skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reduction in rate of infection for vaccinated people is limited and temporary. Over the long run vaccination will not significantly reduce opportunities for the virus to mutate. The real benefit of vaccination is reducing the risk of severe symptoms.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

Yes infections do tend to persist longer in immunocompromised patients with more total viral replication events over time and thus greater chance of a successful mutation. In addition there may be greater odds of recombination due to simultaneous infection with multiple strains, however that's somewhat speculative and I don't think it has been definitively detected.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8220957/
I knew it already, but wouldn't be surprised. One party appeals to emotion and hides the abject corruption. The other appeals more to reason (and for better or worse, Jesus) but is a bit more frank about their objectives and corruption.
It is too convenient for a ruling family to have the mandate of the one true God. They are flesh and blood with DNA, diseases, and all of the other problems of humanity. But I won’t tell you what to believe. My view is that these are just people, and if they weren’t, where are their magical powers? And if they have no such powers, even if they were divine, would it matter?
They've said that the base station will be able to roam at some point in the future and right now it's because they don't schedule the service on an ad-hoc basis so if you're base station isn't in it's expected area it won't get service.
Ironically, those PHDs you trust are the most hesitant
The best storage is no storage at all, it is demand-response.

Things like responsive appliances and EV chargers that can schedule their load rather than insisting that limitless power be available instantaneously. I don't care when the dishwasher runs as long as the dishes are clean by tomorrow, you know?

Of course right now, putting the word "smart" on an appliance doesn't imply any of that, and the way it ends up implemented will probably be terrible and a half. But theoretically, demand-response could dramatically reduce the need for storage. I think it truly has a large role to play, but the folks releasing insecure internet-of-shit devices have a lot to answer for first.
People make a point about Germany because they made a populist political decision to close nuclear plants in 2015. At a point where it was evident that there future needs to be fossil free and with no real alternatives they decide to shut down their reactors.

In contrast, the US seized civilian nuclear power plants after three mile island, fifty years ago.
>I think you just handed them that information when you logged into their website.

Obviously and that's my point. You are not going to avoid Google if you use the web. The best you can do is limit exposure.

>Google is adversarial then don't use Gmail

This is ignorant and unhelpful. Do you think I just decided not to consider that option? I don't have an option. I have to use it for work. This is the problem with the "don't use it" crowd. Most people are not going to get away from the major email provider options. The best I can do is sign in via browser or a 3rd party app.
Mapped: The 50-Year Evolution of Walt Disney World
It's rather good and at some point they managed to have release for my previous phone model when the lineageos stopped!

I used it without their cloud services. Some of the pre-installed apps cannot be removed (like email, pdf readers) which is slightly annoying. They have their own launcher/desktop but it's not that good, it even crashes time to time.

Last time I checked, it was not super transparent which non-FOSS store they used.

Overall I think the experience with LineageOS is better but /e/ comes with MicroG so it's practical if you need a few proprietary apps.
Much more interested in iMac Pro or Mac Pro.
You’ve got a huge swath of america who doesn’t want the vaccine because they either have superior natural immunity already OR understand that the virus poses little-to-no-risk to them or their family. Covid is essentially equal to the flu in terms of mortality for people under ~55 and children are virtually immune from serious Covid illness.
has anyone considered interviewing and getting a job at Coinbase to free up their coins?
Every time I've tried Apple Maps, I run into the same problem--it doesn't seem to predict your realtime location ahead by X feet to account for your speed and delay in GPS signal. Google Maps does this. The result is that on Apple Maps, your position is "behind" where you really are at the moment, and it's harder to make the turn. Google's tradeoff is that if you miss a turn, it will momentarily show your position as if you'd made the turn correctly. Perhaps this is a matter of preference, but I am much more successful at navigating while driving using Google Maps than with Apple Maps.
Unsurprisingly Germany lobbied EU members such as Austria, Denmark, Luxembourg and Spain to block the inclusion of nuclear power in the "green taxonomy" (allowing it to be subsided like new renewables are), while pushing for natural gas (emitting 40 times more CO2 than nuclear).
Such geopolitical move is definitely illogical and favoring climate change acceleration.
> The flip side that wasn't discussed is the belittling and censoring of voices that were skeptical of the narratives, which engendered even more distrust

Oh yeah, a group of people pushing ideas that got thousands upon thousands of people killed and jammed up ICUs leading to necessary surgeries being postponed by vomiting out a sewage-pipe of bad-faith arguments and disinformation. It's clearly not okay that we were derisive to those statements.

I mean, look how well politely ignoring conspiracy theorists for a decade worked out. That totally had no unforeseen consequences, right?
> people who would be for interment of a minority they distrust

If the government announced tomorrow that they would be putting all unvaccinated people in internment camps for everyone's safety, how many people do you think would be in favor? I've certainly seen plenty of comments on the internet that would suggest it's not zero.
>To celebrate the release, the ebook is free till Oct 15. You can get it from Gumroad or Leanpub:

This book is not free before or after 15 October.

