, semi-unhinged rant about covid that reads like the drunken ramblings of Q adjacent anarcho-libertarian, complete with the big hits: references to the "Davos elite", hydrochloroquine, ivermectin, Evil Dr. Fauci, etc, etc.

Which reminds me, I should probably flag this post given it's relevance to HN is glancing at best...
It would not be any more expensive than what Russia spent to build that portion. Moreover, accounting for depreciation, it’s not at all colossal.
> Actually being infected with Covid (symptomatic) probably does confer the best immunity possible, for sure.

I don't think so. We have multiple links in this thread that say otherwise.
Melancholy. So young but so old. Wandering without direction. Waking up. Will there be a spinoff? Something to bring meaning?
They eventually did, it was called Ovi Store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovi_(Nokia)
One has to wonder if you couldn't eventually just build a large centrifuge on the Moon. Put a toroid on some kind of magnetic bearing and rotate it. It should be easier than on Earth anyway since you're supporting only one sixth of the weight of the structure. Even just as sleeping/recreational facilities, it still might be worth it in the long run.
There is already a book that does this (although I would definitely recommend doing what you are doing): Russell Napier's Anatomy of the Bear.

Tangentially, it is kind of interesting that very few people in markets use this kind of historical information to learn more about markets. Russell Napier runs a library in Edinburgh that is composed solely of economic and financial history books. You can have all the technical information in the world, it won't help you avoid the impact of human psychology. I suppose this is why financial cycles happen, the old guys retire, the new guys who have only known a bull market get into it...same mistakes over and over.

To give you a concrete example, I did my thesis on US monetary policy in the 50/60s. The understanding of this period within economics is based almost entirely on the view that economists have of themselves today. If you read the minutes, you see that the Fed understood why inflation was rising in the late 60s but were unable to do anything about it. This grey area of political independence is, of course, totally forgotten today (when you have a former Fed chair as Treasury Secretary, alarm bells should be going off...but, of course, this is all long forgotten).
To add to the list:

"Kentucky residents who were not vaccinated had 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with those who were fully vaccinated (odds ratio [OR] = 2.34; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.58–3.47). These findings suggest that among persons with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, full vaccination provides additional protection against reinfection."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
I’m more impressed that the first smartphone is only 14 years old and it has changed so much to our lives:

- First, it developed the usage of superficial socialization (lifestyle show-off, body photos, up to lewd behaviors or prostitution, depression for a lot of people, massive societal dopamine addiction),

- Second, Youtube was the world wild web of all politics and militant movements,

- We’re in a third phase where most of it is under control, not tight but clearly guided, with many people doubting the accuracy of both sides. The phase of defiance.

3 phases (in my opinion) in just a few years, each of them responsible for negative societal shifts (from democratized prostitution to the invasion of Congress), and also positive ones (tech progress, political progress too, to be honest). Who knows what’s next?
Can't say I agree with you. Off the top of my head, I couldn't remember what the symbol for xor was (since it hasn't come up once in many years of my programming), but I certainly do know what the word xor stands for.
as for Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley-Blackwell: yeah, them too. Forgot to mention those.

The paid journals take research which is mostly paid for with public or non-profit money, and hide it behind paywalls. You can't avoid this fact.

Their "reputation" is mostly just a legacy, like the New York Times'. At one time they sent out paper journals, which was the only way information could be disseminated, and charged libraries reasonable fees. There was a manageable number of such journals so a library could get most or all of them. That world is gone.
Every time I look at a therapist while seeking treatment, they always put a disclaimer on their insurance page that a diagnosis is required to be paid for claims. Maybe it's just my state.
That is why the local vault option was the best in my mind, and then using DropBox/Resilio/etc to sync. It is very unfortunate that they are no longer supporting local vaults in the next version.
The pre-bacteria theory is pretty shaky fyi. There is evidence for relevant biomass-degrading bacteria being ubiquitous at the times of coal/oil formation. A more plausible theory imo is that geological conditions in the paleozoec/mesozoeic era lent themselves to greater fossil fuel formation - greater tectonic activity alone would produce the flooding and interment processes necessary to push significant volumes of biomass down to fuel the process.
What a blast from the past! I used runasdate to run a Neural Network software using time-lagged RNNs beyond the trial period. In my defense, I was a poor undergrad and couldn't afford the license fee of the software (Circa 2010).
I think the 2008 financial crisis showed most millennials that they would never be able to own anything of real worth and value from their work alone, that they would not accrue their own generational wealth but instead inherit from their parents (if they inherit at all), and that unless you're born into the big club, are useful to the big club, or are a massive outlier, that hard work and personal sacrifice will not materially improve your condition in life.

