skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was double vaxxed with moderna and caught a breakthrough case.

The weird thing is that while the extent of my infection was that I had a bad sinus infection without fever for about 3 days. It greatly effected my cognition, besides temporarily (<1 day) losing my sense of smell I also experienced a loss of spatial/body awareness and was knocking things over which I never do even when sick, I was easily cognitively overwhelmed for about 10-15 days after my positive test, 11 days after my symptoms subsided.

I am a software engineer that a couple times of year may get halo migraines, the worst untreated migraines I've had caused a small decrease in cognition and working memory for almost a week, most migraines have little to no cognitiove effect.

This "mild" covid was by far the most systemic and far reaching cognitive impairment I've had, worse even then post surgery recovery involving deep general anesthesia. It effected working memory, ability to follow conversational threads & profoundly limited my available vocabulary, I was missing words, not simply fumbling for them, for several weeks.

It's an interesting virus to be sure, my generally unflappable fiancee was uncharacteristically worried by my erratic mental state, she was relieved I tested positive with covid as she had been worrying about a stroke or something.

Anecdotally... I would not recommend getting this virus if you are a knowledge worker.
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That depends heavily on the location (i.e. school district). Last time I looked at the school district budgets, school teachers where I live make, on average over $100k/yr plus health insurance and a sweet pension plan. The next town over, I think they make half that.
It’s me and my worms, buddy. Royal worms.
I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that you're explicitly forbidden from creating a dictionary app using the OS dictionaries. You can do dictionary lookup within apps (so, for example, you're free to use the dictionary to look up definitions in your word processor or ePub app, but not to have an app which lets a user enter a word and get a definition back).
I think 2 is really hard to find. I’ve known a few designers who decided that they could do UI coding, and it hasn’t gone well. And plenty of front-end folks who “don’t do design” or prefer to delegate to a designer.

This won’t get you a lot of credit with folks, but if you just need something that looks good but doesn’t have a ton of distinctive functionality, you might consider buying a professionally coded front-end component library.

This advice probably won’t work for any UI where you want to really fine-tune the experience, which often professional designers will want to do.
Right, that is much more important than performance, as I said as well.

But I think that whether your Python will age well or your Go depends more on the team and their level of experience with either tool. Use something reasonable, and pretty familiar, and stick to it. Don’t do dumb stuff like going crazy with metaprogramming, and avoid excessive abstraction - but those are just always the required conditions for keeping your group functioning well. Any language can be abused; abstraction is not really a property of a programming language choice.
"The pandemic is not deadly enough..." I'm curious to know how many more deaths would be required, in your opinion, for it to be considered deadly enough?
Watch Sandi Metz’ talks and consider her books.

Also Russ Olsen’s books.
Did the companies of 99/00 have many years of profits anywhere near the companies of today?
> Up next: sedentary lifestyle enablers

We can start with the internet! :)
Most of what you are saying is irrelevant and so it comes across as an attempt at obfuscation. Israel isn't "very big"? Wow, case closed. It must not be powerful, even though it is producing the most powerful spyware in the world. Brilliant.
I had an instructor at MIT who claimed he could prove via circuit theory that the correct number of direct reports for any manager was e.
So based on the unnecessarily hostile feedback I can now explain that I was using the word toxin quite loosely and simply meant some undesirable waste products in the body. I did not actually mean tetrodotoxin or something like what a puffer fish would give you on a not-so-friendly poke. Sweating out waste products helps, and the heat also sticks with you for a while after a sauna session or a long bath, so that probably stimulates the organs into doing their natural processes better, clearing out yet more waste products. I don't get why this is such a contentious claim, either you get benefits from it and you do it, or you live your whole life waiting for someone else to prove its good before you try it out for yourself. I remind you of the incompleteness theorem, that there are truths that are true yet are unreachable by axiomatic induction.
Animal farming
Any number of people.

Probably the author meant "supervise".

There is fundamental difference between leadership and management and it is pretty poor performance on author's part to write about leadership and management and not realize this.
The courts really do not want to get into the bussiness of dictating people's religion. They explicitly do not require that a religious belief be well supported by the text, orthodoxy, or any denomination of the religion. Nor do they require that a religious belief is self consistent or unchanging through time. It is possible to argue that a belief is not sincerly held, but it is very difficult to win such an arguement. As such these legal arguemnts are almost always about what constitutes a 'reasonable accomodation'.

