skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah okay, I'm surprised there isn't something more precise and scientific out there. Interesting to know that the theoretical gold standard I would really want might not even exist.

Edit: I stand corrected, as the poster below mention (I can't reply), I'd want an audiogram from a professional. Thanks!
Right, I mean you know Apple could make the case to consumers that the premium is worth it, or maybe drop the price a bit. You know, normal competition things.

I guess my point is that I doubt they'll do anything of the sort.
Assuming I could see it coming, and had time to prepare:

1) Take PTO for that week. I would make it very clear to my team I will be completely offline (no checking email, or responding to Slack pings)

2) Give an early warning to family, friends, and significant other.

3) Plan out offline entertainment (books) and activities. If I was traveling I would print out any maps/tickets I need ahead of time

4) Relax and detox from my normally hyper-connected life
The vaccines were originally sold as helping the "return to normal" by protecting against infection enough to yield herd immunity. Multiple prominent public health authorities framed it in these terms, and the trial results were stated in terms of protection against symptomatic infections.

The Delta variant may have changed the game but, based on the history of attempts to vaccinate against coronaviruses, plenty of people predicted that would happen.
This isn't actually true, there are many ways to buy stuff with crypto.
The question here leaves out so much!

Some responses, and my first instinct, were to note that spending time in nature away from an ability to reach networks can actually feel really great -- e.g. for me this is backpacking/trekking. Bring a book, paper topo maps, and just enjoy the natural world around you.

But I think maybe a tougher question is, how could one be a useful, productive human in society without constant reliance on networks? Could you be productive if you had to get information from books you acquired ahead of time, navigate effectively paper maps, etc? My first instinct is that this is impossible -- and yet almost every other generation in the history of the species managed this way.
That’s because of regulatory capture that intentionally kneecaps it. Not because the government couldn’t run a good bank if they were allowed to.
ah yes, making fun of people dying is okay as long as you obscure the names!

the same people that like to respond with "700,000+ dead"!

this is the same reason /r/fatpeoplehate got banned is it not?

yes the intent may be to "help through shaming" but it's not usually allowed, guess it's okay because of the political lean.

ironically, shaming the fat people would help the covid thing most of all as it's the #1 morbidity reason for covid.
Not op, but most likely "social justus warrior".
Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus in his hat!
I imagine, but cannot confirm, the latter. It's titled COVID-19 Hospitalizations for the week of xxx.

In any case, when more than half your population is vaccinated, especially the older aged folks, at that point it doesn't make a remarkable difference what it's from as the correlation is still clear.
No.

Hyper-induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines, also known as a cytokine storm or cytokine release syndrome ... is not unique to the SARS-CoV-2 infection; it was prevalent in most of the major human coronavirus and influenza A subtype outbreaks of the past two decades (H5N1, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and H7N9).

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.6291...
There was some tweet recently that went "Saying 10x engineers don't exist is as true as saying 10x basketball players don't exist or that all writers are basically the same." It's self-evidently not true.
> with the right song on repeat for the day

that's the key. You are possibly using 'the right song' to isolate yourself, so that helps you concentrate. The fact that it's on repeat also makes you don't pay much attention to it anymore. But try to listen to 'the wrong song', or worse 'the wrong new song', and it's probably going to have some effect.

I mostly listen to 'concentration music' and lo-fi without vocals. Put something more complex and with lyrics...
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> I thought it was a neat article

I think the article talks about the "What" part of the problem, but the actual code is much more interesting in the "How" sense.

Like the git-ref stuff makes sense as you read the code

https://github.com/ligurio/git-test/blob/master/bin/git-test...

There was a similar set of additions to svn in the past with "svn propedit" in the workflows which I used in a previous workplace.

It was not pretty, because it was like embedding JIRA into svn - but it meant machines could flip state to state with commits during build+test and restart from that point without an independent DB to track the "current state" & people with commit access could nudge a stuck build out without losing "who did what".
How many people will never achieve their potential because they don't work in a room with a door?
> It would only take one competitor to produce a long lasting vaccine and that competitor would take the entire market

You're assuming a free market, not one that's stuffed full of highly paid lobbyists.
Again, I think the problem here is that you might not find that privilege acknowledgement contributes to the discussion, but there are plenty of people who acknowledge their privilege in the belief that it is contributing to the discussion.

I think it's very telling that folk think that writing "I'm saying this from a position of privilege" invariably is done with a proverbial gun to their head, hoping to evade a public flogging if they fail to do so.

People, myself included, genuinely see disclosing your position of privilege in the same way someone from Company X might say "Disclosure: I work at Company X" when commenting on a post about Company X. Now, it might seem that acknowledging ones privilege is shoe-horned into every conversation, but I challenge you to think about how privilege touches so much of our lives.

