skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on our experience, with anywhere from 2 to about 15 in a flock, guineas aren't super effective at reducing ticks. They're also very noisy, leave big turds all over the place, and at least in our rural New England area, serve to attract predators.

Our spring "dog tick season" has become intense the last couple of years. At the height of the season this spring the daily tick count from grooming the dog was anywhere from 10 (a light day) to a high of 27 ticks acquired after an hour-long hike. When it's this bad, I can pick up four just walking across the front lawn. During that season they're mostly not deer ticks, so fortunately they're bigger and much easier to find, and at least according to most literature I've seen, dog ticks do not transmit Lyme.
I haven't been able to get a straight answer to this even from scientists on science threads...

Given the following:

1. Virus mutations do not directly react to the vaccine. These are simply random mutations.

2. If a mutation occurs that has a higher probability of escaping an existing vaccine, then in one unvaccinated person, that mutation has an identical chance of occurring whether that person is part of a 0% vaccinated community, a 50% vaccinated community, or a 99% vaccinated community.

3. Natural selection just means its ability to reproduce. Let's say that the mutation can escape the vaccine at 100% probability.

Then:

Can that virus spread equally regardless of whether it's a 0% vaccinated community, a 50% vaccinated community, or a 99% vaccinated community?

Because it sure sounds like people are saying that in that scenario, the mutation spreads less in a 0% community, and more in a 50% community.

Are they saying that in a "mostly unvaccinated" community, the other variants (that the vaccine protects against) that are more prevalent somehow serve to "crowd out" the mutation?

Because I don't know if that's true - at least, I've seen reports that suggest that people can catch more than one variant at one time.
iPhone keyboard for blind to shut down–Apple “incorrectly” rejected app update
Really interesting read!

I had no idea Netscape released a Javascript-based Visual Basic clone.
Liberals loved social media when they were using it to their benefit, remember the Obama Universities? how he was praised for using organized efforts to bring up content you want and burry content you don't want. Someone who worked for his administration came to us and showed us some of the dasboards that they use and some tips and tricks (including buying fake accounts to get followers that will lead to organic followers).

They got so good at it, they berried dissenting view to the point they didn't even hear it anymore, and were completely blind sided when they found out people actually disagreed with them.

The real subversion of democracy was the blaming of 'fake news' for Trump beating Clinton. It was used do discredit the election and discredit the views of the millions that voted for him.

To be clear, the dems/liberals dont want to get rid of fake news and control, they just want to be the only ones controlling it. This is why its 'no surprise' that big tech agrees with them, big tech was helping them in the first place! they just want more power to silence the right.
Also battery tech needs to improve for practical usage
I don't know the specifics but I imagine most of it is waving a magic wand and saying poof now this room is classified. But there are logistics that go with that, certain door technologies that have to be in place, probably some complex security procedure for "switching" between modes, (i.e. I would think they need to clear the building of uncleared personnel and be 100% sure there isn't someone hiding in a bathroom somewhere) etc etc, and it's enough of a pain that most buildings are either one or the other all the time. The ability to switch on the fly for a large facility like that is super rare and indicative of there being a real need for switching.

All I know for sure is on the tour they mention they can switch the whole building to be unclassified or classified and during the tour it is in unclassified mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
Based on the article, it should probably be "45 to 60 year olds...". HN's algorithm removes leading numbers from titles, sometimes with bad results.
> Im on a Mac so I can’t issue the same...

dtruss
> not because of any moderation choices

Beg to differ. HN's moderation is incredible; and the active and exemplary involvement they have is a public service that keeps HN what it is.
Treat yourself to the 90s club aesthetics of the Wipeout games
Wobbly windows is such a truly excellent feature; I really don’t understand why more platforms (most significantly Windows and macOS) don’t go with it, even if more restrained (Zorin’s jelly looks a bit too loose for my liking). They make the entire experience much more tactile and make windows all round much nicer to work with.

(For my part, I now use tiling window managers, where wobbly windows won’t work well except for floating windows. But on all-floating window managers—)
> So we should recognize and accept the new reality and update Section 230 accordingly.

The Owners have successfully convinced their subjects that this is a bad idea.

That said, we must tread lightly with the precarious Section 230 and any new modification.

Edit: Owner's are down voting you fast.
2 weeks? It takes 2 years to learn a new platform/language.
The process I had to deal with was filling out spreadsheets with data from a python-driven 3D inspection program that exported out data files in CSV format. Needless to say, these errors were inevitable for exactly the reasons you've stated. Why we didn't bypass the large, poorly formatted cumbersome spreadsheets and just directly export data via pandas? All the inspection was done by Python anyways. You tell me! Also, it did not help that the spreadsheets were not created by me, or any colleagues in my department.

