skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My apologies for missing that link last night especially as the user appears to have scrubbed the comment. Let me quote the same information I meant to have linked to.

This is from page 12 of your linked source, the bit with words before the nice graphs you wanted me to focus on.

> These data should be considered in the context of vaccination status of the population groups shown in the rest of this report. The vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths is not the most appropriate method to assess vaccine effectiveness and there is a high risk of misinterpretation. Vaccine effectiveness has been formally estimated from a number of different sources and is described earlier in this report.
In the context of very high vaccine coverage in the population, even with a highly effective vaccine, it is expected that a large proportion of cases, hospitalisations and deaths would occur in vaccinated individuals, simply because a larger proportion of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated and no vaccine is 100% effective. This is especially true because vaccination has been prioritised in individuals who are more susceptible or more at risk of severe disease. Individuals in risk groups may also be more at risk of hospitalisation or death due to non-COVID-19 causes, and thus may be hospitalised or die with COVID-19 rather than because of COVID-19.

Your own source is saying your interpretation of the data is incorrect and explaining why you’d see higher rates of vaccinated individuals hospitalized. Why are you claiming that the study proves what it says it doesn’t prove?
> As a parenthetical, when I was planning to fly to Austria from Paris, I put my luggage in a 24-hour locker in Gare du Nord the evening before the early-morning flight, but the room the locker was in was closed from 10pm to 6am and the flight left CDG at 7am, so I was devastated when I had to eat the cost of the flight ticket. I begged the staff to unlock the door for me in my best, most polite French, but they would invariably say "c'est impossible"

Hm, was in a very similar situation at a Greyhound station in Merced when I returned from a hike through Yosemite. I had parked half of my luggage in a locker at the bus station when I took the shuttle serve to the park (which ended up with me having to put the snow chains on the shuttle bus since the driver had never performed that task...). When I returned to the station and wanted to retrieve my luggage to take the Greyhound which would eventually take me to the airport so I could catch my flight back to the Netherlands the station was closed, and would remain closed until past my bus department time. There was a cleaner in the station who I eventually managed to persuade to open the door... otherwise I would have missed the bus, which would have made me miss my flight. Since then I have made sure to check opening times on buildings containing luggage storage to avoid these problems.
They're still available at the store I don't get what you're complaining about.
> R2 will provide 99.999999999% (eleven 9’s) of annual durability, which describes the likelihood of data loss. If you store 1,000,000 objects on R2, you can expect to lose one once every 100,000 years — the same level of durability as other major providers.

I've seen this kind of marketing allot from cloud providers, and it always makes me wonder. At that point the probability that you're going to lose your data gets dominated by the probability of a rogue employee deleting your data, or of 3 simultaneous natural disasters destroying every warehouse your data was replicated to, or most likely someone gaining malicious access and deleting a bunch of stuff. Those are a little harder to quantify though.
Cloudflare's Disruption
How do you say "I'm a faggot" without saying "I'm a faggot"?
I immediately got that keyboard is the intended usage, but also was impressed it works on mobile at all. You obviously took care to consider it, and I wouldn’t have blamed you if you hadn’t. Good job!
With raw information available, you can check the info you received through any vetted process. Win - win. It is not argument for content filters.

The degree how people defer decisions and whom they trust is personal. Cannot change that anyway.
"BT headphones are much more reliable. If you buy something like the Sony's you can probably get replacement batteries."

I don't think I've read many comments as airy as this one. You can't get replacement batteries.

I have a pair of bose wired earbuds from 2013 maybe that still look brand new and the quality blows me away. Literal plug and play.And the type of wire somehow never catches/jumbles/splits etc.

In thatsame time I've had at least 5 pairs of bluetooth buds and over ears 9that I can think of). sony, sennheiser, jabra, and some amazon brands.

The user experience is different for every one, random buttons, different time to sync, etc. Hundreds of dollars wasted, largely due to battery degradation or one of the buds straight up not working. There's no reason why batteries in bluetooth modules can't be consumer replaced besides planned obsolescence.
How much cock do you suck each day? Ten cocks?
Here in Berlin the idea floating around is to make yearly tickets very cheap (365€), while keeping prices for single travel (2.80€) or daily tickets (9.50€) more expensive. That's probably the easiest, least bureaucratic route to go.

For poorer households, the yearly ticket will still be subsidized, but the public transport companies (fully owned by the state) will still have direct income to maintain a corporate-like structure.
Finally! I hate the whole "keyword" thing because it makes your writing terrible (IMO). Of course you want the keyword and meta stuff to make sense but getting all these messages about "use your keyword here, here, and there" is just too much.
There is something to be said about the value of human intuition, though. While it may be fallible, part of what makes hiring a hard problem is that many of the things that distinguish good candidates just aren’t objectively measurable.
You seem pleasant.
> Sorry for breaking it up to you, but this kind of "standards must be respected 11!!!!1&!1" mindset is the actual cult-like behaviour, commonly found in communities such as cat-v.org, and with people clinging to plan 9 like it's anything beyond a failed experiment.

