skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like 30% (of expelled particles) when we’re talking about face-to-face contact for a few minutes.

Probably pretty close to zero when we’re talking about being in a classroom with 30 other kids for a few hours. The mask protects against things going straight ahead, not against slowly filling up a room with aerosols.

I guess masking up might mean everyone gets slowly infected over the course of days though (through aerosols), instead of getting a full dose of virus straight in the face. I presume that affects the severity of the subsequent disease.

I appreciate the simplicity of the message to mask up, since it’s almost certainly better than nothing, but it’s no panacea.
It’s not just uncertainty as to whether masks work on kids, but uncertainty as to the impact of masking on the development of younger children.

As to your climate change example—here, the US is again the odd one out. Other developed countries are not masking toddlers, like the CDC recommends.
Science hobbyist website since 1994
absolutely yes.

Also blood clotting.
> And at that point I figure why not just use C# - which is a lot more expressive than it used to be

This is what we do. LINQ and switch expressions wherever feasible.

We also integrated a special dialect of SQL into our product which gives us a functional way to specify new views of business state.
With apologies, I'll correct myself: flu kills hundreds, sometimes thousands of children per year. My point still stands, though: an equal or greater number of people under 18 are lost every year to influenza than have been lost to Covid. It's important to keep that in perspective, is all I'm saying.
I don't know about "increasingly". Apple has always been a fairly authoritarian place to work at, especially in regulating outside activities. Some aspects, like conference publications, have become decidedly LESS authoritarian in recent years.

And you would not believe how many rules went into the "casual" dress code for WWDC presenters in the Steve Jobs years…

Many of the problems of the working conditions (and I agree that overall, Apple is a very nice place to work), would, in my opinion, be quite well suited to traditional union representation.
Ask HN: What is a low cost laptop/tablet for teleconferencing?
I would like to dedicate a device (preferably Windows) to video conferencing so I do not need to install Zoom/Webex whatnot on other devices. Needs good enough graphics to be able to support custom backgrounds without stutter and without relying on a greenscreen.

Any recommendations?
Something missing from the readme that would be interesting: operation complexity as the number of per-edge vertices rises.

Or really, any sort of performance characteristics.
Apple autocorrects poorly. I meant “isn’t pattern-matching”. And I was asking about checking exhaustiveness at compile time specifically, not about the compiled code.
> So what is the signal in such conspiracy theories...

There is virtually no signal in those conspiracy theories because they are created by schizophrenics and other mentally ill people and then spread by the media who uses them to get clicks and make them look like a danger.
> No! If you cannot find a statistically significant benefit, perhaps your experiment design is flawed. Perhaps your sample size is too small. Perhaps you have too many confounders. But you cannot conclude the measures are not effective!

You’re misreading the article. He’s not saying they’re not effective. He’s saying that a high-powered study couldn’t prove them effective, which is the same thing you’re saying.
All of the articles you are referring to are for acute/mild/moderate cases of COVID and do not cover to the significant number (particularly in younger cases) of asymptomatic and still infectious carriers, which I specifically called out in both the first and second post.

The whole point is that the adaptive immune system doesn't really ramp up for many days up to weeks, while viral load typically peaks at 3-5 days. That's why the second shot is typically delayed for the MRNA vaccines. A young asymptomatic carrier with a strong innate response who recovers early is unlikely to develop a significant adaptive immune response (e.g. test positive on an antibody serology) thus they are also then very unlikely to develop durable immunity.
India gives emergency approval for world’s first Covid-19 DNA jab
The thing that I personally have against the gig worker law is that if I, myself, want to be an independent contractor, I am not allowed to be one. Other people are upset about it as well. Fluck everything about that.

Why can't I just sign a document that I WANT to be self-employed, that I am a full-grown adult and can make my own decisions?

I think that the reason that the state mandates me, and other small business owners, is because instead of having to tax 500,000 individual business owners, the state government only has to collect my taxes from only one company, so it makes it easier for the state.
Netflix is also the company who said that sleep is one of the limiting factors to their growth. There are only 24 hours in a day and sleeping, eating, and going to work each consume a non-zero number of those.
"maximize their profits and not undercut each other"

This is another way of saying, "charge the customer more". While this may work in the short term, there is likely another parts company that will not feel this way and once again look to sell on Amazon since they'll be able to undercut while still making a profit.
Oh, but, dontcha know, that's why you need umpteen tracking apps installed.
Yeah, for sure! I mention it in the README of that library, but one of the motivations I had was to not require you to wrap the errors with my library, like pkg/errors requires you to.
I am guessing it could using PPX

https://ocamlverse.github.io/content/metaprogramming.html

In C++ the system for generics is the same system for metaprogramming. In OCaml they are two different systems.
Looks like you've gotten a good product for your use case. But flat pedals like that are generally intended for mountain bikes and I bet I know which of those two products is more likely to shatter into pieces if it glances off a rock.
My understanding is that it was more a case of what the US administration wanted to hear and believe.

