skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. A more apt analogy would be the hypothesis "do antibiotics reduce the prevalence of MRSA, if prescribed for everyone?"

We can know that antibiotics work, but still fail spectacularly when used improperly. It's important to test both.
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I'm not blaming the southern border, I am pointing out a fact that has implications on how we manage our expectations, and what actions to mitigate the corona virus that will work better than others given our situation. if you think facts should be suppressed then you hardly believe in science. its sad that russdpale thinks this comment should be removed by moderators. I also didn't state this is the only reason, nor that the solution should be stopping the border crossings.

In fact, I am arguing for increased capacity to handle the corona virus long term. short term measures like trying to lock down borders is going to have little meaning in the long run, and hurt a lot of people.
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Fair point. You are right.
If you cannot understand it, then probably it doesn't matter for you, because you have no problem to solve. Most of the time, physicists are trying to invent a mathematical formula or construct to elegantly describe a physical process, to make an accurate prediction.

Just imagine, that we have a game, where we want to accurately predict next frames of a video. It's an interesting game on its own, because you need to understand deeply what happens on the video to be able to accurately predict behavior of all objects, animals, and persons in the video.

Such game requires a lot of skill, to accurately guess and predict, but most of the time it's not important for us, mere mortals. For example, we put a lot of effort into OpenGL, PBR, physic engines, etc. to make realistic games. Do you feel obligated to study all of that when you are interested in a realistic fly simulation? Do you feel obligated to study construction of AK when you like to play a 3D shooter?

If you really want to understand physics, then I suggest to perform experiments, or play with a physical simulation, or, even better, to implement your own physical simulation. Look, for example, at this beautiful simulation of black hole done in OpenGL shader:

https://ebruneton.github.io/black_hole_shader/demo/demo.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hhOd7GDboM
https://github.com/ebruneton/black_hole_shader
https://ebruneton.github.io/black_hole_shader/paper.pdf
Bootstrap was cool. LESS was cool back then but I hated it, so (I believe so), I translated it to SCSS for the very first time around early 2012. Well, someone published just few weeks after me and I believed a lot of my codes were copied (as I could see my own errors/bugs replicated in his). I got lazy but he keep pushing updates and bug-fixes. Soon, I used his instead for a very long time.

I remember this because I was approached to write a book on Bootstrap and Sass by Packt. I believe that's when I stopped using Bootstrap!

Looked up and found the old post (now deleted/pruned) in the Archives - http://web.archive.org/web/20120207101527/https://brajeshwar...
If Microsoft lets anyone owning a Razer mouse/keyboard do whatever it wants to anyone's computer then that's on Microsoft as well.

If only Razer customers are affected then, sure let's put all of the blame on Razer but this affects everyone using Windows 10. There are some very good reasons why you cannot simply install device drivers without admin rights and if Microsoft chooses to wave those rights for trusted suppliers then they can very much be blamed for this kind of oversight.
Very cool concept.

I’m sure your guys have done a ton of prior art, but I want to encourage you to make sure Amazon hasn’t patented this in any capacity yet.

A close friend that worked at Prime Air shared how years ago their division had a full time legal staff dedicated to patenting all engineers ideas. He had gotten several patents even being entry level FWIW. They had several concepts very similar to this and it wouldn’t surprise me if they were able to get that IP locked down. Like I said, I expect you all have checked and rechecked but thought it’s worth mentioning.
In that case maybe we should just put that URL at the top?

I've changed to that from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044..., which doesn't give access to the paper.
Wouldn't the reverse reading make more sense, that the mosquitoes were creating a blood bath? And when did colorful metaphors become anathema?
I know there is a substantial pool of companies that uses the "consulting" formula and brings in cheap H1B labor, but H1B is a very broad Umbrella that also includes very highly skilled workers (with PhDs), doctors, etc.

I'm a hiring manager in one of the big tech companies and let me tell you, H1B labor is NOT cheap. We not only have to pay them market rates, but a lot of foreign nationals with specialized skills are getting paid more than market average (it's part of the process that DOL enforces to make sure we don't abuse H1B). I think the study references "startups", so there is a chance that it is biased, but within that bias, accurate.
This doenst surprise me at all. There are more and more sellers that are frustrated with how amazon deals with them.

Amazons top priority is the customer, and thats how they got to this point, but everyone else suffers, from their 3rd party sellers to their suppliers to their own employees.

Here is a list of stuff Amazon does:

-Anti competitive behaviour on the buy box (Amazon doesnt have the product in stock. You have it, but your offer is still not shown)

-Banning sellers for no good reason, and you cant contact anyone helpful

-Screwing over their suppliers with Vendor Central, where they buy from you wholesale. They dont pay, they just say the goods were never delivered and dont accept your proof of delivery. I know sellers who are owed over 30k from amazon.

