skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No; the system is working as intended, but you're naming outliers that haven't been replicated or confirmed. It's not "suppression;" it's "This result was weird, and other people aren't seeing it." Which is far more often study error or misinterpretation or confounding factor than an actual issue.

... and that's the problem. The general populace doesn't know how rigorous medical testing works. And when they get their hands on something that sounds serious (but isn't actually at a scale that causation can be confirmed), or someone with an axe to grind decides to push a counter-narrative that doesn't stand up to scrutiny (but who cares whether it does if the general populace doesn't know how "scrutiny" works and is weighing the evidence of the medical community and the CDC vs. one pathologist in Germany as if their words have equal weight), it becomes a general problem for public health.

One that, apparently, Google has decided it doesn't want to be part of.
Not sure I'm a fan. Certainly very interesting and I'm happy to see a significant country run the experiment, it's going to be a useful data point.

But at the end of the day, what does it solve? And what does it leave unsolved?

A single public transport marketplace is of course great, but many countries have those without the 'single ticket' system. For example, in the Netherlands I use one public transport card for bus, train, tram. I don't have a single ticket with one annual price, but I don't have different subscriptions or different cards for different transport methods (e.g. bus vs train), nor for different providers of the same transport method (e.g. two bus companies), it all happens on one card.

So what does it solve? Admissions checking? No, you still need to present your single ticket. The thing it solves is billing, from individual subscriptions or individual tickets, to a single annual payment.

But billing doesn't seem to be that big of a deal in modern systems, and it doesn't seem like it attacks the biggest issue in billing.

For example in the Netherlands I'm simply billed by use. If I go 5x as far, I pay roughly 5x as much. That's all done automatic, once a month. I don't have to load prepaid money on my card, I just use the card and it's billed after at the end of the month. Really no different to a variable-usage mobile phone subscription.

By introducing a single (e.g. average) payment amount per year, you're overcharging everyone who uses less than average, and undercharging power-users. Usage-based billing seems a much more fair approach. And the billing tech isn't all that complex.

Moreover, the fact a substantial number of people will get a single-ticket (e.g. say it's 60% of the users), doesn't change the fact you'll still need to upkeep billing infrastructure for the other 40%. It doesn't allow you to make billing/admissions infrastructure redundant.

It also doesn't allow you to differentiate at all in pricing and operators. I don't think this is a very big issue because I like public (i.e. not private) transport to be very egalitarian. But there's something to be said for allowing differences in quality/convenience etc in public, transport, too. e.g. business workers ride trains in the Netherlands in 1st class and do an hour of work on their laptops in quiet, comfy chairs, and pay extra, such that non-business users can ride cheaper in 2nd class. Having a single ticket removes any room for such differentiation, which can be useful to a point.

Very interested to see the results and I'm happy they're trying, but not convinced yet.
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R.I.P. Mark Hollis.

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The downside is that visitors who are unfamiliar with the system--especially if they don't speak the local language--can end up riding illegally by mistake.
Is there a bus to every tiny village the way there is in Switzerland? The long distance stuff is all well and good, but I suspect the expensive part is the rural last-mile which is heavily subsidized by the denser (heavier used, cheaper to run) city transit.
Only - we're not free. You have a point about young people not being to appreciate not having freedoms perhaps. But our generation has already dropped the ball. We're non-free when it comes to most hardware, web services, mobile software. This is because people don't really care about their freedoms. They settle for "pragmatic" benefits of open source software. People enjoy freedoms themselves, mind you, but they the problem is that they think that anything beyond that there be conspiracy theorists or something. Along with Stallman's social awkwardness, the culprit is Linus' siding with TiVoization and against GPLv3 in my opinion.

Anyway, It's not over, and knowing how markets tend to monopolies, we'll be fighting forever. Which won't be a problem once numbers are on our side. Right now we're in a stale mate with much of the front being taken by proprietary software. That is not likely to change until the free software community gets a better face, but agenda-pushing codes of conduct won't do that. We need a serious discussion about software freedoms
Most public transit systems are already bankrupt and have to be propped up by taxes collected from other services. Making it free will most likely not increase ridership and will almost definitely make the quality of service lower.
Australia is a well developed country and an analogue to your "the American-model". I'd call it the "Developed Industrial Nation"-model to be more precise.

Not implying this with you, but I think it must be a trend of Australians to consider Americans "elitist"-- that the rich, obese Americans are the greedy ones ruining everything.

