skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
32,000 people in the study, of which 16,000 had previously had Covid.

They found a total of 238 re-infections.

Assuming 1% mortality from Covid, that group of 16,000 would have previously been 16,162, before being culled down to the study size by deaths.

You don't think an additional 162 would make a difference to the results?

(Obviously it doesn't make a difference if you read this study as "given someone survived Covid, what are the odds..." but lots of people are reading this study as "It's safer to catch Covid than get vaccinated." Given that, the deaths absolutely matter.)
I feel like there should be a distinction between full-blown ORMs and just query builders.

I dislike ORMs that hide database operations from the application code by pretending that in-memory application objects are in concept interchangeable with persistable objects; though just saying that hurts a bit because I don't want to think in terms of objects, but in data.

Query builders are fine if they allow you to build efficient queries in a type-safe and composable manner to get data in and out of the database in the form your application requires at the site of the database query, but I don't want to be forced to pretend I fetch "User" objects if all I really need from the database are the name and e-mail.
The whole point of technology is to improve our lives. What you call ‘comfort’, I call the entire point of the thing. If it takes more work to get a piece of technology to do what you want than it takes to do the thing without technology, why use it?
Apparently a high percentage of X-factor was present in this study. Do you see something funny in the demographics of the recovered?
That’s really exciting to hear.

A few follow-ups:

a. Will pre-prod environments be included in those plans you outlined above (eg Dev, Test, Stage)

b. Any plans to make it easier on Developers to have local/remote environments for development? (Eg GitHub Codespaces)

c. Do customers typically also use 3rd party security offerings like Cloudflare in conjunction with fly.io - or do you see more customer just using fly.io without any additional protection?

d. One thing that Cloudflare Workers does that’s interesting is that it deploys your webasm code to every pop/region they have & them orchestrate the communication between the regions to keep data consistent. Is similar functionality on roadmap?

e. Any rough order of magnitude on timing for what you described?
And vice versa. A lot of concurrency and distribution problems have been thoroughly examined by the project management people, but not in computational terms that computer scientists would immediately recognize.

Operations Research is another rich field that computer scientists often seem to neglect, perhaps out of ignorance of its existence or a belief that it's "just" about managing factories or something.

The first time I worked on a real distributed programming system I "grokked" the issues much faster than my peers because of my math degree (dual major) background that had included a couple OR and math modeling courses where I'd already seen the same thing (but presented in different terms). I'm hardly an expert in it, but by having been exposed I knew the right questions to ask to find out more information and how to analyze systems to find bottlenecks.
I don't even know if CVT is correct. Let's say it's the transmission thingy in 2003+ Toyota Highlander. The whole cars were indestructible, but the tranny impressed the most, especially up and down mountain roads.
Nice, I might steal that for part II...
Not from the photon's point of view. It is emitted and absorbed immediately. The distance traveled (in 4d spacetime) of a photon is always 0, no matter (pun intended) what's in between or what you observe.
You are correct. A recent study found that un-vaccinated individuals are 2.34 times as likely to be re-infected than vaccinated individuals.

Get vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
Previously, there were two kinds of developers: Those prohibited from doing this thing, and those—like Netflix—who were fellow oligopolists with enough leverage that Apple allowed them to do this thing.

Regardless of what we may think of Apple, its stated rules, or its motivations, the outcome was that “The rich got richer and the poor got poorer,” because Apple only applying these rules to smaller companies effectively created a moat to protect the existing incumbents with the leverage to skirt the rules.

Now the playing field is still tilted in Apple’s favour—they own the orchard, after all—but it is no longer tilted in favour of its fellow oligopolists as well.
No credible design is possible, because when people ask for a backwards-compatible IPng what they're really asking for is a forwards-compatible IPv4, and they can't have it because v4 isn't forwards compatible.

IPv6 is backwards compatible with v4 in a great many different ways. You've got dual stack, Teredo, 6to4, 6rd, 6over4, ISATAP, 6in4/4in6, NAT64/DNS64, 464xlat, DS-lite, MAP-T/E, 4rd, LW4over6... you could make a reasonable argument that it has too many methods of backwards compatibility, even. But obviously v4 isn't forwards compatible with it, because v4 isn't forwards compatible with any longer address length, and the time to fix that was in the 70s.

That's not something that can be changed without replacing v4. In fact, if it could be, we wouldn't need a new protocol in the first place.
What animal tests? Are there even any hypothesized mechanisms by which an mRNA therapy, as a general method, would produce long term consequences? It's fragile and decomposes in the body over the course of a couple weeks, leaving no trace except whatever proteins the sequence describes. That's not to say the specific proteins produced couldn't engender longer-term consequences, but I'm missing how that can be generalized to human-devised mRNA in total.
> Do you have a logical explanation for that?

