skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the 50s every man could have been a "winner" in an environment of half of the world destroyed after ww2.

In the United States, quite possibly so. But what about people who already had their wealth literally bombed away? For example, most of Dresden was destroyed. My argument isn't that improved economies are zero-sum, but rather the example of the 1950s was one where many were set up to succeed and others to lose. And if you look further back, the opportunity to have cheap ubiquitous land to carve out suburban areas was enabled by taking land from Native Americans.

The economic pie is ever-growing, but it seems moments of great technical advancement, war, etc segment the growth into new groupings of winners and losers, and for the average person, riding on the coattails of this growth is merely being at the right place at the right time, perhaps being at the right spot on the socioeconomic ladder.
I like Python. We use it as the primary language on an industrial agricultural automation device (raspberry pi form factor, running on Debian). Python’s been great for development, and the self hosted nature has made rapid in-field development/debugging awesome.

My belief is that async is going to complicate things. I do not foresee myself using it. This is just not a problem point I’ve wanted to solve enough that I’ve wanted the two color problem. And I find coroutines quickly difficult to follow.

I’ve been learning Elixir these last few months. When I need to solve the kinds of problems async supposedly address, I find the basic fundamental nature of Erlang/Elixir so much better suited to this.
Nix doesn't guarantee reproducible builds. That's why there's a whole signing framework
On the internet? No way! There is only civilized discord around with people making rational arguments!
That's also another aspect where the plugin API vendors have not much incentive to fix things, because users can just use another thing on top of it (JUCE, DPF, etc) that makes better progress towards solving these issues from the developer perspective, but still DAWs are left with the tractability problem for other plugins that don't use that.

To me, if there is any interest in solving that, I would just expect someone to put a new plugin backend in JUCE/DPF that is specific to the DAW and then compile that together with the plugins into a big giant build. That's more what I mean by "dropping plugins", it's how you avoid the MxN problem too. But I think that many DAWs (including Ardour) gain little benefit from doing this at this time, so if that was what your original sentiment was, I agree.
Do you think that because of this teen's actions abortions occurred that otherwise wouldn't have?
What didn't you like? Been using LineageOS on an old OnePlus I had and I'm enjoying it the last few months. Especially knowing it's not doing anything weird without my approval.
I am still choosing carefully my next bank without a dirty history. The majority had unethical or sinister practices: HSBC & Capital One (money laundering), Chase (gold & silver spoofing), Goldman Sachs (mortgage crisis), Wells Fargo (fake accounts), Robinhood (sort of a bank, gambling), etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSh8eusFYL4&ab_channel=ColdF...

Charles Schwab seems ok so far. Still researching... feedback welcome.
I was really hoping that apple would implement a "stress" or "body battery" type feature like Garmin and Whoop have. Adding more health metrics is cool, but taking those metrics and telling me what they mean is much more informative.

As we know the watch OS already calculates the HRV and respiratory rate for us so it would be great if they added a "stress" and/or "recovery" time feature. The watch already records Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory rate and Resting Heart Rate, which are commonly used in these metrics.

Understand that there are third party apps that try to do similar however I think this is an area that Apple is lacking in compared to other smart watches.
> Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too?

That policy hurts farmers, so it's not viable for a different reason.
Surely there are some— every artist has a different process. But I doubt there are many.

I'm less of an audio artist than a visual artist (which I do professionally to some extent) but I imagine the reasons are similar to why few people make visual art using scripts and imagemagick or some similar workflow.

Most creative output is birthed in a more freeform state of play, to some extent, rather than being reasoned about and assembled like code. Coding itself can be playful, but when your goal is expressing emotions and ideas in art, having to pipe that through a rigid, logical process is much less expressive than grabbing something, even a virtual something, and making some sort of gesture with it. So unless you're trying to express something algorithmic, code is a layer of abstraction that operates in a very different way with persnickety bounds that just aren't useful in most creative expression.

I've done generative design using action script in Photoshop and made some really cool algorithmic photo collages, but even as a long-time developer, the frequency with which I think "this could look cool if I set up a function to do it like this" is pretty rare.
I do agree, the last paragraph wasn't quite what I was suggesting. I honestly doubt you could ever have controlled American citizens enough to curb the spread anyway, much like India had no hope either. I feel it was inevitable. But for whatever reason it was able to spread, the result was that it was deadly to hundreds of thousands of people.

I don't think we gain anything by trying to qualify exactly who it killed, since over 65s are still people, as are institutionalized individuals.
This is such a thoughtful encapsulation here. Thank you Barrin92
The Mu variant isn't competing very well against the Delta variant.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...

