skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest flaw with this study is that it does not account for prior natural infection. It has been thoroughly demonstrated that individuals who acquire immunity through natural infection have a robust and durable immune response [1][2][3]. Recent vaccination on top of this immunity is likely to further prime and improve immune responses to subsequent infection [4][5].

Not accounting for this fact is a significant confounding factor in the study, and I'm disappointed the authors made no distinction between unvaccinated and immunologically naive. This is a distinction that every sensible scientific discussion needs to acknowledge.

EDIT: please leave a comment down voters, I’m starting to think there’s some sort of targeted campaign against this type of information

> Vaccine breakthrough infections exhibited similar proliferation dynamics as infections in unvaccinated individuals (mean peak Ct: 20.5, 95% credible interval [19.0, 21.0] vs. 20.7 [19.8, 20.2], and mean proliferation time 3.2 days[2.5, 4.0] vs. 3.5 days [3.0, 4.0]); however, vaccinated individuals exhibited faster clearance (mean clearance time: 5.5 days [4.6, 6.6] vs. 7.5 days [6.8, 8.2]).

> If the Ct values in vaccinated and unvaccinated infected individuals reflect the same amounts of infectious virus, then this implies that individuals with breakthrough infections may be as infectious as unvaccinated individuals in the early stage of the infection, but remain infectious for a shorter time, reducing the total degree of onward transmission. These findings are in keeping with the hypothesis that vaccination protects against the severe manifestations of disease but offers less protection against infection in the upper airway. Precautions are therefore necessary to prevent onward transmission even from vaccinated individuals.

[1] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[2] SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33844963/

[3] Association of SARS-CoV-2 Seropositive Antibody Test With Risk of Future Infection
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

[4] Naturally enhanced neutralizing breadth against SARS-CoV-2 one year after infection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03696-9

[5] Initial report of decreased SARS-CoV-2 viral load after inoculation with the BNT162b2 vaccine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01316-7
Judging by my previous interactions with their engineering and "Trust & Safety" team, yes, this is generally how it goes.

Working for Discord and getting that badge must give you quite the ego boost. Conversations with them feel very arbitrary and it's like they consider any word they say to you wasted - of course this doesn't have to apply to all of their staff, but it's certainly a pattern.
I don't want to vigorously defend the organization of the git repo, but browsing the source code of Smalltalks is always an issue. The source code is closely tied to the "browser" and for the longest time this was the only way to view the classes contained in an image. At some point mechanisms were designed to serialize the code to source control repos. The relationship of Smalltalk and version control systems is a difficult one.

In the case of Newspeak, I only would edit the raw source code if I had no other way to do it. It is so much easier and ergonomic to use the Newspeak IDE to view and modify the code, with the live debugger, object introspection and all the advantages that the IDE gives you. The recent addition of exemplars, where working fragments of the code are part of the documentation, is especially nice.
That's the problem with physical seal...

A chairmanner can be declared by the board, and the power of his seal goes with that automatically.

Say, somebody steals a seal now...
Political organizations, on both/all sides, are in my opinion a big part of the problem in California. Everything in California is turned into a political issue when it doesn't need to be.
I was homeless for nearly six years. I hated it. It wasn't actually anything I wanted.

Most people on the street don't want to be there. The research points to housing as the primary root cause.
They made breaking changes as recently as 6.9 (May 2021). Major breaking changes go farther back, but the threat of new breaking changes is ever present since this is, as another commenter mentioned, just the philosophy of the project. That makes it unusable for me in anything beyond a home lab, but others may have different scenarios.
If your house you purchased for $200,000 20 years ago is now worth $1.4M, say, that's $1.2M in profit.

You could live in a smaller house worth $1M and still get $400k of profit you didn't have before.
I've seen a few markov chain bots which were hilarious. As another comment mentioned, they can also be used for automated moderation. I've also seen a few servers with a bot that lets you "level up" depending on how active you are
This is absolutely huge news. I think this could signal a major shift from traditional lines of credit to an installment system like they have in many South American countries.
Neat. I have a real business problem to solve using very similar techniques if you are interested to discuss. Not memes specifically, but with the image and text mix.
My personal fav was the guy on craigslist that pretended to be an attractive young woman looking for sex w randos. All 'she' needed was a photo of their drivers license to make sure they weren't creeps/as insurance.

This guy tracked down every man's spouse and told them what was up. He was sued (and lost, iirc, after about 100 men were divorced), and ended up being interviewed by the nyt. BUT he picks up the interviewer in a limo with his gf near an abandoned mall or something. he thought trolling was going to change the world, his gf thought he was jesus, there was champagne and it was an all around weird experience for the reporter. They honestly sounded like real live discordians.