It's just funny to me, since Australians follow the same model of western-european-derived economics & western-european-derived government.
It helps that Go has a surprisingly powerful handicap system [1] - being a casual player I was able to play meaningful matches against a clearly superior opponent with suitable starting advantage, something that I have never been able to enjoy in chess.

That somehow supports the mentality of accepting your respective skill levels and enjoying the game together.

1: https://senseis.xmp.net/?Handicap (from the featured site)
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It does foster gay sex as long as you are wearing a mask and have three shots of Moderna.
1/10th of the size doesn't mean 1/10th of the costs/usage/maintenance/&c
The top comment is about them not keeping up with their upgrade parts instead of replacing the phone promise, seems to cover sustainability as well.
These development methodologies all start with a seductive promise of "giving the power back to the developers", then they get hijacked and trojan-horsed by the business people to do the opposite. Hmm ... come to think of it, very similar to a particular political system.
I know everyone is making jokes and stuff, however I do wonder if there might be HUGE fucking liability on the county for this. Did they just call and say "the bat had rabies, do you want to be vaccinated?"

They better have a video of them saying repeatedly "If you don't do this, you have a 99.9999% chance of dying".
Seems like it is.

https://us.ovhcloud.com/order/vps/?v=3#/vps/build?selection=...
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The ticket usually covers only a fraction of the true price while the rest is subsidized anyways, so it shouldn't matter much
Well, presumably the bus is going to go its route whether you're on it or not.

If there's an increase in utilization of public transport, to the point where they need to run each route more often, or introduce additional routes, that'll be seen later on, when the impact of the ticket is evident. At that point, it can be weighed against any changes in private transport behavior.

It's probably premature to take upfront action against overutilization of public transport.
It's a great little piece, commenting on both the hope and the worry in a single lark.

We live in interesting times. The potential is huge, in both directions.
I don't understand what you mean. Why can't we just debate the question without speculating about motivations of the people raising/answering the question?
I've been saying this for a while. I used to live in queens and would take a practically empty bus down a traffic packed metropolitan ave to a coworking space in bushwick. There was no way the bus was breaking even with the 5-10 people that would get on during my trips.

Instead NYC spent $250 million to crack down on fare evasion [1] and installed huge ticket machines at a bunch of bus stops that probably cost >300K each to install.

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/11/14/mta-will-spend-249m-o...
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Doesn't Rabies cause the infected to loose fear and try and bite others to spread it?

I imagine people might not want to be around you if your effected, foaming at the mouth...
I think I'll do that as well next time I apply for a job. See where it lands me. If they actually check if I've won a Nobel Prize and find out I haven't, I'll just call it a career hack, that should resonate enough in today's world.

The meanings "Hero" and "Soviet Union" are both up for discussion, so I think I could bluf my way into being believed about that part at least.
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Yes, for example Tool openly took inspiration from "Frame by frame" to write 7empest, for which they won a Grammy.
Nice work! Seriously impressive in general, not just because you're 11!

The only suggestions I have, aside from what others said here, are marketing/design related. The "for parents" section on the homepage has red check marks and this initially made me think this product does NOT offer those things. Red is usually reserved for bad/warning/errors and personally for any checklist I'd stick with the same color for all check marks. Additionally cutting down some of the text on the pages could be helpful. Marketing should be straight, simple, and to the point. For example instead of "Work flexible hours to suit your schedule" maybe replace it with "set your own schedule". If you want some help in this area, feel free to reach out and I can give some more suggestions.
Same here. The bit about 21 needles in your stomach was especially horrifying. I knew a guy who had the treatment recently, and he said it was 6 shots in the arm.
An orthogonal migration issue which I'm hitting right now: we need to migrate from heroku postgres to aws rds postgres, and I'm stressed about the risk and potential downtime in doing so. If there was a way to make a replica in rds based on heroku, promote the rds replica to be the primary, hard switch our apps over to rds, that'd be a lifesaver.

I'm working through this blog post [1] now, but there is still a bit to be defined (including a dependency on heroku's support team) to get this rolling.

Why the migration is required? Heroku postgres doesn't support logical replication, and logical replication is required for any ELT vendor (Fivetran, Stitch, Airbyte) to use Change Data Capture to replicate data from postgres to snowflake (with replicating deleted rows efficiently).

Note: I've also read this ebook [2], but this approach requires downtime.