The actual on-the-ground investigation was done by an at least nominally-independent UN team (UNSCOM).

Scott Ritter specifically rejected WMD claims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

The investigation lead by Hans Blix found some violations but AFAIR no indications of a significant WMD capability. The Wikipedia article has more information (I've skimmed it):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_des...

I don't think this maps well to the Humint/Sigint division. Inspectors relied somewhat on both, though non-covert on-site visits played a large role.

(Sigint and Humint are more typically covert.)
I agree that the Ns are typically small, but I don’t know how the implementation could type check as quickly as Go’s considerably simpler type system.
Pedestrians can be unpredictable and distracted. They should have their own space not shared with any vehicle for their own safety.
Banks grant credit (bank money on your account balance) through debt contracts. Money is only worth something if there is a person that is obligated to work for the money. The common man's understanding of money is that money is an object that can be owned like gold. If credit could be owned like an object it would be equivalent to owning another person's time. What does it mean to own the time of a dead person? Of course, you can't own it, it is gone. It's nothing but a promise.

A homeless person might get by alone but a rich person is wholly dependent on society. Destroying society is the same as destroying the source of their wealth.
How do I convince you to make a thermal semirigid body airship?
Fits nicely into a passport
I'm with you. Paranoid defaults should be the default defaults

Although I'd still like to be able to opt-in to reasonable defaults if I trust that my OS's non-default default decisions are indeed reasonable.
To be fair, I'm _reasonably_ sure most cops don't do those things.

Most cops just let it slide while their "bad apple" colleagues do those thing. And are therefore complicit in perpetuating them. So you're still right about it being unreasonably generous to all cops, even if not all of them do that shit.
“ in hands of someone who knows what they are doing it can be a great tool for reducing complexity.”

It really boils down to this, but what does that really mean? I’ve been coding for a very long time, and go is one of the very few languages where it’s relatively easy for me to jump into a code base I’ve never seen before and make sense of it. Maybe the majority of code isn’t written be people that “know what they are doing”?

I like to think in terms of optionality, the magnitude of possible upside and down side. I’ve come to the conclusion that heavy abstraction has a large magnitude of downside risk and relatively small upside benefit for large teams and institutions.
Yeah, that's my point. There should be no automatic rights elevation. Adding a driver should require a prompt, period.

I assume the mouse driver only bypasses it because it wants to have the driver installed before the user has logged in.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I jumped into the comments, eager to see an explanation of exactly why this is horrible, and was disappointed.
The worst part of competitive programming is that you need to do it for job interviews. This turned a legitimately fun and deeply engaging activity into a truly tedious and draining one
They're less common in the US West but they're widespread in the East. (Especially further south but they're spreading.) Many are dog ticks (larger) which are less problematic but not unproblematic. They're far from some barely existent bogeyman. I've had a good dozen or so on me this summer even being careful.
Your post is set up like a straw man, but let’s just take the ‘children are being sexually kidnapped/tortured’ pizza gate thing as an example. It’s absurd, but guys like Jeffrey Epstein exist. And I think we can all agree something very fishy was going on within the circles he operated in and how he died. Underage people are being exploited by some very high profile movers and shakers… but rather than anything substantive, we get this unconscious unfounded unease. Filtered through the cultural milieu, it manifests as unsophisticated paranoid fears tangentially related to sex abuse and the Clintons.
That's because scripts in a game are not usually a performance bottleneck if kept to best practices. And you can bet your ass both unity and unreal have some ASM in their guts.
...according to China, masters of disinformation
Reasearch institutions/hospitals are doing what-kind-of-variant testing in more a structured study kind of way. Looks like normal people cant just get variant testing easily.
Have to put my favorite version up here as well. Gary Jules on the Donnie Darko soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0y1kFxblmY
> The ASCII symbol for '-' is not a suitable analog for our concept of 'negative'

Why not?
Exactly!

I didn't want to make the post too long, but that's one of the ideas, yes. In fact, there are others, such as translating in real time the audio of the message in any language.

For example, let's say we send a quote to China and the supplier doesn't speak English or Spanish. With this app, he could send us a short message in his language and as a user I can translate it, reply in my language and the supplier will hear it translated in his language.

It is very important what you say that the content of the message can be searched correctly. I believe that with the technology that search engines have today, this can be achieved.

What other ideas?

Thank you!
That's absurd. To the extent that hospitals are "overflowing," it's due to unvaccinated people, not people with breakthrough cases (the nonzero risk I mentioned).