Both sites linked require giving up PII in order to obtain the book.

It would be more accurate to say that the book doesn't cost money, not that it's free.

There's a real difference there.

That said, it looks like your book is a good resource. Thank you for writing it.

Edit: Had you included this link (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreuti... ), you could make the claim that it's free.
> 96% of housing purchased in BC is traceably domestic. There simply isn’t enough housing to meet the demand even amongst domestic buyers!

I wonder what qualifies as a "domestic" buyer. Does a Canadian corporation counts? Considering the real estate investment craze started in the 90's, with birth tourism it's now possible for investors to register the properties under their children's name. I'd be lying if I said I've never met anyone who did that.

> would also create new opportunity for smaller developers.

That's precisely what the existing developers don't want!
>I would recommend looking into decoupling your social needs from your job.

I absolutely hate that this is the standard answer that comes up everytime someone mentions not being happy with WFH.
Not only it doesn't answer the question, but it's just a slightly more polite version of "just make friends, duh" which is not helpful at all.

To many people (myself included) 2-3 hours of social activities in a day is not enough. I need to be around people, and while it's great to meet some friends in the evening it doesn't change the fact that I just spent 10 miserable hours alone in my appartment.
In addition to that, I find there are many disadvantages to remote work: I hate doing over the phone what could have been a nice in-person chat, I hate how tedious it is to show/explain things that would have been easily demonstrated in person, I hate how difficult it is to grasp non-verbal cues, etc.
I don't know a single person IRL who likes full time WFH, but judging by how popular it is here, it seems I shouldn't assume that everybody is in the same situation. Conversely, don't assume everybody can turn his miserable WFH experience in something awesome just "by doing stuff in the evening". Btw no offense but I had to laugh at your suggestion that a vido chat is a social activity.
Oil companies are subsidized to the tune of Billions of dollars an hour. Subsidizing fusion energy would merely be redirecting that money to the greater payoff.
Well-meaning manipulation of the public is common, and nearly always a terrible idea, because even the relatively uneducated are still pretty good at applying their intuition and seeing that a narrrative doesn't make sense.

Once they've damaged that trust, you end up with these 2 equally stupid polarized positions:

A: "I will do the opposite of whatever the established authorities say"

B: "It's, like, sad that, like, some people don't Science"
ICF really doesn't have this potential, definitely not in the way it is practiced here. Each shot at NIF costs a few million dollars in material costs alone, because of the precisely machined parts that are required to achieve inertial confinement of the plasma long enough to make it start fusion, which get destroyed in the process.
That Trump's motivation for literally anything is anything but pure, raw self-interest. It had nothing to do with a fear of panic and everything to do with the number of ways he perceived it in his self-interest to continually deny this was even happening. He gaslit an entire nation.

Judging by the comments I've seen here lately (not yours), I'm really starting to question the company I'm keeping here.
In theory it's possible to break up long running operations into small chunks and schedule them between frames. In practice it's a lot of work and the only people who bother are game developers. Most app developers just don't care at all if they have a 100ms pause. If you point it out to them they'll just tell you that 100ms is nothing and nobody will notice, they have better things to do than fix 100ms pauses. And so all apps are janky.

> Is this just a batteries-included way of forcing the thread separation between logic and drawing?

It's not possible to draw canvases on multiple threads without this. So it's about enabling, not just forcing. Enabling multiple threads is a big deal because every device has multiple cores these days and the web is mostly using only one.
You may be surprised to know that there are loads of people working in ICF who think they're working on a plan to supply the world with energy, and have detailed and elaborate designs for commercial ICF reactors, including pellet factories, tritium extraction, and everything. With calculations of the final cost per delivered kW-hour. It’s all a fantasy, but it’s a real research activity, funded by the US DOE (mainly through the NNSA).
One used to be able to change the captive portal url using adb [0], although I'm not sure that's still the case in current android builds.

[0] https://gist.github.com/tonyseek/bc5b72197ddb15418c614060617...
Show HN: HTML Planet for Kids – A HTML and CSS Course for Children
Hi HN,

We are Matjaz (that’s me) and Benjamin - a father & son team - from HTML Planet for Kids (https://htmlplanetforkids.com), an online space where children learn and create with HTML & CSS.

I’m the author of Pinegrow Web Editor (launched on HN seven years ago) and Ben is a 11 year old boy full of creativity and ingenuity.

In early 2020 our family embarking on a journey around the world. Thanks to the Covid pandemic we immediately got stuck at our first destination. With time saved on not traveling around, Ben and I finished our Maths lessons early and had some extra time to do a project together.

