skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Government reaction to case spikes does not reflect at all on the efficiency of vaccines.

Living in France I can agree on that.

Yet vaccinated people are still having severe problems up to dying from COVID.
Sorry you got hit by that! I work at Plaid -- most of Plaid's APIs can be used without a $500 monthly minimum contract but a few of them do require it -- we know this is a pain point and are currently looking into how can make pricing on these products friendlier to small developers.
Okay, but if you need to do "a backup" more than once, you will inevitably come up with your own shoddy versioning system, even if it consists of littering your project with files named "Copy of 2017-04-20_main_v1 (17).bak.new.old.bad.cpp~".

The alternative is just doing what you always do on every project: run "git init" and occasionally do a "git add -i && git commit". Even if you end up with a lot of non-descriptive snapshots name "WIP" at least you have something resembling a chronology and you can track changes across multiple files at the same time.

If your hobby projects mostly consist of single files with thousands of lines that are easy to unambiguously make copies of for backups, I won't judge you, but your experience is definitely not universal.
I took a programming for math majors course in college, and the largest challenge for the class was understanding procedural looping to process data sets. Understanding a for loop or a while loop really was a hard concept for someone to understand. We didn't cover any real data structures, and everything was a 2 dimensional array.

Excel, and most spreadsheets for that, avoid some of the basic control structures beginners find challenging. Many functions are basically map and reduce functions so you typically are getting the same number of cells back, or one. Often maps are done visually in the spreadsheet with a formula being applied to every cell in a column.
> This is a very big question though. WTF are people thinking?

From what I've seen, there's a segment of people who feel the urge to donate, but have this elitist attitude towards less fortunate people who need assistance that can be summed up as, "they should take what they are given with a smile." Like, they have this notion that accepting any charity should involve some degree of humiliation. Almost like they feel like a person must not really be in need if they aren't willing to, for example, accept expired food.

It's a really fucking toxic attitude and I suspect being on the receiving end of such behavior can be a cause for a lot of people who need assistance to not seek it out.

My mother works at a women's shelter and this comes up when it comes to donations around Christmas time. People claim they want to donate, but when it comes to donating things women actually need, they will sometimes get all huffy. The women who come to the shelter came there with basically nothing and potential donators sometimes raise a stink about giving women nice toiletry baskets, as though they are entitled to no "luxuries" by virtue of being poor, homeless, and without a support system.
Yeah. At some point though, people who want to do something that requires python or R, but refuse to learn it, and then use Excel (and make mistakes like the article mentions) should reconsider their choices. This is really out of character for me, but in this instance, relying on excel to do everything is a mistake by the user, not Microsoft's ridiculous data destroying import function.

Use the right tool.
Investigation found that the incidence was no higher than for unvaccinated individuals (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/):

>By 2001, with over 1·4 million Lyme vaccine doses distributed in the United States the VAERS database included 905 reports of mild self-limited reactions and 59 reports of arthritis associated with vaccination [29]. The arthritis incidence in the patients receiving Lyme vaccine occurred at the same rate as the background in unvaccinated individuals. In addition, the data did not show a temporal spike in arthritis diagnoses after the second and third vaccine dose expected for an immune-mediated phenomenon. The FDA found no suggestion that the Lyme vaccine caused harm to its recipients.
> I have become a pariah in my own country (France), I am now forbidden to vote, go to a hospital (unless it's an emergency) , go in a shopping mall and go in a restaurant.

None of this is true; you have the option of presenting a recent negative test result as an alternative.
That’s cool and all, but how long before they can manage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-vUsShk9U (Robot fight in “Outside the Wire”).
I think they just took the highest dose that had acceptable side effects because they had no time to figure out the perfect dose.
For a very aggressive answer, I would go for one of those shotguns with two magazine tubes you can switch between. Anti-drone projectiles in one and rifled slugs in the other.

Less destructively, a good net launcher seems like it'd stand a decent chance at fouling things but they are usually single shot and inaccurate at any kind of range.
From my experience Python/R can be great when you have large scale analysis to do but if you have a task that requires more manual fiddling with the data then it’s much nicer to use Excel.
Teams comes from free with Office 365.

I think last year someone from the accounting department suggested cancelling Zoom because we had meetings already included in Teams.

It caused quite a commotion from the Zoom users a few minutes after we learnt about it. The plan was promptly cancelled.
I could see this. Especially robot armies marching back into the middle east. I can also see robot caregivers for the elderly. Or in cities built for pedestrians a robot walking next to you carrying your shopping bags or escorting your kids to school with a live video feed back to the parents. Fire trucks pulling up and 50 robots jumping out and running into a burning building to carry people out. Could go either way, or both.

