skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are schemes for verifiable query services against the chain (e.g. VulcanizeDB) but most folks seem to just connect to someone else's node and hope it answers truthfully.
Why even propose a theory that makes unfair generalizations? I suppose I don't see how to start a conversation around it when you admit to the flaw in your reasoning.
> ~95% of those 65 and older in the US are vaccinated

My grandmother can't vaccinate for medical reasons and I have other specific health reasons, including past issues with the flu, breathing troubles, general poor health, and the fact that she's 100, all give me reason to believe that she has special risk factors.

The place she is at has had Covid deaths and there are others of similar age with similar risk profiles.

> so use your brain to make that assessment, not some brainless heuristic infringed upon you by an irrelevant affiliation.

Please, I haven't done any sneering like this to you and you don't know my grandma's situation or her medical history. I have solid medical reasons to believe that Covid would threaten my grandmother specifically, far more than the general population.

That said, I'm not particularly cavalier about a 1-2% risk of death from Covid, even though I know that rate is a moving target (and hopefully getting lower over time with better treatment protocols, vaccinations, etc.). Climbing Everest is something like a 5% risk of death and you can see a trail of bodies on your way to the peak. I see no personal reason not to take a vaccine with a risk ~0.0002% [1] (though I know that some people do have specific medical reasons not to and yes I know of the study that accidentally inflated the risk by 25x due to bad math) and I do wear a mask indoors or when mandated, though I also realize that I'm fortunate enough not to have to wear a mask for long factory shifts or such and I have sympathy for those who do have such problems.
> I'm honestly still shocked that updating the hashing algorithm wasn't built into Git from day one.

The name literally means stupid person.
This is really neat, but I feel like it wasn't quite designed with the red-green color blind demographic in mind ;)
[*] Citation needed
New thing to be afraid of.
There are enough people on Facebook and Instagram that you could have a demographically balanced/representative sample.
The "string of non-sequiturs" are facts on the ground. Sorry you don't like them.

And nobody is letting "97% of the drinking water run into the sea". 70% of potable water is groundwater in Germany. That's kind of not really jamming with the 97% claim, is it?
Ahhh, sorry if it came off that way. Honestly, I have good friends that are managers. And I think I work for good managers. I just think it is probably not as satisfying being a manger or executive if you don't have people around you to manage. If everyone is doing their work just fine without all that close supervision, it probably feels like you are not as appreciated. But I was not trying to be uncharitable.

I am sure you are a very good manger.
I don’t see this in the article, but is there any reason why they’d introduce a new VM type rather than just removing the 24hour limit of preemptible VMs?
A lot of people are ignoring the real story here. 66% of executives don't want to return to work! What the fuck!? It's literally the offices they paid for. Big changes are coming.
So you didn’t read the (very easy to read) documentation and then complain that you can’t figure out how to use it? And then you wonder why people are downvoting you?
Changes over time and ranges from 60-91% discount, according to the docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot#pricing
I thought it had more to do with the fact that <$950 shoplifting is considered a misdemeanor, and basically not worth the police's time to enforce it... because the prosecutor doesn't prosecute.

Burning it down to the ground, and rebuilding will of course create pretty much the same thing, and probably worse.
Consensus can mutate yes. People tend to forget that these protocols run on top of a consensus protocol.
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This is very well written, I now have a story to read to my son this weekend.

On that note, I'd welcome pointers to similar narratives that explain evolution, the formation of the planet, the universe etc.
> The cost of nuclear is artificially high because special interests have lobbied hard against nuclear, draining western countries of the experience to build nuclear facilities rapidly and also taking away any opportunities for efficiencies of scale.

This is also why we are building HUGE reactors.

The bureaucracy for building a nuclear plant is pretty much the same whether you build a 1 watt plant or a 1 terawatt plant.

Thus, it's more cost-effective to build the biggest m-f:n plant you possibly can.
Rationed for the usual reason because it's hard to make and there isn't enough to go around. That's a usual problem with monoclonal antibodies. That's also the reason they tend to be so expensive. Also if they aren't administered soon enough they generally don't work very well.
I'm curious: what percentage of the population tries to understand the complexities of reality, by your standard?
Did you actually try very hard to get at the data? Why not use The Graph which is decentralized and easily accessed via a JSON call
Don't you think it's a lot more plausible that extroversion correlates with becoming a manager in the same way that it correlates with wanting to see people in the office? Or that it's simply easier to do the manager job in person than over the internet?