-Customers are able to send back items 1 year later. If you dont agree, they can file an “AZ claim”. If you get too manu claims, they ban you.

-Support for sellers is the worst combination of overseas call centers using some cookie cutter templates to answer questions. Often you are just copy pasting your question 5 times, until you get somebody with have a brain

-Use data from their sellers to create their own products and then force them out of the market

-creating huge incentives for chinese sellers which flood and undercut the local sellers

Its just a huge behemoth were
nobody knows whats going on.

In my opinion this company needs to be split up by gov and reigned in.

But who knows, maybe more sellers will follow suit and the pressure will be increasing to change things.
> When they say like a family they mean treating each other with kindness, friendship and compassion. They don't mean that everyone has to be around each others houses at Christmas.

More like, 'You should be willing to put in more time at work, and put up with "our little quirks"'
I was trying to point out that Mosquito saliva produces somekind of deterrent and antigen. It takes only few bites and days to adapt with suitable genetic background. But Italians were offended and it turned into flame war.
I had to turn ublock off to keep going after the first click, which is in fact an accurate depiction of the web experience.
Seconded. Here's their video specifically about the black hole information paradox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkHBmE-N34
serializer fixes endianess?
There are little infrared pens that you can get that do this without pain, just heating the area with IR to denature the proteins injected by the insect
Its not called "programming" if it's at the level of bits and pointers, that's just LARPing a compiler. Real programmers work in Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, etc
I have zero idea why I clicked on this link. But I just lost 20 minutes of my life watching people fall off of milk crates, not gonna lie I laughed and cringed A LOT. I still don't know why they are attempting this though. Also all of the videos are of adults, this looks like the kind of shenanigans some one much younger would get into.
Hardware drag scrolling, combos and snippets, more configuration then you can swing a stick at, layers and all of that. Half of the reason I use QMK boards is due to on-host configuration being so so terrible. At least if I bring my own hardware I _know_ it's going to work how I expect when I plug it in. That's a huge sell if you are jumping between computers all the time and have hardware that fits in your purse.

Also, the form factor and things like the Ploopy Nano are super cool. And because it's open source if you don't like the hardware/software you can easily change it. We use interface devices all day, everyday. Not having an ergonomic interface will catch up with you.
It seems obvious that wearing masks all day would hinder social and verbal development in toddlers and small children, at least to some extent. I think everyone can agree that they wouldn't help in these areas?

You might think the public health benefits outweigh this concern, but it's disingenuous imo to just assert that there are no conceivable negative effects for a two year old having their first social experiences.
Hopefully the police get a fine and licence temporarily revoked just like a civilian would have.
> All this time the vaccinated host is as dangerous for others as unvaccinated.

This is categorically false, sorry :
https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1429449468261322759
The very last thing that I saw on this site got me to laugh out loud. I'll leave it at that to not ruin it. Genius.
What do you expect to see from that data alone? How much immunity and for how long the actual covid infection provides?
Hi Alex and Daniel! This looks really cool and I believe I am in your set of target customers/potential early adopters.

Personally, I'd much moreso prefer a self-hosted option such as a desktop application with strong guarantees about limits on cloud upload over anything cloud-based for this use case, specifically around concerns about how the webcam data could be used/abused. I don't see any immediate FAQ page or somewhere I could determine this information. Not seeing this information gives me some immediate pause in trying out your application or signing up.

Similarly in addition to some discussion in your FAQs etc. around the limits of how the webcam imagery is used, I would personally love and feel more trust in the product if the FAQs could provide any data or transparency on how the training corpus takes into account issues of proper representation across ppl with different posture considerations (scoliosis comes to mind) as well as the overall representation of different demographics (race, age, gender) within that training set, and/or how the model training procedure defines or determines "correct" posture.
not realistic

lacks of giant pop-up on google search page about cookies, privacy or something that appears whenever you open google in new instance of porno mode
No, their single dose rate is already 10% higher than the US and increasing at a faster rate.
I agree it's not a great metaphor, but my point is that "let everyone make their own decisions" isn't some end-all argument. All rules and laws in society are about not letting people do whatever they want for the benefit of society at large.

Also you're trying to appeal to emotion by framing mask wearing as some sort of punishment ("revoking" people's drivers licenses) vs a precaution (like wearing a seatbelt... or not driving drunk). Furthermore, people caught drunk driving DO get their licenses taken away.
I think parent comment was referring to the M-code [0]

[0](https://www.howtoexcel.org/power-query/m-code/)
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. HN has discussed this question frequently and at length for many years.

(Often not very well, but this is the internet, and that's a different issue.)
99% of the way where? In areas with flat straight roads and stable weather conditions?