Edit: I think from a seek and destroy perspective we are much more likely to go the cloud of small drones route than these. These would serve as an armed / peace keeping / law enforcement. presence but would not be nearly as effective in a real combat situation as the drone swarm.
>Specifically, distributed version control and dependency management tools.

Indeed, without these tools dependency hell wouldn't be possible! /s
With higher temperatures come higher water concentrations, and I think more rainfall, it's just differently distributed in space and time. Also more volatile, which can be a detriment.

Many places are ill equipped to absorb heavy short bursts of rain (which seem more prevalent in my area), shunting the water into the rivers and oceans using down sloping ditches and canals, instead of holding and absorbing the water in horizontal features like pooling ponds, terraces or even just horizontal ditches. Loss of healthy topsoil doesn't do good either.
Yes, they do matter, but not as much as using accurate words for things. I know people who use the same noun or adjective for four incompatible concepts in their code. Buy a goddamned thesaurus, or use a free one online. It’s okay to reach out for help on things you struggle with instead of making the rest of of us suffer.

You can reduce the white space conversation to picking a good code formatted. But no formatted is going to fix your nightmare code that you claim is “self documenting”. Fuck that guy. Or better, fire him. Get that weak sauce outta here.
It's possible you never had a flu. It's pretty rough
I suppose it’s a moot point?
Good! Tablet and phone concerns have been the absolute bane of desktop UIs for so long now.
Due to the nature of the data, it is very hard to create good textual representations. The most practical I have seen are piano rolls and MIDI event notation.
Hadn't heard of Kondratief cycles, it's an interesting idea, thanks for sharing.
source: https://www.wappalyzer.com/technologies/programming-language...
Yes, aim was to be acurate down to 1 lsb while significantly faster. Feel free to drop terms from the polynomial if you can live with less accurate results!

The coefficients were generated by a package called Sollya, I've used it a few times to develop accurate chebyshev approximations for functions.

Abramowitz & Stegun is another good reference.
> Might the move to digital distribution, even if not complete yet, already be giving publishers substantially increased profits per unit sold?

There is also no more used market with digital only. I can’t sell a game when I’m done with it, and I can’t buy it for 1/2 or 1/6th of the price if I’m waiting long enough after release.
Wow it looks very easy to use
Our dump charges $125 per carcass, regardless of size.

But yeah, when they introduced that fee, my wife's family just started burying newborn lambs that didn't survive, rather than, y'know, fedexing them to people.
I listened to a pod of someone who bought a restaurant, and it ended in (predictable?) disaster.

They had all these bright ideas, but quickly realized 99% of making the business a success was 'making the trains run on time' -- staffing, repeatable processes - documented, etc.

Also, all investors/owners had to be bought in equally or have that all talked out.
Yeah, my spouse has something like this, and tracing it back, we realized that it all started when she went off a long-term doxycycline treatment for adult acne. We've been trying to get a doctor to get her a new prescription, but many have been cagey because it's an antibiotic and they don't want to have her develop an antibiotic-resistant strain of some other disease in the process. Honestly, I can't imagine it would be any worse than 10 years of a deteriorating life where she can no longer work, or do anymore physical exercise than casually walking 1/4 of a mile. (She was previously a professional dancer, so you can imagine the psychological toll this has had.)
>>What was the last breakthrough . . . ?

>IMO probably monads.

So, you believe there have probably been no breakthroughs since 1990?
How Drawpile works
You're neglecting the fact that they will also have expenses the month after, and the month after that. Tapping into their income faster just means that this month's bill gets covered by their salary, but next month's bill goes on credit.

If anything, this product is bad like credit cards and overdrafts, in that it will enable people to make financially unsound decisions while feeling like they can actually afford it, when they can't. They're just burning the candle at the other end.
As far as I understand, the Mercury compiler doesn't do compile-time garbage collection (see the LIMITATIONS file).
The only missing parts are the weapons themselves.
Teams manages to reboot Macintosh M1 machines after a few minutes in a call.
lol at the downvotes. sorry your favorite language isn't on the list.

I specifically said "market share", not "best" or "favorite".

https://www.wappalyzer.com/technologies/programming-language...
That’s an expensive workaround to just formatting your cells as text before entering the values
I'm not exactly sure what you're doing with your math there, but I think you probably should include what you think is the current entropy of your browsing sessions...

Considering you're already aware of screen size and user agent, and other forms of fingerprinting, you should probably realize that in the pre-FLoC world, you're likely already 100% identified by numerous ad networks.
I thought the video was fake. It doesn't look right to me, but maybe that's just uncanny valley?
I assume a fair amount of donations haven't been sorted through at all by the donators. They likely just already have large bags of clothes that no one wears anymore for any given reason and don't take the time to determine what is and isn't donatable. I know that's what's been done by my family when a family member dies. There's maybe a couple separate pieces that get saved for sentimental reasons (I have my grandpa's wedding tuxedo jacket for example) but everything else pretty much gets dumped into bags and sent off.
This is highly location-dependent, but in some areas, charities will come to collect used items (say a big bag of clothes) free of charge, whereas throwing that same bag out in the trash is costly. So sneaking in a couple of shitty items basically saves money.

