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Post viral illness damage has been known for a long time, for example post polio. I feel like there's probably been a host of other viral illness that could also be responsible for long Covid like symptoms but it's only with Covid that we are seeing it being in the public consciousness.

The preexisting conditions may confound the study
Lets say your a civil engineer working on a bridge. If your employer asked you to remove a support beam to save costs but you knew it had serious impacts on the safety would you do it? Knowing that your stamp would be on it and if an issue happened, you could be held responsible? Why is it in other fields of engineering there are actions that are not acceptable, but in software it is virtually non-existent.
> One student had boarded a plane after being told they were enrolled in one college only to arrive and find they hadn’t actually been signed up. “This thing is getting nasty,” says Sohal. “It’s a dirty business.”

Wait, how did the student get a visa without really being enrolled?
>“I am willing to do a lie detection test on that.”

For a scientist researching honesty, I'd say that referring to a polygraph as a lie detector test raises a few questions.
Thanks, you guys are awesome
And San Francisco is on a different continent
You misunderstood: “Everyone else” in this context means everyone, including fellow students, not just those that were eligible for the vaccine.

You also misunderstand the death rate, deaths/infections is what matters, not deaths/population
Thanks! Really appreciate it!
Look I’m not defending Ariely, just saying that random sampling can be more complex than each record exactly the same sampling chance. And if the population has a few overpopulated groups but you’d like results for all groups, you don’t throw extra samples at it but use smarter sampling.
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Your comment matches common anecdotes, but I can provide more detail (I study aerodynamics.)

The background is:

- Britain sent data on the Miles M.52 supersonic jet to the US, so at least some Americans knew about the flying tail before the X-1 (first supersonic flight in 1948), and the Germans did some work on flying tails

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.52

- most of the pre X-1 planes that crashed didn't reach Mach 1, but they did lose control. Those are called loss of control due to compressibility, not supersonic flights.

- as the article says, the DC-8 flew ok up to Mach 0.97 in previous flights, so they thought things were fine. Note that in every Mach 1.0 flight that I've read about, the airspeed indicator jumps from around Mach 0.96 to 1.0, perhaps meaning the indicator is not accurate around Mach 1.0.
The COVID 19 RT-PCR specificity results were shown in this FDA document (Table 9 on page 45):
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

I had an argument on another site with someone making a similar claim about why I think the flu results started turning up mostly negative and why flu death attributions are basically non-existent this year, but I think it just muddies the point. The COVID PCR tests that have been used over the past 12+ months are accurate and do not conflate COVID with Influenza.
Been mulling over what I really wanted to say …
This is the par for the course on hacker news to have this kind intellectual conversations, exploring potential spaces.

However, what I was trying to convey is … it’s about being friends to each other right now, as in one big human family. And doing the right thing - which means coming together to have a conversation about how to extinguish this fire. I mean, we eliminated small pox. What happened to that human spirit of cooperation?

And to me, talking about what-ifs at this level doesn’t really address the underlying issue which is … people don’t want to figure out how to help each other - this is what we need right now otherwise it’s just another layer of drama that distracts us from what’s in front of us.

Edit : we already have a solution, which is basically - vax and mask up - we literally have people dying by the hundreds if not the thousands daily - but it’s always the government that’s the problem - and thinking about mask mandates 10 years down the road is like if “sir, our neighborhoos is on fire … can you please grab that bucket and help out” was met with “but What if it goes on for another week? Should we all be beholden to keep on filling and carrying the buckets? My house over there is fine why should I worry about that? I don’t really need to help out right now? I’m just worried that i will be forced to lug buckets forever”
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But vaccinated people face almost no risk from covid, so it doesn't affect them if people choose to not get vaccinated.

Moreover, the covid vaccines will not eliminate covid from the population, as the data from Iceland clearly shows:

https://twitter.com/eliaseythorsson/status/14240115421950238...

The virus will continue to circulate and impact every one regardless of what percentage of the population gets vaccinated.

tl;dr people who don't get vaccinated are only harming themselves.
Whether something is lawful does not decide whether it's useful. To some people bypassing currency censure is a good thing.
Relative to blockchains and since this is centralized, is there a trust issue? Sure it’s cryptographically verifiable, but is there a single entity that could somehow mess with it?
> everything is categorical because people like the word

> people just equate an "explanation" to connecting things with arrows and everybody kind of nods along while never agreeing on what the arrows mean

I bet you'd love category theory!
Sears actually ran Amazon like online shopping thru Prodigy, so its not like they didnt try https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-19-fi-581-st...