Anyways, all I'm saying is you don't have to "find value" in folks acknowledging privilege. You just need to be able to imagine a world in which they do.
I spent 8 years at EA and was a senior software engineer. I have absolutely witnessed 10x game programmers.

I think in any field where you have a deep domain with complex, difficult constraints, it is entirely possible to have programmers with 10x the effectiveness of the median simply because of their greater domain expertise. They know the unique algorithms, data structures, design patterns, hacks, tricks, hardware quirks, tools, debuggers, code smells, etc. All of that has a huge compounding factor when it comes to output.

Here's a story I like to tell:

I joined EA shortly after the PS2 came out and worked at the studio that made Madden. Madden was a launch title on the PS2 (meaning it shipped right as the PS2 hardware did) and that version essentially sealed Madden's success. It was hugely successful.

But making a launch title is really hard. You're developing softare for a hardware platform that is itself in flux. When EA first started working on Madden PS2, they didn't have any dev kits to work on. I don't know if dev kits even existed. They needed to write code that they couldn't compile and run. But if they didn't start immediately, they would never be able to get the game done in time for the launch.

They had a guy on the team with a reputation for being a wizard. He took the MIPS R5900 reference manual, and disappeared into an office with blacked out windows for some number of weeks. When he re-emerged, he had written a PS2 emulator despite never having access to an actual PS2. The rest of the team were able to compile and run the game on that emulator so that they could make progress until eventually real dev kits arrived. From what I heard, when the real hardware showed up, the game actually ran on it.

Now, some of this legend may have grown in the retelling (it was already legendary by the time it was told to me), but I worked with that engineer a few times and I can vouch for his incredible ability to get stuff done. I remember once when FIFA was having performance problems and couldn't get their framerate high enough to ship. He was called into to help and a few days later, got it up to a solid 30 FPS. This was even though the team's own engineers had been trying to make progress and he had never touched the code before.

I think people dislike the mythos of 10x engineers because it's interpreted as some sort of cognitive essentialism. But I think most of it is just really deep domain expertise. Instead of talking about "10x engineers", we should talk about 10x at what.
In terms of personal life, I'd keep spending time with my wife and son. On my connected day I would buy books and the other days I would read them -- almost as it is now, except I'd have to plan my purchases ahead.

In terms of work... well, what does complete network disconnect mean? As long as I have access to the office LAN I could probably still collaborate on code with my co-workers. Even if I didn't, we could, I suppose, pass USB sticks with code around the desks.

If we go even further disconnected than that, I.e. collaboration with co-workers only allowed on one day out of seven -- well, it'd be an interesting challenge. I'm always the lean advocate pushing for shorter cycle time and tighter deployments, so it'd go against my nature. But I can also imagine a strictly cadenced weekly integration working. We'd sure have to structure the work differently!

Maybe that would be an interesting thing to try just to see what one learns from it.
From the internet!
Are you purporting that Covid numbers are overinflated only for non-vaccinated individuals, but not for vaccinated? Because otherwise it still doesn’t explain the discrepancy in hospitalization.
Unlimited just means they don’t have to pay out when you quit or get laid off, doesn’t it?
"People talk about innovation a whole lot, but what they are usually looking for is cheap wins and novelty." This rings true from being at a Fortune 100 going through "digital transformation". So much jabber about "innovation" and AI / machine learning this and that, when what they really wanted was just to do what everyone else was doing, and just implement similar systems to what Amazon had done a decade+ ago.
A 203:14 ratio when the country is over 50% vaccinated would be more bizarre, not less, if it was "all hospitalizations" and not "all COVID vaccinations"

you'd need to come up with a good reason why unvaccinated people were about 10x (or more) likely to be hospitalized than vaccinated people
Ah, the edgelord defense, a Tried and True practice. One issue is that the entire thread is _only_ edgelords in that model. I couldn't find anybody on that page speaking out against the ideas espoused by the poster.

As for "comment that you'd find anywhere", I know a few places where I wouldn't find such comments. Not because oh-the-oppression, but because people don't engage with them in the same way as on that page. It's possible shape a culture and that site seems to have chosen one that is easily being mistaken for extremism, at the very least.
I assume that both vaccinated and unvaccinated people who were hospitalized were tested for COVID-19. I wouldn't be surprised if the bulk of the vaccinated+positive were in this category.
MMT is one of those persuasions that can only exist in America, same as Libertarianism on the other political end.

In any non-American 'monetary sovereign' country, printing too much money will crash the exchange rates (this is not merely a consequence of inflation - some of the processes involved are independent). It's a slightly different casual mechanism than the neoclassical one, but still the result is a de facto government default.

