skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel is showing per-capita rates by default.. in some of the data... on https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/ to avoid this issue:

e.g. hospitalized above age 60 (חולים קשה - התחסנות)

162/100,000 unvaccinated

40/100,000 2 dose (I think)

5/100,000 2 dose + booster

If you'd just look at the raw numbers, the vaccine doesn't appear so helpful: 226 unvaccinated, 116 with 2 doses, 55 with 3 doses. Looks like it barely helps.
You didn’t answer their question. You just have a paternalistic “do better” response.
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I've no skin in the game but 30 mins a day of yoga and 2-3 hours a week of weights aren't hugely different.
It's very surprising to me that progressive loading techniques have been around for decades, but have barely been used on the web. Images often make for most of a websites content, size wise, and are frequently far larger than they need to be. Even those with generally good internet experience waiting for images to load for a noticeable amount of time.
A 95% compressed version of an image is almost always good enough for a first glance and then the rest of the image can be seamlessly, progressively loaded.
It's apparently been a ubiquitous problem for decades, with a known solution, yet it has not been applied. I'm curious as to why.
Yeah, I don't think nukes matter "day-to-day". But there's a constant awareness of them in the background, much like there is a constant awareness of general military situation.

On the negotiation table, there's only so far one nation can push another before the other one starts considering military options. There's no sharp line here - economics and war are parts of the same spectrum. Usually, it's in the best interest of every party to stay on the "economics" side of the talks. Both parties having nukes makes both of them try harder.
Presumably shifting market prices of protein sources will change consumption patterns. But if people are priced out of eating as much meat as they’re used to, it breaks the mental model of continuously improving living standards, which might have political knock on effects.
It’s too bad people don’t build simple fusors in high school. It would require the press to have more accurate article titles
"For example, if someone refuses a vaccine, should an emergency room be free to refuse care?"

No we shouldn't, we don't turn people away who drove drunken with 200km/h and crashed.
From https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37961 :

> In a social network, many phenomena have been found to spread interpersonally, such as biological games4, indirect reciprocity5, misinformation or rumors6,7, and infectious diseases8,9. Obesity is one of them10 and is often seen as a contagious epidemic1
AFAIK, SiFives business is about selling their RISC-V cores and ASIC consulting services. RISC-V is still kind of new as far as hard silicon Linux-capable cores go. My understanding is that this thing is meant to serve as a dev kit for their U74 core and U740 SoC platform, provide hardware for interested-enough Linux kernel devs and distro maintainers, and serve as a real, up-for-sale RISC-V board with a real SoC, 'all the fixins', and no FPGA. That's to say it's not a board for people who'd otherwise buy a RasPI or slightly more expensive SBC -- It's closer to a proof of concept.
I don’t think this kind of response is good for hacker news. It’s just rudeness masked by being patronising.
When is the best time to switch jobs?
and yet they passed a law that forbids peoples viewpoint on abortion or their viewpoint ont he right to abort a child....

THe irony is not lost
> It is like big fridge is in bed with big food which is in bed with big pharma.

Yes, this is what we call synergy. A whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
This one comes to mind as exceptionally good bot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodBotBot/with_replies
Natural antibodies are fun until you've waited a year and now you don't have them anymore.
I thought that writing "liquified hydrogen" would adequately suggest that I was talking about hydrogen in liquid phase; maybe I needed to be clearer, and say that liquified hydrogen really is liquid, and not gas, but I still don't see why.

Aerogel is both very, very light in weight, and also extremely effective at isolating substances of very different temperatures such as LH2 and aircraft parts. Thus, practical LH2 tanks on aircraft would be insulated with aerogel.

Given a tank of LH2 insulated with aerogel, there would be no need for the tank to be "very strong", as it would not need to hold back any more pressure than the (very light) weight of the column of LH2 contained. Liquified-gas tanks are routinely equipped with fart valves to relieve any pressure that arises from heat leaking in and boiling the contained fluid.
Despite 95% vax rate, Cornell has five times more Covid cases than last year
Yes, that goes for teachers. Not normal working programmers who choose to discuss FP in the terminology which has been commonplace for decades. They are under no such obligation.
That's funny considering I've had COVID at least twice now, once in December 2020 and again in July 2021.
I watched the embedded video, and I see how this could plausibly give you the distance that the photon travels between the laser and the object, but I don't see how you learn anything at all about its direction? Wouldn't the timing look identical for all points that are the same distance away from the point that the laser meets the wall?
For the same reason I talk about security weaknesses, and not security strengths: pointing out a weakness is the first step to fixing them.