I live in Chandler, in Arizona, where there are Waymos all over the place, and I can tell you that you won't see them on the road in a heavy rain. I've visited New Jersey four times in the past two years and didn't see one, nor did I expect to. Driving conditions in New Jersey, even on a clear sunny day are far different, with roundabouts, turns and merges at weird angles, dips, curves, you name it. I drove through Kansas City back in 2019 and parts of it were a high-speed free for all, with no lane lines either. Given how Waymos move around here I'm thinking they have much more than 1 percent left to go before they can truly say they're self-driving.
What does someone working in a primitive mine need with literacy? It would be a job that paid a lot better than subsistence farming and might allow that person to send their kids to school to become engineers.

Without railroads and highways, Afghanistan will never move forward. It should have been the first thing we did, and not only to link up cities, but to locations with large amounts of natural resources to build up some wealth and industry.
Don't take this the wrong way but...

I think its hard to avoid the elephant in the room that blimp cargo has been a dream ever since the invention of the blimp, and if we put your technology claims to one side (because they are more an assistant, not an enabler) I'm not too sure what makes you any different ?

Look at what is perhaps your most recent competitor ... Flying Whales.

Going since 2012, burning through cash like there's no tomorrow ($30m Quebec, €225m France etc. etc.) , and so far maybe promising some sort of prototype by 2024 (already slipped from 2021).

What really makes you so different from prior dreamers and in particular your present competitors ?
Lovely and accurate
I would love to see some statistical data on this topic. Anecdotal observation is that vaccinated people becoming more careless with masks and social distancing. See also Britain and Israel latest waves almost the same magnitude as January waves (but, of course, much less deadly).
> A virus doesn't become more contagious and deadly.

This is a misconception actually. It really just depends. It is fair to say that if a virus is more deadly in a shorter time period it is less likely to become more contagious, but it isn't necessarily true.

Especially with viruses like COVID-19 which are spreadable before symptoms start.
We've had plenty of time for it to have already happened since various services have been scanning for CSAM for some time.
I'm also very happy with my Zowie except for a strange thing with the mouse wheel - about a year after getting it it started making a faint squealing noise, then a few months later it miraculously went away. I have a second one at the office which has the exact same issue.

I had several Rival 110's before and was similarly happy, I like the Zowie a bit more because it's larger.
> ~6.4K people still die every year to chicken pox and shingles

Worldwide? That's a lifetime risk of 1 in 10,000 per person.

https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/vaccine-infographic.html

Before vaccination, chickenpox killed 100 people in USA per year.
https://trimread.org/articles/406
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I like how the mainstream media is on a "live with the virus" blitz while Delta counts soar.
I’m not saying that science is just another sociopolitical theory, I’m saying that scientific theory and the scientific method are products of the social relations we make ourselves in, and this is precisely why science is important. The collective effort to build rationality so that we can understand and control our hostile environment, is a social constructed effort that has been carefully developed throughout history, and is something that needs to be actively preserved. Rationality is not something that is just “given” by nature; it is an entirely synthetic concept made up by humans and only exist because of humans, and that is precisely why it is so precious. Read Thomas Moyinhan’s X-Risk (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/x-risk), there’s a lot of Kantian underpinnings in this argument.

So returning to your climate change example: the reason why there are so many climate change deniers in the US doesn’t have to anything with science (as you’ve said), it has more to do with the retaliation from the industrial-based conservatives, as well as general distrust against the current political elites. However, that doesn’t mean that we have no responsibility in doing anything political because science is simply the “objective truth”: we need to actively make decisions in social terms so that this distrust towards climate science doesn’t end up preventing ourselves from making important future decisions for humanity. (What we actually need to do is too far out of scope for this comment, but you get the idea.)
I never use the side buttons for forward/back, it would be useful to me to reassign them to something like next tab or page down.
Look at that guy, what an unusual phone he uses
Doorways
- Read as widely as you can (limited to your area of interest of course)

- Build a wide network of sincere relationships with network of experts (attend talks, volunteer in their work etc)
In the past when I ran into this issue it was trivial to reverse-engineer the vendor's mouse app and re-play whatever commands it was sending the USB driver/filter. If anyone has a G100s or a Razer DiamondBack 3G, I think I should have the commands saved somewhere and I'd be happy to dig them up.

Since then, I've switched over to a driver-less mouse where everything is controlled via mouse buttons (XTRFY MZ1).
That is actually not true. SOME H1B labor isn't mobile (mostly people outsourcing firms), but people on H1B change jobs whenever they like. At least that's the norm in tech industry.
That's what immunocompromised means. It means that you are at heightened risk from everything.
Needs more 100%-viewport-height ad blocks between the content paragraphs.
You get a lot of globalist shills here but the reality is that nationalism is a powerful force.