The seasonal influenza vaccine that is mass distributed every year isn't very sterilizing. But it has a good safety profile and some protection is better than nothing.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....
After the JEDI black eye and slow attrition of frustrated developers/CIOs, this feels like a huge blow. Cloud is all about trust. They broke trust by installing the agent without disclosures, and shattered it with this vulnerability. Their customers running Linux vms have a pretty simple migration path to other cloud/hosting vendors, and most people have learned that only having one approved vendor for cloud just doesn’t work. Q4 and 2022 could be real rough for MSFT at least within the scope of affected customers. Moreover the torture that is Teams has got to have consequences as millions have had to suffer, and Windows 11 is a dumpster waiting to catch fire. My Threadripper 1950X can’t run Win11, and Edge is so difficult to detangle it’s practically antitrust-worthy. Oh, and setting up hundreds of thousands of developers to unknowingly commit licensing violations via Copilot…

Whatever magic Nadella brought to revive the company is starting to wear off, at least from where I’m sitting.
JVM is written in a mix of Java and C++, let me know when they start rewriting it in Kotlin.

Groovy was all the adoption rage across German JUGs back in 2010, then everyone was going to rewrite the JVM in Scala, or was it Clojure?

Now a couple of places are adopting Kotlin outside Android, nice, eventually will migrate back in about 5 years time.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F07sbkfb,%2...
Attaching vindictive clapbacks to every other sentence from OP is really not a way to help your argument, especially on HN. OP’s argument is clear; we have surplus vaccines, it’s statistically safer than getting COVID regardless of your infection status and cheaper than getting tested for natural immunity, not to mention the cost society needs to bear if your failed die roll lands you in an ICU. I’m not sure what yours is, something vague about a govt-backed immunity testing program that doesn't exist yet. But I’m sure you’ll find a way to call me a turd for not getting it rather than supply details. Surprise me, please.
I’m not sure why this is being downvoted

I receive email on my domain, which means that it is the root of all of my security. If you steal my domain or tweak my DNS, you can get my email, and you can reset my passwords.

I have some domains at Namecheap still. I have a FIDO2 key set up for their website, which is good, but I’m not sure that I trust their security. I trust Google more.

Google Domains actually has support, too
2009 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-samsung-idUSTRE5BS0...

Somethings never change.
You should probably continue the rest of the page I linked in which over 1,000 events of serious heart conditions occurred in patients.

Notice I originally said 4,000 deaths and not 7,000, since I was assuming a certain number of them were not directly vaccine related.

Could you explain to me your opinion on all of the children who are going to the emergency room with heart conditions a few days after vaccination?
This is a limitation known to several radio telescopes. For example, the Arecibo telescope couldn't aim much until they added the arm in 1997. They could aim the telescope not by moving the dish, but by moving the focal point/receiver. This only works with spherical dishes, but it is an option.
Specifically- it appears to be mostly C99, lots of macros, lots of ugly buffer manipulation. But it's tooled for PREFast so you know it's secure! (https://github.com/microsoft/omi/blob/4ce2cf1cb0aa656b8eb934...) (j/k... I haven't seen that in ages). Guessing a port of MS's internal WMI codebase?

This codebase just smells of rot all over.
Building the Sid Synth from the Commodore 64
When I said, "Listen to the experts and believe the science", I should have stipulated, "Not those experts and not that science"

In fact, strike that. Only listen to the experts and believe in 'the science' when it aligns with my totally altruistic motives. No other incentives or motives exist. I am completely honest and have nothing to hide, but questioning my agenda is strictly out of bounds.
The sum of all credits and debits is zero (by the double-entry accounting definition), so seems like this is tautologically true, though not very useful.

The economic principle at work is you can have $1 in the bank and loan that to 7 people sequentially (who each redeposit it), or have $7 and loan it to those same people simultaneously (who each redeposit it), but in both cases the same transactions happened ($7 out and $7 in).
I'm not familiar with this particular case and I'm sorry that you had a bad experience but most of you what have said here is incorrect and frankly absurd. We're a US-based company and most of our executives and owners are US/UK citizens. After over a decade with the company, I've never seen a domain "drop" because of a "backend fault." There are certainly quirky edge cases with obscure registries where bugs can occur but if we're talking a major TLD then it is highly unlikely. Feel free to email me if you want me to dig into it though: ted [at] namecheap.com.
I downvoted you because you came across as smug :)
Demos that were released about 5 years ago.
In short: Bitching about problems you don't really have.
This is bad faith, misleading information and rhetoric.

The evidence you sited is a model/estimation and there are much better ways to estimate the prevalence of COVID, namely, literally doing antibody tests.

In Jan 20201, 18% of dialysis patients had COVID at some point - as established by actual testing, not predictive modelling - and they are a population much more directly vulnerable to it, so the actual rate in the healthy population will be considerably lower than that.n it's

The credibility of your thesis falls flat by first offering bad data, when you could have offered something better.