Even if you have no interest in fixing a weakness, it is absolutely essential that you're aware of it, and can engage in compensating behaviour.
So, a CDC study found 78% of people hospitalized for covid were obese or overweight.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...

What's to stop the president from issuing another OSHA rule to fire people who are overweight and not actively addressing this risk factor?
I have to wonder what the complaint can be if it's trivial to shrink text - aren't you simply looking at this from the perspective of someone with better vision?
It's neither rude nor patronising. The guy isn't an idiot, and I'm genuinely curious about what he thinks -- I don't think I know better than him, I think he has made a rash comment.
Woman's Food
The unspoken assumption here is that you're designing for younger people, which is natural as most designers are younger, but that doesn't make it any better a recommendation than "never go below 18px and 20px is a better lower limit".

Surely it depends on your audience and/or those you wish to attract.
It's a confusing force. When two particles interact via love they possess this fore which always equate to 1LUV. Tragedy is that it's unstable and one always has more than the other, 50:50 split is rarely seen. It's even possible that during an interaction one can have all the love and the other none and they still bind together in a way.
The API doesn't know whether there's a human behind it or not. It's the same API used for third-party clients.
When a quick scan of the headline results in a clickbait reaction we should change the title. The words Taiwan, Launches, Missiles, Kill, 28 shouldn't be that close to each other unless the terms are so well known they are parsed without the obvious desired reaction.
Nice explanation! Minor nit toward the end:

> So a monoid is also a type constructor

Is it? You claimed correctly a couple paragraphs back that a functor is a type constructor F bundled with the ability to "lift" functions into the context of F. So `List` is a functor in the usual way, and so on. But a monoid cannot be a type constructor, or else `String` could not be a monoid. A monoid is a concrete type M bundled with multiplication and unit on that type.
There are two things a vaccine can do - protect you, or protect society. Their greatest benefit is when they protect society by dampening the spread/severity of a pathogen to a level low enough that society can function essentially normally.

If a sizeable chunk of the population chooses not to participate in that collective action, they endanger themselves (which can be argued is their fair choice), but also those around them who are unable to take the vaccine. There is no individualist refusal to vaccinate, the effect is still collective, just in a negative direction.
Or 30%, to be fair.
Until someone did and everyone immediately realized how stupid this law is, and then the law was repealed.
avoiding exercise doesn't cause people around you to get fatter though.
I'll Get Greener Later
Isn't this because of some other law that mandates a red light when you are recording?

If this is the case, I guess it's just a legal cover-up to comply to the law.
Ammonia is used industrially, today, by the millions of tons, mostly in pure liquid form. Management of large quantities of liquid ammonia is very mature, and has been for most of a century.

Tens of thousands of warehouse-scale refrigeration systems use ammonia as refrigerant. It is the preferred refrigerant in most places besides homes, small offices, and road vehicles.

Liquified ammonia is the odds-on favorite to replace bunker oil in intercontinental shipping, as engines already in place could easily be converted to burn ammonia just by replacing tankage and plumbing, which would not require any structural changes. You need a larger space for the ammonia than for bunker oil, but ships have plenty of room.
Personally I think that telling children that zoology equals to playing with rhinos in airplanes and making scientists appear as a happy Capitan America in the jungle is lying profoundly to them. Even worse; IgNobel prizes and their cherry-picked examples are perpetuating the infamous myth of "scientists are crazy people (so we should do the opposite that they say?)".

In the real life the zoologists that study rhinos in the wild live in permanent warfare against poachers and the organized crime nets connected to them. People that export rhino horns or lion teeth for big money and will not hesitate to shoot a witness. Many directors of African national parks need to be escorted by the army 24 hours a day against people that want they dead. All while cleaning baby rhino s*t and doing thousands of boring things as important (if not more) as finding a Hollywoodesque "Jurassic Park like" way to move a rhino by air.

There is not a lot of humor into seeing a species wanish in front of your very eyes. Maybe we need to improve our focus in the problem. This is a drama, not a Disney comedy.

If the ig-Nobel price people want a really big laugh, I would suggest to give the prize to the African scientists that work in this circumstances without even having the benefit of returning to a first world country several months a year. I can't think in a superior level of craziness.
You might enjoy Andy Tanenbaum's MINIX book, or (even though it's really old now), the MMURTL V1.0 book
There are multiple effects, tamper material is only one of them.