Iv seen one video of this service in action recorded by some local access TV morning show once, but cant find it anymore :( It was all text based, but apparently featured all products available thru paper catalogs.
The article does not explicitly note that GMU is a public university, an important detail. If it were private, such a determination would be unfounded on the principal that two entities have the right to enter into a transaction strictly upon mutually and exclusively amenable terms.
The growth of compute power per dollar looks exponential even on a log scale
(cofounder here)

We've explored a bit of the ASL space. The motion based ones are not something we've dug into. But some of the "static-but-location" based ones are things we've tried.

"Mom" is easier than "grandmother". We've tested out a version of "mute". "Tile" would be quite a bit harder (I think).
I skimmed it. Came away with a similar impression. I'm always deeply suspicious when people, from a position of extreme privilege and financial security, talk about how money doesn't matter.

I read a piece years ago that said the only true signal of recognition in business is money: everything else is just sentiment. Good wishes will not pay your bills or feed your family.

Bosses: if you really want to recognise good work, pay a bonus, or give a salary bump. Stock can also be a viable option, but everything else is simply fluff.
Gotta love this. Marketing newspeak at its finest: "always had programs in place that support best-in-class developers with enhanced resources and investments to help them reach more customers".
When your not doing something with your body results in the harm of death of people other than yourself? The right to swing your fist has always ended at others nose. What we are litigating is not that concept well established but a still somewhat fluid understanding of the situation as it stands and how to apply our understanding of fact and law to the necessary choice between your autonomy and others safety.

Vaccinating someone who has already had covid is thornier and less clear. Medically it is certainly advisable a rerun isn't always mild and studies have shown individuals who are previously infected have twice the chance of reinfection compared to those who are also vaccinated.

The chance of misadventure from being vaccinated is fantastically low and the risk of reinfection while a lot smaller than in a naive individual is a long way from zero. I have substantial doubts regarding any immunologist would say

>and that it violates medical ethics to order unnecessary procedures.

Unless he had been in a coma and had just woken up yesterday.

What he is fighting for then is the right to undertake a course of action that is both meritless and brainless but I don't think we have a right to protect him from himself so the problem becomes is he risking others to an unacceptable degree. I'd say no. If he becomes infected he could infect others including the ample unvaccinated so he IS risking others by his actions but the risk is probably at this juncture small although this could change and he would be stupid to delay.

Importantly the test needs to be one with an acceptably low false positive rate performed by a legitimate lab. Not a self test for practical purposes lest people find a way to foul the test (see the soda issue where kids found out that an acidic liquid led to a positive test) or sell each other spit over the internet or something equally stupid.
I'm not disagreeing with you regarding vaccination. However, there is a long history of the state telling people what they should do with their body.

The two most obvious examples are drug usage and abortion.

Why do we accept that but are suddenly outraged by vaccination? Vaccination mandates aren't new either: many countries will not even let you enter unless you are vaccinated against yellow fever.

I think there are valid arguments opposing vaccine mandates but the "this is an unprecedented infringement on freedom" isn't one of them.
You can apply for access to the API at the openai website. They approved pretty quickly
This is truly a HackerNews moment. IDEs bring optional usefull stuff you can ignore if you want. Yet here in comments we have autists arguing that using IDEs (=option stuff you can ignore) is bad vs using their favourite 40 year old text editor in terminal. Jesus christ you people are funny.
The capabilities of cameras are remarkably poor compared to human vision. Building a camera that covers a large area with the ability to resolve a small object at a mile distance is an expensive proposition, and I don't think the military has tried it. And, in general, aviation is averse to new technology and the military is averse to new technology. Combine the two and you get the present situation where most military aircraft have only limited imaging.

The police helicopters have very nice stabilized cameras but they're on the bottom (can't look upward more than a small amount) and hard to aim at things moving in the air. It seems like the drone was intentionally maneuvering to be difficult to track with a camera... the pilots both report it hovering around 1k feet directly above them, which is pretty much the place that it's least likely the helicopter would be able to image it.
“These people”
tcpdump on pflog0 and then use wireshark.
Ask HN: How do you validate your startup idea when you've no distribution?
Hello HN,

Wondering how people with almost no distribution channel manage to validate their ideas!

I've built and published many apps throughout school without validating the idea, but they received 20K+ installs in a short span.

After reading tons of books and articles, I realized people validate their ideas before spending too much time on them.

So I decided to build a landing page with a waitlist for my product and posted it on Twitter and Instagram.

Though a lot of people I spoke to sounded "excited", I got very few signups.
(They're not my target audience, so I didn't ask them if they'd pay for such a product)

Now I'm wondering if my idea is bad or if my distribution is awful.

What am I doing wrong?

