skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have indigenous, mixed race, Japanese and others, that’s not in dispute. What I’m saying is I’m sure in the hinterlands the locals aren’t saying “oh, woe is us, we aren’t multicultural like those folks in Lima”

Multiculturalism can be good, it can be neutral or like Beirut or Baghdad it can lead to violence. What I’m saying is most people overseas are totally okay with it, with few exceptions, but they don’t bemoan it’s absence.
> Multiply this kind of channel x1000: Mario, Transformers, Marvel’s superhero universe, the world of Wakanda, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Bladerunner, Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Drew, The Maltese Falcon — all of these and countless more will exist as reality channels that you can turn on, transforming your daily routine into something a bit more magical, intriguing, exciting — and most of all, a little more fun. Importantly, all of these experiences will be shared by countless other people, so that the adventure is a catalyst for spending time together and deepening social relationships.

But even more importantly, none of those people you're interacting with have any agency over those brands or IPs, and their interaction with the metaverse will necessarily be filtered through a set of corporate-controlled allowed actions and responses. Those "social relationships" will be a guided experience.

When replacing or overlaying reality with IP, it becomes necessary to ask the question, "who owns the IP?"

The counter-cultural, weird sci-fi worlds of current platforms like VRChat exist in no small part because the people interacting with them have agency. They ignore copyright, they make whatever they want, they form whatever communities they want. I'm not interested in your vision of an AR metaverse if your vision of the metaverse is that Nintendo or Disney gets to put an extra layer over the real world that gives them even more control over how I can interact with it.

The author keeps talking about culture, but the brands and IPs that they're championing are fundamentally opposed to the free expression of culture outside of their owners' control, and cementing the metaverse in an "official" way that retained that control would result in a world even more restrictive than our current one. Hard pass.
> You realize those same people also had to deal with a shitty job market and college loans to pay off as soon as they graduated right?

I think this is a good point that's worth repeating in these conversations. It's easy to forget in better times, but economic crashes are really scary. The financial crisis scared the shit out of me; my job situation was tenuous and our finances were shaky, but my wife and I took a big gamble and bought a foreclosed house at what turned out to be the bottom of market.

It seems like an obvious choice in hindsight, but it could easily have gone very badly.
>> "Ann Hodges was taking a nap on her living room couch and she was under a blanket, which probably saved her life somewhat," Prondzinski said. "The meteorite came down through the roof in the living room and it ricocheted off a stand-up console radio that was in the room and landed on her hip."

https://www.insider.com/alabama-woman-first-person-hit-by-a-...
Can someone please update the link to the latest version

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...
I didn't need to sign in via old.reddit.com, in case you want to see for yourself.
I know many will disagree but with the booster shot set for approval any day now, we need to stop calling something a vaccine when 3 doses within a 12 month period of it are needed
>Streamlit provides an editor to create your app

That's actually not the case. Streamlit is an open-source python package to generate frontend components for data-focused apps. You can host it on whatever infrastructure you like.

It's essentially for data engineers who don't even want to think about front end. Streamlit's narrow use-case doesn't seem to compete with Lona, which seems more general and flexible.

See the code examples here:
https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit
Sure, but plenty of foreigners have left and returned and many new foreigner workers have entered.

You are right there was no guarantee you could return if Covid cases exploded, but there was at least a decent pathway. Australia from what I gathered put up as many obstacles as possible AND requires permission to leave.
> broadening your definition of impact beyond LoC/commits/tickets.

Is this the 'classic' expectation for a dev? Where I work the least technical person is the PM and everyone else comes together to determine what gets done and how it gets done.

Everyone knows the tech side and decisions gets filtered down to the rank and file. Taking initiatives are expected - I know this is likely the exception not the norm, but I hope future workplaces are more like this and less like that.
Hot take: no, everyone hates UML. Visual programming paradigms are either too application specific to be generalized or too abstract to be useful.
I intended to mean about the hospitalization and death risk of the delta variant while vaccinated.
The article brings up a number of good points about advances in research from China, but the article also says:

In 2020, China topped the U.S. for the first time in terms of the number of times an academic article on AI is cited by others

Via Nature:

In China, one of the main indicators currently used to evaluate researchers, allocate funding and rank institutions is metrics collected by the Science Citation Index (SCI), a database of articles and citation records for more than 9,000 journals. Since 2009, articles in these journals written by authors from Chinese institutions increased from some 120,000 a year to 450,000 in 2019. Some institutions even pay researchers bonuses for publishing in them.