Ground bursts also increase the overall amount and concentration of fallout: First, with the explosion closer to ground, more neutrons can reach the ground and activate material there, producing radioactive isotopes from previously harmless earth. The "fireball" is a shell of expanding lower-density plasma which doesn't dampen neutrons as much as gas (especially water vapour) in non-plasma air. So that fireball touching ground produces more activated elements increasing overall fallout. Second, all newly created active elements and more fusion/fission products get bound to ground particles like dust, coral or water droplets if the explosion stirs up more of that. Those particles are larger and heavier, producing a more concentrated fallout closer to ground zero, whereas unbound products would be dispersed higher in the atmosphere without producing too much of a distinctive fallout pattern.
Why? What is the desired benefit from this that it's to be put into a standard?
That Haskell forum is newish and isn't used much. There's more discussion on r/haskell.
those drunk drivers may have caused collateral injury/death in their crash, but once taken to an ER they can't infect those around them with crushed limbs and twisted metal.
> equates to the emissions from about 870 cars. The plant cost between US$10 and 15m to build

Ouch, that's about $14k per car (BTW, I'm assuming it means ICE cars), and doesn't take into account operating costs.

I'm sure this tech would get cheaper after the concept is proved, but realistically could it get cheap enough?
That was a really nice description. I've struggled to get traction with a lot of this stuff for a while (and not really needed to understand it, so my curiosity remained unstated) ... but this has really helped. Thank you!
The whole point of democracy and freedom is that you convince people with words and not with sticks. If people are refusing a vaccine, that means you (as the political class, media class, scientific class) have failed your job to educate a segment of your population.

It is easy to blame people for what could be your shortcomings. But this is not 5% or 10% of your population, it seems to be around 40-50%. This is more of a crisis of faith on both public and private institutions and it certainly doesn't get fixed with sticks and by removing more rights (and thus reinforcing the believes that made these people refuse the vaccine in the first place).
Related:

https://jpegxl.info/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27577328

Chrome status: behind a flag `enable-jxl`

FireFox status: only in Nightly and behind a flag `image.jxl.enabled`

Edge status: behind a runtime flag `--enable-features=JXL`
The big strength and at the same time big weakness of nodejs is the asynchronous event loop.

If we ignore the cluster setup to get parallelism, concurrency in nodejs is done by running all request in the same thread by segmenting them and each sub part of a request into asynchronous callbacks.

By doing like this nodejs can achieve high performance because it avoids high cost of thread context switching.

The drawback is that one request can block all other request if some code is badly written, if only one callback takes too much time everyone needs to wait until it is finished, remember only one thread, no parallelism.

If you compare to PHP where the web server handles all process management (threads or processes), one badly implemented endpoint will most likely not affect other request to other endpoints. (Of course we have same limitations as always being on the same machine, limits on memory, cpu etc). Other endpoints will continue to work as before even if your team committed a few lines of shitty code whereas in nodejs it can bring down the entire system.

Avoiding this blocking effect in nodejs is usually not a problem if you are a skilled developer, however if not it is highly likely that you will deploy this behavior to production.

That is also in a sense a paradox of nodejs, it is pitched as something easy to pickup if you already know JavaScript, it is true that it is similar to browser JS, which is also asynchronous in a single thread, but in nodejs you run all users in one thread whereas in browser JavaScript you get a thread per user (each browser instance). nodejs may look easy, because it is just JavaScript, but it has these subtle parts that you need to be aware of even as a beginner.
Is this not about financials above anything else?

"As many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren’t people" (2017)

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/10/nearly-48-million-twitter-ac...

"How Twitter Makes Money"

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/120114/how-does-twi...

"Twitter by the Numbers"

https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/

"80% of Twitter users are affluent millennials." LOL
The "Soviet joke" that I know, sanitized and ROT13'd:

Fbivrg fpvragvfgf qvfpbirerq gurer'f n qverpg areir pbaarpgvba orgjrra gur rlrf naq gur erpghz. Guvf jnf irevsvrq rkcrevzragnyyl ol bofreivat gung vafregvat na bowrpg vagb gur erpghz jvyy znxr gur fhowrpg pel, naq vafregvat n arrqyr vagb gur rlr jvyy znxr gur fhowrpg rkpergr.
5 yrs ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871670
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Easily detected by IP ranges.
The thing that really impressed me about my first permanent job after college (at what we now call the Defense Information Systems Agency) was the approach that the interviewer took.

