skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is some serious biased data selection going on there.

For example he claims that renewables can't replace fossil because of their unreliability. And shows a graph of global energy use that shows that overall percentage of renewables did not grow between 2009 and 2019 despite significant growth in total output. He the compares this to local data which shows that _locally_ turning on and off a nuclear power plant has a significant effect on the _local_ carbon emissions.

You can't really compare conclusions from global and local studies. By his own argument nuclear can't function without fossil either, because over the same time frame as the report he quotes nuclear energy output rose as well [1] (except for a drop due to the GFC).

What the global data really shows is that global energy demand has increased rapidly largely in countries like China and India etc. who build (cheap) coal plants to keep up with tha demand. It will be interesting to see developments now that China is moving away from growing at all costs.

Regarding the baseload myth, it has been debunked many times [2] [3]

[1] https://nwenergy.org/featured/debunking-the-myth-of-baseload...
[2] https://nwenergy.org/featured/debunking-the-myth-of-baseload...
[3] https://reneweconomy.com.au/dispelling-the-nuclear-baseload-...
Not him, but my problem with modern (Web) application design is far too much white space at the expense of functionality.
Now, I feel dumb for not noticing the "+ 1" was not needed. Completely forgot 1e300 would not map on a factor of 2, thanks for the correction.
Ruby got the safe navigation operator (&. to safely call methods on a nil-able value) in 2015, with Ruby 2.3, and credits "C#, Groovy and Swift" for inspiration there. So while it isn't exactly "?" (I think Groovy does use the ?), the semantics are close enough IMO.

Ref: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-rele...
> Slow, bureaucratic, opaque, slow, low-compensation, slow. That's just not attractive to me.

Some degree of slowness is (in some ways) a feature because of the harm, abuse, and eventual investigations that can happen at maximum speed. Some of it is 100% not a feature.

I think it's less opaque and bureaucratic from the inside than might be expected - some of the work is ensuring that one person is accountable, and then ensuring that person can make meaningful decisions.

https://playbook.cio.gov/#play6
Just as an example of how many years this might take, .NET was one of first ecosystems to bring async/await into mainstream, with C# 5 (2016) and the upcoming .NET 6 and related languages are still improving the whole experience.
Had to look these up:

verfremdungseffekt = distancing effect, something devised to cause you to not identify on an emotional level with the subjects or the action in the scene, but to see the image from a more dispassionate intellectual perspective. Magritte was mentioned because his work often "breaks the fourth wall," directly addressing the viewer instead of the more traditional painterly approach of creating drama in the scene.

non-diegetic content = content which is not part of the world of the scene itself. The scratches on the photos aren't part of the world that the subjects live in.
That's exactly what led me to make Zeminary. I kept running into problems with decomposing my thoughts in a way that didn't interfere with my main line of thought. Or with trying to grasp all the thoughts in a situation.
The randomisation features of systemd timers are pretty essential, to avoid lots of systems running the same thing at the same time. To do that in cron you have to do ugly things like use bash and then run sleep $RANDOM.
"We studied 72 persons, all of whom had a previous positive RT-PCR test but were symptom-free for >3 weeks before blood was collected for testing (Table)."

Reading this page I'm not sure how they are handling the possibility of false positives. That is, some percentage of their 72 persons with a positive PCR test were actually false positives and never had the disease and thus don't have antibodies.

Just googling for "RT-PCR covid false positive" turns up this result[1] which says "They combined the results of multiple studies (some looked at PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 specifically, and some looked at PCR testing for other RNA viruses). They found false positive rates of 0-16.7%, with 50% of the studies at 0.8-4.0%."

If you assume 1% false positive rate, and 80 million tests[2], then that means 80,000 are false positives. 6,873,739 total positive tests, so false positives should make up ~12% of positive cases.

Given the range of possible values for the false positive rate it seems reasonable to me to suspect that this might be entirely or mostly explained by false positive rate. Unless I've missed something where they account for this.

edit: From their appendix:

"While we cannot formally exclude false positive RT-PCR results for some participants, PCR contamination is highly unlikely as an explanation for our findings for several reasons.

First, serologic non-responders were identified by three different diagnostic laboratories (Appendix Table 1), all of which employed stringent quality control measures to guard against false-positive results. Second, we were able to independently amplify SARS-CoV-2 sequences from a subset of the original nasal swab material. Analyzing 4 samples from seropositive and 8 samples from seronegative persons (Appendix Table 1), we amplified full-length spike genes
with intact open reading frames from four specimens, including two from seronegative persons (Appendix Figure 5). Finally, RT-PCR positive seronegative persons have also been identified by several other groups"

Not really sure how to integrate their explanation with my intuition described above. If samples were contaminated that might explain why repeat testing of the samples continued to show infection. I feel like this definitely merits a follow up investigation with a larger sample size than 71.