You can see that in Afghanistan: the Dutch embassy staff waved goodbye to the plebeians down on the Kabul airport when their military flight took off. Being a citizen of a country matters and it is worth fighting for.
"A decade" is just a random guess by some guy online but fine, I guess I will just switch to buying a different car with FSD instead...
What's a simple/fast stack for quick prototyping in 2021?
Hi friends, I'm hitting a mental roadblock which prevents me from progressing with my mvp idea. It's been a while since I've done anything full stack so I'm quite dated on the latest stack

This is my current situation:
* I've done backend dev in TS/JS using Nestjs (and other older framework), python (django)
* I've done frontend in 2016 w/ React Redux.
* my AWS/terraform/IoC skills is pretty bad

I'm evaluating the latest stack but I am quite confused:
* TS/JS frontend frameworks -- there's nextjs, react (hooks n stuff), svelve, vue, these are new to me and i don't know which one to pick
* TS/JS backend frameworks -- i've done work with Nestjs but there's a lot of boilerplate to write. Are there anything w/ batteries included like Django?
* Graphql vs rest -- is there any benefits to learn graphql vs plain old REST that's handled by framework?
* platform -- i tried learning AWS w/ terraform, CDK, pulumi.... i ended up racked up $$$ and got confused with all that VPS, fargate, docker, multi account stuff... and apps barely worked

I just want a simple stack so i can write some JS and backend, deploy it and test out my ideas. What's a simple stack you'd recommend?
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Given that viruses respond to evolutionary pressure such as vaccines, this seems like a strange position.
Good question! Airships do get more efficient as they get larger (more volume to surface area). But at the 650 lb payload size our vehicles fly more efficiency than a comparably-sized plane - small planes are also aerodynamically inefficient!

Our goal isn't to maximize efficiency, but rather to build something that fits a market need and that we can deploy quickly. We actually think that the quest to build huge, efficient airships has lead past airship projects astray. There are several projects that have struggled to build 10 ton or 50 ton vehicles, but no past attempts to build something in this size class.
For a (much longer) exploration of this idea, I recommend reading the book The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks [0] by Joshua Cooper Ramo.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0196KYTA6
These diagrams were taken out of RFC 1459 sections 1.1 and 3.
Kudos for the last part!
Learn as much as you can, exercise a lot, and socialize with as many members of the sex that you are interested in as you can, because it will never get easier than it is in college.
A year of a kids life is an eternity for them. Two is forever! You are stealing their childhood away from them to protect who, exactly? What is even the point of masking them.

Teachers have been vaccinated. Parents have been vaccinated. Kids aren’t at risk. Why this obsession with reducing cases if we took the sting out of covid?

Kids need to be children. They aren’t human shields for adults. Adults are expect to sacrifice for kids, not the other way around. Kids deserve their one and only childhood. They don’t deserve to be treated like disease vectors that need to be muzzled to make frightened parents and educators feel safe. Double so when all those adults can get a free, highly effective vaccine.

Making them mandatory is even worse. The state has no right to force my kid to wear a mask at school in order to have an education. Parents should be making that call for their own kid.
I think this works like condom statistics, where the statistic is that they are 98% effective, but that statistic includes people who go "we normally wear condoms, but we didn't that one time and she got pregnant" as a condom failure.

So basically, the masks are effective, but people take the masks off around family and friends and if one of their friends or family has COVID they will pass it on during the unmasked time.
These non-clickable "ads" have some weird therapeutic effect on me. I tap on them, nothing happens, and I feel relief. Even share buttons don't work. This site genuinely makes me happy! Things you never knew you needed.
The fine will be paid by the taxpayers and nothing will change.
This is related to a different thread which is currently at #1:

My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274305

Normally we'd downweight one or the other (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) but in this case I don't think that makes sense.
This is less-bad than the real thing.

[EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value.

[EDIT AGAIN] What it really needs is a giant sticky header that hides when scrolling down but pops up the second you scroll up at all, obscuring all the stuff you were scrolling up to see.
Show HN: PodQueue, the Missing “Let Me Add That to My Playlist” for Podcasts
PodQueue is designed to make it easy to bookmark audio from the web (podcasts, lectures, interviews, radio segments) and listen to it later in your favorite podcast client.

Please try it out and let me know what you think!
Hi, thanks for sharing. I work in neural information retrieval, so this was a useful survey.

Are you familiar with "Zero-shot Neural Passage Retrieval via Domain-targeted Synthetic Question Generation" by Ma et al.? Do you have suggestions on where to obtain a pre-baked question generation model?

[1] https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.92/
> You could author one function for each value which checks the condition but this is error prone and requires a lot of duplication for something pretty basic. For reference, the duplicated formulas might look like this (with one formula for each value):

=AND(A2>50, A2<80)
=AND(A3>50, A2<80)
...

Appropriately enough, the second line contains a copy-and-paste error!