skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our Spring Boot showcase application https://github.com/porscheinformatik/angular-spring-heroes starts ~ 10% faster on Java 17 compared to Java 11 (compiled with target 11).
New version of Coragi ImagePrint has been released
Not really: ads have a budget of attention within an envelope that Engagement (the team whose work is described here) is trying to maximise. There’s detailed estimates to how much ads take away but it’s minimised and isolated from that conversation completely.

There are many issues, some addressed there; some more nuanced (figuring out that is a good post or comment is genuinely hard with crude metrics because clickbait and flamewars look very much like compelling content); some that I can’t mention publicly.

There are non-scalable ideas for solutions (my PhD was around complex network so check Jure Leskovec’s research for ideas like isolating cliques and defining them as meaningful or not). One idea that I’ve floated, but less than I should, and many other have too, but more than they should (or at least not articulated well around this problem of sorting good from bad content to inform the News Feed algorithm): have secret negative and positive reactions per post and comment.
The fact that Likes are public makes them performative, both very compelling (it’s who you want your friends to see in you) and counter-productive. But giving people the ability to say: "look, I will comment on every flame bait that I see, because I can’t help myself, but please, remove from from my feed" would have helped argue against what is still a very linear model of weighting acting that are uniformly seen as "engagement".

Source: I was the DS looking into those questions in 2015.
That’s exactly where replay should shine. Stick a breakpoint in your error handler, then rewind when it breaks.
Well, if you think about who got vaccinated first, it should be pretty obvious why that is the case, don't you think?
Is your manager a router or a moderator?
> Keyboard utilities can't have network access

This is 100% false. Both the apple keyboard and gboard from google require network access for gif, search support etc
We also need performance review transparency if we're going to share pay.

Doing the same job title is not the same as doing the same job.
My theory is that breakpoints are not useful because they let you go forward. But if you have an issue somewhere where a variable is not in the right state, it's because somewhere in the past was the issue. But you can't go back with a normal debugger.

Replay allows you to go back in time which is to me the biggest breakthrough. This actually makes them useful!
The ratio of Vax vs. Non-vax death proportions is 1.3%.

So,50X to 100X reduction in deaths versus all-cause
Editorialized headline
Some previous discussions on this status specifically: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=418

Some fun ones:

- Discussion on the status itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24206899

- NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175960

- Reserve the 418 status code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004907
It is still useful to be able to answer "What was your chance of dying of covid compared to all other types of deaths based on your vaccination status".

Because if you can't do that you can compare data even with the status and vaccination rates changing over time.

So even if we lump together all different cases at different times saying that person in this class of people had less than 1% of chance of dying to covid vs. another class where you had 30% of chance of dying to covid is a clear indication that one class was much more resistant to dying than other.
Tell them that their name is spelled in Latin?

Or that æ is a character formed by combining two separate letters?

Both support the idea that Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.
That you change the Content-Type of a page based on the URL is quite a vulnerability on itself no?

I don't think browsers infer meaning about file types based on the URL. The Content-Type is always what is being used.

If you have backend side code that maps URLs Content-Type header mime types. Don't. Instead simply always return text/html for user profiles. Then the extension shouldn't matter.
Wouldn’t the original study depend on demographics as well? If the young get vaccinated at a higher rate, it seems normal that unvaccinated people would have a higher covid mortality rate.
H3 cell indexes are just integers so you can easily make a compound index of (cell_index,timestamp). This would be easy in SQL and I'd have to imagine just about anything else that supports a compound index.
I don’t see any mortality data for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated in your link?
Yes although the vaccine was given first to the most vulnerable people (ie more likely to die from other things) so this still doesn't give a clear sense of the improvement. No one is doubting the effectiveness of vaccines (ok a bunch of idiots, but not me) but this isn't the most helpful stat to assess the relative improvement.
>He’s also prodigiously smart.

That doesn't mean what he's saying has any value. I'm not saying what he's written here doesn't, but the prodigiously smart are just as capable of being intellectually lazy as anyone else. Anyone making grandiose claims like "our Physics Project [... is] showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science" doesn't get to rest on their laurels if they want to be taken seriously.
There was a typo (pkqcbcnll should've been hn_next_comment_to_jump_to). Here's a fixed version:

javascript:if (typeof hn_next_comment_to_jump_to == 'undefined') { hn_next_comment_to_jump_to = 0 }; document.querySelectorAll("img[src='s.gif'][width='0']")[hn_next_comment_to_jump_to++].scrollIntoView(true);