(P.S I'm working on a creator SaaS product)
There are many systems for romanising Russian. Most of them use kh for х (including those used by US/UK for Russian place names, names in Russian passports, road signs in Russia).

Wikipedia has a handy table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian#Transl...

As to why it is that way, I don't know. Some closely related languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian) follow different conventions. For example, the national system in Belarus transliterates х as ch and г as h.
Can you please link the study? Thanks.
There are many huge corporations involved in hundreds of different markets that no one is concerned about because they don’t dominate (and skew) those markets. Corporations spread over many markets is not a problem, a corporation (or a cartel) dominating a single market is.
There is a sister package PGFPlots that you can use to plot figures. It produces high quality figures, in my view much better than matplotlib, in part because it’s integrated with latex.

It’s worth mentioning that drawing complex diagrams with Tikz can take time. You need to code such that the plot is flexible if later you make a change, as much as possible.
And yet they can require many things of people that are infringements of rights of expression and autonomy, such as dress codes.

If en employee there notified them that they had been infected with a highly infectious disease (think smallpox) and still wanted to go to work, would they have a right to deny that person? If so, what specifically constrains them in a situation like this that wouldn't in a situation like that?
I don't care for the name "where" since it makes me think that is is a place to define bindings, like Haskell. I would prefer a term like "expect" or "tests".
Point in place, military activity in Yemen was going on before the general public really knew about it. I know, I deployed under both Obama and Trump primarily for military activities in Yemen. When news finally broken, there was not a serious mass of people up-in-arms about it.

When people thank me for my service, I always tell them they can thank me by telling their representatives to stop sending kids to war for no good reason.

Was a fighting a runaway proxy war? Or a part of one. Most definitely yes. We supported the Saudis in Yemen because the Houthis in Yemen were favorable to Iran. Neither country really deserves out support. But we support the Houthis in other regions of the ME because they oppose Al Queda.
No one will force you to vaccinate if you move do mountains and live in isolation there. But if you want to live among others - you either
- follow the rules of majority willingly
- will be forced to follow them
- move away and leave alone

But if you want to live with others and do whatever you want and endanger them - no one will tolerate this and then will be right to.
I like the idea of attaching tests to the function itself - oftentimes I'm finding myself combing through the unit tests for various components to understand the expectations around how they are meant to be used (especially when they are not documented well enough), I feel this approach could help in this aspect (and also with adding new test cases that could have been missed).
I was looking into both customer conversation and chat recently and I mixed things up. Sorry.

The one I looked at for 'comments' : https://github.com/posativ/isso
Turn your sarcasm detector on.
I was looking into both customer conversation and chat recently and I mixed things up. Sorry.

The one I looked at for 'ccomments' : https://github.com/posativ/isso
seems the university simply granted a medical exemption, and was not ordered by the court to do so?

GMU maintained their policy that everyone must be vaccinated regardless of their antibody status.

Seems really strange.
> Do I have to spin up a whole session of the IDE just to run my test suite? Do I have to dig through eleven nested GUI settings dialogues to find out what the command to build the damn project is, just so I can tweak a build parameter?

Can you say what language/platform you talk abojt here?

I currently work in Kotlin with IntelliJ where sadly the only working IDE is IntelliJ,but you can build it just fine and even fix bugs using whatever editor you want.

I also maintain a lot of React code, used to work on .Net Core and some plain old C# before Core, I've maintained Angular and before that Java, older Delphi versions and even PHP.

The only projects that had the problem you talk about were

- Visual Studio (not Visul Studio Code) projects from before .Net core

- and old Delphi projects.

That said, I'm kind of stuck with IntelliJ now because of Kotlin (which is an awesome language) but I miss NetBeans a lot and how it - instead of saving everything in its own configuration files - simply accepted Maven .pom files as configuration, meaning uncluttered repos and still having all config synced and up to date everywhere. (Maven is well though out so if you just accept the defaults the files are small and contain only the things they need to contain like name, namespace and version, dependencies and necessary configuration.)
> there is a long history of the state telling people what they should do with their body. The two most obvious examples are drug usage and abortion.