We did research on existing HTML & CSS courses and discovered that all teach HTML & CSS exclusively through coding, and after the course is done, they offer no follow-up to engage kids in using their newly acquired skills.

We decided to take a month off and create a HTML & CSS course for children, based on the simplified online version of our web editor software.

That was more than a year ago :) The quick one month project turned into a year of work on creating the course structure, designing and recording the adventures, improving the website editor, testing…

But, every evening, we showed up for work and step by step, got HTML Planet for Kids ready for release.

It has 60+ interactive lessons and projects that teach children enough HTML & CSS to be able to create simple websites.

Our visual editor lets children jump straight into using HTML & CSS, without having to memorize the code syntax and property names. Along the way, they get naturally familiar with coding and can start using the built-in code editor.

Completing the lessons is just the beginning. Kids then use their skills to create projects (websites, experiments, toys) with HTML Planet. We plan to run monthly challenges and showcases to keep children engaged.

If you are a parent, caretaker or teacher - or just feel like going on a space adventure, visit HTML Planet for Kids and take it for a spin. No registration is needed to do the first ten adventures.

Looking forward to your feedback!
Ben & Matjaz

https://htmlplanetforkids.com
The type itself is fine but how it is checked and used is not. The following would be better, and in this case you will also have a Human type inside the forEach callback:

// ... other code

type Human = { name: string; age: number }

const isHuman = (obj: unknown): obj is Human => obj && typeof obj === 'object' && 'name' in obj && 'age' in obj; // you can complete the gaps here and also check the property types

someArray.filter(isHuman).forEach((h) => {
// h has type Human now
console.log(h.age);
})
My optometrist told me that when he first started his clinical practice he was shocked to discover how many people are driving around with serious visual impairment.
That makes sense but it seems like a problem that could be addressed if it was focused on.
> I cannot fathom why nuclear is preferred to a safe, distributed, clean grid of solar panels.

I enjoy having clean electricity when it rains, during the night, or when there is no wind.
I've been employed as a newspaper editor and am familiar with libel laws and the ethics of journalism. What's been advocated for is accurate reporting, not conclusion-jumping.

Currently there are headlines like this:

"Car hits cyclist"

Why is a victim a person but the actor is an inanimate object? They don't say "car hits bike".

A more accurate headline would be "Car driver hits cyclist".

The other way to improve reporting is to call a preventable crash what it is, a crash and not an "accident".

More here: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20049939/five-cyclist-blamin...
I need this for a static analysis, where sometimes I want a template type (eg `Maybe<T>`) to inherit properties from the template parameter. I used to do a horrible hack involving processing things in order of the string length of the type, but eventually had to hack together a basic parser to tease things apart. Which still feels Wrong; I shouldn't be unreliably recomputing information that the compiler already knew but threw away.

I also do some awful things with regexes to simplify output of type names. Basically, I am just a bad person.
wait so your alternative is blocking some people from using crypto when it was set up explicitly to get away from people being allowed to arbitrarily block users?
I hope you have read at least beyond the headline, as it clearly mentions the word 'Bitcoin' which from there, the context of what 'crypto' means is clear from the start:

> Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

Nothing 'irritating' about that.
The Framework marketplace is now live for ordering replacement parts
> I'm glad to know climate change will be a solved problem for my children.

You don't even need to jump to climate change when you have coal seam fires and ash ponds.
Why is this strange? Turns out there is a lot of people that see no problem with collective guilt by spreadsheet and scapegoating of those caught on the wrong side of said spreadsheet.
Probably the best tool you have is somewhere to write your notes down. What you did, why you did it, how to reproduce it. That saves you time in a year or two when you go 'hmm I did something like this before have to do it again because some CPU ate itself'. My old notes have saved me a lot of re-work over the years. Because I had written down what I did so I do not have to rebuild it. I can just skip along the notes and be most of the way there.

This bit seems to hold true across any size team for me. If I have notes I can spiffy them up and make cheat sheets out of them and bootstrap other developers faster. Or if it is just me, my feeble brain will forget odd details that I needed for something.
Maybe I have not made that point clear enough in my post: currently they are failing to build replacement plants at a cost at which they could replace all of the existing reactors. Unless they can come up with an entirely new design which considerably cuts cost compared to what is considered a "current design" right now, there will be a reduction in capacity.
> will be a source of outbreaks for years to come

We have experience containing outbreaks in small, isolated groups of high-risk populations. Even in densely populated places, e.g. measles in Williamsburg. The advantage is you know ex ante where the risk is, versus having the possibility of it popping up at random anywhere in the country.
Intel accepts antibodies as a full substitute for vaccination [pdf]
But of course. I realize the use of "probably work for free" should not be taken literally. It does show that he(?) places value on other aspects of work rather than making a high salary performing joyless tasks

I have been in the fortunate position of being able to provide employment to others (and myself) in several companies. I don't exploit people, I offer wages as competitive as possible, I hire people from non-traditional backgrounds and mentor employees who probably would not get the attention of other large tech companies.