Perpetual employment is not a reasonable accomodation; but if you work in HR at a large company, you could probably get out of handling the firing of other employees.

In practice what this means is that if an employee says they have a strong personal conviction about something, the employer must offer reasonable accomodations if any are available, or be prepared to show that the claim was made in bad faith.
Typical anti scientific FUD spreading trolls then. Got it.
Okay, toxin is not the word I ought to have used, thanks. Gonna go with "waste products."
But where do you draw the line? What if I have a deeply held religious belief that human sacrifice is required by god? Can I then go around killing people? There’s got to be some kind of limit.
That would be great for new software, but what about older software that doesn't know about Pipewire? Can Pipewire mimick the presence of say Pulseaudio or Jack, so that one could safely uninstall them without breaking anything?
As an example, I installed Pipewire and other related packages, including pipewire-pulse, then proceeded to uninstall Pulseaudio, but the package manager complained that to continue I had to uninstall also gqrx-sdr, which is a software defined radio program that requires Pulseaudio as a dependency. In other words, to have everything working, I would still have to keep all old audio systems in place anyway, a scenario that reminds me that old xkcd cartoon about standards.
It does not devolve into poll() scaling behaviour, even in your uniform probability scenario.

To picture it, maybe it helps to consider low and high uniform probabilities. If the uniform probability is a low enough per wait call, epoll/kqueue/etc have low cost per wait call, but so does this child-select method, because most child processes don't wake on each wait call. If the uniform probability is high enough, epoll/kqueue/etc return most of the fds, scaling just like the cost of select/poll, and child-select. So epoll/kqueue/etc and child-select match at the extremes, modulo constant factors.

In general, with a constant-bounded subset size, you can say the cost of unnecessary fd polls is amortised over the necessary fd polls, because unnecessary fd polls only occur in child processes that wake due to a necessary fd poll. So the algorithmic big-O scaling of this method is still the same as epoll/kqueue/etc as the number of fds increases and the probability varies, whether it's uniform or non-uniform.

No guarantees about the constant factors, though. You'd still want to tune parameters, to have enough and not too many in each subset. Constant-bounded subset size ensures scaling but not necessarily optimal performance. You can relax the constant bound and still keep the worst-case big-O scaling, if it's adaptive in the right sort of way, to better handle non-uniform probabilities with fewer processes.
The fundamental problem with labor unions is that they're stuck on negotiating with capital as an employer when the real threat is capital's corruption of the political system.

Consider where the wages of labor go. The major expenses are housing, taxes, transportation and healthcare.

Housing is artificially scarce. Zoning prevents new construction in areas with high demand, benefiting capital (i.e. landlords) who get higher rents. People who can't afford the higher rents have to live further from the city, increasing their transportation expenses (more money for Big Oil). Workers pay taxes but instead of going to some kind of UBI or anything else that would benefit workers, or just letting workers keep more of their money, most of it goes to things like the F-35 and buying the votes of retirees in the important swing state of Florida by enacting benefits which are really handouts to Big Pharma. And healthcare regulations are passed to make healthcare more expensive, i.e. more profitable, because of regulatory capture.

There's nothing in there that a labor union can solve by negotiating employee compensation with Walmart or Amazon. Because the problem is artificial scarcity, corruption and waste. At scale, if you negotiated everyone a raise, prices would just go up. Because everyone is still bidding on artificially scarce housing and paying for wasteful government programs and suffering the effects of regulatory capture.

But even when unions do try to lobby for something, it's typically just things to increase their own institutional power (e.g. trying to get Uber drivers into a union which is once again only negotiating employee compensation) instead of doing anything about the real problems that are sucking workers dry.
> Exactly. I see no reason why I’d take strong measures to avoid getting exposed to it (now that I and 90% of adults around me are fully vaccinated) when I never did the same for the flu.

It should really go without saying COVID-19 is much more transmissible than any recent version of the Flu. Comparisons of symptoms and severity in healthy adults has never been the sticking issue.

I'm disheartened to see people on HN of all places thinking solely as an individuals and not about the management of health care resources at a population level. Health care resources are finite and viruses like COVID can still spread exponentially even with current vaccination rates.