I manage a linux team so this battle was lost for me long ago, but having managed a site-oriented team before, it was a lot easier to build relationships for me and the team members.
Ask HN: Can programmable money (need not be crypto) create a better future?
Since the introduction of UPI(Unified Payment Interface) in India, it is significantly easier to send and receive money for producers as well as consumers.

So, I was wondering what potential future can programmable money create. It need not be cryptocurrency. But the ability to move currency through digital logic if implemented by any means of infrastructure, is it beneficial?

Also any books, resources that elaborate on such ideas?
return to brick-and-mortar physical location*
Japan was a very aggressive empire not even two generations ago, yet OP claiming that "Meiji-era culture values" are responsible for its current peaceful attitude passes for "well-reasoned"? What a load of IYI crap.

Just as a counterexample: Germany is also known for its love for bureaucracy, its tendency to submit to authority and for the constant, loud, bite-less protesting. No amount of bureaucracy has helped to "channel (male) energies" elsewhere.
Exactly. These people thought they were using the tech well. They weren't. I like stories of tech gone wrong as examples to learn from. I thought others might as well.
I could see this being part of it. Managing people surely has a bit of performance to it, and the physical office is a stage.

Similarly, I quite like working from home and walking around the house (getting drinks/snacks/etc) looking at the garden. That's all something I've worked for - things I planted or bought or paid off - and it's comforting to see it.
In a weird and entirely ironic way, I think co-working spaces will become a big deal (again?) over the next decade or two. As People Of Means spread out over the country to lower-cost-of-living cities and towns, we'll start to see services that were concentrated in cities follow; in theory, one of those services could be private office space where you can have workmates and an office life, but still be working whatever remote job.

If small town mayors in middle America really want to bring back the glory days of Main Street, they'd be investing big time in fast internet, fancy co-working spaces with all the trimmings, and property tax incentives (or whatever) for pulling remote workers to move there.
> It really only takes a second!

> BAM

You don't have to exaggerate that much.

> I'd say every teflon pan in use is toxic, essentially.

Do you find that oil in your pans keeps catching on fire?

Even if you do, a little bit of oil can give you a nice warning to prevent teflon-damaging levels of heat.
Monoclonal antibodies are expensive and hard to make and the manufacturing processes don't scale all that well.
Wolf pups 'adopted' by Idaho high schoolers killed by federal agents
I was not suggesting they were being sarcastic. I was suggesting they had not actually noticed that the error message actually answered their question: "Why can’t I shadow this function?".

This is the section of the standard the error message points at: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/CLHS/Body/11_aba...

And this is the reasoning for why that section exists, linked to from that page:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/CLHS/Issues/iss2...
I bought one a few days ago (yet to be shipped). One of the reasons for buying was their announcements for subscriptions and their promise to keep old accounts under the old plan forever.
Wishing you Whatsapp level success!
We mandate lots of those too, since statistics says it is a good idea

So I’d ask the reverse question: if the risk reduction is scientifically demonstrated and quite clear, what responsibility do public officials have towards enforcing the safety of others? When should we let them take that right, and when should we refuse them that power? I won’t claim to know this answer either!
The Old Guard of the Finnish Greens were hard core anti-atom power the ones with positions of actual power.

Younger generations have been either pro or neutral for a long time, it just took them a while to get to places in power inside the party to actually change the policy.
No. Not really.

The problem with money movement, is that the medium of exchange and space of negotiable transactions are two massive levers utilized for population scale control.

If there's even a glimmer of probability of something being useful as a medium of exchange, it will end up in the same place as everything else.
I have no link, but at the time everyone was falling off their chairs laughing at Trump some company was involved in trials of some sort with a similar technology with the FDA.

The human mind is the most amazing phenomenon, simultaneously so amazingly capable yet so silly.
> It's absolutely ethical to compel vaccination

It's never ethical to compel the innocent to do anything.

A shifting of the incentives would be far more ethical, but difficult politically - perhaps make people who are unvaccinated pay a greater percentage of their treatment, or need to take special insurance. I'd advocate that kind of thing for most things relating to personal/lifestyle choice, obesity being a good example, giving better premiums to non-smokers, vegetarians etc but when the numbers of (possible) patients becomes big then it's unlikely to be taken up either by an electorate nor by a politician.