1 - https://theconversation.com/why-are-some-covid-test-results-...

2 - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/prev...
Ok in Denmark the system is that you get hired, if they fire you in the first month you get 2 weeks severance, after which you have (IIRC) 3 months, this part is somewhat based on seniority / contract some times you might get a 4 month severance period.

You can be fired for basically any reasonable reason though.

I again have a hard time believing you need to set fire to the office before they fire you, don't French companies ever downsize?
To me it sounds like you'd be happier at a much smaller company. Same as me. I doubt I could work anywhere that had more than 15 or so employees. When a company gets too big, it gets bogged down in procedures and protocols. It gets an HR person. It's not for me.
You're arguing from the ideology that arbitrary freedom is good, whereas China operates under a "do what's good for you" sort of ideology.

If we think about those two ideologies, one could flip your "is it possible for it to not be unified" to "is it possible for it to not have freedom" to illustrate the inherent ideological bias in the question. It may seem like an attempt at being inflammatory, but consider that for vaccines, for example, many people actually believe that we shouldn't get to decide against medical recommendation.

I posit that neither ideology is necessarily superior, given that empirically we know of both good and bad outcomes for both sides (e.g. your argument about their lack of freedom of speech vs theirs about our botched covid handling due to "freedom" SJWs)

And to reiterate: I do think "unified" is a loaded term: it implies everyone should be on board with whatever the CCP decides, because it's for the "common good", when in reality that's not a belief held equally by everyone. (Incidentally, it also implies that the US is functionally stuck on inaction due political bickering, a position that I find somewhat accurate, especially on matters of public welfare, e.g. healthcare reform)

Personally, I think always coloring things with one ideology doesn't work because each topic is different, hence my suggestion to seek different opinions outside of our own echo chambers.
I don’t disagree with you but in Danish culture you get a degree or you work as unskilled labour in 99% of the cases.

Even if you don’t “need” a degree you still get one because it would be a serious handicap if you didn’t and our educational system doesn’t cost the individual money. In fact we pay you $1300 a month for 6-7 years while you work on your higher education. I’m sure we could debate the system, but the result is that almost everyone in CS/SE get a degree of at least academy level once they finish the mandatory 10 years of school + 3 years of gymnasium granting them access to the higher educations, and as such the number of educated is a very strong indicator of how many new programmers are entering the field.
jdupes, rdfind, fclones and possibly many others compute checksums of prefixes (and sometimes suffixes) of the files. That reduces the number of files to be fully hashed.

Computing incremental checksums in parallel and breaking up once checksums diverge does not work very well on HDDs because the files can be in distant physical locations, and that would cause lot of seeks (seeks are terribly slow on rotational drives).
Most of our energy sources (except nuclear and geothermal) are forms of solar. Wind, hydro, and fossil fuels are all just stored solar energy!

The fact that they’re stored energy is what makes them particularly useful, though. If we were exclusively using solar directly then we’d need to store it ourselves, or build a global distribution grid to move energy from where it’s sunny to where it’s needed.
The government doesn't directly compete with the private sector in any industry, and that is especially unlikely to happen in tech. Promotions/bonuses based on performance, large equity grants, frequent job hopping – all are the exact opposite of how the government works.
This might be a very big thing for other reasons too

...What does this imply for projects like Github's Copilot?
It's a shame they didn't assay memory T cells in those same subjects. That would have given us a better understanding of their immunity, or lack thereof. There's more to immunity then antibodies.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
Thank you so much! I bought the whole album.

It's official now, I do have to go exploring on Bandcamp much more. It's unquestionably one of the greatest sites in today's Internet, in several respects.
A lot of it is that your standards are driven by stories of past excellence and people leave out the nonsense of years past when telling stories.

My grandfather worked for GM in its heyday. He had stories of shuffling desks to make a VP happy, playing accounting games, project costs exploding, contractors being lazy and screwing things up (one brought a typical ladder to wire a warehouse that was 70 feet high), meetings over the placement of newspaper boxes, etc.

My company loves to talk about being agile. They leave out a bureaucracy on par with the government (and I worked in the government before coming here) when it comes to resource management.

I don't think there has ever been an age of a greatly efficient and capable society. It is just a lot of lurching and stumbling in a general direction.
This, and it’s possible there are real positives where the disease never took. That is, it was detected in the nasal cavity or wherever they’re sampling, but never became an infection that the body had to care about.
How is that compatible with the fact that only 3 or so reported no symptoms ?
That's one benefit of Zeminary over other word processors.

You can edit a paragraph without shifting the whole text.

It gets really useful when you have to write a book or thesis or movie script. Anything very long really.

Something I noticed working with the JS editor in Zeminary was that the load time increased exponentially with more and more text and formatting.