At least that's what I got from it as an "elder millennial" (born in the very early 1980s).
This game changed my mind about what is possible for an open source game.

I'm also wondering when they will stop calling it alpha.
> Reed Elsevier and the other rent seekers

I don't think your fundamental thesis of "only Elsevier is blamed" holds up to the post you replied to.
Yes. We know that it is based on the papers explaining how it works.
You can’t compare a longitudinal study with a cross sectional study. This study doesn’t account for the time dependent decay of vaccines’ immunity. There is more than one dimension to optimize for.
Probably not as clear cut as that. The OP study suggests that vaccines can be improved from learnings from natural immunity.

> "Overcoming the challenges to end the pandemic is accentuated by the recognition that SARS-CoV-2 can undergo rapid antigenic variation that may lower vaccine effectiveness in preventing new cases and progression to severe disease. Our findings show that most COVID-19 patients induce a wide-ranging immune defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection, encompassing antibodies and memory B cells recognizing both the RBD and other regions of the spike, broadly-specific and polyfunctional CD4+ T cells, and polyfunctional CD8+ T cells. The immune response to natural infection is likely to provide some degree of protective immunity even against SARS-CoV-2 variants because the CD4+ and CD8+ T cell epitopes will likely be conserved. Thus, vaccine induction of CD8+ T cells to more conserved antigens such as the nucleocapsid, rather than just to SARS-CoV-2 spike antigens, may add benefit to more rapid containment of infection as SARS-CoV-2 variants overtake the prevailing strains."
Precisely. I just have a problem with them being hypocrite.
TL;DR

Total trip time: 17h42m.

Driving time: 11h18m (64% of the total trip time).

Charging time: 6h24m (36% of the total trip time).
Switch bank if that is so important to you.

I only use banks that provide access via ATM and Web, in addition to apps.
Orwell was a leftist, but also opposed totalitarian societies. "1984" was a dystopia to expose such totalitarian societies. Unfortunately, much of what he described as a horror scenario in "1984" is already reality today, without people being bothered by it anymore.
Nothing because these files won’t trigger a match.
This appendix, along with the chapters that are except from "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", are actually my favorite parts of 1984. I enjoyed how "Principals of Newspeak" is written in a past tense when describing the language and the events of year 1984, it feels like a glimmer of hope that somehow mankind did indeed escape the horrific dystopian world otherwise presented in the book.
Hats off to the 0ad team. It is a great game with a fun AI to play against. Give it a try - however, it is pretty addicting.

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad
>"It's ok I have nothing to hide"

I don't remember that ever being a popular take on reddit.

But still, how do you know it's "the same people"? There are a lot of users who hold all kind of opinions.
ohhh good rec
I hope this gets more traction.

The true takeaway to 1984 was this appendix and it’s implications. The panopticon of Oceania merely a side-effect and tool for enforcing this new world of Newspeak.
Agreed. This article, while interesting enough, is clearly written by someone who is not an addict and does not have close/intimate relationships with any addicts.

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is." - Benjamin Brewster
Dupe (discussed four days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068959
Personal observation: heck I’m old.

General observation: this is the most brilliant invention of my lifetime, and has realized the information revolution, enabled countless humans to teach themselves and each other, and shown us a myriad of truths about ourselves.

A++
I closed a lot of browser tabs
Dupe (142 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068959
> that everyone including your parents could and would use would cost literally tens of billions.

We need a name for this, the classic "someones parents can't use it and therefore it can't work fallacy".

My parents don't use Mac.

In fact most people don't, including me.

Doesn't prevent Mac from being a huge success and a viable platform for developers.