This is probably getting close to being 15 or 20 years old now, but it was pioneering.

Yeah I had a few what of it.
The answer to mental illness is quality mental healthcare available to those in need, along with housing first policies to create stability for those seeking care. This has costs of course.

California is the fifth largest economy in the world (Between Germany and the United Kingdom) and yet can’t prioritize this spending (and the spending that is taking place is not very effective or efficient).
I find the Economist has fairly shallow "analysis" if you can even call what they do analysis. So I am disappointed but not surprised that they missed on the real story.

The Economist is as useful in terms about learning about the world as reading headlines.
This seems like the classic 'what happens when your freedoms encroach upon my freedoms' discussion beginning
There are a few things which makes this culture worse.

Depending on your luck if your manager is someone without kids, or has grown up kids, they might be totally OK working more hours than you, and as a result, the culture can totally become what the author is describing.

Mix the whole interviewing process of Leetcoding with this, and it becomes a sad worklife, and even if you want to escape that, switching careers can only happen if you put in extra hours.

Life is too short to make this sacrifice.

My strategy has been to create good relationships with people in companies and then if they want to hire me, tell them clearly I don't work overtime and I don't do Leetcode. Has worked well for me so far. Relationship building and networking is still the best way even in this industry.

The present company I am working at, I didn't even have to do a coding test. Just a chat.
This all stems from natural monopolies. Our antitrust laws in the U.S. were modeled with the presumption that it'd be extremely hard to create such an efficient process to the point that the company could harm user choice without the business being a national or global actor - and this was proven when only truly logistics-centric companies like big oil could reach the threshold of being considered a monopoly. The internet flipped that on its head when anyone with enough money could hire the absolute best talent possible from across the globe to create a product that undoubtedly is the absolute best solution for the (majority of) users that choose to use such platform.

The only reason you can't find important information without logging in is because these consumers profit off of the product by using it as the only place they post their findings (profit, as in, not having to deal with the headache of posting something to multiple news feeds and go through the cruft of editing a personal website with insignificant <280 character content). If these products were terrible, people might be more open to designing a website in their own image with the information in the format they choose.
That's likely a major part of this is neutering the ability for any other service to do generic message functionality.
Also they need to stop rate limiting so much for normal users. We found out they rate limited banning. I moderate a large server where we dont add many barriers to entry so we get raiders and bots. We had to ban a thousand bots and couldnt go as swiftly due to rate limiting. I wish they would provide sensible controls for their bot problem and looser API restrictions. The bad bots dont care about rate limiting. I even saw a bot raid where accounts were just created that very moment. They have a broken registration flow somewhere.

Sorry for rant I moderate a sizable Discord and these are burdens a lot of political or reasonably large servers face. We get fresh raids every other week with thousands of accounts. Idk why Discord finds it normal that thousands of accounts would join any server within a minute and spam user DMs and leave. These are red flags.
We need to remove administrative barriers, like zoning barriers. And we need financing mechanisms.

The easiest thing to finance in the US is single family detached homes. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of them.

It's quite hard to finance some types of housing popular in other countries, like cohousing.
Lighten up Francis.
turnover at all time high, management puzzled and struggling to find a cause
Right, but is this in the high demand areas only? Are there no other nearby cities with cheaper rent and also potential jobs? I still blame the authorities for allowing areas with high concentration of homeless people, since that discourages them to find solutions and instead enables them to settle down with other people outside, when perhaps they could try their luck in a less expensive, less dense area.
> authors made no distinction between unvaccinated and immunologically naive. This is a distinction that every sensible scientific discussion needs to acknowledge.

Ideally, everyone would be tested for antibodies before receiving a vaccine, then we would have data to differentiate naive+vaccine from survivor+vaccine. This would be helpful for both science and public policy.

CDC needs to stop labelling people who are 13 days after their 2nd vaccine dose as "unvaccinated". A more accurate label would be "partly vaccinated".
Ideally you shouldn't need to test every distro, and everything should "just work" but then you're likely to have users run into bugs and incompatibilities you haven't seen because you didn't test that case.

Distro-agnostic tarballs or self-extracting archives you can just expand and run can work, but it's also not ideal because it subverts the package manager. Package managers allow you to install, remove, and update all the software installed in a system in a consistent way, and a tarball exists outside that ecosystem and lacks its benefits. In that sense, a binary tarball is a second-class citizen that doesn't integrate well with the rest of the system and is probably a security liability. Maybe that's an acceptable trade-off for a few applications, but it should leave a person with a "there's probably a better way to do this" sort of feeling.
Nadeko bot is a fairly big bot that has the ability to configure custom responses that the bot will reply with if a user types a certain message (any string of text, no prefix).