The USA however holds the world's reserve currency, and the normal restraints indeed don't apply anywhere as much. This however does not mean there are no restraints. Fortunately the country has never gone full MMT, so we'll never find out empirically.
for me it works… sort of. the music helps me concentrate, but that’s only because it eliminates the background noise. i would rather have silence, but this can’t happen when almost everywhere you get open offices. so i guess it’s both, it’s worse than silence but it’s better than what open office provides.
Why only look at billionaires and exclude multimillionaires?
oh, interesting. can you link an rct or meta analysis describing literally any of these effects coming from artificial sweeteners.
>I don't think this is true. Asians are being punished because they're successful, and their existence bucks the narrative the blank-slate activists want to push.

No. Everyone is being punished, not just Asians.

Ditching G/T programs is going about this completely backwards, and hurts all students regardless of ethnicity or melanin content.

The problem is that schools in poor and minority neighborhoods suck.

Let's fix that problem and the rest will take care of itself.
I use a CO2 tank to re-carbonate my soda stream cannisters, I imagine at a slow leak rate my 10lb tank would last a long time and it's only $20 I think to refill it.
I'm guessing in reference to this: https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/17/an-open-letter-to-the-sc...
Finer grained is better, yes. But I don't think that this supports the idea that anyone "pretends that immunity due to prior infection is due to the vaccine."
If interested in reading more on this, and other abuses on the sea:

The Outlaw Ocean
https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Ocean-Journeys-Untamed-Frontie...

This is based on a series of articles the author wrote for the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/world/the-out...
>ah yes, adaptation to science when I do it, goal post moving when others do it.

Parent mentioned moving goal posts, not I.

>maybe those other people adapted to new facts coming in such as side effects of the vaccine and already contracting covid and decided not to get it.

The facts show that vaccine side effects are generally mild, vaccination reduces transmission by 5X or more and that natural immunity offers inferior protection to vaccination. If you have convincing evidence showing otherwise, I encourage you to present it.
plenty of people have families and abuse the crap out of them, and people without families that want one still need to socialize enough to meet people to eventually have a family

book != cover
"It would be neat if github could store all its data in git, similar to fossil scm."

Yes, that would be very nice - it is unfortunate that you have to make API calls (over http) to get things like issues ...

I think you can get the wiki with plain old 'git' ? I forget ...
You should describe your situation a bit more. How much data? How much traffic? Etc.
It's a permanent balance. I have to "manage" (but I still am a main contributor) a small team in a big investment bank with angry busy trader-users, irrational "global" management in other continent thinking we're all dumbasses in Asia, and people on loaned rotation.

So, like your colleague, I try to strategize delivery. I would never tell a guy not to work on a genius idea that could change the entire paradigm, in fact I let 3 of my guys do just that for the last 3 months, together, sometimes alone. But they either not deliver, or very slowly, or sketchily (not working as well as thought).

So what I do a lot is a compromise. I force them, despite their complaint I don't care enough about the big picture of their non-delivering work, to take smaller issues every week. 1 or 2, give a candy to the user, and do your stuff then.

It worked incredibly well: while they've delivered absolutely nothing of value in their own initiatives yet (but I still think they can, it's just very long term), the users are delighted by a constant stream of little innovations and we've been recently identified as one of the most productive team.

Meanwhile, the team next to us, algo programmers in C++, can take 2 months to enhance an error message. Because they're all revolutionizing the system and have no time for basic human needs. They don't know yet, but they're gone soon. The budget people found there's a new model of delivery that could work, I wonder which one ;)
I think the key is to avoid going full free speech. What you want to create is a more permissive community that's still under someone's thumb to a degree. It's difficult to start a community under just a slight change in priniples like that, though, because the lion's share of the people in the old community are fine with the status quo.

...So in addition to being more permissive, it seems that you have to have a better product, generally.

From SSC:

> ..if you try to create a libertarian paradise, you will attract three deeply virtuous people with a strong committment to the principle of universal freedom, plus millions of scoundrels. Declare that you’re going to stop holding witch hunts, and your coalition is certain to include more than its share of witches.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-central...
Even that article claims "works best on monopolies"...

Anyway, planned hardware obsolescence is a wildly different situation. Manufacturers get way with it because practically no consumers choose one product over another based on durability. To this day you still have all kinds of products with user replaceable batteries, but customers do not buy those in droves. They apparently prefer to have a 0.0001% thinner product. They buy those in droves...

Compare this with a vaccine that promises N years of immunity. To be an apt analogy, you have to think of some metric that is evidently visible, highly desirable by customers, yet literally no manufacturer offers it.
> This is like claiming -- why it would it NOT be in the best interests of tech companies to create software that is extremely buggy so that people need to stay with them for upgrades?

