skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mask's effect size on seroprevalence is probably zero. So no effect is expected result.

That's because mask acts on R0, not seroprevalence. After acting on R0, if R0 is >1, exponential growth, if <1, exponential decay. So no effect, unless it is the thing that pushes one from >1 to <1.
Rosetta 1 was supported for 6 years. I don't think that's too bad.
> 3. Ask what their typical day is like. This includes asking what the most painful part of their day is.

If they do standups, see if you can sit (edit: er, stand?) in on a couple before you say "yes" to an offer. You can spot most of the worst agile pathologies pretty fast that way, and since those can reach "making me an anxious wreck 24/7" levels of bad, you definitely want to know.
Awful. Always loved his comedy. The movie he made years ago, Dirty Work, is heavily underappreciated.

RIP Norm.
Norm's musings on death from his 2011 special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFU5wyd_C0
So where do you work now?
Was the Series 3 the one where you have to perform pagan rituals in order to update the OS?
my series 6 definitely lasts way longer than a day, and i use it for tracking gps on hikes almost every day. i think being judicious with screen brightness is very impactful.
A/B tests are more of a thing in the ecommerce and ad-tech space and only a small aspect of the UX research methodology landscape, see: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/which-ux-research-methods/

The field of HCI (and Human Factors before it) pioneered the application of qualitative research methods from adjacent fields e.g. anthropology, cognitive/social sciences, etc. towards computers and information technology. Optimizing for 'ad engagement' seems to be a recent phenomenon in the timeline of HCI and arguably is being written by the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. and the people on their payroll who sold their soul to make this their life's work.
I'm seeing the > 52 weeks for every microcontroller I'm using in designs including old 8051's and MSP430's.
I sleep with my watch; my routine has become “charge it while showering”. The ten minutes or so a day is usually plenty to keep up with my usage. Series 6 40mm GPS only.
The lifestyle change is a choice that we make. For those people that HAVE made these choices, should also have a choice into taking a vaccine when they don't need it, just to satisfy those that have not taken the choice to do the same. Those who are obese, alcoholics or whatever can then take the choice to get vaccinated to better protect themselves
I’d recommend to get a fitness watch then. The Apple Watch is so much more, but for fitness enthusiasts the battery life is probably more important than the smart features (which fitness watches mostly lack).
The answers aren't medical, they're pragmatic.

- COVID-19 Antibody Tests cost more than the vaccine (roughly $40 Vs. $16/dose).

- We lack the quantity of Antibody Tests we'd need.

- We'd need to set up additional systems and processes to accommodate the testing and proof (which, again, is a cost).

The implicit assumption that often go along with these natural immunity proponents is that the vaccine is unsafe. Since if the vaccine was safe, the logistical and cost arguments win the day, the only way to make the argument otherwise is to start with the assumption that the vaccine is unsafe and work backwards.

Therefore, I propose that the argument between natural immunity Vs. vaccine is largely a distraction that people who believe the vaccine to unsafe use to obfuscate their goals. Since the data on vaccine safety is a settled issue, you're really just discussing if the US should waste money on multiple redundant workflows so that vaccine hesitant people can feel better.
What I took away from the article is that the standard diet is unhealthy, and that in some people it will cause their insulin production to spike, causing them to create more fat than a person who is not similarly affected.

This then causes a snowball effect as their body craves food, energy, and nutrients that their body fat is effectively hijacking and preventing from getting where it needs to go, so the body sends more hunger signals so that enough food to satisfy you is consumed.

As the fat increases, so too does the hunger, as fat cells also require maintenance calories.

If this is true, (and it seems somewhat more plausible to me than just, "fat people are gut-stuffing pigs with no self control") then the solution to both the obesity crisis and the issue of over-eating is to find systems that shut down that cycle by either chemically manipulating the brain to not respond to the starvation signals caused by the fat cells, (probably effective but not healthy) or to modulate the diet so that the fat cells become the cells that have to beg for calories as the healthy cells get fed first somehow.

Low-carb diets might be a first step to that second path as without carbohydrates to trigger insulin the fat cells will have a harder time taking in sugar. Mayhaps in the future we will learn more about the process and find a pill to make the insulin-carb-fat pathway from working as well as it does.
You are assuming businesses know precisely what level of overwork or negligence will lead to lower costs (higher profit) and what level will lead to needing to cleanup a dead worker.
I don't know how to answer to these points, especially in tech debates.