Thanks for this!
According to what he told Howard Stern, he was fired for making too many OJ Simpson jokes which riled an NBC executive who liked OJ.
you so right there is so many optimization techniques that you could do that most don't care the slightest about - my persona favourite is dedicated font optimizations!
Your sentiment is the root problem of the issue. Any issue that touches on problems facing white people will of course be reflexively supported by the alt right, white supremacist, etc., as well. This makes it impossible to talk about these issues without being associated with those groups or accused of "dog whistling". Similarly, if you speak up about men's issues you are considered part of the manosphere, a misogonyst and probably alt right.
Basically any opinion that doesn't sing to the choir is labeled a "dog whistle" and dismissed.
Basically we have allowed a small group of anxious people to silence all discussion and it's frankly destructive and untenable in the long run.
UK had strict age-banded rollout, starting with the eldest. By the end of this study, I had just had my first dose (I'm 27, and I booked it as soon as possible). It's not at all surprising that older populations were more likely to die.
I am confused at how people are still asking questions like this, seemingly in good faith. The point of masks and vaccines and even staying home as needed, is not specifically to prevent healthy 18-50 year olds from dying. It's to limit the spread to everyone else, bunging up hospital capacity, killing off old folk needlessly, and causing local governments to freak out and impose restrictions because their hospitals are at capacity.

Maybe it's not good faith, I don't know at this point.
In mountainous locations, that is not an option.
They're pretty much interchangable. Video frameworks like gstreamer just give you qtdemux to parse .mov, .mp4, and even .m4a or .m4v (which are just MP4s with different file extensions).
With essentially zero short-term side effects of vaccination, compared to a significant (if not large) short-term mortality and medium-term morbidity from Covid, it is absolutely lunatic to not get the vaccine unless you have specific immune/allergic/blood conditions.
Right? There's so many things I enjoy and would really like to spend more time doing and getting good at. As it is I am constantly having to force myself to abandon some in favor of others. My job just takes about 50hrs of every single week from me and fills it with meaningless drudgery to make someone else money.
From Table 1:

In unvaccinated people 37.4% of all deaths was from COVID (38,964/104,134)

In fully vaccinated people 0.8% of all deaths was from COVID (458/57,721)

This is all amazing news! However we still don't know how much worse the vaccines are against the Delta variant, since most deaths during the period were not from the new variant. It can't be too bad though.
Aye. Stratification required here.
Micro Focus is one of the main suppliers of COBOL compilers, so it’s not surprising that they would argue that the language is still relevant.
I will also advocate for everyone to get vaccinated, but this isn't helpful at all.
I didn't get vaccinated for others, I got vaccinated for myself. Even an 18 year old is much safer with the vaccine than with the virus.
You are mis interpreting the data, there were 640 Covid deaths among those who received both doses, not 640 participants. There were also 68,733 Non Covid deaths among that cohort. Not to mention everyone who didn't die.
Elon didn't start Tesla.
Oh and i forgot the most important one: high resolution satellite pollution maps.

A close second is military grade electric flight research.
There are a bunch of EVM-compatible platforms that can host dapps now, and many projects are running cross-chain or have equivalent projects on those. Personally I think Fantom is worth taking a look at (and as a disclaimer I hold some); it already is handling more transactions per day than Ethereum and has a massive dapp ecosystem, NFT marketplaces, etc. Gas fees are typically 1-2 cents (simple transactions) or 2-6 cents (contract interactions)

Others worth looking at would be Avalanche (also PoS and DAG-based) or Polygon/Matic (which is L2)

Further away from Ethereum, the launch of smart contracts on Cardano from a few days ago is the beginning of dapps there as well. The fees on Cardano are getting to be prohibitive for casual usage unfortunately (minimum $0.50 per transaction), but what's nice is that the fees are deterministic, and you can't have a failed transaction that consumes or runs out of 'gas' without finishing (though they don't actually use gas)

(further disclaimer, I actually hold some of all of the above + Ethereum... but I guess it's fair to say I hold these because of the potential of what they're doing)
I had the opportunity and privilege to co-mentor the author (Mina) on this project as she did her summer internship. This project was very exciting to me because i'm an extensive walker (https://www.strava.com/athletes/3569114) and often did it in pitch darkness (post work commute in winters.)

I realize how impractical it is to walk in the dark and how much of a privilege it is for me to do it w/o worry. My wife would never do this, so this type of project is quite nice! There are plans to service-ify this and have an app-wrapper to make it practical to use.
Sounds similar to Google’s S2 library.

s2geometry.io

In S2, the binary representations of a cell’s parents (larger cells that contain the cell) are always a prefix of the cell itself’a binary representation. This lets you perform constant time containment checks.
If every company that a CEO touches is a tirefire until they are removed from day-to-day operations, is that good execution on their part? Just because they eventually hire the right people and those people are successful? (Ignoring of course that hiring is not a 1 person job.)