The context here is that somehow if kids get Covid it's a death sentence for their grandparents, and that's simply not true when the vast majority of Americans over 50 have been vaccinated.
Almost all vaccine producers claim effectivity for about 9 months, right? So after 9 months, you need to get another shot. Since you have decided your immune system can not handle COVID on its own, you have now a dependency on the vaccine. Thats what I call an addiction. Better english word is probably a dependency...
Either it shut down or people were afraid to ride. They cut service drastically in my locale, still have not restored it fully. My spouse switched to her bike.
Good economists know.

> To learn from the mistakes, and institutionalize better responses would mean to admit there were mistakes. One would think the grand blame-Trump-for-everything narrative would allow us to do that, but the mistakes are deeply embedded in the bureaucracies of the administrative state. Unlike bad admirals in WWII, nobody less than Trump himself has lost their job over incompetent covid response. The institutions have an enormous investment in ratifying that they did the best possible job last time. So, as in so many things (financial bailouts!) we institutionalize last time's mistakes to keep those who made them in power in power -- which means we do not learn from mistakes.
I just look at where Tesla started, and where it is today. How they revolutionized electric cars during a time when the ICE industry was against them in order to protect the status quo. I wonder how many companies would be "all in" on electric right now had Tesla not existed and forced them to. Would the Mustang "Mach E" exist? Would Ford be changing their most profitable and popular line, the F-150 Truck, if there wasn't a Tesla? Would Porsche be making electric cars if Tesla cars 1/3 the price weren't wiping the floor with them in track races, handily embarrassing them? They accomplished this even as the car industry was able to "swing" politicians to ban "Tesla dealerships" which is a huge impediment. Do you know of any Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Nissan, GMC, or Porsche "dealerships" that don't have physical storefronts? They persevered and basically got around that by building A+ products which sold themselves on reputation and performance alone. I guess you can concentrate on "vaporware" and ignore the actual industry shake-up that they forced upon the "establishment" (existing ICE companies) and have done more concretely than any other company I can think of in terms of taking an existing problem (car pollution) and turning it around.
The streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Avenue, What happened today
Someone needs to just scrape the web for light weight websites then offer a search engine just for these sites. Rid the corruption from the web please.
Big thing I miss from F# is Option and Either types. You can make both in under 100 LOC in C# but then you have to explain to people how they work or write comprehensive docs.

Also, it feels more natural to me to use dynamic dispatch instead of pattern matching with C#, but I realise the "C# is pure OO" ship sailed a long time ago
Which is such a strange optimization. As an industry we should boycott leetcode style questions.
I get your complaints but in a lot of areas the alternative to the painted-on lane is to have no lane at all, and having the lane at least establishes a principle. I feel safer in it, and cars in my area tend to take it seriously.

I don't think there's really a solution to the turning problem, unless you're proposing tunnels at every intersection for cars/bikes. I'm hopeful that newer cars' safety features help to fight this back (I would also like people to, yknow, pay attention when driving).

My principle (especially after getting a drivers license and realizing how little visibility one actually has while driving) is to not listen to music (so I can actually hear cars etc) and to basically slow down at every interesection that has even a bit of doubt. It's annoying but at least I'm not rolling the dice on every intersection (or at least not as much)
> which are covered by a cloth mask which vastly reduces how much makes it into the air

Where do you think the extra air goes?

It still makes it into the air, just in different directions. Some of the viral particles are probably caught in the mask, but I’m not sure how much of the total we can count on.
Got it, thanks! That seems unintuitive to me (which is pretty much the summary of QM as far as I can tell), but I trust that some pretty clever people are convinced of this.
They’re 2nd dose reminder cards not counterfeit resistant certificates.
We’re out there, in clusters. The agency I most recently contracted through was probably a quarter Emacs users, and entirely the heavy-collaboration/always-pairing sort of developer.
Yeah also part of being an individualist society, is despite not being able to agree give respect others rights and freedom, not calling for bans for things you don't like. Keep rolling on the downvote. lol
Surely there are many contributing factors always. The question to ask is: "Would Sweden have done better had it implemented lockdown like its neighbors?

In hindsight, would they still make the same decision, if (and when) a new equally deadly pandemic rises again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw
The narrative I hear is that Amazon is destroying businesses. The issue I have is that this isn’t really true. Here’s an anecdote.

I drive 20 minutes to the mall. After finding parking and getting into a shoe store, there’s no one really there to help me. Once they get around to me, they don’t have my size. And it’s also apparent the person working there has no interest in helping. Whether they have my size or whether I found what I was looking for is basically not their problem. So I drive at least 40 minutes round trip, plus the hassle of parking, finding the store in the mall, and waiting on someone to help me.

Now my time is valuable. I lost my time. I paid for gas. I also put miles on my car. And depending on the day, I also had to deal with traffic.