So chunking it helped to offset that problem. I don't know if Word has that problem. But I know I can load the Zeminary equivalent of a 100k words formatted Word file in about 5% or 10% the time.
When you think about it ivermectin is the perfect thing for a Grifter to promote as a cure. In a way it's the opposite of a drug in that it has little effect on mammals. It kills worms without causing any dangerous side effects. But it does make you poop. That good for two reasons, no harmful side effects means the legal risk for the grifter is nil. And making people poop makes them think it's powerful. Classic.

The real cherries on top are. 199 out of 200 people that take ivermectin for covid will recover. And they will think it's the ivermectin that cured them. And the 1 out of 200 that does die? They are going to go to the hospital where the doctors won't be giving them ivermectin. Which means the poor saps family will blame the doctors.

It's truly a genius con.
Isn't this how many online games like World-of-Warcraft work as well? You can buy success. Is that wrong? I think that's stupid from the part of the players who spend their money that way and smart from the part of the designers of the game who are laughing all the way to the bank.

But then isn't that how Football works as well. Star players get rich but who really gets rich is the company called NFL.
The data disagrees with your first statement. Certainly true since the early 2000s, but we don’t have to be fatalistic about this.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/09/14/americans-vi...
tidal too :)

(extracting kinetic energy from the orbiting moon)
As a non-US person, how many positions? Has it been enumerated somewhere?
Can you give examples of what this offers over, say, Google calendar? That already send to work fine for me, and has the benefit of syncing between all my devices.
This explains why COVID vaccination is capable of treating long COVID in some cases. Hopefully this will lead to some actual treatments for long COVID (for example, a more aggressive regimen of vaccinations), at least the kind of long COVID that results from mild illness.
Many people in that first wave of USDSers are back in government, some with USDS, some at other agencies.

I think there's some of "this is shiny and new and putting the plane together as it flies" excitement that's different now (from what I saw in 2015 when with 18F), but USDS is better positioned thanks to long-developed trust to get more things done, IMO.
Although with the caveat that you have to use their DNS, unless I’m missing something: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/setup-domain-tra...
No joke, we are in the sights of Hurricane Nora.
I think that natural gas plants will be a significant part of power grids for a long time. Maybe they will not be primary generators, but they certainly will stay as backup. At the very least until the grid-scale storage problem will be properly solved (i.e. you need to store at least several days of consumption, ideally several weeks). I don't think that any kind of chemical batteries is the solution to this problem. Personally, I hope that hydro pumped storage in artificial underground cavities will become mainstream one day.
As it says in their conclusion, you could read the appendix and find out.
Can confirm. Got snowed on 9/1 (at 12k') last year in south western colorado.
Sure. It's disgusting. But it's not ironic.
Failing inexplicably does not mean that it failed because of the issue talked about here. It could as well be bad contacts or soldering whiskers.
I'd prefer a USB stick that does not fail too, but in fact, I have never had any fail on me so I don't know the prevalence, and know even less which parts come from this specific issue.
Also, if your USB drive starts having a heating element, you need to trust it to not fry everything due to a regulation failure in badly designed units that fail closed. I also doubt a process of heating "at 250 degrees for hours" could be done at 50°. Even of it could, it would literally take days at a time.
Who wants to see that? I certainly don't
That would require (literally) an Act of Congress to pay civil servants more.

That said, there are plenty of mid-senior programs for tech talent. There haven't been the same pipelines for more junior talent.
Indeed. I was surprised to find my last name available as a numeronym, while the domain with my full last name has already been taken long ago.
I really, really hope Stephenson's Fall in Hell isn't prescient when it comes to the rise of Ameristan. That book plus Palahniuk's Adjustment Day are a terrifying glimpse of our boring dystopia morphing into complete dystopia.
You're making my point: the period being there or not does not matter, what matters is that you were able to parse my sentence and understand it without issue, and without needing to think about its grammar, thanks to the pattern-matching abilities of your brain.
Sounds like another diversity grift which will be used as a political tool, and won't improve the fed gov't's ability to leverage techology or improve security.

Maybe I'm in cynical, but I'm very familiar with some of the previous high profile attempts and the state of fed tech procurement. These programs seem to attract too many activists, and just like most of the SV tech giants, the tech becomes a means to a political end instead of the goal, and we all know how that turns out.
Perhaps I'm missing something or the site is doing some weird UA sniffing, but I don't see the video. I did however find them tucked away elsewhere¹.

¹ https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2021...
How does the body fight off covid without making antibodies?
Concentration Risk on the Buy-Side of Credit Markets
The OP-1 is a toy while Ableton is pro computer software. The OP-1 is one of the most delightful and fun things I have ever touched. It can't be compared to computer software on merits because the PC software simply is more powerful but doesn't provide the same fun factor.