That's a bit of a non sequitur: Plan 9 is very much not a standard, and indeed it derives a great deal of its power from not implementing the POSIX standard.
Serious question. Can humanity define what it means for something to be simple or complex? It seems like we all have an intuition that such a thing should exist. However, most times when I talk to people about it, the conclusion I reach is that they're talking about what is familiar or unfamiliar.

I've been working on something since approximately 2014 that I think finally has a reasonable chance of being correct (or at least useful ... for me). Now all I need to do is run a bunch of studies to see if this is actually a universal property or if it's just a bunch of bullshit that only makes sense to me.

But the point is that I don't want to use some weird self invented pseudo mathematical framework. I want there to be some obscure branch of mathematics that people already invented back in the 1800's that actually lets us define when some thing is complex and when it's simple. But as far as I can tell, it's just preference or poetics.

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Okay, so there are a few things that sort of sound like they fit the bill, but when I looked into them I decided that they probably don't.

Cyclomatic complexity: This only works for if-statements (ie not for weird tangled OO object graphs or incomprehensible FP category theory operator soup) and some studies show that line count is a better indicator for defect rate.

Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy talks are a gift to the software engineering community. But they're ultimately a poetic expression. You don't get to define one term and then pretend that you've solved how to write software. I view these talks as a very eloquent way of capturing the desire to create high quality craftsman like software. However, I don't believe that they're useful in a code review unless you need to appeal to pathos for some reason.

Kolmogorov complexity: This was really exciting to discover. However, I'm not really sure there's much here for programming. I guess you could use it to mathematically describe a boiler plate to apl spectrum. But I'm not sure you can use it to declare that any given point in the spectrum is better than any other point. Also, it doesn't really say anything about when mutable state is good or bad, etc. At best it's one metric out of many.

Information theory: Basically the same story with Kolmogorov complexity. You might be able to use this to decide that your variable naming is off, but there's so much more to good or bad software that this really can only be a single aspect at best.

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It covers most local transportation, but not all.

> The BahnCard 100 is also valid within the City-Ticket zone of all towns and cities covered by the City-Ticket offering

City ticket coverage: https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/tickets-for-local-transport
Multiranges are one of the lead items in the news release :) I do agree that they are incredibly helpful and will help to reduce the complexity of working with ranges.
Inspiring story if you don't already work "in cloud" but as someone with a decade of experience, it somehow has an opposite effect on me. This story highlights how un-glamorous our job can be: tracking down (memory) leaks, fixing (bit) rotten hardware and obsessing over (code) smells, etc. It makes me want to quit.
DEAD BAT DO NOT EAT
De-paywalled link: https://adieuadieu.medium.com/how-to-use-partiql-with-dynamo...
TablePlus is the only thing I've used cross-platform that is even close to Postico. Postico is amazing.
So many faggots posting to hackernews these days.

Exactly how much cum does one need to swallow (from a penis) in order to be a "hacker" ?
Great design! Unfortunately it doesn't work on my setup.

On Firefox on Linux with SwayWM

None of the hotkeys work except the arrows and hjkl.

Alt-h opens up mozilla's help menu.

Enter opens up the site's help menu. (maybe because that was the last thing I clicked on?)

And 'o' does nothing that I can tell.
Yes but, they are.
They are supporting fair mining projects and contributing to players that certify fair mineral sourcing.
And they're raising awareness in the process.
The phone is already wildly overpriced as is for its specs. By default your market is already restricted to niche enthusiasts. Sacrifices like this make zero sense once you're already at this stage.

"The most fair-trade and repairable phone you can't plug headphones into" isn't the nicest selling point.
I know! If I post how much I love covid the VCs will give me money!

Then I can suck VC cock!
Very expensive. AFAIK it's under €150/y in the neighbor Czechia (but it doesn't include inter-city trains).
Can't agree more. Product manager, product designer/architect, engineering manager and a team lead are distinct roles with totally different competences required. Companies that don't understand that are rarely good places to work.
In March 2020 the official recommendations coming from Hong Kong, China or Korea were the complete opposite to what the US, UK, Germany or the WHO were recommending.

While the former were pragmatic and -very importantly- had enough masks, the latter were actively discouraging people from using any kind of masks and especially the quality masks such as FFP3 (or even FFP2) which are designed to protect among other things against respiratory viruses.