These practices have incentivized researchers to publish lots of papers at the expense of quality, says Jin Xuan, a chemical engineer at Loughborough University, UK. Evidence suggests that the focus on metrics has also driven a rise in inappropriate practices, such as researchers submitting plagiarized or fraudulent papers, or inappropriately citing their own or a colleague’s work to boost citations.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00574-8#ref-CR1

Is there some other objective measure of progress in any type of research that can be used to make such comparisons?
I think back to the beginning of the Internet.

The point was to connect computers together, and users, whatever their geographical location was. I'm still not certain why we allowed geographical restrictions to exist on these networks of tubes.
One must always stand up for freedom, no matter how wrong you may think the other view point is.

What they are doing to this man is criminal.
I think you are picturing something very different than I am when you think of a use-case for scrollbars? If I have a table with more items than can reasonably display on screen at once, nesting the information isn’t going to help. Flat is what I want, scrolling is what allows me to keep flat when there’s too much data to fit.
For me it’s been a carbon steel wok.

I cook fried rice a few times a week so recently I decided to upgrade my non-stick wok with one made from carbon steel as I’ve heard good things about them and the non-stick coating of my wok had started to wear away.

I’ve been really impressed with how much better it is to cook with and honestly given how often I cook rice I couldn’t live without it anymore. I’ve found it has far superior non-stick properties compared to my old wok, it can be used at extremely high heats, and it’s basically indestructible. It also gives my rice a much stronger fried taste which I personally love. I wish I’d brought one years ago now. Would definitely recommend if you enjoy fried rice as much as I do.
Sort is interesting because it's difficult to make a sort algorithm without unbounded loops. Although I guess a comparison function is probably easier, and leave the sort itself in the trusted computing base.
It should really work the same way you select a default browser during setup. Even if you can sideload a different option, setting a default to their own property is a classic example of bundling, which is an anticompetitive act.
I was part of that debate, I remember a rather interesting point of discussion: Is the main operation "apply" or "dedup"

Apply seems to be the common notion of event sourcing: There is a function apply that takes a state an event and yields a new state. Then, starting in an init state and iteratively applying the entire event history, boom, latest state restored.

Dedup has a lot of charm though: Run and rerun your code, if that step of your code is executed for the first time (no corresponding event in the event history) execute the step and store its result as an event in the history, however, if that step of your code is executed for the second, third time (there is a corresponding event in the event history) do not execute the step and return its result from the event in the history. The Haskell Workflow Package (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Workflow) is a good example

Temporal follows the second approach, so "proper" Event Sourcing? You be the judge :)
> The obvious problem here is that we don't value things rationally or properly, and bubbles happen. If we're in a Tulip Crypto Bubble, then the 'market winner' isn't really a 'winner' in the grand scheme. Especially if we 'die of climate change', it'll look like the plebes were acting on bad information, in hindsight. (I'm being hyperbolic here but you get my point).

The reason it's called a bubble is because it pops. Even if BTC were inflated to the point where even with externalities priced in that it made sense to mine on dirty energy, the moment the bubble pops this will stop. There's nothing wrong with punishing people who act on bad information. Not allowing firms to fail is how we get banks and firms like Uber who exploit labor while losing money faster than they can raise more rounds.

> It actually is not that hard to stand outside of a market and make interventions which are super rational.

I'm pretty sure if this were true, you'd solve multiple hard, open problems in game theory, statistics, and economics. Problems like the Multi-Armed Bandit or Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. The US Tax Code is as byzantine as it is because of its piecemeal attempts to make market interventions. The US healthcare system is likewise what happens when the government creates an incentive structure with unforeseen negative externalities.

> We ban and regulate all sorts of things.

Of course and we should continue to. But emissions of energy usage is a very complicated problem. Did I save on emissions by using a thermal cooker, or did the use of my gas stove just to have the cooker come to temperature end up using more emissions than an induction stove would result in cooking the meal regularly in a pot or pan? Even this depends on the energy mixture of your grid. Oh and what about the input emissions to making your induction stove, would that make things even out in the end? Banning things to solve such a complicated problem is silly and you'll run out of political will fast. It's all fine-and-dandy when the internet mobs want to ban crypto, but what happens when the government tells you that you can't drive your F150 to the store a mile away to pickup milk? Turning energy efficiency into a political fight over banning goods and services will be a quick way to stall any progress.

> but they should definitely ban crypto that arbitrarily uses quite a lot of energy

Until crypto creators come up with new incentive schemes that come up with different, less understood negative externalities. Attacking the problem at its source is much simpler than playing whack-a-mole.
KN95's are readily available in the US on Amazon. Your local university likely even keeps a list of brands which have been tested and pass the KN95 certification test. Mine does, and it has been extremely nice having a supply of cheap, safe, high quality masks my local uni has tested.

