skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While in principle it sounds good, recognizing the substantial level of immunity of individuals with past COVID-19 infections, and would probably be fine in a sane world, I feel that this creates some risky incentives.

Many anti-vax and conspiracy-oriented people unfortunately have the false belief that COVID-19 infection is a trivial matter or a hoax. Consequently, some may resort to pox parties [0] as a way to avoid vaccination. And yes, people have tried this:

> And this was no ordinary party–it was a “COVID party”, where guests tried to intentionally get the virus to “build up natural immunity” without getting vaccinated. [1]

If people were to intentionally try to gain immunity through exposure, at least 5% of them (and their subsequent infected contacts) will end up in the hospital, consuming healthcare resources. That seems a foolish risk to take, politically. The aforementioned people who tried it in Alberta ended up filling several beds in the hospital:

> A party west of Edmonton has landed several people in the hospital with COVID-19, sources have confirmed to CityNews. [1]

In reality, if you've already had COVID it is a trivial act to get vaccinated. That vaccination will help boost your immune response to the disease and may even help to limit your risk of breakthrough infection. I can't see a serious, legitimate reason to not get the vaccine in such cases. And to allow otherwise creates dangerous incentives.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party

[1]: https://www.660citynews.com/2021/09/23/alberta-covid-party-h...
I started on OS/2 as well, in the days of 1.1. Some thoughts:

- 1.3 was a gem, never crashed, never bogged down.

- The product we developed was eventually picked up by IBM. Mid 90s at a trade show, even the IBM employees were stunned to see an OS/2 program which didn't look terrible.

- When Windows NT 4.0 came out, it was game over.
You need a very high area ratio (nozzle exit area/nozzle throat area), but that's possible in vacuum, especially if your thrust requirements are modest.
Firefox is still "lesser of the evils" when it comes to "modern" (as defined by Google, who essentially controls the Web now) browsers, but it's sad to see its decline.

I wish more web developers would stick with basic HTML and CSS so that their content could be accessible with the various other minority browsers out there. Instead we have the constant churn of an immensely complex ecosystem of frameworks and "standards" controlled by a single megacorp whose ultimate goal is to make everyone use --- and remain eternally dependent on --- none other than its spyware-infused browser. In other words, to fight Google's monopoly, we must first refuse its desire for continual change, and that is unfortunately difficult for many.
Do you think personality wouldn't have an effect on job selection?
Unfortunately, we've all migrated to NT 4.0 as it did the same things but it has better hardware support because of drivers.

I got a free copy of NT because of IBM's lame device support [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792616 ]. To this day, I still do not get why they wanted me to sign an NDA to get the S3 driver.
The overhead of hashing in a hash table makes it worse than sorting algorithms without hashing.
Can you close your eyes and visualize a red, three dimensional star rotating?
Another killer feature is StackSet. I managed to rewrite datadog integration CF (their version required manual steps) to a template that contained custom resources that made calls to DD to do registration on their side.

I then deployed such template through StackSets and bam, every account in specific OU automatically configures itself without any manual steps.
I would guess a lot of Firefox's core users (the ones who evangelize it, install it for relatives, file bug reports, write plugins, etc.) stick around because this browser has been a hedge against uncomfortable trends in big tech, many of which were spawned from ad tech. Going the way of ads seems like a dangerous line to tinker with if Mozilla wants to maintain the trust of these users.

Maybe there is a way to do ads well that isn't intrusive and that adds value to the UX. Or maybe it will annoy people and damage the brand by de-differentiating Firefox from Chrome and Brave. I like to give Mozilla the benefit of the doubt, because it's important that they innovate, but getting into the ad business feels like it could be a deal with the devil. Maybe you make more money---but if you lose your soul then you're just another browser ready to be replaced by the next shiny thing.
This is only for deleting your entire account. It says right there at the top of the form

"To change or cancel your subscription, please contact Customer Care."

As a free user, you still need an account to read certain free articles. So it's not really the same as canceling your subscription.

I also wouldn't be surprised if they deleted your account but kept billing you.
That’s a false premise, vaccination still has value after an infection.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

“In today’s MMWR, a study of COVID-19 infections in Kentucky among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus. These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections.”
This site only covers the IBM era of OS/2, but after Warp 4 it became "eComStation" and now ArcaOS since 2017:

http://ecomstation.com/

https://www.arcanoae.com/

Arca Noae recently released their NVMe driver, and USB3 support is on the way! No free demo unfortunately due to ${REASONS} such as the bundled copy of Windows 3.1.

edit: It also has Wi-Fi support and some fairly modern software ports like Firefox https://i.imgur.com/XuJ5Jdn.png
This looks like an ad: https://i.imgur.com/yCZ7UgY.png
Based on the filepath given in this very thread, it seems plain that that's the case (safety-ml\offensive-usernames\data_pull\sql\bad.sql).
Id bet they are about to release it on other platforms. Its what they do.
Fascinating! I guess an easy solution is to inject non alpha characters into any generated string. I imagine a constraint was that you wanted them to be easy to type?
Racism is immediately the far right.
Only accessible to the bank and every megacorp they're selling your data to
And beyond Q-Total is ROI: the ratio of $ in to $ out. An ignited fusion reactor with very high Q could very well still be below economic breakeven.
that should actually be porcAmadonna
But many electric vehicles weigh a lot.