IMO businesses refuse to compete. If Amazon is doing it better than them, then hats off to Amazon. If a business is doing better than Amazon, then I’ll go with that business.

IMO the “negative externalities” puts blame on Amazon while pretending like these other stores even try to compete.

Btw this binary view of the world where Amazon is bad and others are good (or vice versa) seems to be a very American thing.
I know it is sad, but I used to chuckle to myself every time it happened and say "time for tubby bye byes!" as I changed it to something else. I was younger then.
There have been > 111k breakthrough infections in the US alone through the end of July. The CDC stopped tracking them unless they resulted in hospitalization or death, but we can still look at the data from the 35 states still tracking it.

It is fair to say that vaccination reduces the chance of infection. "Very rare", however, is not how I would characterize it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/cdc-scale...

Data from Israel suggests that efficacy may be much lower than initially believed, but still much better than nothing.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-...
If that's correct then why have they been so slow to distribute vaccines?
How do you use it like that? I typed in "falafel" as a test and the first result was JS heavy foodnetwork.com.
It becomes painful to write in unit tests.

I really liked their `check` proposal. I hope they will bring it back to life.
Your points are valid, and are well within the framework of NVC, so I disagree that this is a failing point of NVC.

> But here is the rub - maybe they are right, not you?

That is actually to be expected, and the book is full of such examples. The point is to get the conversation going. If their response is "You complain about productivity? The meeting is a whole hour long and I'm usually needed for only about 10 minutes of it. I do not see the importance of me being on time when I'm losing most of the hour for your meeting" then we're now in negotiation territory. Maybe I should change the format of my meeting. Or always have his item first on the agenda so he can come on time and just leave. The fact that he gave me this answer is helpful.

> it starts with "I am right, and you need to adjust"

I'm too lazy to reread the article, but a key aspect of NVC is that a request is just a request. If you make a request that is denied and get upset about it, then you never made a request to begin with - it was a demand. There's no "You need to change" in it. One thing that I find articles like these don't stress enough is that body language, tone, etc needs to match. You could take my original NVC formulation and speak it in a hostile way, or in a very non-confrontational manner. Of course, since we are communicating using written communication, this aspect is lost and different readers will imagine it with different tones/body language - which may explain some of the polarization I've seen when NVC is discussed in the written form.

And again, I have no disagreement with starting with "let's find the underlying root cause of the problem together" - it's not as if that violates NVC. I could state that in a horrible way as well:

"You and I are going to sit down right now and come up with a solution to this!"

If I wanted to say what you said in a more NVC way, it would be:

"This morning you arrived ten minutes after the meeting start time. I was disappointed that we couldn't go through the whole agenda and thus lost productivity. Would you be willing to discuss ways we can make these meetings more effective?" (this could include alternative times, alternative formats, etc).

(This time I dropped the word "late" because although I view it as a "fact", others tend to attach judgement to it).
Locals Digging a Well Discover a $140M Half-Ton Star Sapphire
Wow! What a trip down memory lane, I actually remember figuring this one out when I was.. dating myself here[1], about 7 years old, I really wanted to play my Thinking Things Collection 3.[2]

When I inevitably got caught I remember my dad let me have my own user, but put some sort of further time-restriction software on the PC, no idea what it was, but I figured out that if I timed Ctrl-Alt-Delete at just the right time during the start cycle, I could, if I worked fast enough, end the process before it locked me out of login. XD

Oh to be a 90s kid.

[1] to be fair though we didn't update Windows immediately on release and never had '98.

[2]https://www.myabandonware.com/game/thinkin-things-collection...
> Including the number of stars on the github projects they worked on seems so.... narcissistic? Promotional?

I don't know about the stars particularly, but what is a resume besides you being somewhat narcissistic and especially promotional?
About 8 weeks ago I was bitten by a tick and contrived Lyme Disease and I put my story up on YouTube to try to help others, let's just day it's a crazy ride downhill if you neglect the bacterial infection.

https://youtu.be/xbPr7DHwSIw (skip to 1:35 to hear about Lyme and not Fermenting grains for chickens.)

In the video I talk about the treatment I followed to recover.
this is borderline hilarious, 2021 we get patent trolls wanting to penalize site owners for implementing web security best practices to protect their end users?

it's like suing car manufacturers for installing seatbelts on their vehicles, lmao.
They give up and browse facebook instead
Minimal <> doesn’t help

Is it worth the cost? That’s a different question.

I’m not really opposed to masks in a classroom as a mitigation method, but if people believe it will significantly alter the trajectory of the infections I have a bridge to sell them.
Awesome, thank you for that!

And in my nightmares tonight, I shall be required to write that from memory on a chalkboard in front of the class.
39% against infection is bloody good.

I'll take that (actually i already have)