A great deal of SaaS is essentially just building in a "bug" that one must phone home to a central server over the internet to use the software, and pay a monthly fee for the privilege.
I have the same question! I guess this makes my kids SJWs?
I would think that's the default position, right? Vaccines are simply a trigger to try to replicate what happens during normal disease exposure. A vaccine that's as effective as natural immunity is a great success.
bracing indeed! ok, adding this one to the list!
I'm more inclined to believe Collabedit's stats as a measure of language use in indsutry since it's commonly used for online interviews.

http://collabedit.com/programming-language-stats
The general plot seems popular so there have been many remakes as well as de novo versions (just as Shakespeare wrote new stories from plot elements of old ones). In fact parts of that book use the same technique.
vaccinated people are protected against unvaccinated people, the only argument is unvaccinated people take up ICU beds.

fat people take up ICU beds for healthy people, being fat is a choice and is the #1 cause of morbidity for covid.

the emotional argument is coming from the side saying everyone needs to be 100% vaccinated so we don't all die.

give me liberty or give me death is not just a phrase.
People who want to go into "passion" careers are easily exploited. They'll put up with more shit because of their idealism/passion and there's usually more of them than there are jobs, so when they burn out they can be easily replaced.

I have no first hand knowledge of this, but my understanding is video game development is a good example of this: the pay and working conditions are far worse than similar software engineering roles in other industries, because so many video game enthusiasts want to grow up to make games.
I found the following quote from the article really interesting when it comes to thinking about managing open source projects.

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Torvalds still considers that one of the building blocks of the Linux community; “just for fun,” he said, is part of what he still strives for.

It comes up when people talk about the possibility of writing some Linux kernel modules using Rust. “From a technical angle, does that make sense?” Torvalds asked. “Who knows. That’s not the point. The point is for a project to stay interesting — and to stay fun — you have to play with it.”'
Do you need both? Comparing Dolt Backups and Remotes
Umm except benzos are incredibly dangerous to take for any extended period. Stay away from them
For people who have lived in the era where doing this is generally the norm, it would be quite easy and straightforward. Most people would do is:

- socialize and interact personally

- focus on manual stuff (cleaning, crafts, etc.)

- sports or physical activity

- reading books or other printed medium

- day trips

For those who were already born where an electronic gadget has been integrated into their lives, this will be challenging, but still doable. The core is to focus on discipline and commitment. Once you have set aside any electronic device, you need to fight the urgency to even peek at it (even for a few minutes).

This comes the part where one would need to introspect and determine what other things in life they (want) can do that does not involve any (inter)network connected device. Find new craft or stuff to focus on. Talk with friends / family members physically (maintaining safe physical distance for health). Feel the nature by taking long walks or hikes.

Handling of this challenge is proportional to your level of discipline.
> Listening to music negatively affects your ability to focus?

All that phrase means is that an habit of listening to music while you do something is correlated with lessen focus while not listening to music.

There's no causality there, and there's nothing about how deep is the focus while listening to music.
I think time off is very important, but you don't need to ask it during the interviews. Just wait until they give an offer and then ask for what you want.
You say fearmongering from politicians, I say an excuse to spend billions more of tax dollars to the benefit of their cronies.

Exhibit A: Canadian PM Trudeau who has signed contracts for boosters all the way up to 2024, in amounts that exceed the Canadian population by a factor of 2 (just in this one contract, never mind the other similiar contracts he has signed).[1] Of course, the full text of the contract, or the cancellation costs, will never be revealed.

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[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/news/20...
That's not what "virtue signalling" means though.
I'll add that there was a 99% Invisible episode on this topic: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/abandoned-ships/
No, the CDC says

Based on evidence from clinical trials in people 16 years and older, the Pfizer-BioNTech (COMIRNATY) vaccine was 95% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 in people who received two doses and had no evidence of being previously infected.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

"Laboratory-confirmed infection". Not severe or hospitalized.
I needed to do this, so happy someone else made it!

A nice FOSS library for it was on HN recently, sharing is caring I guess

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28680136

https://extract-table.com/

https://github.com/vegarsti/extract-table
I wasn't active in the community, but I believe r/fatpeoplehate was mostly unsolicited photographs ("creepshots") of overweight people and making fun of them.

It appears r/hermancainaward is 100% based on posts that the deceased willingly shared with the public. I think that's a meaningful difference.
It's basically just an innately good sense of dead reckoning. I was especially good at it growing up in Chicago where pretty much every street is either N/S or E/W, it made it much easier. You just needed an intuition of the difference between your left turns and right turns, or you could just explicitly count it.
https://disrn.com/news/reddit-mods-say-due-to-sites-updated-...