skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, there are people who thrive in such a world.

In a Gaussian world, where suffering and thriving are the result of more or less independent random factors, this is fine.

As systemic interdependencies increase, the situation shifts to a Paretian world, a power law distribution that emerges from feedback loops.

In the end, there are few who thrive and many who suffer.
Often because of the thriving of the former.

And just to depress the mood a bit and abandon all hope:

The Paretian world may be even more stable, as long as sufficient resources are available.
Except MK Ultra turned out to be a thing
With one lung she's at a much greater risk of dying of anything... Let's not pretend that she was never at risk of dying before covid-19...
You're not doing the hard integration work, so the window of opportunity closes and you haven't healed.
This person seems to be on a crusade to eliminate all landlords and have everyone own there own house. While this sounds good, there are a ton of reasons someone would rent and not own. (less permanent, don't want to be responsible for maintenance ...) And if it is just smaller landlords, who don't do the amount of leverage available only to big corporations. The market will work itself out in terms of affordability. I.E. rents get too high people will buy house prices get too high people will rent. Of course, more houses will and better zoning laws, it something everyone can agree will make houses more affordable.
The author seems to be going overboard in terms of house ownership.
Also, he seems to think that because house construction has been in lull for the last decade it will be slow forever, if house price get very high, it will attract home builders. As they say "The best cure for high prices is high prices"
Friendly reminder that this post is published on the PlanetScale blog, a company that sells a database SaaS. Beware of the bias.

I personally would argue with every single point this article makes, except scalability.
I don't really want the world to end just to say we tried to save a tiny island that exists mostly to produce video game parts.
You raise a good point that it would be useful to report the "cumulative" risk for people previously infected.

However the goal of this research is specifically evaluating risk of reinfection, not the cumulative risk of SARS-COV-2 infection. The fact is that a vast majority of people survive initial SARS-COV-2 infection, so the pure risks associated with reinfection are also equally useful to know.

The decision to focus on delta infections does impact the OR estimates for vaccine effectiveness as you mention. But again this was one of the primary research goals of the paper - to evaluate the risk of reinfection by comparing natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity in the context of a variant with mutations conferring immune escape.

> the variants that provided that natural immunity are not "dominant" anymore

This was controlled for in the study by censoring data based on the date of previous infection.

> The trade-off is that natural immunity has the "side effect" of actually having to fight off and survive the illness?

Yes, and people need to stop interpreting the title and cited paper as a manifesto against vaccination. Rather, the study provides valuable data on the efficacy of natural and vaccine induced immunity in the context of evolving variants, which will be useful in guiding public health policy and also formulating next generation vaccines that improve upon the current formulations.
Comedy Central runs a Youtube series where comedians talk about their drug trips, and the DMT ones always seem INTENSE. It seems like if you take enough you basically check out of reality for a while, wondering if that's true/what your experience was?
Every viral vaccine works this way, though. Because every virus works this way.
I know it is a popular opinion, but I never understood it... why would you rather have non-personalized ads than personalized ads?
Ayahuasca is DMT + some maoi to prologue the effect (and make you puke). Beyond the longer trip the only more 'profound' thing is the rituals which presumably put you in a more spiritual setting. If you've done DMT and so many other psychedelics there's little reason to think you'll get that much more from Ayahuasca.
This article is overall a nice breakdown of how TOTP/HOTP function. My only concern is that it seems to connect the “counter” (time in the case of TOTP) with salting. Salting of passwords is targeted towards a totally different problem. The HMAC functions here don’t take a salt, they take a secret and what the RFC calls a “moving factor”. It exists intentionally to allow the resulting calculation to change over time in unpredictable (to an attacker) ways.
I disagree and there are also doctors and experts that disagree.

There is no reason to assume medical experts are free of groupthink. There is also no reason to assume the medical industrial and related government regulators are free from corruption. Which makes it all the more important to question the advice we are given by “experts” and ask if it makes any sense. To me it doesn’t.
We can relate. All of this is solvable.
This gets overblown a lot in the same way that we used to discredit Soviet scientific advancements by claiming they stole all the important bits from the Americans.