If the thing was significantly cheaper, almost everyone would want one.
Completely anecdotally but I had covid in late Feb 2020…no antibodies, brain fog and some chest pain and to my great surprise after the second vaccine two months ago I feel better than I’ve ever felt.
I did sleep for 36 hours over that weekend, could be something to do with it.
Correct! (I work at USDS, am commenting here just personally to shed light where I can).
Good guy? Depends how you define that. And it would be challenge to write infra code in java..
1. Things are changing, plenty of agencies like GSA, 18F, USDS are trying to modernize government technology and there are many movers and shakers in the government trying to make things better

2. The government is huge, there's small, medium, and large agencies and agencies all of have their own culture. Hard to generalize across the whole thing

3. On many teams your direct management will shield you from a lot of the paperwork.

4. The average 2210 series technologist is a GS-13 which is $100k+. Not super star status but competitive in many regions and experience levels.

5. The vast majority of software development in the US government is contracted in
Anyone who wants a functioning government capable of dealing with big challenges like the kinds we face today and will face throughout the 21st century and beyond.
Perhaps I'm missing something or the site is doing some weird UA sniffing, but I don't see the video. I did however find them tucked away elsewhere¹.

[Same message as for the other submission². Are others seeing the videos? Not even all that sure what to start poking at if its just me.]

¹ https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2021...

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28364364
I feel you gave my dumb comment more thought than it deserved. But i enjoyed the reply immensely, thanks!
Plenty of languages have traveled that path, COBOL, RPG, xBase, Visual Basic, Delphi, 4GLs, Java, and now Go.

The problem is then you get some enterprise architects that go crazy with the design space.
IIRC this was being discussed when testing first began, that for many their innate immune systems fight off the pathogen so quickly that it doesn't require the adaptive antibody production/retention.
> “if there is an extended deficit with wind / sun then even a battery might not do it.”

It’s always windy (and sunny) somewhere. The combination of energy storage and grid transmission alleviates intermittency.

Chemical batteries are very useful, but far from the only way to store energy.
Isn't that one of many plagiarized papers by someone who made cosplaying the dead and the alive (Dave Kleiman, David Rees, Deborah Kobza, Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim May, to name a few), lying and creating forgeries a fulltime job? Who's latest con is a massive neverending Nigerian prince advance fee scam on Calvin Ayre, now ending in a totally corrupt and bankrupt Bitcoin affinity fraud that is failing by all serious metrics? The man who is called a liar and a fraud by 7 judges on 3 continents, who is now involved in numerous lawsuits in which his counsel ONTIER has no shame to reuse Faketoshi lies and forgeries that have been called out by ATO and court Florida already?

What a shame there are still people who give this con man the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't deserve it:

https://link.medium.com/rj9V8yb0pib
I've been using https://github.com/allo-/virtual_webcam_background

There are many others similar to the above. They all basically work by using the v4l2loopback driver to create a loopback video device. Then you have the program consume video from the real webcam video device, apply a deep learning model that subtracts the background (leaving your face and torso) and replaces it with an image or video of your choice, and outputs the video to the loopback device. Then you configure your video conferencing software (zoom, teams, webex, whatever) to use the loopback device instead of the real one.
That's correct. You can think of the Normandy invasions as succeeding in slow-motion. Planners were hoping for results on D-Day, but it took 10x to 100x longer than expected to achieve each objective.

Caen (port area up to 9 miles from the beach) was a D-Day objective, but depending on the area took 1 month to 3 months to capture. The Allies were slow, and the Germans knew it was a strategic location. Regardless, it just meant that the German army was destroyed around Caen, instead of elsewhere.

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

Of the 5 landing sites, Omaha Beach was the bloodiest, with Americans wading ashore into machine gun fire, killing around 2,000 Americans.

(In Italy and Holland, Americans were also mowed down as the Germans retreated.)

The most famous disastrous amphibian landings were Galipoli in WW1, where the British failed to break out of their beach heads, and also lost numerous ships to mines and shore batteries. This tarnished Winston Churchill's reputation for decades. The victory by Turkey led to its rise as a modern state.

And the US struggled with 3 landings (Anzio, etc.) in Italy in WW2 due to General Clark and his staff trying to consolidate beach heads before breaking out, allowing Germans to occupy high ground, after the landings!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio#Breakout

Literally, the Americans would loiter on the sand instead of sending a dozen troops to secure roads and hills before the Germans arrived with artillery.

The US had phenomenal leaders in the Pacific War, but Italy was a total failure in multiple dimensions. Historians today just laugh at our role in Italy - it was that bad.

(The British had the weird problem that upon reaching the beach, soldiers would sit down and start making tea, even under fire.)
Doesn't really track does it? Granted there is much more to an immune response than antibodies alone. To such a degree that an absence of antibodies wouldn't mean there wasn't some immunity present by the rest of the immune system.
I think Kotlin may have had it before 2015.