God I hated working in old-school engineering/manufacturing. "That's not how we do things" is the answer to everything. I
You're making some assumptions about people you know nothing about. Some of my clients do have strong feelings on various resume topics, but they know I'm good at what I do and want my opinion. They don't always agree or accept what I tell them.

I'm really not sure what you're talking about with hiring committees, but if you're saying that some people are eliminating candidates because they did or didn't use personal pronouns, I think that's well beyond the scope of what I've been saying. I'm not suggesting applicants who use "I" should be eliminated from contention.
You could build this with couchdb multi master regional servers and pouchdb on the client and have full consistency with the replication both to clients and servers as well as conflict resolution (in case of collision) done for you.

This route seems like a lot of extra work for pretty similar functionality.
really interesting stuff. I'm working on a tool that helps you play by ear by making you play back increasingly difficult melodies. Adding spaced repetition would probably make it a lot more efficient!
A person with HIV will actually be infected by multiple variants simultaneously, since the virus mutates rapidly within a single host (tons of variants will be produced in a single day). So, even though the immune system will fight the virus and produce antibodies, the virus stays one step ahead. That also means that a person will not develop long-term immunity after being exposed to the live virus (and can even be infected multiple times with different variants and strains), and is the main challenge with developing an HIV vaccine.

I am no expert but my understanding is that AIDS occurs when a variant targeting receptors more specific to CD4 T-cells begins replicating (or begins replicating at too high a rate), which results in T-cell counts falling below some threshold. So a person will go through an extended period without feeling any symptoms, possibly transmitting the virus to others (hence the importance of widespread, easy access to testing), only to be incapacitated by AIDS later when the "balance" of the variants changes (assuming they do not receive HIV-suppressing medications).
Frontier Psychiatrist
I think I'll make some small donation to Ubuntu to show them some appreciation. I am new to Linux. I attempted to install Linux in the past and got stuck somewhere and was either unwilling to or didn't have time to proceed to a full install. About a year ago I got mad with windows and gave Ubuntu a try and loved it from he first try. It installed flawlessly on a couple of machines(laptops) and could even tether from my Iphone through USB. Was quite impressed. I don't really need crazy features but a stable and snappy machine that Im in control of and Ubuntu can deliver that for me. I recently installed a live Ubuntu with persistent storage on small stick on my work's machine. When I sign off my work day I restart with the live image and the machine isn't impacted at all. Beside the booting time which is a bit slow (from the stick) the OS behaves absolutely fantastic, love it. I may now be inclined to try other Linux distributions, now that I've been warming up to Linux for the past 12 months but Ubuntu is quite a keeper. I converted my wife computer from windows to Ubuntu and she seems quite happy as well. Automatic updates and nagging popups were some complaints from her and on Ubuntu she had none.
I wish hibernate mode worked but Im by far happier with Ubuntu even without it.
That's exactly my point - buying gold in bulk like this is a clear way of signalling they're a bad investment since any sane investor will do just that - purchase gold that they control and that won't be subject to any bankruptcy collections exercised on palantir if they are in a really bad place.
If only the organization was run by people.
Ask HN: Finding a 4 days/month job on top of my full-time job
Hello,

I work as a full-time full stack developer.
I provide for my family so I started looking to work extra hours on my free-time as my current job doesn't offer doing extra time.
I found a job for mentoring students (1h X 4 times a week). I find it hard because I have to keep an eye on 2 or 3 different students.

So I think that a 3 or 4 days a month "mission" would better suite me.

Do you have any advice on how can I find a 3 or 4 days/month side-job ?
(I'm also considering looking for a better full-time job but in all cases I want to over work).

Regards
USSR is listed as a communist state here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state#List_of_commun...
Upper, Hawaii is quite far south of the other states. :)
I work in digital advertising analytics and we do try to mitigate the repeat customer phenomenon the author mentions. Typically we only record the first web visit from a household during the campaign window for example.
I think the new Xiaomi[1] fits that description? Still a little spendy, but compared to $75K for Boston Dynamics, not quite as far out of reach...

1: https://blog.mi.com/en/2021/08/10/xiaomi-launches-cyberdog-a...
Irrespective of whether they're telling the truth or lying, saying Chrome sends 16 bits of x-client-data that can be used to identify you means Chrome sends 16 bits of x-client-data that can be used to identify you.
Those games look awesome! Thanks for the suggestion! This is very exciting.
"Practical" is in there.