Yes, China does steal US technology and industry and yes, it has happened on a number of occasions with concrete documentation. However, that does not mean that China is not capable of innovation or shrewd business moves and it should not be assumed to be the norm.
I don't understand why the EU would accept the literal piece of paper the US gives its vaccinated. Anyone can print that at home, there would need to be some verification and issuance of a digital European certificate.

I see Americans getting away showing the CDC card to get into places when Europeans have to show a signed qr code. Most are probably real but I see the possibility for abuse.
In the article he labels wide swaths of people "sociopaths" but proceeds to express glee at the prospect of their suffering? Who is the sociopath?
Google Authenticator is an implementation of the catchily-named "Time-based One-Time Password" or TOTP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-Time_Password

It is not the only one, any time a site asks you to add a "Google Authenticator" code you can use any TOTP app. 1Password has the functionality built in, for example.
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Seems to me that "we prefer older workers for this position" looks a lot like affirmative action. Do you feel the same about that?
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Considering the original meaning of the term „decimated“, that other term probably has not been decimated, at least not literally.
Right but they depend on their degenerate “whales” just like anyone. There’s a big difference between going to the strip club a couple times a year with your buddies and being the guy who shows up at 11am on Tuesday with his paycheck but the strip club is happy to take all of the addict’s money.
> Link 3 does not support your point: 'The term “quarantine” refers to the separation and restriction of movement of non-sick persons to see if they become sick.'. There is no blanket support for indefinite restriction of rights.

What "rights" are is muddy. I'm not proposing an outright quarantine. Nobody is. However, I thought it prudent to point out that the "quarantining of healthy individuals" is not unique or unjustified. Your previous comment suggested that all quarantines are human rights violations.

However, what I see from all medical experts is social distancing, masking, and getting vaccination. Those are the "rights" being infringed on at the moment.

At one point, the CDC did recommend that someone vaccinated didn't need to mask up. Unfortunately, that changed with Delta as you correctly point out.

A vaccine + mask would be highly effective at stopping the spread of delta.
Can I ask a genuine question?

Why would we defend Taiwan?

It's on the other side of the world from the US, there's no particular economic / strategic US interest in defending it, and on top of that it's current arrangement with China seems to be working for everyone.

I find the notion that China would invade and that the US should then step in to be mystifying.
Looks like support was added about four years ago, but it is true this wasn’t the case a whole back. Glad it’s working now though!
Since you are the author, there's a near duplicated paragraph below the CPU/XPU pictures, the paragraphs starts with "Besides standing out and calling themselves".

Very interesting content otherwise, I remember the seal issue being something very controversial too when other companies went there (I believe it was regarding Intel, that was maybe 15 years ago). To this day it still is a pretty prevalent issue when doing local branches in China.
There are people, who spend 6 to 12 months to prepare for FANG interviews. Even kickstart programs for interviews last two months. There is a huge group of people who spend at least 6 months for top pay, etc.
> In technical terms, CICO is a very leaky abstraction.

I'd call everything else an abstraction. Intermittent fasting and Keto all conform to CICO as an abstraction.

Which is fine and you're right. Calorie counting is the most direct diet but is not for everyone.
> Would you rather have click + wait to refresh the whole page

Considering it'd be faster than what discourse does, yes.

> to see the next 10 post on that thread?

If your forum has unconfigurable 10-post pages I would suggest getting a better forum software? One decades-old forum I frequent loads its default 40-post pages in half the time it takes discourse to load a new section, and using half the data, despite having to reload the entire HTML page.

And it doesn't waste a third the screen on a virtual thread scrollbar.
Hurricane Katrina saw 15" of rain over New Orleans in 2005, though a higher storm surge was measured (14') than what is predicted for Ida (7--11').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL122005_Katrina.pdf [pdf]

There are multiple factors that come into play.