"Why don't you put your phone in flight mode?"
"Why don't you turn off the internet"
"Why don't you just turn off your PC and go to sleep"

The questions are easy. The actions are too damn hard to pull off.
It's weird how they only show the colors for the aluminum version. They announced the colors for stainless steel and titanium as well, but they're nowhere to be found on Apple's website.
Yeah, but you don't need a bitcoin ATM. The grocery store could accept monero and there would be no need for fiat currency.
Is the h264 one going to move out of staging anytime soon?
> Apple Watch Series 7 provides all-day 18-hour battery life on a single charge,

I have the 3, but thought they had achieved 24 hour battery life in recent versions
Presumably you're using Android with the Google frameworks installed, so it's sending all kinds of telemetry, usage, and location data to Google. You can confirm this with something like Charles proxy.

Or you may be one of the rare breed of people who can use a "de-Googled" Android distribution, such as CalyxOS, for over a month before giving up.

Time will tell, I suppose.
The key word is "tolerate". If you're gay, you're going to want to be hired by someone who will tolerate you being gay, otherwise you'll have to hide part of yourself and/or be fearful at work.
obesity spreads too https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa066082 just not the way you think they do as a virus
I know there are limits to battery technology but I'd much rather see the watch track towards 7 days than see additional sensors / a larger brighter screen.

This may be compounded by the fact that the watch needs its own special charging cable, my main pain point is that I always forget to pack the watch charger when I travel so my watch always dies if I'm going for a night.
> If most effect sizes are small or zero, then most interventions are useless.

But this doesn't necessarily follow, does it? If there really were a 1.1-fold reduction in risk due to mask-wearing it could still be beneficial to encourage it. The salient issue (taking up most of the piece) seems to be not the size of the effect but rather the statistical methodology the authors employed to measure that size. The p-value isn't meaningful in the face of an incorrect model -- why isn't the answer a better model rather than just giving up?

Small effects are everywhere. Sure, it's harder to disentangle them, but they're still often worth knowing.
I don't understand why this is so hard for so many programmers. As the person frequently on the other side of the table, I can tell you this process is pretty easy to get right.

Engage with the question. I'm asking it for a reason; you might think it's stupid, but I wouldn't ask if I didn't care what your answer was. You can tell me you think it's stupid, but even better would be to _answer_ the question then _ask_ why I want to know.

If the technical problem is easy for you, then demonstrate that it's easy. I actually don't care if you solve the problem (and very few interviewers I've spoken with care either). I care that you can think through a problem, articulate your thought process, and then explain to me the solution you've arrived at.

Software development in a team setting is a collaborative process. That collaboration often manifests itself through answering stupid questions, writing pseudo-code on a whiteboard, explaining why your code does what it does, and asking others (politely) why their code is the way it is.

The longer I do this work, the more convinced I become that the software part of it represents less than 30% of what makes a good developer, and the interview is not to find the programming savants, rather to weed out people who will make working on a team a nightmare.
The USDA food pyramid and nutrition education would suggest that there's an inherent danger in just letting people believe irrational things after a correction is known. It depends on the belief - flat earth people aren't likely to cause any harm. Bad nutrition information can wreak havoc at scale.
Definitely, but still saying that "some people benefit from it" is difficult to agree/challenge. Numbers at least give some information.
I have Series 6 with the always on display enabled and make it to 30 hours. I have 55% left after 18 hours.
FastServe: Deploy FastAI (fast.ai) models as API endpoints – Beta Announcement
Hi all,

We just launched private beta testing for FastServe: a service to convert your pre-trained fast.ai models into API endpoints. You upload a model (e.g., export.pkl), and FastServe generates an API endpoint you can integrate into your applications.

If you use fast.ai, and would be interested in participating in the beta, please get in touch here, or at https://launchable.ai/fastserve-beta.

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What language to use to build webapp or OSS project?
If you were looking to build the backend for a web app, a microservice for it or an open source project, how would you evaluate which language and framework to use?

Here are some of the things I assume would matter.

- Developer experience (Type safety, type checking, dev time, debugging, error handling)

- Performance (request/s, memory and CPU useage)

- Popularity (how many devs know it, community support, libraries etc)

- Familiarity with the language (your own)

Is there anything else? I know it depends on the specific use case so maybe is not applicable generally (but I was wondering about this from the perspective of supertokens.io - where I work)
I'm pretty sure that's just common forum etiquette. And I don't mean that as an insult to you. That's a good thing, since it doesn't seem to be common on most forums anymore.
No, this model specifically requires two rain dances and a dream catcher. Close though!
I didn't think so but I had to borrow my wife's for a week to do some testing on a mobile app. I really enjoyed it and ended up keeping it. The ability to start Spotify without taking my phone out of my pocket, open the garage door as I approach the house on my bike, see text messages and know I can ignore them, etc.... It really makes me use my phone less.