Trash collection is -- no pun intended -- a mess.
I don't really get the religion around the video platforms. I use three (Zoom, Google Meet, and Bluejeans) on a regular basis and they all seem simultaneously decent enough and imperfect on my network on a given day. Teams is fine too but I rarely use it.
Artificially stripped-back cell is still able to rapidly evolve
People seem overly optimistic then.
Phase 1 trials are only used to test the safety of the drug, nothing else. Not sure why they plan to take such a long time for this initial phase. Covid was just a couple of weeks.

If the initial stage is already 2 years, I don't see a Phase 3 trial taking less than 3 times that amount of time. It will be super difficult to test. The R0 value of HIV is relatively low.
> Offer a comparable alternative, then

Here's a few:

- https://meet.jit.si/ which you can also self host https://github.com/jitsi
- https://bigbluebutton.org/ which you can also self host https://github.com/bigbluebutton

I've found that they're especially useful, when integrated with Rocket.Chat https://rocket.chat/ which you can also self host https://github.com/RocketChat

That way you have an experience that's a lot like Slack/Teams, with pretty good support for chat, reactions, file uploads, discussions, making quotes etc., while also being able to start video/audio calls with the press of a single button.

Of course, if that's too many platforms, Rocket.Chat also supports WebRTC, albeit the UX was a bit less stellar when i last tried it.

Alternatively, there is also Nextcloud Talk, which can integrate with your instance of Nextcloud and allow for file sharing, chatting etc., though personally i found Rocket.Chat to be more usable: https://nextcloud.com/talk/

Regardless, those are some very competent options which allow all the data to remain on your own servers.
Let's not forget about S Korea, they've even labeled some of the bigger outbreaks and identified where and how they've happened.
Nothing in the article seems to corroborate being 99% there, more like 10% of the way.
I feel like Kay has taken a rather too narrow view of what counts as programming. IMO here are the breakthroughs in the last 20 (ish) years:

1. Stack Overflow - search for your problem, copy and paste the answer.

2. git - Revision control that is low enough overhead that you need to have a reason not to use it.

3. Open-source software as a commodity - Unless you've got very specific requirements there's probably a system that can do most of your heavy lifting. (Almost) no-one writes their own JSON parsers or databases or web frameworks. Using open-source software is low overhead and low risk compared to engaging with some vendor for the same.

4. Package managers - By making it easy to include other peoples code we lower the bar to doing so.

The common thread here is code-reuse. None of the above are programming languages, but all have driven productivity in building systems and solving problems.
We need a clippy type feature "It looks like you are working on genomics data, should I turn off all the data destroying auotcorrect features?"
The article seems to indicate that consensus does not support Chronic Lyme Disease, instead preferring Post Treatment Lyme Disease as a pathology (which doesn't seem unlikely if the disease causes nervous system damage). It also mentions reinfection has been recorded. I'm only really seeing one data point being posted to counter that idea, and that doesn't seem to exclude the reinfection scenario.

I guess the hope for promoters of CLD would be that it's possible to treat the currently irreversible PTLD symptoms using antibiotics, rather than accept something akin to a fibromyalgia diagnosis.
My favorite scifi series is the Polity Universe by Neal Asher.

The Polity are these benevolent AI that rule humanity after "The Quiet War". It is called that because not a single shot is fired because they just take control of all hightech weapons and technology one day.

The books would be considered utopian scifi if the rest of the universe wasn't so gritty. Which is why it is my favorite series.
Hard technical problems are rarely the hard part of my job. People, ambiguity, and direction are where the real challenges are.
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This is the best and worst advice all in one.

It is the best because it is true. At least from what I've seen, there countless amazing engineers stuck doing really hard problems for little return, while their rather lousy counterparts razzle-dazzle the world with hand-waving; no brains necessary. If you can find an important problem that won't bore you to tears and solve it, it's definitely more important in the short term.

That said, without brilliant engineers working on hard problems and occasionally inventing really great new things, we wouldn't get far in life. So if you can forgo the fame and the riches, there is a lot of sense in working on hard/interesting problems. Someone's got to.

Personally I think picking a problem that fits your is more important than picking an outcome. The outcome won't make you happy, but the journey around the right problem will. I think.
It would be nice if Teams weren't yet another Electron disaster.
Bullets, lasers, paint, bricks, rope, pipes, anything that works on a human and more.

Doesn't seem particularly hard if they're in range.