A tesla model s weighs about as much as a ford f-150.
Jesus people, I just passed on what an actual doc told me. There was no anecdote, no evidence, just what she told me. Calm the fuck down.
To people who actually want to better learn to apologize: find a way to apologize sincerely, without inserting yourself into the space receiving the apology, then take your “but” and apply what you learned from the experience to it. Your “but” matters to you, it might be important, it doesn’t matter to the person or people you harmed.
Show HN: I try your sideproject or MVP and record it
I have been a lurker here for years and noticed that folks spend many months building cool apps, tools, and websites and rarely get feedback. Its difficult to plug what you are working without feeling like you are spamming. I decided to start a youtube channel where I try your project and record it, for free, with no expectation of anything in return. Just send me what you have. Its just a weird hobby I have and I wanted to give back.

Heres the latest episode
https://youtu.be/-_gLj4iolYE

Have a project you want me to try? Comment the link or dm. Plug away.
Yes, Iomega eventually licensed disk production to a few other companies. I know for sure that Maxell and Verbatim made them, and Wikipedia says that Toshiba, Fuji, Epson and NEC also produced some.

When they were originally released, I believe the first model was SCSI-only and cost $199. Disks were $20 each and held 100MB. Eventually the price of disks dropped a bit, until they were around $11 or so in multipacks the last time I bought any.

They also had backwards compatible 250 and 750 MB drives, but I don't know how well they ever sold. I never saw either in person. I think by the time they hit the market CD-R drives and media had dropped in price so much that Zip disks weren't economical as either a backup or file-transfer media.
The worst part about that ad is that it even shows up when the product isn't available in your region!
I'm a big proponent of CF when you are using AWS, but if you are on GCP, don't even bother with their managed tool, just go straight to TF. Their Deployment Manager is very buggy (or at least it was 2 years ago).
There is no such thing as common sense in immunology.

Claiming "common sense" is about as empirically useful and valid as claiming "street smarts".

No, thanks, I'll stick to the people that would rather peruse evidence and draw limited conclusions and admit that educated guesses are still far better than uneducated guesses.
Never forget the "Netflix for Black People" thread[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309
TFA is written by someone who just discovered few days back about IAM roles (see his old blogs) :eye roll:
They also support the widest range of CPU's
Most people is an interesting marker.

In my academic circles he was a demigod, alongside other giants of South American and SA diaspora literature like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Isabella Allende, and was considered more or less on par with Franz Kafka in terms of significance. Familiarity with all his major work was taken for granted.

I participated in a thread recently about the relative merits of attending college. I opined in it that contrary to the OP's presumption, jumping immediately into bootcamp or into a startup etc., there are things to be had from a broad liberal arts education that you're unlikely to pick up elsewhere in any comprehensive away. The broader intellectual landscape of your culture is one; less important than intimate familiarity with any particular writer or canon is a sense that such things exist; and are always evolving in response to cultural currents.

Borges is so important a figure it is striking that he would be considered esoteric.

I imagine the same is true now for other giants of world literature, like Milan Kundera, or, Stanislaw Lem, or, Italo Calvino, all of whom still have a lot to offer a contemporary audience.
Well, the video does mention that you should "stay tuned" for official vendors for replacement parts for the SSD and thumbsticks.

I think I disagree that this is gaslighting. It's kind of cheeky, in a way, but maybe I'm missing something. There's an inherent tension between "design something that is easy to repair" and "give me a form factor that I actually like for hours of hand held gaming".
It's not just banks either.

Suppose you're an equipment rental service. But you can't delete the customer's account before they return the equipment (or pay for losing it).

Suppose you're a dog kennel. You can't delete the customer's account while you have their dog in your possession.

Suppose you're the parole division of the police department. Can the "customer" delete their "account"?

This is the problem with dictatorial fiat. The world is full of edge cases.
But what about those living in the north, in the Fjell, and those working in remote spots such as forests? Are those really served well by EVs, and is it really all that sustainable to subsidy EV?
Ok. mRNAs are evaluated to have an efficacy of ~95%; J&J (adenovirus) at 67%. Are then the J&J recipients mandated to get an mRNA too, so that they not get infected at higher rates than their mRNA recipients?
Modern RPN calculators (clones).

https://www.swissmicros.com/products
it seems like J&J has high efficacy against serious outcomes for delta (71% effective against hospitalization and 95% effective against death[1]) so it may be pretty comparable to the main alternatives. However, for options like Sinovac it may be a different story.