There's storm surge and tides. Tides around Morgan City are pretty modest (less than 1/2 foot / 15cm total range), and will be low as the storm arrives. Storm surge forcast is 7-11 ft per NOAA. Given the extreme low-lying land, that's significant. I don't have comparative numbers for Katrina offhand.

The total rainfall amount is one. The period of time over which it falls, and where the storm goes afterward are also critical. Ida looks to be slow-moving, and is presently slated to track pretty much directly up the Mississippi river, then over the Ohio River Valley.

That means there's going to be heavy river flow coming downstream possibly for several weeks after the storm itself passes. I'd predicted and observed a similar trend when Hurricane Florence hit Wilmington, NC, in 2018, and upstream-based water flows contributed to flooding, and issues such as hog farm sludge empoundments (basically: pig shit lakes) in the region. For Louisiana, the concern is probably more petroleum refining and chemical plants.

Note that Florence hung around for days. Ida looks as if it will stick around Southern Louisiana for about 18 hours, then start accelerating to the NNE, though remaining over the drainage baisin feeding into New Orleans.
The author seems to address this directly:

> But here we’re focusing on apps like Google Authenticator that use something called TOTP algorithm.

> What we want to achieve is understand how apps like Google Authenticator (or any other TOTP app) are solving that?
Much like if you read a good book, as time goes on you will lose the details and only recall the main gist unless you reread the book occasionally. There is concrete work to do beyond just getting in the right state of mind. It sounds like you're doing the surgery but ignoring the post-surgical physical therapy required to fully heal. I'd suggest a guide to help with the 2nd part. If you'd really like to learn some things about yourself and the experience that you'll likely forget soon after, record your entire session and rewatch it while sober. Listening to your words/questions and watching yourself will retrigger some of those experiences/lessons in much higher clarity.
Hey, this is HN you know :)

It's not unusual for happy, unaffiliated users to post enthusiastically, or even evangelise a bit, about the software they love most.

Case in point, I often pop up in TimescaleDB threads to sing it's praise regarding real-world usage, but I'm not affiliated with the TimescaleDB folks in any way.
And time. Say we even put $1T into replacing TSMC's capabilities stateside, it would take years, potentially decades, to get the people, knowledge, processes and technology.
> NYC's obesity rate is half of the nation's

This is a function of density. We walk more. Look at the boroughs that drive and they're closer to the national average.

Replicating this in e.g. San Francisco would require overcoming the anti-development NIMBYs. That's a hard problem.
It's even worse, it is a sort of certificate of property of an url where pictures of lemonades can be seen by anyone.

Still a kid "produces" something and sells the product, it doesn't look like gambling to me.
After $14,000,000,000 was spent, they had better be ready
You know what's fucked up; the USA.

Recall the student that built a detailed map of critical telco infra and was censured by the Gov because it contained "secret" infa info even though it was all from public record.

Infra is a joke in the US. Pay attention to whom the funds go from the infra bill...

Especially on the micro level: recall that MANY Congress officials wives created LLCs during the TARP 2008 "bailout" to receive funds with no consequence.

We are seeing the same.

We need a live update on budget appropriations
Everyone I've ever known has loved working 4 10's and honestly 4 8's would be even better. They never complain about burnout and a 3-day weekend every week leaves them energized and recharged for the next weeks' work. I only ever hear complaints from people working 4 12's which at that point you'd hear the usual complaints of anyone working 8 hours of overtime a week.

The fact I've never once heard a complaint about 4 10's from anyone I've ever known to work them says a lot compared to the usual 5 8's which I hear complaints from about everyone (including myself).

n = 19~21 people or so
Because of the high likelihood of catastrophic loss of life. And the high chance of complete failure.
I got 69 paying customers after failing for one year
My name is Maddie (ex-Stanford)! I'm the founder of Founders Cafe - a co-working space for founders from Stanford, Harvard, YC, and more.