Now if they're sniping you from a mile away, that's a bit worse.
I expect because it was submitted and discussed a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209449

See that comment and replies to it for more information.
I'm with you. CNN is trying to straddle the fence between being a legitimate news source, and being a Fox-equivalent for the not-very-smart masses. Only Fox is fully cynical about it, knowing precisely how credulous their audience is and spoon-feeding them fabricated infotainment in harmony with Murdoch's worldview.

I think we, as the intellectual "elites", need to accept the following ugly reality:

1) A huge portion of the human population is highly susceptible to propaganda.

2) Exposing them to nuanced reality doesn't help them. In fact, anything complicated turns them off. They want simple truths.

3) This subpopulation is never going to change, and they're always going to be with us.

Given this reality, the only realistic option to protect our interests, aside from totalitarianism, is to feed this subpopulation counter-propaganda. To provide an alternative, easy-to-digest narrative that's aligned with humanism / Enlightenment values, but that is extremely dumbed down: The Voltaire Factor for the Hopelessly Credulous. The irony here isn't lost on me, but I see no gentle alternative.
You know condoms are a thing, right?
Are these incredibly expensive or have a regulatory hurdle or something?

I feel like we've been seeing increasingly sophisticated demos like this for over a decade now and yet nothing has really made it to market that I can tell.

Maybe there just literally aren't many good use cases for the types of robots made by Boston dynamics?
I'd rather it was configurable, since there's different use-cases for both and it can be in the same app. So you're definitely making a valid point.
Browser zoom drops my audio after several minutes making me disable and reenable audio to get a few more minutes of audio. Annoying when it happens mid sentence, but that's a price you have to pay for using Zoom.
Can you say more about how FLoC introduces new risks that don’t already exist with targeted ads?
This exact problem burned me when I started doing transcriptomics, one of the things I found that helps mitigate the problem is to always keep both the gene symbol and a ID like an Ensemble or Entrez ID for every data point because those don’t get mangled by Excel
It looked fake to me immediately. Maybe just uncanny valley since the movements are not very human-like — I'm not sure. But the lighting on the machines looks all wrong to me (although the shadows do look accurate, and the audio also seems convincing).
That must be a very dark pattern. I didn't even know it was possible to run Zoom in a browser, and even now that I know I can't figure out how to do it. What's the secret?
I don't trust google but I also don't trust any phone carrier. Holding onto privacy is getting harder and harder it almost doesn't even feel worth it anymore.
We need a Coffeescript Renaissance!
> As far as I know, you do not have to do anything other than let your bank know the phone number/email to associate with the account you want to send/receive money to.

Yes, if your bank supports Zelle (which as I said, mine doesn't).

You can look at the numbers around this - way more people know about and use venmo than zelle.
This says the delta variant is less deadly. https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/dont-buy-the-hysteria-the-delt...

Edit. I’m not completely happy with that source so here’s at least one paper I found:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3886341
When you have done programming for a while and it is mostly muscle memory, it is easy to forget how much it is an impenetrable black box to someone who has never done it.

Try to tell someone who just needs to get a task done that he needs to spend the next 3 months learning programming from scratch vs using excel.
XXX YYY ZZZ, PhD in genomics, probably re-trainable
That is one of the issues with the old cohort ID system, in particular: You could be placed in a group that is particularly concerning for targeting purposes and not even know it, because everything was opaque. You just see a weird cohort identifier, but it might inadvertently discriminate against you in some way.

This attempts to solve this by limiting it to a much more limited set of topic groups that are presumably plaintext-readable, and it sounds like the option to remove yourself from ones that are incorrect may also be considered.

That being said, I'm happy to use a web browser that doesn't consider better ad targeting a reason to implement features.
I'm French, we probably have the biggest number of civil servants to population ratio in the world.

We're not dysfunctional (yet?) like parent described so I'm not sure every problem in Texas can be attributed to bureaucracy.
This is how I learned C++11. I didn't fully understand move semantics and smart pointers until I read the relevant chapter from 3 or 4 books. Whenever an inter/co-op student joined I'd have them read the specific chapters from multiple books plus a good article on smart pointers before having them touch any code. All during working hours of course.

I'm learning Rust now and feel like I need to do the same thing. Read "the rust book" plus Rust by Example plus one or two Rust books on the O'Reilly website. It takes a lot longer to read multiple books in parallel but I find I remember better this way.
I'm guessing that the meaning of "General American English" has drifted over the years - it seems like Speak With Distinction is from 1942, when those sorts of pronunciations were common, and it would have been appropriate to teach that to non-native speakers. Now the accent is a little bit different, just like how "business casual" now includes certain types of jeans.
Wow flu & RSV elimination would be great, especially for infants/toddlers
Dude, you’re not worshipping the vaccine the proper amount. Please stay on narrative.
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It's front-loaded with misleading phrases like "privacy first".