From the beginning, the goal has been to lower transmission, lower cases, and therefore lower the burden on the _world_ health care system to a tenable degree. Yes, there may be _more_ effective measures we can take at this point, such as ramping up vaccination, but at the end of the day, if you don't transmit the disease to others or end up in the hospital yourself, you are helping the cause.

tldr; Whether or not it poses a risk to _you_ is besides the point, in so far as the risk of overburdening the health care system remains.
I hope he gets the help he needs. Thanks for posting this. Just responding to help get this more visibility.
Fact check: Coinbase executive share sales
There is a section that reads “ Build a PDF using LaTeX”.

It’s what I used with a nice weighty 5 gigabyte Tex installation.
> Read out loud what you are saying. You are saying that government ordering you to quarantine in your house, with facial recognition and GPS tracking in your own home, is less oppressive than being forced to stay in one of their quarantine hotels. And you're saying that in response to all the "freaking out" about this.

A slightly different reading of what they're saying is:

"The government ifs offering to allow you to quarantine in your home instead of the otherwise mandatory 2 week stay in a sealed room in quarantine hotel, if you agree to download and use this app."

And given that, rightly or wrongly, many Australian states are charging several thousand dollars for hotel quarantine, it's clearly a choice many people might choose to make.
Has anyone had a chance to test how Pipewire works with low latency? I'm excited at the idea of replacing my Pulse+ALSA setup, but I'm also looking for the lowest possible latency I can get as I use my DAW as an instrument :)
I'm saying it could be a responsible decision for the person making the decision.

The false premise that we should care about other people's health is annoying at this point. The vaccinated can still spread the virus, so we should make the decision to get vaccinated for ourselves, and those who don't make the orthodox decision should not be vilified.
Sometimes we will meet people with whom we do not share beliefs. They are wrong and we still have to co-exist with them.

Is this really such an assault on our integrity? Is there no chance we have some error on our side? Is there no value in the opposing view? Even if only to re-assure us that we are indeed free of error?
The negative health outcomes in this study correlate well with those found in lead poisonig studies. Enormous quantities of lead were deposited along our roadways over a period greater than 50 years. It would be very difficult to decouple "transport noise" from the lead pollution that is known to exist along those transport routes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/herbert-needleman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
I run an IRC server off my Raspberry Pi which has a bunch of different bots giving me news, weather, git updates, etc. You really don’t need heavyweight stuff to keep track of everything.
It was all licensed from GM.

You can’t reap the rewards of invention without the accountability that comes with it.
That is a false choice / false dilemma. "Which poison would you rather take" is not a meaningful choice.

And what comfort? Facial recognition in your home? GPS tracking? RANDOM pings that send police officers to your house for an in-person quarantine check fi you don't respond within 15 minutes?

Stop pretending to think about what most people would choose, and wake up to the reality staring you in the face.
Do you drink, smoke, drive a car, are you overweight, do you participate in high-risk sports, eat a lot of processed food, red meat, fatty fish from polluted waters, drink sugared carbonated water, keep dangerous pets? If so, do you voluntarily opt out of any hospital care related to these activities or habits? The list can be made much longer.

On the subject of people supposedly taking 'livestock medication'... really? I assume you mean those people are taking Ivermectin [1], a popular antihelmintic which also happens to demonstrate antiviral activity, preparations containing it being used both in veterinary as well as human applications? Are those people eating horse dewormers or taking Ivermectin tablets (Stromectol [2] et al)? If they're taking the latter, why call it 'livestock medication'?

Stop labelling people who happen to disagree with 'your' opinion. Just accept that not everybody agrees with 'your' standpoint or before you know it you'll find 'your' opinion to be in the crosshairs of the authoritarians - and then what do you do?

[1] As to the efficacy of Ivermectin for SARS2 prophylaxis or treatment the verdict is still out. It is unfortunate that this subject has been politicised to such an extreme that it has become a black/white issue, 'either you are with us or against us'.

[2] https://www.rxlist.com/stromectol-drug.htm
Damn, the way OKLrCH wiggles around as you drag the hue slider is kind of really unpleasant.
ok now do China then compare the total output between them
Velocity is a relative number. So let's say your are going 0.9 c but I'm going at 0.8 c now according to me you can go 0.7 more at least. But you're already going 0.9 and adding 0.7 will put you above speed of light. You can say you're already travelling faster than light relative to something out there... So what the hell are we talking about here?
> Why would you like transportation staff to treat you like a criminal?