That's ignoring how many health systems seem fundamentally broken for other reasons (e.g. US and UK).
Odd, no implementation I tried (abcl, ccl, clisp, cmucl, sbcl) today permits such a form.
I definitely think there is certain personality traits that lend to the "traditional" manger role in an office.

What I think could be interesting over time, if this "new normal" let's call it, of working from home, persists, could that lead to a different set of personality traits being attracted to or being better suited to this new work situation?

I don't know, but it seems like the nature of work is changing rapidly right now and, that could perhaps, lead to a rapid change in the nature of a good manger or perhaps leadership changes because of it in ways ?

I guess we shall see.
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"The nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation was created in collaboration with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and the project officially launched that July. Stellar received $3 million in seed funding from Stripe.[6][7]"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_(payment_network)#Hist...

[0][6] http://fortune.com/2014/07/31/stripe-launches-bitcoin-challe...

[0][7] http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/stripe-takes-o...
> while impairing ACE2 binding

It appears that COVID-19 can also enter cells (these would be immune cells that came to 'help') via so called Fc-pathway.

Therefore allow the virus to multiply even more

"...
In addition to viral entry via ACE2, antibodies against coronavirus spike proteins (anti-spike-S-IgG) can induce antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of viral entry via type II Fcγ receptors. ..." [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406916/
And Bitcoin core devs can _never_ do the same?

Weird, I didn't make an argument to use Ethereum Classic. I am arguing that given humans are still the ones who develop clients perfect immutability is impossible.

I do belive that Bitcoin is more immutable than Ethereum. I also don't buy that Ethereum is unusably mutable. But hey, looks like the market thus far agrees with my position on this.
>Look at how the religious right community is treated when it comes to morals. You probably don't believe them.

That's not really a good example, IMHO.

Especially since, as far as "morals" are concerned, despite the fact that many folks in one labeled "group" or another may espouse certain behaviors as "moral" or "immoral," morality isn't a team sport.

Rather, each individual makes their own moral choices when situations that require such decisions are presented to them.

The moral choices that individuals make are an individual thing. As such, attempting to paint any group with a broad brush like that is foolhardy at best and nasty and hateful at worst.

I evaluate people based on their individual actions, not some made-up group label. You must have me confused with somebody else.

I'm not really sure where you get the idea that I'm painting with a broad brush, or vilifying anyone. I expressed my confusion about why a specific set of people who assert that "the government lied when they said masks didn't work," then refuse to wear masks.

It doesn't make sense, as it's logically inconsistent, as the claims are diametrically opposed to the behavior.

And the argument that such folks "don't trust the messenger" doesn't really hold water since the "messenger" has been on both sides of this particular issue.

If you were to argue that people are taking a "don't fucking tell me what to do!" position, I would understand that better. I often take that position (not about masks, but in many other circumstances) myself.

But saying "they lied when they said masks don't work!" strongly signals that such an individual believes that masks do work. To then turn around and refuse to wear a mask seems like some heavy cognitive dissonance.

As such, is it a surprise that such behavior confuses me?
By saying that you're imposing your sense of humor on others too (as in, the prankster's sense of humor is "pranks are funny"; your sense of humor is "pranks are not funny"; according to your comment your stance is that pranks shouldn't be tolerated). You don't have to laugh, and you're free to say you don't like pranks. But tolerating other people's opinions/sense of humor/whathaveyou seems like basics to me.

(Maybe we just have different experiences and thus different definitions of the word.)
You could try OmniSci, it’s a database, rendering engine, and interactive analytics frontend (or any combination of the above) and can easily query and render millions to tens of billions of points interactively while allowing for things like tooltips on the data. See omnisci.com/demos for some live examples.
I also have a theory about this. If you're commuting to the "office" every day it's easier to cheat on your spouse.
May be unrelated, but that's why I prefer the way JS approach this kind of problem: JS doesn't have macros.

People use callback function to achieve almost the same thing

function doTexture(texture, fn) {
beginTextureMode(texture)
fn()
endTextureMode()
}

doTexture(myTexture, () => {
drawCircle()
drawRectagle()
})

At the cost of being more verbose, we get the benefit of one thing less to learn; and simplicity is a powerful feature IMO.

I guess why this is less popular in lispy languages is because

1. macro
2. callback functions introduce more indent levels :(
There is on thing I never see mentioned in these discussions: a lot of employees take advantage of work from home to work as little as possible. I see it in my coworkers, I hear it from management friends from other companies, it is measured.