We are talking about one vector over the last few months. The state of NY over a year ago is a non sequitur. Illegal immigration has probably increased close to 3x since then. Besides which, my understanding of the high mortality in NY is that it was mainly due to Cuomo emptying out hospitals of covid patients and sending them to nursing homes.
Bingo. All of Apple's share price and consequently of Tim Cook's income here comes from people paying money to Apple and boosting the earnings. Don't like Tim Cook earning a lot of money => Don't buy any Apple products or services. Simple as that.
But the vaccine being present isn't "doing something". The thing it did has already happened.
It's not too harsh at all! The demo is really meant to show liveview interaction latency, we didn't really ever think it would be useful for load.

That 300ms load time is actually because it queries Australia when you first load the page. Each region keeps its own counter and it grabs the current value from all of them at load time. It's probably worth optimizing that. :)
> The donkey still is important for legacy runtimes, which probably have many decades of lifespan left.

Yep you're quite right, and actually the fast-moving, high-churn transition to .NET Core has been tough on devs still working with (now) "legacy" .NET Framework apps - which as you say, will have many years of lifespan remaining if they still fit the purpose for which they were built.

I don't envy those devs (and I do still have some legacy Framework stuff that I provide support for - but not for too much longer thankfully).
I don't really think you or Terry knows what hard work even looks like. We hold this conversation about personal advancement from positions of extreme privilege while billions live without running water. If you want to limit your view to only those of us with access to all the delights of modern society (and none of its externalities) I'm sure you can find plenty of evidence for the meritocracy.

You can personally thank my grandparents, all four laying dead in their graves before the age of 60, for your opportunity to "work hard" in America.
You must not be counting where I am! I can assure you that I am the oldest developer in the company, certainly in the US. I have been with my current employer for a bit over 9 years. I have worked many, many days until 2100, 2200, plus weekends. I do what needs to get done. I am 64yo and while it is harder on me to go 70-80 hours/week, than when I was 30, I routinely put in 50-55 hours/week.

Companies need to wake up and look at some of the best resources out there. The over 50 crowd! But they don't. When I was laid off in late 2008 it took me nearly 2 years to find a contract job until the position opened up with my current employer.
What happens when you type a URL into the browser?
Underwater pointing down?
so dillation chambers are ok but weight racks are not
Yesterday we launched a big feature built using Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView/Surface and it has been really great.

We are a SAAS for managing sports teams and clubs https://www.sportmember.com and our current stack is Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React Native for our app.

When deciding to develop this new feature we narrowed it down to these two options:

1) Rails/GraphQL/React

2) Elixir and LiveView

What's great about Elixir and LiveView is

1) The whole GraphQL API layer was not necessary to build. The best API is no API ;-)

2) No need to duplicate code like for example for validation on the frontend and the backend

3) Developing the whole feature using just Elixir instead of having to switch between TypeScript and Ruby

This means that we have been able to develop this feature in about 2/3 of the time which is pretty nice!
Per the article: there are 100,000 homeless in the state.

The median home price is $800,000, over 10x the median income of $75,235 (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/CA)

This isn't 100,000 people, an entire city's worth of people, who would prefer a shorter commute. It's 100,000 people, an entire city's worth, 40,000 families, a generation of children, who need a roof over their head, a bathroom, a kitchen, places to study and rest.

Your comment utterly ignores and misrepresents the reality.
While this is technically the same thing as the rampant monkeypatching that happens in ruby, there is a difference in practice, in that polyfills tend to be written to emulate well defined interfaces that simply aren’t there, whereas monkeypatching adds random magic like the aforementioned “weeks” method on numbers.

This is personal preference, but I find it utterly absurd to adorn numbers with these time dimensioning methods. Why not volume or length too? Should I be able to say 2.miles? Why would an integer be innately bound to time, as opposed to a unitless mathematical abstraction? Ruby folks like to add these gimmicks that make code “read like English” and I find it very cutesy, for lack of a better word. When I see stuff like this, I’m distracted by pondering what the hell the magic actually means. Can I say 6.from_now? Yes, actually, I can. Does it make any sense that what I call “from_now” on is technically a unitless number? No, not at all. It is a pretense that it’s a dimensioned number for the sake of cuteness.
In other news:

Having a $3 million mansion at the beach confers much greater happiness than an affordable house in the suburbs!

Having a new top-of-the-line Mercedes SUV confers much greater status than a used Honda minivan!

Having a beautiful face and 6-pack abs confers much greater attractiveness than looking like Shrek!