I am not a saint and admit I may be clueless about some things. Providing a workplace that is safe, free of discrimination, rewards people for hard work and supports those who are in need of help are areas I think I do have a clue about.
We tried to build in Europe and America as well; the economics are just hard. In the US there was very little market for carbon, which is why I said "even in Canada" since there is a regulated price for carbon here.

The plants were mostly in Alberta, where NG is cheap but there is no hydro.
The grass does seem tend to appear greener in the other paradigm.

Barely typed languages like C made rigorously typed languages like C++ and Java seem appealing. The boilerplatiness of those languages made duck typing seem appealing. Writing anything nontrivial with duck typing made more elaborate type systems seem appealing.

Needing a PhD in category theory to produce a side effect will no doubt make some other paradigm seem appealing in the future.
True. You have downtime risk with RDS and managed databases as well. I have taken down RDS instances with a bad query and indexes once or twice.

$50 total would be tough with fully managed AND high availability. I agree. But to digress from the tech side a bit and talk my own experiences, the question I ask myself is: as a solo-prenuer can I use that time to be doing something that will make me more than $X per month? If the answer is "yes, immediately!" I go with the managed server. If the answer is, "it would take me years to break even"... I may roll my own.

To address your points, thought: I think managed databases do help here. Data breaches and outages are usually configuration issues. Since they start with a good known configuration, managed services do help. Also, I see not being able to SSH in as a positive in this scenario.

For example: Say you misconfigured a database an break backups (happens all the time even to good DBs). That is much harder to do on a managed database.

If you're managing just one machine and being down for 10-30 minutes while your backup is being restored is fine, you probably don't gain much by using a managed service. In that case I'd take frequent backups, upload them immediately off the server (probably S3), and containerize the database. In my architectures I always run at least 3 servers.

With most database engines, if you have three servers you need to lose 2 to cause an outage. But a 3 server cluster is much harder to manage manually, tilting the scales more towards a managed database.

Also, to your point, would blow $50 out of the water.

If I can, I use a managed serverless database like DynamoDB (there is also others) that are pay as you go. You can easily run a service on just DynamoDB free tier if your use case is well suited to that kind of key/value stored based DB.

You can also, always start with your own and switch to managed later as you add machines to the cluster.

Just, whichever you choose... but "especially" when rolling your own... make sure you run fire drills. I.e test your backup and restore process regularly.
I can't recall the exact settings to push via ADB, but the Internet Connectivity Check is "easy" to fix. Create a server that's always up that responds with a 301 (or whatever the check expects), and push the address to the phone. Done.

It's a shame that Google's servers are the default, and I wish it were at least called out by Lineage. That said, I doubt they want to cover hosting costs of such a service (although I'd think they'd be fairly minimal).
Interesting idea, I'll have to give this a shot!
> I'm not trying to be flippant when I say that it's good that they will not trust government again, as long as that leads to greater public vigilance against government's creeping excesses and self-serving propaganda.

These same people are hyper-credulous of extremist wingnuts who manipulate them, just not centrist/progressive politicians and news media. They're only "skeptical" of the mainstream.

When it's climate-change on the table instead of COVID, they will behave the same, actively sabotaging necessary measures to protect the habitability of the Earth.

When your grandkids ask you why your generation doomed them, what will you tell them?
I know OL3 is not the only EPR under construction. Flamanville construction was started too early though, to augment much of the lessons learned from the other plant's construction. In fact I think both plants have had quite similar problems. It is these things that I would expect to be better understood in the possible future EPR projects.
As I have stated in another comment, according to Merriam-Webster, a (car) accident is "an unfortunate event resulting in particular from negligence or ignorance". It doesn't imply intention (in which case it would become a homicide, in the case the victim is deceased), but certainly implies responsibility from the driver.
These people who don't trust masks trust ivermectin. Just... talk with them. Its obvious. There's one political party pushing ivermectin as a solution, and the other one doesn't.

They want "their side" to be correct on this issue. They don't trust masks because masks were chosen by "the other side". They don't trust vaccines (despite being pushed by Operation Warp Speed by Mr. Trump) because someone else became president and started pushing vaccines.

It was historically liberals who hated vaccines, not conservatives. Conservatives were the ones making lynch mobs to forcibly vaccinate people (still an ugly history there but... seriously. The entire political world has flipped upside down).

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This isn't about the message. Its 100% about who trusts who, and who trusts what. This is a problem of ethos, not of facts or logos.
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