A price competitive 10 MW generator probably meets that standard though (Islands, small towns, isolated mills, etc).
I'm honestly not sure why there seems to be so much interest in fusion these days. Wind and solar seem to offer a limitless, carbon-free energy supply with relatively cheap, well understood technology that is already price competitive with coal and gas. By contrast fusion seems super expensive and technologically very complex - even fission plants take 10+ years to bring on line. Does fusion offer some advantage over wind + solar that I'm missing?
The good old CAP theorem hits again...
if you're going to ban information then you better be right 100% of the time. The bans on the lab leak thing blew all censorship credibility. That's the problem, if you're going to claim to be a "truth expert" then you better be right 100% of the time because the moment you're wrong you become part of the conspiracy.
You're suggesting a fundamental change to the legal system in the US. The idea that we would depend on the Government pursuing criminal charges... that's scary to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort
Some additional context because it's not super clear how you turn some opaque cohort ID into something that can find gay people. Being gay is a really strong really specific signal online. Every content recommendation algorithm once it gets even a whiff you like girl in red will start recommending you other queers like there's no tomorrow. Content for gays is niche, doesn't have much broad appeal, and is a strong predictor you'll like other content aimed at gays.

So all you need to do to find closeted gay people is to look at the cohorts of an out gay person.
It was on the higher side of the bell curve (in Toronto, Canada, if you're curious)
The crux of the article is that variants are no cause for concern, and that the virus will become “endemic” and mostly harmless within a few years, by which time the majority of the population will have gained immunity.

According to the author, the immunity gained through either contracting the virus or getting vaccinated will not necessarily be long-lived, but the protection against complications will, regardless of variants.
> is easiest served by picking some CRDT library.

RDBMS A.C.I.D. and transactions are also capable of much of the same.
OK, but the "reactive" programming sounds like how you build the core. So I still question whether that style fits well with Haskell.
From: https://glarts.org/font-and-typeface-legal-tip-sheet/

> In the United States, fonts are protectable under copyright law. Typefaces, however, are not. ... A trademark protects what a typeface is called, a copyright protects how a font program is written, and a design patent protects letter design—how the letters appear.

So if I understand this correctly, then unless they have a design patent for the entire range of typefaces, you could use some of the typefaces if you use a different encoding. Perhaps someone with legal background can comment.
But not 100 years worth.
Stonewall Nation
So in the same way that say, a motorcycle and a car are competitors. You can use them for some of the same things ( move yourself), but one of them does many more things.
Zoom is basically malware with video chat.
I imagine a big chunk of switching to classified is shooing the un-cleared visitors.
§ 256.4 Prohibition on undisclosed display bias.

When providing information in response to a search by a user of the EAIS, the EAIS must order the information provided so that the flight options that best satisfy the parameters of the user-selected search criteria are displayed conspicuously and no less prominently (e.g., in the same or larger font size and the same or more noticeable font color) than any other flight option displayed.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/256.4

...............

The airline industry (once upon a time) got its collective hand slapped because they would only display flights from certain carriers on "page 1" and relegated "other options" to "page 2".

It doesn't seems like we're going to put the genie back in the bottle of push promotion or "algorithmic" ordering, and it's a very difficult battle to fight.

The original genius of reddit/n.y.c display ordering algorithm was that it represented an aggregate priority order that was user-controlled (ie: 100 users give 500 upvotes across 1000 articles, and you get to see them ordered 10 at a time). The site is/was the cohort, and "the algorithm" was shown equally to all comers.

Contrast to twitter (presumably) and facebook (definitely) where content "chum"[0] is intermingled as soon as possible after the original "hook" of original or requested content, and tailored to the individual user. It's a constant stream of distraction and lies, and no wonder that a significant portion of net-users become hooked.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox
That's just wishful thinking. The virus is so highly contagious that as soon as the lockdown ended, the exponential spread would start up again. So forget it, most rational people aren't willing to tolerate more restrictions. At this point we need to focus on vaccinating as many people as possible and otherwise just accept the risk.
Yes it does, it increases daily usage
> I do not want to have to ask doctors permission to get the medicine I need.

That's how it works in most countries, but not the US. Here we have a government regulatory agency (the CDC) to protect people from the ill effects of the free market. I like it that way.
Gaslighting. End the lockdowns
My best guess? Space.
True enough, here's the BBC's slant on the same story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-582...
The World’s Largest Crypto Exchange Keeps Losing CEOs
I agree entirely, as my other comments in this thread show. I just think it's useful to properly situate and understand the arguments of your opponents. There are enough liars in the world; when we can take people at their word, we should try to do that.
Gravity Battery
It ain't great, more like a low quality forum with a voting feature. They don't even support substring matching in the search...

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/di...
In reality the appropriate tool for research data actually doesn't exist (make it and become very rich). Excel is only sort of close if you squint.
To make the economics work, you'd probably want to pool funding & run many wafers. Perhaps you could develop the world's first MaaS venture (Manufacturing As A Service)?
Google Meet does not require an account to join a meeting.