There are two mutually exclusive questions at play here... and I'm totally convinced the population at large has ability to discern the difference and not conflate one with the other.

1. What is the best/strongest/longest lasting type of immunity, natural or vaccine?

2. What is the safest type of immunity, natural or vaccine?

Is natural immunity better? There's some data to show it is. Should you risk your life to get? Probably not.
I think this might be what you are looking for: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.Component.html#...
Do containers get around the fingerprinting issue though?
I just setup PhotoPrism (https://photoprism.app/) last week on my home network to replace Google Photos. It's working pretty well so far!
App store payments will have increased competition
OK. I am stupid. I dont understand the article.

>> If you must use latency to measure efficiency, use mean (avg) latency. Yes, average latency

What is wrong with measuring latency at 99.99 percentile with a clear guideline that optimising efficiency ( in this article higher utilisation ) should not have trade off on latency?

Because latency is part of user experience. And UX comes first before anything else.

Or does it imply that there are lot of people who dont know the trade off between latency and utilisation? Because I dont know anyone who has utilisation to 1 or even 0.5 in production.
30% of that fund is going to lawyers
Why is voltage a relevant benchmark here? Is there something about shrinking supercaps so small that makes maintaining voltage capability difficult? In this range I would have expected that to be just a usual tradeoff dimension that's not particularly worthy of mention.
The Post JavaScript Apocalypse (2017)
If your server is ipv4 only that's okay because it's still reachable via DNS64/NAT64. I know because I've uploaded apps like that recently.
Just like encouraging people to run around unvaccinated and mask free keeps your donors who make a $2000 per treatment Regeneron very happy.
I see this advice often and I find that it misses the point. The problem isn't the equality check, the problem is finite precision.

There are situations that call for exact equality checking in floating point.
It's mentioned in their FAQ[1], less config easier to set up

[1]:https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#faq
I thought they learnt their lesson with Windows 8, where they removed the start menu only for it to return in Windows 10?
Well, we can observe the absence of light, which (semantics aside) is also something you can see.
In my experience, working with consultancies, they are not engineering first organizations. They are business types who have bolted on engineering (think legacy automakers bolting together binned products), instead of organically turbocharging their growth through automation and software engineering best practices (think Tesla vertically integrating and "building the machine that builds the machine").

If you're an MBA or biz type, you want to be at the former. If you're an engineer, you want to be at the latter.
No, but it should make clear that this study is absolutely not recommending getting infected over getting vaccinated.
The bus should have stopped even when the operators told it to continue. Basic safety design.
The supreme court released several actual cases ruled in favor of employees that set precedent for similar cases. The "say" in the title is just disingenuous and sad.
Search for "people don't change their views based on facts" with your engine of choice for a plethora of articles that confirm the query.

I don't remember the source but I read recently that peer pressure is far more likely to change someones mind about a given subject.
I see they recovered. You're correct... One interpretation could be that a high percentage of X-factor was present in this study's recovered group. But since we don't know what the X-factor is, an unvaccinated person is rolling dice by assuming they have it.

Nothing about this study guarantees an unvaccinated individual survives a brush with COVID-19; it suggests they're likely to survive a second brush with it (and likelier still if they get vaccinated).
FB has been lying over and over for the past many years. Yet the firm grows and its profits soar. There must be some fundamental principles/logic for why this happens. Any wise men here?
US v. western Europe is distinction without a difference. Tax evasion is typically spread throughout the whole money lifecycle, from wage payments (where cash is used), to black-market purchases, to business deals (also in cash), to black-market imports and exports, etc.
It’s likely that the alternatives also run a similar risk with less upside.
Because there is a sliding scale of propaganda quality and they're not doing it right? I just don't understand what you're getting at, even after your edits.
The original title of the paper was "Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity:
reinfections versus breakthrough infections." It's important to point out that the paper isn't just one fact but a collection of facts that form nuance.

To me science mags title is much more sensationalistic and there is a reason they did not chose a title more closely aligned to what the authors of the original study chose.
Debenhams near me had their staff on min wage 0 hour contracts, which on top of being morally dubious meant they weren't able to afford to buy anything from Debenhams and clearly no one had invested in their training so they didn't know or care about anything on sale there. It was pretty indistinguishable from Primark apart from the general style of clothes (not quality), and that was before Primark opened what looks suspiciously like a department store in Birmingham
You assume single passenger vehicles. Do the math again for a 50-person busses. Compared to that, bikes and cars are relatively similar. Even four-person cars, with say 4 seconds between them (one person per second) better single-passenger bikes traveling in pairs. Bikes rarely ever maintian such separations, genrally leaving 7+ seconds between pairs when at speed due to bikes having reduced stopping times from top spèed.
How do you parametrize things like dynamic joins, where clauses, field selections, or aggregations without string manipulation or gross duplication?
No. That's incorrect on both counts. That is neither the intent of Article 20 nor the type of data it concerns.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/ reads

> 1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller [..]