Core functionality is of course behind a prefix, but that's just convenient.
WebAuthn is great. Put it to work recently in a new control system and it sure is a nice feeling to deploy with zero need for passwords.
> Not really my experience at Google tbh.

That's what I thought! Amazon sure, Apple maybe.. but Google seems like a pretty chill place to work. There's a reason it's like one of the hardest to get into, right? :D
In Western Australia locking down hard and early has meant we have more freedoms in the long term (thus far).

So while we have less freedom initially, it seems to play better in the long term.
You are assuming that having low income housing somehow impacts the price of higher end housing, and I am not sure that this is true. Would a person with a million dollar house be hurt if we built 100,000 more million dollar houses? Yes. Would that same homeowner be hurt if we built 100,000 cheap rental apartments? It certainly doesn't seem like it. However much property values fall due to less people looking for low-end housing, you would think they would go up due to not being surrounded by homeless camps.

I would say the people who are incentivized to oppose cheap housing are the lower-end landlords.
Services for the homeless come with a lot of strings attached, a lot more than you'd think, including a bunch of strings that people who are homed would never accept in their own house.

So it's not as simple as homeless people don't want homes, it's because they want freedom.
> "Hydrogen can be made"

Piggy-backing on your comment at a tangent - how did they make such large quantities of Hydrogen in the early 1900s (and store and transport it safely)? This[1] has some interesting reading on it; there were gas cylinders but no standardisation of valves, not good lubricants for compressors, a different set of pipes for airship filling and airship topping-up, some stations which could remove and re-purify the Hydrogen, and two different methods of pre-war and post-war production are described.

This[2] has much more detailed history of the options, including a Popular Mechanics article from 1908.

[1] https://www.nevilshute.org/Engineering/AMBurgess/amb_hydroge...

[2] https://welweb.org/ThenandNow/Hydrogen%20Generation.html
They should be prepared for surprise resignations.

I’ve worked with “ex-Googlers” who got paid insane sums of money because they were “ex-Googlers.”

There are plenty of companies that pay remote employees SF/NY wages and who would love to snatch a Googler.

If Google is OK with that then fine.

But they shouldn’t be supposed if employees start looking for a place that pays SF wages in Des Moines.
Sensible businesses usually keep the seal locked up somewhere in the head office, probably with a backup in a safety deposit box at their bank. They certainly don't let the CEO take it home with them.
Their way is _working_. No, Taiwan and South Korea and Hong Kong are not proof that democratic methods work. Calling Hong Kong under Britain democratic is wildly disingenuous. Taiwan and South Korea are only _very_ recently democratic. Arguably the bulk of their ascendance occurred under authoritarian rule.

You also don't get to point only at successes. They looked at Singapore and sought to emulate that model, who are you to dictate that this is not acceptable? They looked at India and saw failure, what's your rebuttal?
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Housing First policies are a huge boon to helping people out of homelessness who are dealing with mental illness.

What you derisively call "quarter million dollar condos" are of course helpful for this. It is either from directly housing the currently homeless with mental illness in these homes.

And if these homes do not directly house the homeless, new additional homes, where people's rent goes towards construction and labor rather than merely the pockets of a rentier landlord that just sees their rents ever increase is a huge help. Productive creation of new housing, especially if it increases the vacancy rate, is crucial to reigning in the housing market, a market which is failing our people, and in which landlords and homeowners are profiting from people's misery through perpetual shortages.

And if vacancy rates are not increasing, then we haven't built enough of those "quarter million dollar condos." Keep on building them until there's a surplus and they government can buy them on the cheap and provide housing as a human right.

Anybody who says that we do not need more housing is the very source of our homelessness problem. More housing makes everything easier, and the only cost is that some busybodies don't want to see it. Why pay attention to those people at the cost of helping everybody else?
author of blogpost here. interestingly the actual thing (not mentioned in blog post) that I was developing was for text searching too...resulting library I made is here https://github.com/GMOD/ixixx-js/
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They should have dropped barrels of sodium on Nazi dams instead of bombs.
Because C-level execs and corporate directors think only as far as the next quarterly report and don't consider the big picture.
> At that point you still have a natural production, it's just less than at your lifetime peak. You can still destabilize your hormone signaling further and get symptoms like hypogonadism and gynomastia-- to say there's nothing to lose isn't quite right.