Second, we already know most of those presenting themselves at hospitals have a mild case of COVID. It's normal for people to be concerned, they are not taking up hospital beds. Your 'fact' is a 'non-fact' in this context.

Stop cherry-picking and misrepresenting facts, leaving out important details because it will lead to the 'literal dehumanizing' of people, i.e. their deaths.

What is 'dangerous' is the pandemic.

600 000 Americans have died from it.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Looking at San Francisco, HSBC only has a handful of retail locations, seems like they were focusing on the Chinese-American market. (They also have a building on Montgomery Bank Row, assume they're keeping that for their tooty customers.)

Not sure if this the soapbox you really want to stand on.
Yeah, that's the point, as far as you can get with C builds isn't far enough. We're criticizing C build systems here, not nix.
Well, considering the CDC is recommending booster shots, it seems that antibodies aren't forever, whether from a vaccine or from a natural infection.

Only 3,000 people between the ages of 19-29 have died from Covid-19 in USA, which is the age group I happen to be in.
It doesn't really matter who does the work, if you were writing a new DAW, you'd probably do it. But if you were working on an established & popular DAW, plugin developers could be convinced to do it if there was benefit to them (more optimizations, more features, more convenience, less bugs, etc).

I don't think it is currently popular for plugin developers to implement against VST themselves, the libraries you mention seem to be gaining a lot of traction, at least from my experience from trying to catalog open-source plugins on github.
It’s more than that. Because of advances in technology and science, “productivity” will always increase.

But to whom go the spoils?

And when will we take responsibility for the losers?
Very few people reading your comment have high-value domains.

Also, every registrar sends you scary emails before and after a domain expires and enter the redemption period [1].

That means you failed to:

- register for 10 years in advance

- pay attention to your email for at least 60 days (including your redemption period)

- enable auto-pay

If you had done any one of those very normal measures for a high-value domain, you would have kept your domain.

1. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/domain-name-renewal-ex...
I do. And our kids love to look at pictures of when they were younger.
> Stay away from CALF even though they look pretty.

Why, what's wrong with them?

Thanks for a very informative comment!
There is no disagreement there. Reproducibility is definitely a goal though.

I don't really understand your line of argument.
After the flood is from 2017, and doesn't work on my Vulkan aware mobile GPU.
Don't be fooled by stock gains, they're largely a result of share buybacks(2018)
There is already this:

for await (bar of foo) { }

Useful if you have an array of promises you want to handle sequentially.
I can't believe Altova is still in the game! They must have a loyal base of enterprise users. It's quite shocking they haven't bothered to make an official MacOS or Linux version after all these years.
I don't know why you keep insisting that this is a moral appeal. This is public health.

1 - mandate disclaimers in front of all videos describing the possible negative effects of porn (there are concrete, well-studied effects). cigarettes and tobacco have the same mandates and they do have an overall positive effect on educating the public

2 - hold video hosting sites liable if content is shown to minors. there is a reason why a bar can get closed down or a gas station attendee can lose his or her job if alcohol and tobacco is served to minors. the same rules need to apply for sexually explicit material that is turbocharged to reach children
Why the FAANGs are flying high
That’s fair, but you have to recognize that couldn’t have lasted forever. Your space was on its way to heavy commoditization, like software spaces almost always are.

Ignoring the shifting sands would’ve likely meant a more gradual decline, instead of an unpleasant growth, and would’ve almost certainly yielded less than the chosen path.

The talented people and half the customers would’ve likely bailed either way.
If your piece of paper is backed by the US air force, I will buy it, no matter how much you print of it.
Any chances of getting an Android port?
> To reply as the devils advocate to this comment, what is the tolerance to social costs that society is willing to bear? Also why would one segment of society have to do something that it doesn't want e.g. not bear risk if they want to?

* The risk isn't just on that segment. The vaccine is not 100% effective without herd immunity to back it up.

* The unvaccinated will be the source of new variants, so a substantial of social resources will need to be continually invested in developing and trialing new vaccines.

> Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too? Overweight and obesity are going to cost much more in increased healthcare costs than COVID will in the coming decades (pls prove me wrong..).

I believe the jury is still out on whether or not obesity is contagious.

> What about drinking and smoking? Maybe we should also ban these because these people will probably go on government health insurance when they come down with chronic health issues from too much alcohol or tobacco.

Most countries ban smoking in confined spaces where it can impact the health of non-smokers. I suppose you'd support repealing such laws.

> I guess I don't see where your argument about societal costs doesn't become a slippery slope.

Slippery slope to what exactly?
Then go out and build your ideal web game. The barriers to entry have never been lower.