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ reads

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); [..]
From TFA...
>every dashboard is a sunk cost

>every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question

>every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past

>instead of interrogate the present

>every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation

>every dashboard dampens your thinking

I disagree with this on all counts. A dashboard is a way to view multiple disparate metrics in a single place. Whether they are correlated isn't important(but it is helpful).

And the author doesn't stop there...

> They tend to have percentiles like 95th, 99th, 99.9th, 99.99th, etc. Which can cover over a multitude of sins. You really want a tool that allows you to see MAX and MIN, and heatmap distributions.

They "tend to"? "You really want"? The author is confusing their own failures/gripes around the concept of dashboards with the world's experience with dashboards. By the end of the article, I was shocked they weren't selling something.
The real reason is, adding features is simple, you just have to understand the one use-case the feature adds.

When removing a feature, you have to understand all the real world use-cases, before you can kill it. This is a lot of work, therefor it is much easier to not touch it and work on the next feature.
I live Firefox containers. One feature I've been waiting on for ages is per-container security settings.
> Windows is sort of the default computer choice for a lot of normal, non-technical people, so I can understand that Microsoft wants to simplify things for them by taking some inspiration from MacOS.

If this is their motivation they have no clue. What messes the most with normal users is changing familiar functions and metaphors. The cost of adapting to changing UI for normal users is much higher than sticking to an older, even less-optimal, one. Sometimes this even causes a loss of function for that user as they give up on trying to relearn e.g. how to make text bold for nth time.
Some of their numbers are a bit off due to lack of data early in the pandemic. For example they stated COVID-19 mortality rate as 1.3%, whereas we now know that in the US it was only 0.6%. But qualitatively their conclusions still seem to have aged well.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Sorry, that is a misinformed view. Your proposal has exactly the same problem IPv6 has - all network hardware knows the format of an IPv4 header, and you can’t fit larger addresses in it without changing all network hardware and software. So large swathes of the internet would be inaccessible until all those routers, firewalls, middle boxes, cell towers, etc. are replaced, which would take another 20 years! Whereas it’s mostly been done for IPv6.
That's good to know, OK, same OS, but keeping the same interface?

> Of course that's all moot now since they've given up on phones.

What I rather had in mind was not the interface, but some other things which are "normal" to have on phones: forced updates, impossible to aquire root rights with factory OS, pre-installed shit apps, ads (like on factory-fresh Xiomi, out of the box). So when I saw "ads" and I know the updates are forced, that's where I meant PCs are becoming more like smartphones.

That smartphones are unlikely to become more like PCs is an issue of hardware.
Yeah, it also confers organ damage for life and/or death. lol. Get the vaccine, nerds.
1. Those Sunday morning talk shows were always bad

2. Following Baudrillard I'm say that "The Afghan War did not take place". Namely, there were no stakes for the US, nothing to win or lose. The war was never going to change Afghanistan, it never prevented or caused a terrorist attack. Unlike Vietnam it did not endanger enough of the US public for it to become a center of opposition. People died, but the whole point of the "war" was to be one of those pseudo-events that Ari Schulman says don't happen anymore.

3. The phenomenon of "Symbolic fallout" makes it all the more important for those of us stuck in the desert of the real to use media to influence our environment.
they are trying to mock apple, but are mocking themselves in the end
Former Theranos employees are still shaken as Elizabeth Holmes trial looms
This guy can speak for himself but I've read the comment a few times and I would surmise there's some ESL word-soup happening here. I am going to hazard what he's getting at is using CV to import data from one UI possibly into another. I think to get around the lack of a lack of API support. Similar to the effect a company might use OCR software to migrate data from paper forms a CRM, or something? I'm still wondering why I honed in on this one comment, but hey you felt intrigued enough to leave a comment too, so there must be something to it.
The reason I expect it'll land in economics textbooks is that the snake oil of the blockchain has provided a very pure marketplace for these bubbles to form, including a complete and visible transaction record. That provides a level of rich data in the context of a natural experiment that researchers normally can only dream about.
>What’s new?

Innovation!
Disappointed. I need to see lava.
> I loathed that I was getting app suggestions and ads, and there was a greater loss of control over the operating system.

While it is certainly loathsome, that's not a new feature in Windows 11.
> If we're expecting 10 requests per second at peak this holiday season, we're good.

Problem is, sometimes system engineers do not know what to expect, but they still need to have a plan for this case.