Sure, there isn't "nothing to lose", but let's not kid ourselves- if you're past retirement age and in a position to essentially be on TRT for the rest of your life, hypogonadism isn't a big deal unless for some crazy reason TRT becomes unavailable. As for gynecomastia, it's very easily managed with an aromatase inhibitor like exemestane or anastrozole.

I'm not saying there aren't risks or possible side effects, but exogenous testosterone shouldn't be dismissed out of hand because of the FUD surrounding steroids. If you haven't seen the documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster", I highly recommend it.
I’m hardly an expert, but I understand it could take 15-20 years of a flying career before you reach the point of being a “first-year captain” at a major airline (the first column in this chart).
The people who become homeless because their rent went up certainly exist. These people tend to be homeless for a short amount of time because they are able to eventually find new housing. Maybe they live in their car for awhile. Maybe they couch surf. But it's a good point that there are people with mental health / drug problems that have issues beyond housing cost. Both can be true at the same time.
This HN comment [0] links to a Twitter comment by an epidemiologist criticizing a related site for cherry-picking data, among other concerns.

It seems like there are several sites that all have similar layout/content and very distinctive plot styling. I think they are related, but I’m on a phone and haven’t made time for dig queries and such. Seems dodgy though.

Anyway, there’s been a feeding frenzy of questionable research since the pandemic started (well especially so anyway) so it’s more important than ever to practice informed skepticism.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177264
Your link says a 40' container weighs 20,000kg. The Hindenburg alone could lift 232,000kg [1].

Bouyant needs to go bigger.

[1] https://erik-engheim.medium.com/calculating-lifting-capacity...
birth BrE here, 32 years of AmE ... never ever heard "hob" as related to "hobgoblin".
Even the chronically homeless with mental health issues benefit greatly from having housing. The key is to make it housing they actually can use, let them have their belongings, their pets foe support, let people come and go as they please so they are not prisoners, and don't force people out of the housing everyday.

A lot of the existing housing solutions for the chronically homeless have terrible terrible restrictions that make the housing not work for people, sadly.
I'll second that. I was once hired as a "developer" in customer service for an old software product of a big company. My whole day consisted just of reading through log files. It didn't help that the company didn't invest anything in getting me familiar with the product. In the last months I sometimes got the feeling like my head was literally going to explode. Must have been panic attacks. I took a year off after that.
I mean the housing IS there, just maybe not in the high demand areas. Is is that we need to have a bunch of excess housing so it lowers in price?

I had a couple friends who were homeless in SF, and slowly got out of it. Places like SF are just limited in square footage, it's like an island basically, yet people are living on the streets there for decades... shouldn't they try a different city if they really didn't want to be on the streets? I mean years outside in the same city seems suspicious to me that it's really housing.
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“It’s not that I’m lazy, I just don’t care.”
I'm with you on this one. Not sure how every reply to you can only see this as threatening. Maybe I'm in a bubble, but I don't think I could read or use the term "martyr" (especially in such casual context) in the 21st century without it being seen jokingly.
Research by Zillow Group Inc. last year found that a 5 percent increase in rents in L.A. translates into about 2,000 more homeless people, among the highest correlations in the U.S. The median rent for a one-bedroom in the city was $2,371 in September, up 43 percent from 2010. Similarly, consultant McKinsey & Co. recently concluded that the runup in housing costs was 96 percent correlated with Seattle’s soaring homeless population. Even skeptics have come around to accepting the relationship. “I argued for a long time that the homelessness issue wasn’t due to rents,” says Joel Singer, chief executive officer of the California Association of Realtors. “I can’t argue that anymore.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homel...
Prototyping horse riding simulation in Red Dead Redemption 2 in real life
A HELOC is, literally, a line of credit. You can do anything you want with that money: start a business, go to college, buy bitcoin, buy another property, etc.
That sounds like weev
>About 10% of humans have been addicts across most cultures throughout most of recorded human history, and they desperately need help (even if they claim don't want it).

one can wonder why this trait hasn't been selected out by now (or some trait managing it hasn't appeared).
> The build server needed to be rebooted, but this was during the pandemic when no one was in the office. Furthermore, it was a Friday making it even more unlikely someone was around to do something as simple as press a button to reboot a machine.

WTF? Why is a company like Apple using one off machines for release builds? That should all be on a VM and a server with a management interface. I made that mistake once and won't make it again.

It can take some time to adjust to feeling like you are always at work but IMO it also feels like I'm never at work. I work 40+ hours and respond to things off hours but I don't have to deal with the hour or so of wasted time and typical office annoyances.
Spoiler alert: Developers have never been impressed with Apple’s App Store.