And since they are KN95, you aren't taking masks away from medical professionals.
I love the fact that this language has a short and readable interpreter. However pure functional languages are hard to use for many programmers. I've been looking for a language with a short and readable interpreter that supports some minimal form of object orientation. Something like a mini OCaml. Does someone know of such a language?
At least he can't say you picked the easier of the two options!
Code is law, law was obeyed, the original owners dont matter anymore. Currency of the future.
Let’s do both, a metaverse will always be more interesting in some subset that can’t exist in reality.
> Frankly, you can look at nearly every other world government that issued similar guidance to the CDC and in all cases those countries did better than the US. Why? Because it wasn't a political issue. The countries that faired the worst all turned COVID into a game of the left vs right

The per capita US death rate is in the middle of the UK, Italy, Spain, and France (which together have about half of Europe’s population). The only country that did substantially better was Germany.

Are you saying masks were politicized in all of those countries besides Germany?
Cheating can be one of those "I know it when I see it" things that can require judgement from experts in difficult cases. Competitive chess players are the best ones to judge what constitutes cheating in chess, for example.

But what this startup is doing is the Wikipedia definition of cheating, with no reasonable room for debate:

Cheating in online games is the subversion of the rules or mechanics of online video games to gain an advantage over other players, generally with the use of third-party software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_online_games

And it seems pretty obvious that they know what they're doing is wrong. They just seem to be very determined to try to push forward, and seem to think they have cleverly concealed their bad behavior, hence the cover story bs about "coaching" when they clearly know what anyone would actually use their software for.

I'd guess that they also rationalize selling cheats because others do it, which is obviously no ethical defense at all.

YC probably needs to be the ones to set them straight, since they are in a position to do so, and have explicitly made it a goal to avoid funding unethical startups.
Are they also going to quarantine NNN’s controlled opposition, r/CovidVaccinated? That subreddit is filled with LARPers screenshotting their own posts so they can make fun of them on 4chan and NoNewNormal. There are probably a dozen people posting 80% of the content there.
At the moment, it's that it has very inconsistent support in MacOS. Most of my machines are Linux, after I got the issues worked out on those it works reliably. OSX I use infrequently enough for it to be worth a ton of time troubleshooting. And so it only works rarely, like I think after a reboot. I think eventually I'll figure it out. The error I get is "no secret key". Even though when I run 'gpg' and then make sure my key is there, it still doesn't work when I run the pass commands.

But I'd rather use a backend that doesn't require as... weird... integration into the OS as GPG does. Between pinentry and having to store the passphrase, gpg just doesn't offer the same sort of out-of-the-box functionality as something less... heavy.
In the vernacular, or scientifically?

I think most folks around me call their annual flu vaccine a "flu shot", but I still think it qualifies as a vaccine even though we don't think of it of the same severity as your one-time childhood vaccines.
tbf, micromanaging is bad regardless of any other attributes.
More like you never know when they’ll initate the final part of their strategy.

Half the dev world is now used to VS code. Many junior developers have never used anything else. Whatever they do can have a big impact.
The Open App Markets Act [pdf]
But you're agreeing with the GP. Similarly, governments have a responsibility towards the citizens to protect them against COVID, even if that means some temporary lockdowns.
PoW currencies are designed to ensure that cannot be done.

The miners can move to locations where the externalities aren't considered.
And presumably they can both be priced cheaper because some of the revenue is made up from the lower cut epic takes
Your comment is a bit ambiguous, suggest rewording the second sentence to indicate that you mean through infection rather than through the vaccination itself.
CRT = Critical Race Theory

Some groups (in the US) are actively trying to ban teaching it (or some definition of it) in school and some groups think it's essential learning. I'm guessing most have no idea what actually was or wasn't being taught, but that's another issue. The point here isn't whether they're right or wrong to do so it's that obviously education isn't "neutral territory" or something the country is comfortable leaving to the education community. Creation/evolution is the "classic" example of this.

As soon as you try to do media studies or critical thinking at scale somewhere in K-12 someone is going to think that you're doing it maliciously to advance or attack a worldview and it's going to become a mess. Another commenter mentioned letting kids dissect Fox and CNN - how long before those kids say something to their parent that Really Believes one of those channels and that parent goes to the school board with a mob of other Believers? Or someone tries to get a class started or teach a class that claims to be critical thinking but focuses all its time on the flaws in a particular perspective?
I don't see why. HPV vaccine takes three doses several weeks apart. Hepatitis B vaccine needs three doses with a month between the first two, then another 4-5 months later. This is really not new territory.
Only if you did that as a senator and physician from the other party.
This article is very much focused on infrastructural stuff, and doesn’t talk at all about layout, widgets, design, theming, etc; these are all totally challenging areas that are out of scope for this post. Maybe one day…
Not sure if you understand that Axios is based in Virginia. HN is based in California

Would I except something based in Europe to covert their measurements when talking about an American state or city? No and most would not.