[1]https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/so-you-got-jj-vaccine-her...
Without marriage, how would US citizens be able to marry a foreigner and have them automatically get a green card?

Edit: and I'm not being facetious. It's nice to say that marriage should not exist, but it has more implications than just taxes. How do you build a life with this woman you met during your vacation in Spain without marriage? How would she be able to come live with you?
You’re strawmanning my argument by picking components least likely to be repaired or replaced by the average user, completely dodging the usual suspects.

Non-removable batteries are almost always the first parts that go bad in handheld devices, and there are absolutely no excuses for using them other than greed and incompetence.
I really didn't understand the state thing nor how CDK and Terraform aren't declarative.

That said, I like how K8s + YAML allows a more "self service" like approach to IaC.

In my org the goal of our devops team is to specify some common patterns for applications, then allow devs to use themselves.

Both CDK and TF are really bad dealing with several apps spread over different repos that share resources (e.g.: ECS Clusters, VPCs, etc...).
Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip, according to sources
Sorry but the divisiveness exists al most exclusively in the US because of certain right-wing news outlets.

This is not a "politicized" issue in most of the world, at least judging by which parties actually use available scientific evidence.

Over in my part of the world, the scepticism shown in the US is just a fringe position..
I have always wanted to create an 3D LED cube that simulates a fluid level for my car dashboard.

This is a great resource.
I'm always happy to read about any kind of progress on AD amelioration but N = 42 is unfortunately a very small sample size to justify any potential encouraging results.
Pitting arguments by authority against one another, in most of the EU, vaccination is considered equivalent to documented proof of recovery from COVID within the past 6 months
They use a shrinking pool of non-KYC off-ramps, recently they have been having worse luck at staying anonymous and their centralized exchanges are getting shut down. The era of crypto for ransomware is ending, the anonymity of the blockchain is a fading peculiarity of its early days. In practice, your transactions are even more traceable once enough of the centralized exchanges are brought into a regulatory framework and the bad actors are shut down (all happening now).

Recent news:
* https://www.voanews.com/a/us-treasury-slaps-sanctions-on-cry...

* https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/07/politics/colonial-pipeline-ra...
Find flights with lower carbon emissions
The magic of the TI calculators is that the hardware is simple in a way no other widely used platform is. Way simpler than something like a Raspberry Pi. No GPU, no BIOS, no PCI, no USB, no kernel. You can directly flip pixels on the screen by just flipping bits in memory at a known address and you can see what keyboard buttons are pressed by reading from another address.

And yet despite the utter simplicity, these things are sold and used by the millions even today, so software written for them has a market. I think every CS student should have a chance to program a simple yet real system like that.
>Maybe there is a way to do ads well that isn't intrusive and that adds value to the UX.

There isn't.
https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/comparing-sars-cov-2-natural...

"In addition, individuals who were previously infected who received one dose of the Pfizer vaccine were even more protected from breakthrough infection than the naturally infected group. There were no deaths in any of the groups examined. Given that previously infected individuals may have had multiple infections prior to the study period, the overall applicability of the study to all populations needs more clarification. Lastly, these findings should not be taken as an endorsement that getting infected is a better overall option for protection than the highly effective vaccines that are available as only those who survived initial infection were eligible for analysis."
Woah, 20+ years later and I literally had no idea until now. Learn something new every day, but somehow this one is shocking because of how obvious it is and how long it took :)
We did a similar thing at Groupon after a customer’s coupon code contained an F bomb.
This is problematic for a few reasons:

1) There are varying levels of infection and immunity, and we really don't know how that bell curve works in the population at large.

2) We can't effectively test in order to objectively assess who is naturally protected.

3) From a public policy perspective, it's a total disaster: if we 'require' immunity, a unbelievably large portion of the population will opt to get COVID instead of the vaccine. This is the real kicker right here. If the population acted in any way reasonably, I think that some kind of antibody test, or even declaration from a doctor might work fine. But we are, as a general population, still in the illiterate dark ages.

I spent a day at a family members house where he had his FB profile videos playing out loud - it was the most insane stuff I've ever heard, I thought it was satire, it was not. It was video after video of completely insane conspiracy theorists, most of them total nobodies but trying to gain an audience, extolling unbelievable things. My family member believes that he has access to special 'privileged information' (even though it's just random videos on Facebook) and he utterly will not believe anything that he hears on the news.

The doctors on TV are all liars, the vaccine is a big scam. He's a 'Wolf' while the rest of us are 'Sheep'. Etc..