Same with a good number of applications: A few hundred or thousand hard core users. Bonus if one of them is an oil giant, a defense giant, the armed forces of a wealthy country or something.
Unfortunately not. All waste heat is already radiated into space, and there's no way to make it go faster. Heat always flows from hot places to cold places, unless you put energy in - so we can't gather all of our waste heat into one place for disposal, without creating more waste heat. It's the second law of thermodynamics, I'm afraid.
The WWW was pretty great at age 10, but took a wrong turn in its teen years.

We now do signal amplification of the worst of humanity. The giants are walled gardens, and in another 10-15 years the "web" will be subsumed by Facebook, and Google's "Cromification/AMPlification" (content lives on their servers and there is no URL bar.)

We've destroyed much of the quirkiness and novelty.

Now instead of sharing content and news p2p, it flows from centralized behemoths that choose for us. RIP personal websites, RSS, IRC, and bittorrent. They still exist, just as shells of their former lives. Their promise sucked away.

It's not like the rest of tech fared much better. You can't even run your own software on half of the devices out there now. Or replace their batteries. Or trust them not to spy on you.
A simple example is a person with antibodies being sneezed on with infectious agents. That person could coincidentally sneeze on another person who lacks antibodies, but wouldn't worsen themselves since the contagion in the original sneeze would get met with prepared antibodies killing off the "population" faster than it could replicate.
This may seem horrible but this, I fear, will become the norm. If the boss can’t see you, then they may suspect employees are slacking off at home. So out of caution (or CYA) managers and CEOs will start monitoring all activity available, and transform WFH employees into metrics on a spreadsheet.

If there is a cost savings argument the stock market might even start the drive.
Haven't tried it but welcome innovation in trading terminals. Something that allows python algos and indicators to be contributed, while being faster and more reliable than cTrader, MT4/5 and tradingview. That's the dream. At least from an FX perspective.

EDIT: Electron a disappointment slightly but on a Linux system I already use discord and signal, so should probably be more open to it.
I do hope that Orwell intended to do this, and was not merely an oversight or an enforcement of grammatical norms by his editors.
> If one bought and held the Dow from 1921 to present, the total return would be 500,000% (5,000x)!

If we can use hindsight in our trades, I'd recommend using the numbers 60, 54, 36, 24 and 7, on last week's Powerball lottery that paid out $211mm. That's a 100,000,000x return!!
Penn National announces plans to buy the company for $2B
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Does perishable e-money represent the future of fiscal stimulus?
I think other comments may have pointed this out already, but there are several problems with this line of reasoning.

When deciding on whether or not to administer a procedure or treatment, one must consider the balance of potential harms and benefits, while accounting for uncertainty.

In this particular case, the potential for harm from the vaccine is quite low (this is borne out by the data), and the benefits are mostly unknown. The potential harms of NOT taking the vaccine are mostly unknown (data is still coming in), and the potential benefit of that course of action is quite low. So it seems like the positive expected value / utility decision here is for them to get the vaccine.

In your comment you use the analogy of a procedure with a much different risk / benefit profile. So that does not really hold up. A much better analogy would be something like routine screening for prostate cancer once you pass a certain age.
Nevermind, they answered it in the FAQ and the primary reason is hardware compatibility.
The fact that the inventor of onion routing technology from the United States Naval Research Laboratory was involved in the creation of Tor pretty much ensures that Tor will be useless at evading 5 Eyes and equivalent nation-state actors.

If they've not come at you when you're using Tor then it's that they don't care to find you. It's not that they can't find you.
Upload to Google drive and it will do it automatically
True. This is, almost by definition, a very litigious sector though.
One company I worked for decided to drastically change their product direction, meaning no more backend and frontend devs. They fired (made redundant) 50% of devs, devops, dbadmin and some automation testers. 45% left voluntarily in the next 3 months. That was the plan.
Too late cannot edit. Where I put GDP, please read GBP.
Going down the cost rabbit hole is problematic, the costs are not just for the service infra. Even for the service you need project managers , product owners, devs, SREs, QAs and data entry operators who collate or atleast update the DB . Easily costs that can run in millions/year.

Typically such revenue streams cover other holes in the budget not related to this service as well, and there is indirect overhead costs like Contracts, control structures, HR, vendors etc harder to amortize.

Any costs for what should be free public access in not right. The argument should be that we pay already tax, this information public should have free and easily .
Indexing is less of a hindsight at this point.