Asian countries had mask stockpiles and could manufacture them, had the experience of SARS and were apparently quite content with the scientific evidence, limited as it was. Naturally, if one can't tell a pandemic from their own ass, doesn't have local mask production capacity and donated a huge chunk of their masks the limitations of the scientific evidence become very critical indeed.

Let's take a moment to remember how US and European politicians and medical professionals were confidently claiming at the beginning of 2020 that the virus would not reach the West and how there's nothing to worry about.
I think a large part of the problem is over-specialization.

Once you have groups with a leader that are in charge of [something] narrow, they start trying to make [something] more important, more complex, etc, than it should be. For various reasons...exposure for career progression, empire building, etc.

Then, when you need to get something from an idea into production, you're dealing with some large number of these groups. All of which have some form of demand management (jira tickets or similar), some form of requirements you have to meet, different ways of interaction, and so on.

And, some of those groups have to work with other groups to do "task a" that you asked for. So you get this complicated dependency graph of tasks that's not even visible to you.
Whatever else TFA might or might not accomplish, its author is unlikely to receive that sort of gift from that particular giver ever again.
PostgreSQL is my favorite database, but I wish it was possible to use it as a library like sqlite. That would let me use it in a lot more places.
I mean, we can't get people to take two shots for something that's killing thousands, and you think you'd be able to get people to get three shots every two years for something that kills...basically no one?
> If my daily commute is a handful of bus stops and that guy's is a train for an hour from another city, then I am basically funding his commute by overpaying for my pass...

In that case you would not buy this pass, instead opting for a local or regional pass or one tailored to that specific commute.
Eh, kinda. Calling something a "best practice" is basically an appeal to authority. It means, "this is the right way to do things, for reasons I don't have time to explain." There are times when that's appropriate.

But really, "best" and "right" are highly situational. Any rule of thumb, even the most basic and uncontroversial, has a situation where it doesn't apply. I was part of a discussion on a mailing list years ago, where somebody got flamed harshly when he mentioned using a global variable. He then explained that he was working on an embedded control system for cars and all the variables in that system were global. The team was well aware of the pitfalls of global state and used a combination of documentation, static analysis, custom tooling and elaborate testing to mitigate them. It was a considered design choice that made it possible to develop high-performance, hard-realtime software that could run on very limited hardware.
The second condition is a bit stupid, most failures or inappropriate functioning of the system in software development can be considered a harm in economic interests...
Except we don't have anything like 50 years!
The selling point of various GNU userland tools and libraries in the 80's was better performance, removal of obscure bugs and limitations and then maybe some useful extensions.

Case in point is that most people have no idea of how POSIX defines "text file" (ie. ends with \n, no line is longer than LINE_MAX), and what happens when you inout something that technically is not text file into POSIX utility that expects text file is undefined. GNU tools do something sensible or at least produce an meaningful error message, traditional Unix userspace usually does not (lines get truncated, last line sillently ignored, some buffer somewhere overflows and in better case you get SIGSEGV...).
Very cool. Great inspiration to start walking more.
> I think the comment by Nagle, which indeed seems to include "everything you see" [0], is a bit too extreme.

i think Pendergrast used the quote to highlight the capitalist dynamic that incentivizes the profit-seeking economy towards creating low-quality single-use industrially-produced products, due to the parasitic economic rents from intellectual property making proper products overly expensive. in other words: the propertied class makes the working class pay double/triple.

that and planned obsolescence.

that's what i read in this article.
Most of the people I see making LGBT “political” are people outside of our community who feel the need to constantly tell trans people how they feel about us - our pronouns, what gendered bathroom we should use, who we should be able to compete against athletically, whether we were lying as kids, whether or not they would date us. Like ugh, stop. Then you have the daily /r/Cringetopia or /r/HolUp thread that makes it to the front page when the only point of the thread is for grown ass men to take the piss out of some random gay teen on TikTok or no-follower account talking about pronouns on Twitter. What do we have? Selfie threads on /r/lgbt? Threads about how to come out to your parents on /r/asktransgender? Are you serious right now?

The harassment doesn’t even stop when these trolls and communities are banned. They will literally mass create fake accounts with hateful usernames and follow trans users in an attempt to harass them via the notification feed [0]. It’s scary when this happens to you and I think it’s the reason why you mostly see activist types from the trans community on these platforms, because they’re the only people who are willing to put up with this.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/oi4cmn/tran...
The Bus Should Be Free
Some of us call ourselves "engineers". It just depends whether you want to pay the order for the privilege of having the title (and pretty much no other tangible benefit in 90+% of cases) :).
Software, batteries, and the bluetooth comm protocol are three giant points of failure. An example, I can no longer use my car's (2012) bluetooth with any modern device. At least, it is horribally laggy and doesn't display data, when it works.