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3. Trying it solo. I spent the year trying to find "The Savior Co-Founder." As a lonely technical person who lacked business skills, I didn't realize I could fill the void myself. I got business skills from books. I got support from my founder community. And ever since, I felt free! As a full time solo founder, I don't have to rely on anyone anymore :D

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Almost everyone accept what you say. Somehow, the capital class, and the intellectual class (media) heavily discount it.
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I happy for you, that you've been able to access so many psychedelics that many others will never come close to, but how much therapy have you had? How many different types of therapy have you tried? How many mainstream pharmaceuticals have you tried?

By your own admission, you're depressed and are slacking at work, have you tried looking into an ADHD diagnosis?
You don’t need to go to Peru to get it (there’s plenty of drugs in the Bay Area). He moved there to fundamentally change his life.
I think that's right, but it's worth noting that "until the blood sugar drops" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. That varies a lot by person. E.g. I wear a CGM, as does a friend. We can eat the same thing, and my friend's CGM reading drops back to his baseline in less than an hour while mine stays elevated for several hours.

I eat low-carb foods and intermittently fast to compensate, but if I ate a "mainstream heatlhy" diet (3 meals a day, grain bowls, etc), my blood sugar would be moderately elevated for most of the time.
this looks super cool. I'm working (from time to time) in a web flash app, that could be used to this kind of meme creation.

How do you do the tracking? Is it blob tracking or do you use something more sofisticated?

this is how my web flash app is coming along: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm9BbCp2ZTj6...
It does violate the concept of freedom of speech (though it does not violate the law as enshrined in USA 1st amendment to the constitution)
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Taiwanese people are human beings, not video game parts gremlins. And then what if it doesn't stop there? (South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, etc)
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>critical Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is

This seems to be a popular talking point but also completely wrong.

It's the least critical bits of the east asian semi supply chain, i.e. not essential to military and majority of established industries. Leading edge TSMC fabs gets destroyed, we lose a few nodes and some industries / gamers get set back 10 years. Start a broader war with PRC over TW, PRC will start hitting semi supply chains in Korean / Japan where US assets are and basically global semi infra get set back decades. The difference is a few high tech US industries collapsing versus essentially all of US high tech manufacturing / way of life collapsing for decades. Semi capability is so rare and concentrated in east Asia that PRC has the button on silicon mutually assured distruction. At the end of the day, US/west who has broad leadin IC loses much more than PRC in a semi MAD scenario.
Though we don't know how many of these people have any experience with electronics, one says they are a mechanical engineer, perhaps the others are chemists or economics or any number of non science majors. This is a bit disturbing, though one who said they needed another wire seems kind of like they were just not thinking outside of the box, and I think with a table more could do it. I would also bet that more could do it but weren't shown on camera.

Overall I do believe that this is a problem and more common than one would think. I recall, as a computer science undergrad, when I was doing my senior thesis (which was a low level project), that I mentioned a trouble was with pulse width modulation on the board I was using. And I was rather surprised (shocked really) how so many computer science majors (who at minimum would have taken some physics, and also a basic electronics course) did not know what basic electronics things like pulse width modulation worked, or how a servo worked, as these were things I picked up as kid for fun.
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>You usually buy to rent.

Yes, I know. Renting is part of "investing".

>Right until the moment it hits you. Have you had been squatted? No? So how can you have an opinion on the impact to someone?

I'm not talking about personal impact, I'm talking about social and economic impact. Just go look at the numbers for squatting in France. It's statistically irrelevant.
By your logic we should all be very concerned about things that nearly never happen. That's not a sane way of living.
By the same token people should only be able to discuss things that have personally happened to them. Which is nonsense.
Or people have been taking these drugs (especially stuff like ayahuasca) for thousand of years anyway, and the rise in diagnoses is because we diagnose more now (and also have more people, live longer etc.). Most of humanity throughout history lived very stressful lives, and those with severe problems mostly just died or suffered undiagnosed rather than getting help.
I currently live in Vermont, just moved back here after a few years in the Bay. I strongly prefer it here than there, minus the obvious lack of infastructure, but the weather is wonderful.
Hadn't see this article, but this is a great example.
Kind of. As I mentioned elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28327689) I recently read a very interesting post on Xe’s blog and that inspired me to start writing things down in a physical notebook.