He started off by saying that he knew I had interviewed at a lot of other companies on campus, and that I’d probably heard a lot of positive things said about those companies. He said that I could assume that all those same things were also true of working for the government.

What he then proceeded to spend his time doing was telling me about all the disadvantages of working for the federal government.

I really, really appreciated that authentic and unvarnished (well, probably lightly varnished) approach. And for some reason, they decided to hire me anyway.

Thanks, Mr. Brewer!
Sure it's possible, you can use unsafePerformIO just fine in Haskell. It's idiomatic to not use it, just like it's idiomatic to not use synchronous I/O in JavaScript. Imo it's also not really interesting to talk about non idiomatic use of a language but I guess we disagree there.
It depends on the category. You can have a category of arrays of ints, but you can also have a category of arrays.
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Yes, it's also opposite in terms of its correctness.
Agreed. I use Haskell because it decreases my cognitive load.
Ironically, you're right. Given the incredibly strict regulatory environment they work within, and the incredibly small margin of error, the fact that two of the biggest manufacturers of commercial aircraft choose to use Ada/Spark speaks volumes.
Earlier discussion already on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475459
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multi layer joke?
> Suppose there's a bot that responds to every comment with positive sentiment about ivermectin with "You are not a horse" with a link to WHO guidelines. Would Twitter call that a good bot or a bad bot?

It would not only be classified as a bad bot (if unsolicited), but it would violate Twitter's automation rules [0]

0: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom...
> GPLv3 wasn't just an update, it was a major change from GPLv2. Importantly, it limited developers own rights to use code of projects they contribute to how they want (including in devices that are locked or secured in various ways).

This is FUD.

- The developer's own rights to their own code are never limited. What is limited is the rights they get to other people's code.

- GPL does not limit use in any way, it limits distribution.

The limit placed by the GPL on distribution is that the recipient must also be given source code and the same legal rights to the code. The GPL-3 fixes a technical loophole where the recipient is given rights to the code but prevented by technical means of using their modifications to that code on the device it is intended for. And yes, tivoization is absolutely a loophole in the GPL2, i.e. against the spirit of the license - the FSF has always been about empowering users to modify their software.
The problem with free choice is that people often make the wrong choice. -The Chinese Communist Party and Michaelt the Libertarian.
Sometimes they're the boss and it's a real uphill battle to persuade them how stupid they're being. I don't work in that industry, but I know enough to know when to stop and have a very hard think about some numbers.

It's a common mistake to think that the things that are the trivial fundamentals in the field that you're expert in are understood by the whole of humanity or even in some cases by everyone who claims to be expert in the your field.
Well, our experiences are at odds then. Every glossy-screened device I own is usable outside, and none of my matte-screened devices are. It's not a mystery, the physics are straightforward. Gloss improves contrast by lowering black levels. The same effect causes water to darken concrete.

If matte was so much better, wouldn't there be a market for matte overlays for smartphones? Yet smartphones are universally glossy, and universally legible outside.
Yeah, I was sure this was going to be a rant about how we dont need another Manrix movie :)
Odd, in most social animal species, the drive to be part of the group is stronger than the drive to exploit the group.

Of course, I'm arguing a tautology. And ignoring that while most animals in a social species are socially motivated, certainly some of them will 'cheat'.
Air is free.
Their Peace Prize seems more legit than the real one.

"for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face"

Impact Protection Potential of Mammalian Hair: Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaa005
This. And generally the possibility of more severe immune responses after vaxing. (Like with dengue for example) It is obvious these are a problem, and it's obvious we do not talk a out that right now.

Saying the vaccine is a perfect solution that will solve all our issues is just dellusional
I know quite a lot of people working in research relating to vaccines / viruses and in climate change e.g. glaciology, just because I happen to live near a large UK university. They are regularly quoted in journals and one friend is regularly interviewed by Sky / BBC etc. While I think it's kind of cool, I'm not sure they'd be viewed in that way by the general population. The probably get paid 10% of what people get at Google / Facebook.

YouTube influencer would probably impress more people. That's just the way it is.
It doesn't help that major components of the "political class" are being the biggest babies and spreading straight up disinformation. Sure, we shouldn't have to have a mandate, but we are now at the point where it makes no sense not to have one and people can't see that because they are being routinely lied to by people that have the vaccine and by organizations that have the mandate.
Taking your comment in good faith, there are already a set of rules with regards to automation on twitter [0] which might help in understanding their usage of the word "bot" in that context.

0: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom...
of course with this webpage you are uploading your files to their server as well