It was a Series 3 and eventually died. I plan on getting this new Series 7 once it's available to purchase.
Games are also in a weird position compared to other things that are expensive to develop, because a large fraction of their target market either doesn't have a lot of disposable income. Adult gamers with lots of money are probably not abundant enough to justify raising prices.

That said, I'm not sure "artificial scarcity" is the right way to think about this. No company is making money off of five year old games. The fact that they connect to an ad server has nothing to do with creating artificial scarcity, it's just another revenue stream for the game company.
So, if I had changed to preface with "In today's western society, it is generally accepted that ... ", we'd be on a level playing field? That's reasonable.
Instagram filters creep me the hell out. Can you imagine posting altered pictures of yourself all day long, and then looking in a real mirror and not seeing what you have acclimated to? Talk about technologically augmented body dysphoria. Maybe getting rid of in-app face-tuning filters would be a start.
This is no different than using any virtual PO Box as a billing address.

There is a (very) large number of people who do this, especially in Canada, because US credit cards offer vastly better rewards even after taking foreign transaction fees into consideration.
Maybe so. The point I think should stand however, pedantry or no because -

First, ethnicity (1) is very much not race (2). Second, and I assumed (wrongly, apparently) that a reader might follow this discussion to a logical end, which is to question why determining race using AI or any other means is even neccessary or remarkable. The article briefly knocks on that door in the last section (titled "so what"), but has nothing on offer.

If I'm simply redefining words then I'm marginalising years of racism. Mandela, MLK and many many more must similarly be pedants, no?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
PCR. About 9 months apart.
Spoiler for S3 of Star Trek: Discovery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIIYb04HGbQ
I take it you're happy paying taxes for shit that doesn't benefit you, like useless school systems?
Terrible news. One of my favorite Norm Macdonald moments was when he purposely bombed during the Bob Saget Comedy Central Roast purely to make Bob and the other comedians laugh.
Start with charging 150 credits an hour and call yourself a consultant, laugh all the way to the bank and consider being an asshole an asset: you're allowed to speak the truth as an outsider, and companies will happily pay for someone to tell them the things they technically already know but that nobody dares to be found out speaking aloud for fear of being called an asshole.

Annually raise your fee by 25%. You'll find better paying gigs with companies that appreciate you even more.

btw: since this post serves as a one-person who wants to be hired: your website is down.
I don't know, but at the very least the article title is grossly misleading.
That would only be an analogy if car accidents mutated to overcome seatbelts. Also car accidents can kill everybody, Covid not so much if you are young, have healthy lungs and are not overweight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor#Etymology_and_o...
But then the French would not need to call it a Royale with Cheese!
Why is this post flagged? And why is the vouch button unavailable?
I must have missed that hate :D I only started following the apple events from iPhone 11.
That doesn't work because the graph for humans would go all the way back to those ancient apes by many connected edges and back down to modern apes, making us all the same species.

This is another problem with species - where is the transition where one species evolves into another?
I actually agree - I thought the number would come out much higher. Originally, I thought that you should only invest up to 10% of your liquid portfolio in angel investments, which implies a liquid portfolio of >=$5M, which felt more correct, but it was pointed out to me that angel investors are also probably more risk-tolerant, so I increased the number to 15%.
> Do you believe that young girls are affected differently than young boys by social media?

Yes.

Women are taught from a young age how they must act, dress, etc. What they should look like, that they should fit into a size 0, be <100 lbs, start counting calories when they hit puberty, etc.

Keep in mind that every attempt at a teenage boy's magazine has flopped, while teenage girl's magazines (at least until the decline of magazines and print media more generally) were quite popular. And this is in large part because there are a lot of expectations placed on girls that were never placed on guys, so these magazines helped guide a lot of young women through puberty (whether they guided them well is a matter for another discussion entirely, but they certainly did hold a lot of influence).

While there certainly are images of the ideal man that societies have held up over time, they don't have the same weight as expectations for women. If you have a dad bod, nobody is going to be glaring at you at the beach for showing it off, whispering about how "un-masculine" you look, that you need to show a little modesty, but a woman who goes to the beach with hairy legs will absolutely be subject to comments about how un-ladylike you are and that you look "masculine," even though body hair is entirely natural.

But it's not just when you're at the beach, and it's not just leg hair - it's everywhere, about everything, and it starts very early on. It's your parents telling you, advertisements and Hollywood reinforcing it, being told by your teachers you should be more feminine, your pastor saying that your outfit isn't "appropriate" for Sunday school (because it's not a dress), random men saying you should lose some weight... it never ends.