Note 2: I reached out to heroku support and asked if logical replication was on their short term roadmap. They said they've heard this quite a bit, but nothing tangible is on the roadmap.

If anyone has any thoughts on the above migration, I'd be all ears. :)

1) https://vericred.com/how-we-migrated-a-1tb-database-from-her...

2) https://pawelurbanek.com/heroku-migrate-postgres-rds
This is really interesting but off-topic.

I come to hackernews for gay sex and covid conversation.

I'm really looking forward to the AMA from Fauci.
To be clear, it's the first 10 engineers, a very different group from the first 10 employees.

No question that the economics of FAANG is way better than an average YC company. That's an easy one. I don't have the data, but the economic outcome is easily 2-5x, maybe more.

Following cohorts of engineers are a fraction of what I outlined so the economics are different. It's too hard for me to do the work to get an exact calculation, but probably the next cohort of 10 engineers is something like 1/2 that, and then subsequent ones are down to 1/3 or 1/4. They're joining years later and so taking on much less risk at that point.
God as a the Ground of Being in the words of the Christian Existentialists. God is not separate from creation, God as Verb, God as transcendent and so on. The completion of the chain of ordinals. There is a lot of theology on how you don’t need a chain of creators. “Begotten not made.” While we humans are clearly not transcendent or immanent, most people don’t try to nail down what they believe as God into a little piece of reality, but as something more pervasive. Loving all everywhere and subtly encouraging all beings into doing their best at each moment.
>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.

I'm reasonably certain that rabies without intensive treatment (Milwaukee or Recife or similar, the topics of that study) has had no recorded survivors after exhibiting symptoms, ever, in all the thousands of years it has been known. Given how technically intensive the treatment is, anyone performing it likely has the infrastructure to report on the treatment as well, and so I expect that study likely does include most treatment attempts.

With that said, cases slipping through pre-symptomatic discovery and treatment are so rare in countries with the infrastructure to even attempt post-symptomatic treatment that we likely don't have a good idea of what we could get the survival rate to be.
Yeah it does. Software is basically a mental model and different people have different mental models of the world so we make up languages/practices/etc. that fit those models.

The point of the examples I gave (and a lot of browsing HackerNews) seems to suggest that 95% of the profession is not on board with our most basic practices around unit testing, version control, etc.
She makes me want to brush up my Spanish so I can join their community that apparently still believes in the goals of GNU and the FSF.
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Taking a trip on public transit to pick up groceries (or any similar task) still consumes time and is not convenient. I used to live in Manhattan, go to the shop on foot, and carry my groceries home. I would absolutely buy as much food as I could carry and use, because it was 45 minutes out of my night that could be used for something else, whether I bought 4 days of food or a single head of lettuce. People don't generally joyride public transit unless they have no other options.

In fact, having lived both ways, I'd say you're far more incentivized to do this in a suburban setting with a car, since you're sitting in a private bubble with your own music and climate for every part of the trip except the store itself.
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There's two locations in the US (only available via the US website/OVHcloud - I think) and at least one in Canada.
Of course it is an incommensurable loss.

I must recommend to check lesser known pearls in the past productions: live recordings, BBC radio sessions. Some may have missed a few gifts.
Suburbs? : )
So is this basically a cell tower in space with a high gain directional antenna pointed at Earth?
I disagree. You get blocked for going against anything one political side says. Just because one political side does not agree with something does not make it hate. Trying to claim discussing medicine side effects is hate is absurd. Trying to claim discussing off label medicine use is hate is absurd. Both are things mainstream registrars will ban you for. You are implying all sites hosted on Epik are hateful. This is simply not the case. There are plenty of non-hateful reasons someone may have chosen Epik.

Science requires discussion and testing of theories and hypothesis. You then use the data you observe in testing to reach you conclusions. Sometimes your initial hypothesis is supported, sometimes its not. Shutting down all discussion before any data is collected is not science, its anti-science in fact. It is like half the world forgot this.
Oh that's actually a much better deal, then. A Berlin monthly ticket is 86 a month (ok... or 63 with a 1 year commitment), which is already 1/4 (or 1/5) of the 4k...
You should not wait for the lab testing to return before getting the post exposure protocol.
I completely agree with the linked post!
Amazing. Stephenson’s prose is almost 30 years old and his colorful prediction of AR has not aged a day!
Thanks for sharing this. I'm the author.

When I wrote my introduction to JQ someone mentioned JQ was tricky but super-useful like AWK. I nodded along with this, but actually, I had no idea how Awk worked.