I would not have believed this new social phenomenon (it's new at least at this scale) until I witnessed it myself - fake information has turned a material portion of the population into zombies.

4) It's moot - the vaccine is safe and effective. So people can just take it and that's that. Conscientious objectors are fine, they just can't work in hospitals, at least for now.
A Machine Learning Approach to Regime Modeling
This person works from home and their job is to look at big picture when SHTF scenarios are happening.

Fucked move.
Meanwhile, my experience with 6 bank accounts is exactly the opposite.
Unfortunately biology doesn't treat everyone as equals. Women most often end up with the burden of raising the children. Marriage has a lot to do with making a commitment to stick around and help raise the kids.
One major issue is that providing enough fusion power with ARC reactors to power the world economy would require 100x more beryllium than the current estimated global resource (not reserve). Only a bit over 200 tonnes of Be is mined every year right now. It's not a common element.

Abdou's team (the fusion engineering guy at UCLA) rejected molten salt blankets for this reason, among others, after trying really hard to get them to work in studies.

One big problem with fusion is the low power density. I harp on that a lot, but it's been known to be a very serious problem for decades. ARC's power density is 40x worse than a PWR's reactor vessel. It's difficult to see how fusion can beat fission given this. I suspect the optimistic numbers for fusion come from using a way too cheery cost estimation methodology, something that would predict fission is far cheaper than it actually turned out to be.
Congrats, now those docs are stored in a database. Good luck getting them deleted.
LGR would approve.
False. That logic does not hold unless you also assume that the presence of protein B means no antibodies to protein A will be developed. There is zero evidence of such a phenomenon. Indeed, that's why many high-specificity antibody tests require an immunoassay — the infection causes antibodies to each of the envelope proteins. If antibody development were an either-or proposition as is required by your argument, immunoassays would not — could not — work.
So define the behaviour and get it pushed through the standards committee.

Or even define the behavior and get your compiler writer to implement it.

ps: If I index past the end of the array... what behaviour are you going to define?
If she was then she would have realized how ridiculous it is to directly compare Q performance between MCF and ICF machines, using Q as the metric to track progress, and not once uttering the words "triple product". This piece has about as much investigation as I put into the doneness of my toast.
Debian on a smartphone, are you serious? [video]
It's possible to run Erlang/BEAM on the bare metal, does that fit what you're thinking of?
> Conclusion

> Based on previous studies and our recent findings, we propose that hyperbaric oxygen treatment may be a promising alternative therapy for AD and aMCI.

> Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, hyperbaric oxygen treatment, hypoxia, mild cognitive impairment
Please don't take it the wrong way, but by early 2000s PCs were widespread, so wouldn't it have been easier to get into programing through PCs than through these very restricted calculators?

I never understand the American fascination with programmable calculators. To me they sound like a racket by calculator manufacturers and education authorities to mandate an unnecessary and expensive device on to students.

In many other countries students get through high school and even many undergraduate courses (like CS for example) without needing any calculator at all. Perhaps this is due to the greater focus on analytical problem solving than numerical solutions which is perhaps done in the US?
IIRC - fuzzy old memories, but I think you could use it with OLE to combine a few different embedded OLE sources into one document, e.g. a Microsoft Draw vector piece and a Media Player MID into one component that could be embedded elsewhere.

Very useless. Most Win 3.1 machines with 1-4MB RAM could barely even start MS Draw without churning swap like they were trying to make butter....
> As much as there is a crusade to dismiss the VAERS database

there is not a "crusade to dismiss" VAERS data. There is a push to correctly remind people about the shortcomings of VAERS reports for which that has been the case (and made known[1]) for as long as it has existed. The "crusade" is to use VAERS to misinform people.

[1]https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html
The CDC press release you link to is misinformation. Its title is "New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection". But that is not what the study demonstrates. It demonstrates instead that getting vaccinated in addition to having had COVID-19 previously improves immunity. It does not demonstrate that people who are only vaccinated (not previously infected) have higher immunity than people who were prevously infected (and not vaccinated).
Can we have two firefox, pro without the ads and pocker for $5 a month?
A few years ago I was playing with Karplus-Strong synthesis, and I decided to dump canyon.mid into it. Note that there's no drums, I just dumped every note into the synthesizer. Also I think there were some numeric bugs with my code.

I kind of like this version anyways though https://soundcloud.com/feepingcreature-1/canyonmid-on-a-brok...
Thermal storage in sand, good for weeks of storage at modest cost per kWh of storage capacity. Efficiency is meh, but that's ok.

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/07%20D...
It's not so much Science as it is Public Health Policy informed by the Science.

The distinction is important because were dealing with masses of people here, not some kind of simple objective reality.

If we all acted very rationally and conscientiously, the world would be a totally different place.