So while men are definitely having more body issues these days, it's nowhere near the same extent. Social media helps to reinforce societal beauty standards that have been taught to us all our lives.

> If so, do you believe this relies on a psychological tendency which existed prior to social media? If so, do you believe there's any evolutionary component to it, or do you believe there's some other explanation?

Not any innate tendency but just being beaten down until you conform. The advent of social media didn't magically erase the expectations we place on women, instead it became another place for reinforcing them.

> Women could still be quite invested their sexual prospects shortly before they hit their peak fertility.

I am single and have no desire to have kids despite being in "peak fertility." I am also not actively seeking out a partner. I'm not opposed to dating, it's just more convenient for me not to at the moment.

This is entirely anecdotal, but of my friends who do want kids, they don't really think about "oh god gotta find a mate and have kids I'm about to turn 26." They're more interested in finding the right person first, especially since we have so many fertility treatment options today (and having kids has gotten more expensive than ever). Having kids when you're not ready is generally a bad idea, and I hope I don't have to explain why.
Thinking about it, this also disproves the common refrain by business owners of "we can't raise wages, or we'd have to raise prices, and people wouldn't pay them".

Aside from the fact that prices wouldn't need to go up that much, as wages are only part of running costs, people are already paying more than the sticker price by paying in tips.
Do you do any workouts with it? I can't see going through 24+ hours on my Series 5 with always-on display and workouts.
What a horrible, horrible experience it was to visit that page.

Good news about the Linux emulation though
Why? I always downloaded openjdk which was free for few years.
I'm sure the actual numbers are a bit different, but taking what you said literally - at $150k salary you're taking home $100k after taxes. At $250k salary you're taking home 160k after taxes. So it's not quite as simple, you're handing quite a bit to the tax man, although I'm sure someone more interested could find some useful tricks.
Do take an antibody test and decide for yourself. How can one make decisions without any metric?
They could do this with literally any prepaid card, though.
Cultural differences in sensitivity to the appearance (clothing, gender, race, etc) of those appearing on screen seems to me a plausible explanation.
So you'll end up with team players but with nobody who will actually get the job done.

The better way is as the interviewer to do your homework and to engage on the level of the interviewee, so as not to start off with insulting their intelligence. Realize that your company is as much in the hot-seat as the candidate is.
Do you not hold your tablets with your fingers?
Not really clear to me how spying on someone's sexbot vacation is a viable business model but ok.
I read the post. I read the rebuttal.

Clearly this guy is an asshole. He may (may) not be a trademark troll, but this is a self-serving asshole move, landgrabbing to promote his business.

You know what, maybe he has honest intentions. He's still an asshole.

This. Is. Not. Yours. You don't own it. You have applied for paperwork to own it. Incredible asshole move.

Your theory of distributed ownership doesn't matter, because IT'S NOT YOURS TO OWN.
2-3 day battery life is perfect for weekend trips without worrying about charging.
The funniest man ever. RIP
"on the home screen"?
> As bad as that was, in the past you could move to another of the 380,000 towns on this planet.

1. That assumes you have the money to move, can land in a new city and find housing, and then find a job. Pre-internet this was absolutely nontrivial.

2. It's not 380,000 towns on this planet, in the 80's/90's it was just a handful of cities that were more evolved, like San Francisco or P Town. There's a reason those cities are so LGBTQ heavy.
Do you use workout tracking ? If I went to the gym it would significantly impact my galaxy watch.

These days I use a withings scanwatch hybrid - it lasts 20 days and is more low-key than a giant screen on your hand. But still has ECG/HR/activities/sleep and notifications (so I can keep my phone muted all the time l). The only feature I'm missing is find my phone.
Wow.

In recent years lots of his comedy centered on his fears of death and related religious musings...

The fact that he had been struggling with cancer really puts this in a different perspective.

RIP Norm. You were funny!
The funny thing is this actually is one of the most substantial upgrades they’ve done on any of their iPads. The performance stuff sure whatever that always happens, but the form factor + pencil support is significantly better. If I were looking at iPads anytime in the last 5 years the mini wouldn’t have been on my list, but now it would.
Pale Moon switches to private repository
I mean - think of it like a coworker who doesn't like you.

It's much easier to work with someone (in my opinion) if you both agree you don't get along well and plan accordingly.

Having a co-worker that's sunshine and rainbows to your face, but scanning your phone for CSAM behind your back while talking shit about you to your manager is a lot harder.
My guess is that there would be an even more negative impact on sales if they would call it 12s. Lots of consumers would assume that only minor improvements were made and would choose not to upgrade.