People still appreciate pixel art and simplicity. Some even love the Amiga.
I'm not sure how the rate of spread makes it a bad comparison. the dynamics of contagion are what matters because it determines what interventions make sense.

you can use this pandemic frame to say, eliminate a drug 'super-spreader' cluster and it will have positive effects on a community at large. Likewise, changing the behavior of parents in regards to their diet will have real downstream effects on the health of the entire family.
If you found this interesting, here is another cool map technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
AI, big data, and machine learning in transportation
Looks like the fix restricted the check to "usernames that end with dot and MIME type"

Still, what is the attack vector?
The demand for debt is higher than the private sector can supply.
Wouldn’t this ‘negative cash’ be a regular financial instrument like a stock short, reverse mortgage, credit default swap, etc., which they actually can use, precisely because nothing is created by this process? It is just less liquid than hard cash, which can affect the perceived trade-able value (but that too is already factored in as expected interest).
I upvoted, but I wanted to correct a small thing.

> ...they are mostly hopeless to try to apply to portable software after the fact if the devs aren't constantly testing with it.

They don't have to be hopeless. They were pretty easy ([1], [2]) to add to my bc.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/commit/3e8cd345de9d5b65ac7c33...

[2]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/commit/b6c65bb44c910c054bedfa...
> preventable degradation

The Kyoto Protocol, first international treaty designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, was signed in 1997. Since then greenhouse emissions have grown by 50% and global population has grown by 25%. What prevention measures are you proposing, and why did they utterly fail to reverse the catastrophic growth trend in the past 25 years?
It is running on my pocket and wrist watch, what about those newly fashion languages?
It is hands down the worst, stupidest login process I've ever experienced. Where I am, the app makes you choose a long password (great!) but instead of entering the whole thing, asks for random characters from it, making it impossible to use a password manager. Whoever made this truly hates their customers.
It's a neat system, although I fear the major hurdles (in the early days at least) will be getting a license for a diagnostics lab with these equipments and doctors approving the test results.
It's also what shows up in the "username" section of posts for everyone except admins (maybe other cases)
Well, where the evidence is "in vitro, but not in vivo."

Derek Lowe has a response: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/new-antibody-depen...
A bullet list of the logical fallacies will assure the truth will prevail.
Where did this "quick fix" clause ever come into it? It feels to me like it's something that you have retroactively made up to suit one particular argument but which has never been an important point before.

The point was always to save lives. I don't remember quick ever factoring into any calculations when people were forced to stay home, their workplaces shut, their education disrupted, their jobs lost, for indeterminate periods of weeks, months, years. Over this past two years we could have collectively lost many tons if only we had some mandates.

So I reject your assertion that quick is a material difference between these two scenarios, and my analogy stands.
How many years ago could I have written a program in this language and still have it work today?

If I don't use excessive libraries, how many distributions will my programs run on reliably without a tambourine dance?

If I write my code in a certain restricted style, can I still understand it after a year of not looking at it?

How likely is my code to work, at least partially after it is put through various bit-rot processes?

How much existing code example and solutions is there on the web, outside of StackOverflow, which still works when used today?

(I chose Perl for my project.)
In some places in the world you literally cannot go outside. We've been stuck inside for 4 weeks right now in Da Nang, Vietnam. We can go to the balcony, but that doesn't count, of course.
And said labor shortage is how competition for workers and wages go up, what is strange about this?
"We already have over 100 million Americans with natural immunity"

This is rubbish, which you have repeated here several times now.

You cited one study, which is a modelling estimate, and ignore the much better studies which actually test for seropositivity and antibodies which show much lower rates of infection.

Your comments about Japan make no sense at all, as they have experienced COVID in a fundamentally different way than the US, initially with considerably lower rates of infection etc, like Australia, Taiwan and New Zealand, these 'Island States' have had better means for containment.

You've completely misrepresented the Atlantic article to suggest that somehow we didn't already know most cases of COVID are not severe - but worse that somehow they don't have COVID when we can and do provide fairly accurate testing for it.

There is no ambiguity about who was in 'all those hospital beds'. We were not guesstimating.

In a pandemic, there's a 100% chance that some people will show up at hospitals and have 'illness' but not the contagious infection causing the pandemic. This is not part of any kind of argument.

Hospitals in many regions are filling up with people who have COVID, that is the material fact here.
But is it not too cruel to impose it on population by force, without even any experiment?
Nothing is wrong with publishing small effect size results. Setting a P threshold lower or a a higher bar for effect sizes for journal acceptance will just increase the positivity bias and also encourage more dodgy practices. Null results are important.

Understanding effect size is as important as significance can manifest by requiring effect size or variance explained to be reported every time the result of a statistical test is presented, e.g. rather than simply "a significant increase was observed (p = 0.01)" and also making that kind of parsing the standard in scientific journalism.