Why would a writer convert to something foreign that their audience wouldn’t understand?
I'm mid-40s and had 2x Moderna on the recommended schedule back in Apr/May. First shot was just mild injection-site pain. Second shot was terrible. Symptoms started about 12h after the shot, and I was stuck in bed for ~36-48h of the worst flu symptoms I've ever had in my life (fever, chills, bad whole body muscle ache, etc - basically everything but the usual sinus/cough part).

It was totally worth it, though, and I'd do it again! If you're on the fence - please go get your shot(s)!
Nah. The term is "middle class" where class is defined by the lifestyle/societal-position on a class ladder, not some statistic mean regarding income.

You can have societies with 90%+ population in low class or 50% population in middle class.

History buffs generally know more how it looks for a society to have various levels of classes. I wish we all looked at history more, especially myself if I only had the time to stop rat racing...
Oh boy this so much! I'm fully aware of how lucky I've been. Grit and intellect are pretty much down to luck in choosing your parents.

It's so easy and so natural to look down on other people. Everybody does it, and the best we can do is try to fight against it by having some humility.
If you are a decently talented software engineer and you can't match or exceed a non-specialist MD in earning power then you are doing something wrong. Especially in the current market.
Cryptocurrency heist hacker returns $260m in funds
Whether there is any difference between those two assertions depends strongly on your implicit cost-benefit outlook. Liberals typically subscribe to a “any measure even one with a small benefit is worth it.” Conservatives usually feel the opposite.
It still a vaccine. No vaccine ever promised absolute immunity, nor did any of them ever promise protection against materially different strains of the same basic pathogen.
Google took on China–and lost (2018)
Of course. Sensible bills are quashed rather swiftly. Especially these days.
No, it's not. You've conflated a rigid hierarchical party system with discordianism or accelerationism.
> You will find literally zero papers credibly claiming otherwise.

Of the papers cited in the WHO meta-analysis of face masks and infection [1], all of the (three!) papers from a non-health-care setting had a confidence interval overlapping 1.0 (i.e. "no benefit"). Of those in a health-care setting, about half had confidence intervals overlapping 1.0 (i.e. "no benefit"):

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The literature in this area was exceptionally ambiguous prior to 2020, and hasn't improved over the course of the pandemic. You've just made a provably incorrect claim. If you did it on YouTube, I guess you'd be banned!

(just kidding; we all know that you can't possibly misinform people when you're agreeing with the party line!)

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
If you already have good quality of life and it's not about frugality it sounds like you're a very high earner, in which case the point is moot.

Most people don't have the option to save 70% of their take home pay and still live comfortably.
> This is clearly being done to specifically target Apple

That is how antitrust legislation has always worked and it wasn’t until recently that congress/DOJ lost all spine to go after these companies
Right. Pretty much every other technology has to choose between high thrust and high specific impulse (i.e. efficiency). Chemical rockets have tons of thrust, but bad efficiency. Electric propulsion (ion drives, etc.) is really efficient, but most implementations have thrusts that are on the order of being able to lift a sheet of paper.
It seems a risky proposition without sufficient evidence for safety and efficacy.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8021692/mixing-covid-19-vaccines-...
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Yes, you should have seen how much complaining it generated!
> you can't move your childcare to just any building.

What do you mean by this?
It did not so much wear off as that it simply doesn't protect as well against this new strain. It most likely still protects just fine against the alpha variant but that one has now been all but displaced.
(I didn't downvote), I see what you're saying, but it is complex. If you spend an hour in a poorly ventilated classroom/office space/cubicle farm full of people, and your cloth mask gets damp from your breath, and the CO2 level hits 2000+ meaning the air circulation is extremely poor, is it really believable that a cloth mask is doing anything at all?

A well fit KN95 is drastically preferable, readily available, and highly affordable. No idea why these aren't being promoted as the only safe choice.
Is it wearing off or just reduced efficacy to begin with? My understanding is that dosing between the vaccines were all different
The only good take on this hacker news comment section :)
Hey @AntonWells is there any reason you’re not emailing me? I think there could be a genuine mutual interest here!
More than mRNA vaccines as interchangeable, we (Ontario) mostly treated the oxford vaccine as interchangeable with the mRNA vaccines too, until we started giving it to less people.
Here's the thing: Nobody at any top 50 AI lab reads Chinese papers. Academic fraud, machine-translations and citation rings make the signal to noise ratio to low to bother.

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107614
Dosing intervals were frequently dictated by vaccine availability and not by the manufacturer mandated schedule of administration.