Even when they are a liability to the company through their actions, lying to shareholders and customers? I'm not so sure. If Elon had ever lead a company to success of his own volition then I could say different. But he mostly gets credit for other people's work -- that's how his inclusion into the list of founders of Paypal came about in the first place, how he came to be head of Tesla, and also now how folks mistakenly give him credit for the success of SpaceX.
The data you mention provides extremely strong support for vaccine effectiveness in preventing death. The single data point in GGP post is quite useless, as GP points out.
When I look at the first table I see a number of 220k non Covid death overall compared to 60k after the 2nd dose. Assuming those non Covid cases are constant over time I would assume the sample size is still bigger than 1/4. while not perfect that doesn’t look like „not enough samples“ to me.
The center stage effect: this is why you choose the product in the middle
>FlickType requires network access during use. The App store licensing is ok with keyboards, it's not ok with keyboards that get network access

This is 100% false. Apples own keyboard as well as gboard from google both require network access to facilitate gif, search support etc
Wasn't it just about a year ago we were hearing a lot about not rushing the FDA on vaccine approval for political reasons?

I truly don't know what harm a booster could do. Doesn't seem like much; but perhaps someone more knowledgeable will educate me? what's the LD50 on these things? Just what would happen to you if you went wild and took a 100 dose vial all at once?
no, i don't actually have access to their psyches. no one does, so what are you asking for? and what are you asking me for? have you asked others in this thread for evidence why they say rich people are competitive, for instance?

seems to me i made a clear statement about how rich people are rich that is pretty hard to argue with, and it made you feel a way.

i have no evidence for that either, just a human being considering the motivations of another human being given a set of facts.
I feel the same way. Default setting should be secure, unsurprising and suitable for at least small-time production, and good software further guides the user to use it such that they aren't likely to shoot themselves in the foot.

Unfortunately, it seems quite often software defaults get optimized for developer convenience and may do insecure things like installing development-time dependencies by default...

When someone goes and uses that software in production, they are very likely to end up using the bad defaults. That is not the user's fault.

If you can't provide at least secure defaults, the software should not run at all until the user has made the necessary choices.
invest.
Sorry I really could not go through all 360 comments, but as a business owner I believe in a model of attractive recruitment. Meaning that we use https://www.talenteria.com/ that helps us identify microsites to attract the best candidates, and also write attractive vacancies and manage employees retention well.
my other comment was not financial advice.
I was a long time Chrome user, I switched to Firefox 1 year ago and I won't look back:

1. Firefox has Ctrl+Tab MRU

2. Firefox has a way more usable address bar - Chrome breaks it on purpose and returns weak results to push you to use Google search for things which should immediately pop up in the address bar.

3. Firefox has container tabs - a feature so crucial to browsing the web (whenever you need to login to 2 different accounts on the same site) that you would wonder why on Earth would the leading web browser not implement it (until you remind yourself that the browser is brought to you by a certain company that has the word "evil" in it's motto and likes tracking too much).

4. Firefox has a sidebar, enabling interesting extensions.

5. This is small - but I recently noticed how Chrome broke the bookmark UI, after clicking the star icon, you don't add bookmark immediately, no. You have to choose between a bookmark or reading list first.
Interesting comments from about ten years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063359
GPIO pins weren't given as a requirement. BMW i3 fits the requirements perfectly.
How can I take down a Chrome extension that is malicous
My school just required a new extension for math and I find that my files whether just video games or full programs just go missing and I have to often reinstall, I've read reviews on the extension and it seems that It has a tendency to just delete files whether personal or even school related files, It needs to go, I've complained to school officials and nothing has happened. The extension in question is Proctorio.
It won't have hurricanes and earthquakes to deal with on the Moon at least.
I'm on Linux and I only get the Apple download button (on FF, and I have not messed with the browser ID string).
link to extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proctorio/fpmapako...
What’s time-of-flight?
I don't understand, there were over 50k non-covid deaths in the twice vaccinated and around 500 covid deaths. That sounds significant, or is it due to the age distribution of twice vaccinated?
He didnt claim it was removed - i believe he was blocked from updating the app
I agree, this subthread would have fit better directly under the OP.
Thanks for explaining that. I feel like I heard about the "Tweel" in the 90s in Popular Mechanics, and occasionally since then.
> Thus, only the small fraction of underpaid, overworked people benefit from increased transparency, and it is not surprising to find that the majority would resist its implementation.

According to your own logic, only a much smaller fraction of business get any significant advantage.