The reality is not everybody is passionate about their job, office peer pressure pushes people to be more productive, it is harder to measure productivity for remote individuals, and there are not enough remote fit workers to fill all the required positions.

So yes, management pushes for return to the office, but they do have real reasons. It is dishonest to simply paint them as power addicts who just like to see slaves toiling for them.
I don't think that's quite fair - the relationship between the severity of injuries to pedestrians and cyclists and speed of impact is so well established that it basically does go without saying...

Obviously there are other factors (size of the vehicle, whether it scoops somebody up over the bonnet or down under the wheels, whether the driver is following the speed limit or speeding etc. etc.), and there are other policy options that can also help increase safety, like separating cyclists and cars with curbs, barriers, medians, etc. But I don't think there is any controversy to the assertion that reducing speed on city/suburban streets does reduce accidents and the severity of accidents...
correlation is not causation if they ve already forgotten what caused it. People are really not good at being governed
There was an organization devoted to reintroducing wolves to the northeastern US, but I don't believe they found it politically feasible.

However, I have seen (and photographed) something I called a coyote, but others insisted was a wolf.

It has been asserted that coyotes tend to evolve to resemble wolves, when there are none in an ecosystem.
Where do you go to watch competitive programming? That sounds like it might help with Leetcode-style bullshit.
In the photos the meteorite is just sitting there.

Shouldn’t it have been extremely hot to burn the pillow?
Basically Seattle, too.

We've had about 200 incidents of rock throwing at cars on freeways this year. City "leaders" finally did something about it at around incident #175 by clearing the homeless encampments along the freeway. Up until that point, if you didn't like rocks going through your windshield, it was because you lacked "compassion."
I’ve heard about these MCA treatments in articles but am surprised to hear in these comments about it actually already being in use.

My father is an immunocompromised transplant patient and has been isolating now since the start of the pandemic. His first two vaccines had no antibody response and we will get results on his third dose in just over a month from now.

The situation has been really difficult for us as a family and he’s not had human contact this whole time (lives alone, I’m in another country). His renal consultant and local NHS consultants offer no hope or mention of MCA treatment. Has anyone more information on this in the UK?
Why was Facebook down for five hours?
My career in IT (at the uni support desk) started with me screwing up an UPDATE. The colleague setting up the internal system had typed in something close to `UPDATE users SET password = hash("`, and asked me to type in the password I wanted (this was the early 2000s and an internal system, so basically standard practice). In an effort to be "helpful" I finished the statement with `");` and pressed Enter. And that's how everyone had to reset their password.
The people at most risk are the "Ethical malingers". The people at least risk are those who already have a low risk profile and/or those who take the vaccine.

I wonder what other populations you might compel to do things - or not - for the "herd" and their health. My guess is it would look cruel and capricious very quickly, much like any other tyranny.
I lost it when I was tasked of fixing bugs introduced by other engineers. That shit is soul draining as hell.

I resigned, started working on my own projects and tools. I am earning less right now but the peace of mind and interest in coding is back.
Agreed, but how do we help people understand that ‘not make them run that risk again’ is currently demonstrated to mean getting vaccinated, and that living a normal life is repeating the risk of health issues from re-catching COVID? Their heuristic mental model seem to be getting tricked, by the magnitudes of the numbers involved, into swapping those.
Plenty of what we eat isn’t that great for us either.

Humans are complex critters.
Great stuff, but it doesn't work on induction stoves. If you learn to cook on stainless steel, it's really great for cooking.
You mean the executives that sit in meeting rooms with video conferencing equipment and a couple of other people? Talking to one or more other meeting rooms filled with other groups of people?

Of course you have a certain point when the company is small and in one location and no need to talk to external parties often. It's far from universal. And everyone with their own mic and camera is way better than the dude that's always too far from the mic and only the people that are in his location can understand and converse with him etc.
So a manager prioritizing personal minor convenience (single individual) over productivity and comfort of the reports would be considered a charitable interpretation in MBA land? edit: removed "You" as the author is not part of the group that supports the behavior mentioned
>I'm omitting the "compulsory" part, however

It's intellectually dishonest to chop up what he says, even though you admit it, to make it easier to argue against.
Where I come from promising something, accepting people's money, and then reneging on the promise is considered unethical.
How did you get informed enough to decide which public health authorities were the right ones to trust?
The options are either kill a few people every day or MAYBE there is a black swan event and a bunch of people die.

Based on the history of nuclear power, I'd still choose nuclear.
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