So I learned how it worked and wrote this up. It is a bit long, but if you don't know Awk that well, or at all, I think it should get the basics across to you by going step by step through examining the book reviews for The Hunger Games trilogy.

Let me know what you think. And also let me know if you have any interesting Awk one-liners to share.
Besides, what's the point? If after a year you are exposed would you trust a year old vaccine or get a fresh round anyway? Universal rabies vaccination might not even change best practices.
Longer you wait more generations are getting used to it slower.

I agree with the other commentir: let's stop talking let's start doing.
Covid killed 600k+ in the US, has effective and low side effect vaccines, and vaccines are still controversial. Rabies vaccines have more injections than covid and a much higher frequency of side effects. Rabies is not contagious person to person. Regular scheduled rabies vaccination for the general public would be a bad use of scarce healthcare resources. The US already has pretty close the optimal rabies policy already, as evidenced by the case numbers.

As others have noted, this person only had to take the shot. The bat tested positive for rabies and had bit him. It is inexplicable that the shot was declined - to the extent that they should have declared him incompetent and given them by force. Treating a dying rabies victim puts healthcare workers at risk (sharps/needles, etc). There isn't a healthcare policy solution that could have saved this person.

Now, vaccinating host animal populations is another story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_rabies#Canada
The difficulty isn't the point. Your ability to invert a binary tree has very, very little to do with you writing CRUD applications.
Not that it changes much, but the BC100 is 4000€ for second class, not 3000. Both is too much to make it really popular, while I'd say Austria's pricing is extremely attractive even if the country is smaller. I pay more than half of that just for public transportation in my city in Germany.
If you're referring to Fareless Square that was discontinued in 2012.

With the way the MAX stops are designed, it's still very possible to just hop on without paying.
Wow! This is OFF TOPIC.

Hackernews is only for covid and anal sex conversations.

Anything to do with computing is off-topic.
durability != uptime. The 11 9s of durability encompass the likelihood they'd loose your data.
I could equally ask, "What level of Bash features do you deem necessary for what you do? I rarely encounter a shell script that cannot be trivially modified to work on POSIX /bin/sh."

At least historically speaking, Bash was noticeably slower than Dash. It's the slowest shell. If you are doing things like, say, build scripts in a CI environment where you need to execute shell scripts thousands of times or more, the 4x difference can make a real impact on user experience. Same thing during startup, back before the transition to Systemd, when Debian changed the /bin/sh alias to point to Dash instead of Bash to speed up system startup.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/148035/is-dash-or-s...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

At some point, shell scripts reach a level of complexity where most people choose to rewrite them in a higher-level language, often Python or Perl, or maybe even Go. My personal experience is that the Bash-isms, although kind of nice, don't really shift that threshold... like, although Bash has arrays, but if I need to manipulate arrays, I switch to Perl or Python. If I just need to pull elements out of one array, I can do that portably.
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Both of those are fairly gargantuan lifts. I can see where you’re going, but I don’t think it’s realistically a choice between “vote Democrat” or “form a new party/government”. Most of the work for the latter has nothing to do with voting per se, rather it would require a significant amount of infrastructure to be built up. Voting is more of a final act after a series of significant movements.

Hence my skepticism of people complaining about people just voting for democrats. It seems like you don’t appreciate the gap between your preferences and the current structures.
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All trains plus many local transit options as well. It's usually valid in most bigger cities. My ex-ex-employer had given me one and I've used it many years. Incredibly liberating when you have the ability to hop onto any train and just sit. Reservations were sometimes problematic because popular trains had little amount of not-reserved free seats but Bahn.Comfort seats usually saved the day.
I used to live in Austria before Covid without a car and travel to my home country by train on weekends.

I have the feeling they are doing this because they lost a lot of passengers during the epidemic. Maybe I'm wrong...
> Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it.

At the simplest level LocalStorage or equivalent keyed on the submission id with a prior comment count to be compared with the new comment count would be sufficient. If it had a time of hast check as well, highlighting new comments would also be easy.

I'm not sure about other people, but thise are really the two things I care about most when trying to keep up with a discussion (are there new comments, and which are they).
Yes it would. But fees incurs overhead for managing tickets and is a hassle for passengers. A lot of European cities have good mass transit systems but people are lazy so they still drive which causes pollution and congestion. So the first priority must be to make mass transit as convenient as possible to motivate people to stop driving.