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069
I've been a software developer for 20 years. I've been doing JavaScript since it was invented. I do actually know a lot about these things.
I totally support electric cars but going back to my comment above, what's your solution for long-haul jets?
This space is very red ocean. What makes your product unique than other more mature offerings?
We need an alternatives to the organized media and fake checkers

People want better information, that is why they go look for these facebook groups

Obviously they end up spreading misinformation, as they don't have time to accurately review things. But they also spread a lot of interesting information, and ask questions, the organised media does not dare
This really depends heavily on how you use your editor, on its specific features. For example, you qualify the "navigating to specific definition" with "within the file", but in my editor jumping to definition across multiple files works exactly the same way as within a single file, and due to a stack of jumps that you can pop, there is usually no need to know or care in which file you are currently, or were previously. Similarly, you mention "large number of files you have open in your editor" as if that was a problem of any kind. For me, it isn't - I have 60+ files open frequently, but I have quite a few ways of searching for/jumping to a specific file, buffer, or content that I want to see, and I never need to cycle through open files or tabs. Most of the time I don't have to care if the file is open - there's literaly no difference in the method(s) of getting to a file because of its state (open or not).

The differences between my and your environments mean that our preferred workflows differ, too, because what can be problematic for you can be easy for me, and vice versa.

That being said, I also don't advocate "splitting everything into super small files". Splitting a file that is less than a "page or two" (I see 61 lines of code on one page, so less than 120 loc) is a mistake and should be done only in special circumstances, while files that grew larger than 500 loc should be refactored if it makes sense. Files over 1k loc have to be split. That's the policy we use at work, and I think it results in a pretty nice and easy to navigate code bases.

Back to the editors, though: as long as the codebase uses a convention - any convention - consistently, you can make it nice to work with, by altering your environment to match the convention. This is where the more configurable and easier to script editors win big time - if there's something in the codebase you don't like, and can't change, you can script it out of sight and out of mind easily. Coming from such an editor, I personally don't have a strong opinion on how the codebase should be structured (which includes the lenghts of files) - I do have some preferences, but I'm not very attached to them. That's just to signal that I'm not the one of people "fascinated" with splitting files for the sake of it :)
If I had to guess it's for screen sharing.
How do I get access to this beta? I would shop at Walmart a lot more but their website has been hot garbage as far back as I can remember. The exact scenario you mentioned is what makes it a miserable experience. I just tried it again

1) I put in my zipcode and checkmark my store.
2) I search for "AA batteries"
1) I put in my zipcode again and checkmark my store because it forgot the previous search.
3) I select In store pickup
4) As I scroll it co-mingles results that are in store with results that require a shipment. Seems like it does this for items that are not sold by walmart so while it correctly filtered out items sold by walmart that require shipment, whats the point if items not sold by walmart are still there.

As a sidenote, it does not tell me where in the store the item is. I just want to get item location, go into the store and pick it up.

Back in 2016 I tried the ship to store service. When I arrived, I went to the back of the store in order to pick it up. I was the only one there. I signed in on their kiosk and then waited. The clerk disappeared into the back and I kid you not, it took 30 mins to retrieve my order. She couldn't care less about getting my package. Keep in mind that I was the only one there and their fancy screen was listing my name as the only one in the queue!

The cherry on top of all of this is that their prices and selection are not always competitive with Amazon in my experience. It would be fine given that I am guaranteed to get legitimate equipment and get it same day but all the issues above steal enough time that it makes it not worth it most of the time.

I assume Walmart Labs is developing all this stuff. They must have better work life balance because their output is nowhere near the quality of Amazon.

I find this problem with Target to an extent as well. They have a better ship to store experience but I have found that their inventory status on their website has no correlation to reality whatsoever and their search is terrible. I have been trying to build an app to scrape all their items so I could build a personal tool that works better. I really want to avoid Amazon if I can but the competitors just make it so hard to do so.
Besides, these are not mutually exclusive - you can use Excel as the front-end to your Python code via something like PyXLL.
What if what drives YouTube profits isn't necessarily substance, but engagement (to a first-order approximation)?

Perhaps the comments are already optimized, each as a sort of micro-clickbait? There seem to be a lot of users who are highly motivated to participate in the "U! No U!! NO U!!!!" back and forth.
Eastern Europe Software Development Outsourcing: Is It a Good Idea in 2021?
I've sent an message to the address listed in your profile, it's coming from a nonstandard domain though, so if you don't see it, it may be in spam. Also, I now realize that the longbet page is still under review, so you might not be able to see that either until the staff approve it.
Previous discussion from 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132873
Mr. Commie, this is your daily reminder that Communism has killed more people than anything else.