Points of failure on wired buds are the cord and connector construction and materials. So you can generally know the "more you spend", it's likely being put into the construction (for reputable brands).
I live in a city way smaller than Cologne or Aachen and my commute was only 20 mins so it's not surprising that the price was much cheaper in my case. I've never heard of the job ticket so it maybe doesn't exist everywhere or at least not back then.

But anyway that's one of the things that annoy me, all these options that I need to know. I went with my son, we got normal tickets and then somebody told me to get ticket X instead which is more expensive, but I can take kids for free.

So this type of a ticket would solve a lot of problems and make it real easy for people to just ride.
> unquantifiable and almost totally subjective

That’s what intuition and judgment calls are for.

What does your intuition say is a good way to approach hiring? Does it maybe tell you to figure out relevant skills and ask the candidate about those? Yet if you ignore that voice, you end up timing how long it takes them to invert binary trees from memory instead

Everybody on earth who is good at what they do relies utterly on their carefully trained intuition
If you can afford a short downtime I would recommend just running pg_upgrade and upgrade directly to 13. Preferably test it out first before doing it in production.
Not really comparable then, is it?
Microsoft has a COM API. C++ has a stack of macros and abstractions for communicating with a COM API. If you code in C++ you code in abstraction to an interface to the Microsoft API but not the API.

To get rid of abstractions you almost should be writing more directly in some sort of COM+ language.

(To explain the punchline for those that don't catch the joke: COM+ was the codename/early name of what became .NET.)
For Windows https://www.heidisql.com/ is great
Shit Companies: Sprint
When I ask for a very simple command to do something, I expect it to be the best possible implementation of that command. `grep` is pretty close to absolutely optimum (ripgrep can beat it, sometimes, maybe).

I don't see why the standard for composable utilities should allow for inefficiency.
a dead bull elk

a large amount of garden soil

a Christmas tree

a large sofa

an ATV

a camper attachment

a cage containing 2 live goats

leaf debris from a half acre of lawn

playground equipment

(Results may vary, such as with an exceptionally large car trunk)
Glass wasn't really AR as much as just a HUD.
Tom Scott did a great video on Luxembourg's switch to free public transport. They were already covering 90% of the cost, so upping that to 100% was easy. London's network, on the other hand, gets roughly 50% of its funding from fares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feCQPD9DSOA
again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28701582
People living far from city centers usually live in bigger house/flats and less dense districts. That's usually what pull people to move to the suburbs. Some do this because of the cost of renting/buy a big place in inner city but it's the same argument.

The problem is, living in a large place and sparser environment has a HUGE social cost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl#Effects which is a major contributor to the ongoing biodiversity collapse (which is at least as big of a threat as climate change).

"We are in this together" but not just to get people to drop private cars. We must commute much less (however clean your mode of transport) so how is it compatible with cheap transport in the long term?

Or we put hard limit on urban sprawl but that will increase the cost of living in suburban/rural places even further than having people pay for their commute distance.
Which is a bit silly, but more a theoretical problem, right? I'd assume (I can't actually find a map of the coverage), that people for whom a BC 100 makes sense travel mostly by train, thus live near a train station with a good connection. Which will then be in one of the 130 cities that include the public transport with the City Ticket.
Thoreau, Walden
They say they had to ditch the jack in order to have water-proof certification and still be user repairable. Also to avoid having more bulky design.
According to this study[1], there have been about 20 reported survivors worldwide. Because it's so rare in countries with the medical infrastructure to report these things, it's probably pretty hard to infer the actual survival rate.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670764/
Great site, I've gotten into Go in a big way during the last year, and SL is still the best overall free resource after all these years.
These sorts of numbers are total bunk- the likelihood is pretty high one of their services go down (or something happens to your connection to Cloudflare) that will knock you offline for a few hours, maybe a day.
The trouble is that even if everyone has great ideas, implementing all of them at once is idiotic.

You need some brakes on the organization to assure that the rate of change is manageable and that marginal ideas are implemented more slowly if at all.
talking about classic crimson... maybe some love for lizard? my room-mate at the time described it as "musicians walking around the studio dropping their instruments." and while it has it's challenging bits, i still love it dearly.
The Great AI Reckoning
That's awesome. :-)
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This is one of those things where I initially learned of it from that same bit of (admittedly niche) pop culture, and didn't find out was much older until later on.

Also, I do occasionally drink rye whiskey and every time I pour one, this is what I think in my head.
A lot of people I knew in the 80's punk scene would trash prog rock as being too polished (think YES' Relayer with a single track on a side). Yet we all loved Discipline (some secretly). Prog as it was, it was still raw power.
That's the change as of that blogpost: they're using their own initial costings as a baseline so it's still going to be much more than a $2 increase over average manufacturers.
Site Reliability Engineer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_reliability_engineering
“Never get in the way of someone wanting to give you money”