You're only applying this argument in one direction, but it works in both directions. Most people who want the vaccine to be mandatory disagree with the state restricting drug usage and abortion. If you disagree with some policy and want to get it overturned, it seems wrong to try to use it as precedent to set new policies in the meantime.
> Intel Corp.’s fourth-generation Xeon processor, codenamed Sapphire Rapids

If you are just as confused as I am at "fourth generation" when Xeon has been around for decades, they mean "fourth-generation Xeon Scalable Processor (SP)". Skylake-SP, Cascade Lake-SP, Ice Lake-SP were the previous generations. Where Xeon processors previously used E3/E5/E7 designations for 1/2/4+ socket capabilities, SP CPUs use metallic prefixes: Bronze representing basic processors, Silver low power, Gold adding different options for advanced interconnects and integrated accelerators, and Platinum offering the widest range of capabilities.
I think the reason parse generators are enticing and highly regarded, especially in academic settings, is because they tend to attract the same people who love complexity and abstraction for the sake of abstraction. Recursive descent, and even more so handwritten RD, is seen as "lowly" and "unsophisticated", despite all the practical advantages it has.

If you ask developers who have no compiler experience to come up with a solution for e.g. evaluating maths expressions, chances are that they will effectively derive recursive descent in writing a solution, because of its simplicity and ease of understanding.
In the comments, there's a restriction - the rider is using an over-65s bus pass.
I want a product that can tell me what number to bet on at the roulette wheel. I’m thinking machine learning and Python will work best.
Elixir (Rust too IIRC) check code in doccomments for correctness.
FPaxos requires commit quorum and subsequent promise request quorum to intersect. It doesn't bring any significant thruput benefits
They negotiate pretend play before playing. Who is going to be what, what the goal of each character is, what are abilities and limitation.
The last I saw it prevented 99% of hospitalization.
Her name is Bonnie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny
> In any case, I trust their decisions better than those of someone who glanced at the website only long enough to inform a condescending (and highly superficial) comment on Hacker News.

I didn't interpret it as condescending.

> (and highly superficial)

I didn't interpret it as highly superficial. Comments about the appearance (including whitespace, kebab-case, and infix operators) of a language are fair game, particularly if it is intended for teaching.
A good way to remember what you read is to become a domain expert and read everything about some particular domain you are interested in.

When you read in clusters around the same topic the same concepts will get reinforced over and over again.
I'm neither part of the tech nor startup scene. I'm happy to see more variety in the content, as long as it's high quality and has interesting comments.

To be frank, work is work and I don't care so much to read about it. I care even less about drama at other companies.
It’s not being discriminated against based on some protected class. Being vaccinated is a choice, unlike skin color.

The government will not let you serve alcohol at a restaurant unless you check the drinker’s age. The government will now also not let you serve diners indoors unless you check they have been vaccinated.
there is some evidence that ivermectin has antiviral activity in-vitro, tested on primate cells. Many drugs have effects that are outside of on-label indications, as those are really just for marketing purposes.

Physicians are absolutely free to prescribe things off-label, do so routinely, and in fact in many situations the majority of prescriptions happen to be off-label.

The only concern here is 1) that concentration needed to achieve that effect may potentially be toxic to humans. 2) in-vitro studies mighte be insufficient/weak evidence and may fail in-vivo (happens all the time)
Even non sterilizing could be argued, it effects other people if you cannot find an ICU after your car accident because they are full with unvaccinated (and some vaccinated) covid patients.
I've found it best to use GeoGebra to draw what you want, and then export as PGF/TikZ. You can then edit the code to make any modifications rather than writing TikZ from scratch.
I feel like we're both right.

Know your audience, there is little point in speaking Russian to Hindu native speakers.

There is also little to be gained in only communicating in overly complicated language to your average Citizen. The CDC could, quite easily and simply communicate really very important announcements in a way that your average "man on the street" could read, consume and truly understand with very little effort or time.

The audience is different. They have tuned themselves to short videos, short blurts of text and meme images. I agree this is not good, but they need to communicate in the same language or risk this sort of misinformation spreading.
Hmmm that sorta makes sense I guess. Sorta because raft is a replication algorithm. If you don't use raft in datapath you don't get any of its guarantees
With WAL2 mode, SSDs everywhere, and machines with gigabytes of RAM, SQLite makes sense in more situations than you might think.
In a lot of states, hairstyle is considered a protected class these days.
So, should I read this article before reading this article?
It totally was. Type checking is being worked on, they were not happy with the performance of their first implementation.
My code automatically creates a column for each key in the JSON object, adding any columns that are missing.

If a key represents a nested object, I dump JSON for that object into a text column (since SQLite doesn't have a separate JSON type).

What I'm doing doesn't feel different enough from "dump it all in a JSON column" to justify different terminology.

Here's an example of my results: https://github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net/github
I had to fix one such case 6 years ago where the build procedure was to build in IntelliJ.

It took a day or two to get kt over to Maven: basically create a Maven file, make sure everything were in the correct standard Java layout, then build and unzip the war file and compare it to the unzipped war file from the existing build process repeatedly while getting the last tweaks in place.