Because I accept that a slight inconvenience will lead to a much better riding experience. For example, Amtrak has aggressive fare checkers onboard (full pass of the train every few minutes) who will remove a lot of the type of people that cause disruptions. If you've already been checked, you have a ticket stub above your seat. Is it a coincidence that Amtrak trains are also very clean and have basically no crime? I feel comfortable using my phone on Amtrak without gripping it with two hands and constantly looking around me to prevent theft - I can't say the same about BART.

> Maybe a better approach would be to have less criminals rather than to move them around?

SFBA cities' budgets are quantified in the billions. We can afford to work towards having less while simultaneously reducing the locations they have access to for committing crime.
I don't think it's quite fair to label it content-agnostic. I mean it sort of technically is, but practically it isn't.

By pushing 'engagement' at all costs, it's essentially inevitable that all the terrible behaviors we see from 'content creators' happen. I agree that they are far from blameless, but when your entire platform is practically globally available to anybody and you only reward unsavory behavior... you're going to get unsavory behavior.

There could be many, many people behaving ethically, and most people may never even see any of them due to the way the platforms are set up.

It's technically content-agnostic in the most technical sense, but practically it's one big system designed to incentivize and surface unethical behavior.
Up until now you had no choice, when returning to Australia you had to pay to stay in a 2 week quarantine hotel.

Creating an alternative solution for home quarantine gives people more options.

You could argue that there was a better way to implement home quarantine. You could argue that the 2 week quarantine is goverment overreach. You could even argue that this option helps the government keep the 2 week quarantine in place longer by tempering its severity.

I don't see those sorts of rational arguments. I see a bunch of people making an irrational or uninformed argument that this extends government overreach by making the 2 week quarantine rule more severe.
I wonder what the theoretical limit is for the number of people that can retain a secret actually is, with modern technology and all.

e.g. governments definitely keep secrets, so how many people can be in on a given conspiracy-like government secret without major leaks that cannot be squashed through media, suppression, etc.?

I feel like precursors to the Manhattan project (since the project itself was clearly widely known) would hold the answer, but wouldn't account for modern technology / communication methods.

An interesting / fun thought :)
I really like this statue of Sobek, the crocodile diety:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sobek_Oxford.jpg
When I was in academia--before I moved into technology and began applying statistical modeling and machine learning to a variety of tech problems--my research in mathematical biology was primarily on understanding what happens to populations and life histories of individuals (i.e., the timing of key events in an organism's life and the trade-offs between life history traits, e.g., growth, survival, movement, fecundity) that are affected by catastrophic events, such as floods, storms, and fires that cause mass mortality.

I summarized and then tested using freshwater fish populations as model systems some hypotheses about what happens to populations and individuals after catastrophic events in the paper "Genetic and life-history consequences of extreme climate events" published a few years ago in PRSB (http://simonevincenzi.com/Publications/Vincenzi%20et%20al.%2...) and in some subsequent work that can be found at http://simonevincenzi.com/publications/. I combined genetics, life-history theory, field studies, and simulations, and had a lot of fun doing it. Later, I applied many of the tools, models, and ideas I developed and learned when studying extremes to problems I faced when working in technology (http://simonevincenzi.com/Publications/biology_and_movies_v2...).

A major difficulty in generalizing the consequences of disasters is that the effects of extreme events are largely context-specific. For example, the emergence of adaptations may depend on both the life histories of species and the recurrence, intensity, and nature of extreme events. Next, the demographic and genetic effects of extremes are often the result of chance and thus are not easily predicted or generalized across species or habitats.

Luck also plays a role in determining whether a population will recover after a population crash. For example, I found (combining field studies and novel genetics tools and findings, such as how to assign sex to salmonids and how to infer trios mother-father-offspring in highly inbred populations) that the nearly complete recovery of a fish population that had been reduced to a handful of individuals after a flash flood was due to the large production of offspring from a single pair. Given the high variance in adult reproductive success in most animal species (including humans)--which is at least in part due to differences in individual "quality" (a tremendously important, but I believe understudied, trait)--if the vigorous mating pair had been killed or moved during the flood, population recovery would have become much less likely.