What entitles business owners to all the benefits of highly productive workers?
For those who may not know, this comes from RFC 2324: ""Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0), The RFC was published 1 April 1998 (April Fool's Day). There's a long history of humorous RFCs published on 1 April. For example, RFC 1149 "IP over Avian Carriers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

List of Additional April Fool's RFCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...
This study might help because it breaks down hospitalized patients by comorbidities: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/...

of the ~7000 people that died of covid in the study ~1000 had no comorbidities. unfortunately this doesnt break down by vax status, but based on other studies ~90% of hospitalizations are unvaxed. So you can probably get an order of magnitude approximation for your metric.

Unfortunately though this isn't the only metric that should be considered because people with no comorbidities can transmit the virus to people with comorbidities, so you really want to take that into account.
This data needs to be framed against the % of the population that was vaccinated at the time they contracted the virus, right? Otherwise, for all we know, the vaccine could actually increase mortality if the % vaccinated was smaller than the % of deaths that group represents. I'm assuming that isn't the case but hard to make meaningful conclusions about efficacy without that context. The apparent efficacy of vaccination is at the very least somewhat inflated because between Jan and July is when everyone got vaccinated, I'm assuming in England, like here in the US, basically no one was vaccinated in Jan, Feb.

Also, bucketing people who were vaccinated with previously infected makes sense as an additional lens to look at things through, but it seems odd that they then omitted reporting those group separately. I'm very curious how one did compared to the other.
I still haven't seen proposals actually banning the discussion of specific historical events in schools. Even all of the anti-CRT legislation being proposed in the US, puts restrictions on what kinds of judgements you can state about people of specific races living today, not on historical events.

Granted, a lot of the wording of those proposed laws is way too vague, like not causing white kids to feel guilt or anguish or whatever. Maybe certain historical facts will make white kids feel bad, regardless or any editorializing.

But if you have specific proposals or legislation that explicitly bans teaching certain historical facts, I'd like to see it.
For those who don't want to switch to alpha, I made a bookmarklet that lets you enter an amount of time and highlights comments made within that amount of time (i.e. "15 minutes" ago, etc)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424560
This is one of the many reasons I'm firmly in the "urbanization or bust" camp. Rail-based infrastructure is lower-carbon, doesn't require batteries, and doesn't require tires, but it's only practical in high-density cities. Streetcar suburbs represent a reasonable minimum.
I know this is sarcasm, but on the off chance it's not please assume that I was very disrespectful to you :)
Dumb question: I've put points on a sphere using a Fibonacci series, then relaxed them and triangulated them, and there are some 5's and 7's, not all hexagons. I thought an all-hexagon tiling wasn't possible. How do they do it?
Has anyone ever actually met a COBOL programmer? It seems like the teachers tale of someone cracking their head open while swinging on their chair - presumably they exist but there can't be that many of them?
Makes sense, the accepted answer is 1 persons vote (the asker) which was given more prominence over everybody else's votes.
> Why'd you feel the need to disclaim that?

Dunno. Was just blending in[0].

> It's exactly what vandalism is. They defaced some else's property; for advertising no less.

Fair enough, yet if we could only motivate that same disapproval when someone has their own body vandalized, as in having it sliced into pieces and photographed, then our ethical compass would be more in balance.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28538659
The Second Coming of the Search Engine
Link to extension's website. https://proctorio.com/
Which just means the person organizing the market now has an incentive to manipulate it. Doesn't seem like a good idea.
Nice to see more members of the community discovering a classic. Also... I am so old I've seen this on the homepage multiple times :-(
> 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to apportion the 120-mph blow in equal fifths. Concentrate!

Sadly this is not how it works. Kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, and so if you can equally split the impact energy 5 ways, it's as though each impact is at 54mph. A bit harder to absorb.
> 61.1% of breakthrough deaths occurred in males, which is higher than for other deaths involving COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 deaths

> Breakthrough deaths

> Male 154 (61.1%)

> Female 98 (38.9%)

Do we still know why are men disproportionately affected by covid?
Seems like the politician would know precisely when to stay home.
The elderly were prioritized in getting vaccinated, and they have a higher baseline death rate. So it's still not clear what it means that the # of non-covid deaths in (1) and (2) is roughly the same.

I'm not disputing that the vaccines are effective at preventing death, but that doesn't mean that we can just point to any stat that looks good and celebrate without considering what it actually means.
Clinical Trial: No clinical benefit was observed from the use of remdesivir
thank you for your public service. I owe you.
Actually it might be even easier — if your specific error shows up in the console, there's a handy rewind button right beside it :)
How was it better? I'm having trouble understanding why this is better than a simple grid. Grids on the surface of a sphere certainly have problems at high latitudes if naively applied. But they are incredibly simple to use, and don't have H3's problems of edges that don't quite overlap.