skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When numbers being looked at are large, they can tell us something even if we admit to them not being perfect in many ways.

At worst, we can figure out trends or, at best, get a negative correlation to learn that something is not positively correlated or even causal.

But everyone reading a statistical analysis, esp on HN, should know it for what it is: it does not account for many things (people have mentioned age, you bring up phase of the pandemic, my thought was how this doesn't account for probability of vaccinated people intermingling more which is related to someone else bringing up people in rural areas...).

The entire study, based on the data it covered, does not proclaim that vaccines are bad (even though anti-vax people will take it as such), it's just that they are at an early phase and might need more development to increase their effectiveness, and that we'll need other solutions in addition to vaccines if we want to get back to any semblance of normalcy.

I think it's of utmost importance to understand who is exactly at risk from a COVID infection (other than "old folk", which is not really saying much) so we can better prepare for dealing with them (us? :) in the future. While this study does not answer this, keeping a critical mind is important in science.
Is it really not possible to guarantee the same floating point behavior across different CPUs? I was under the impression that compilers had flags for that kind of thing.
There is actually less than a 1% difference and residential real estate is far far less volatile and that is for post 1950. Before 1950, real estate did better than equities [0].

[0] Table on page 15 from the pdf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584
'Social housing' normally forbids subletting. It can get you evicted.
But in general you can only learn by getting confirmation or rejection.

I mean, it is nice to learn how to see a sandbank by the way waves break. But you only know that the waves break that way on a bank, if there is confirmation of that bank. On many surfspots, this knowldge is often handed down: maybe a diver checked the rocks below, maybe someone saw it during clear water etc.

So anything that confirms 'yes, you are right, waves are breaking there, because there ís a bank at X' is, IMO useful.
Best enjoyed with something like https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/ installed as a mod.
You are at odds with both the Parent comment, and the other people have that replied

They are not talking about holding the companies responsible, they are wanting to establish standard of government licensure similar to that of a Doctor, or Civil Engineer, there by making the INDIVIDUAL responsible not the company.
They did apologise for that to be fair.

https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/pull/3176#discussion_r72858...
>Whereas Christianity kept society together for over 1000 years

Only if you ignore all the wars.
> A working group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has proposed a series of steps to "decolonize" the Informatics curriculum

I was not aware that computer science was developed by some other group, then colonized and taken over by Western countries. If so, I absolutely agree - the terms and names used in CS education should be reverted to accurately reflect the peoples that discovered them!
Those ranges exist but as far as I know they are unheard of unless physically located in the US and if remote, likely having worked in their offices prior.
Ubuntu has had the proprietary nvidia driver on the iso and selected out of the box for a few releases now.
Nuclear contamination potential is no different than any other industrial activity humans engage in with poisonous materials at that scale and when we spill it it has the nice side effect of being and going away over time. You can't say that about heavy metal laced mine tailings leeching into a watershed or the various chemicals humanity has cooked up over the years and then dumped in the ocean. People just get their panties in a knot over nuclear contamination because "omg invisible" or something like that.
Could you give an example package you'd prefer to manage with your distro's package manager instead of cargo?
By your post you justify that racism is ok because people should just accept people should be free to have ideas. I agree, they can have those ideas but they aren’t free from the consequences of having shitty ideas.

Yes I believe people can change.

As for his views, he straight up said he was a trans exclusionary radical feminist.

He said it multiple times in the special.

Go look at what that means. He is AGAINST legislation for trans rights. This is no different than white people saying we didn’t need the black civil rights movement.

Let me put it another way, my mom is an old white women who was alive during integration of the schools. She is racist as shit. She has a black friend. If her black friend dies first, she will absolutely be at her friend’s funeral. She loves her black friend. My mom would say her friend is “one of the good” ones. My mom is straight up racist. Having and caring about an individual in a group she is racist against doesn’t mean she isn’t racist.

Dave cared about his friend. He cares about his family. But he said what he is. No one put those words in his mouth. He said he was a Terf
Just under 15 years experience, mixture of senior/lead IC work and the last 5 years in management too.
It's not always available to the user. We recently did AirBNB for the first time, and nothing was said about the checkout process until after about a day before our stay.

In that process, we were expected to do (light) housework to help prepare the house for the next guests.

We did it, but it really left a negative feeling for us to have to do housework on vacation when it wasn't expected.

The owner left us a slightly negative review saying that perhaps we weren't the right kind of customers for AirBNB and that we'd be more comfortable with all the amenities of a hotel instead. True, but a nasty thing to leave in a review.

There were other problems with the house that prevented my wife from sleeping well there that the owner gave half-assed suggestions for, and left negative comments about in the review, too.

Obviously we won't be using AirBNB again and won't be recommending it.

Anyhow, with the lack of regulations, there's no guarantee that you know what you're actually signing up for on AirBNB, especially with policies stating that the cancellation policy changes to whatever the owner says. Had we known that, we probably wouldn't have stayed there at all. Luckily it didn't affect us like it did the other poster above.
Contrary to both your comment and the parent's, one of the project's developers (not sure they are the main developer, but one of them) admitted in the referenced pull request that they were too harsh in their response to the contribution:

> Now I am rereading my first comment an see that it is too rude. I am sorry for that. I was in a bad mood when wrote this.
No, there are private and council-owned landlords.
Does this use the default graphics drivers in Windows? I have an older installation of Win10 on my Qubes laptop, and I'm limited in the resolution I can set on the Windows desktop. I have 1440p display on the laptop, and the largest resolution is still a window that is much smaller than the screen. This is my biggest problem with the Windows VM, and I was hoping that your project might do something to address this.
I found the issue, this was caused by Safari being in “private mode”.

I assume the bookmarklet uses some javascript that’s blocked by Safari in Private mode.. :)

It’s working fine now!
Many sites with paywalls still open up their content for search bots.
Poor Galway. The rental situation there is utterly bananas; while buildings are lying vacant for years in the heart of the city.

Yes, the rest of the country is like this too, but for whatever reason Galway seems to have it extra bad; I know families that have split up over it.
> If anything you have come up with a vague claim mentioning HG is better on a git thread

No, I didn't. Can you please point out to us where I did that?

> If HG truly shines I don’t know why people would choose Git over it

Git had a head start because Torvalds invented it and it became the SCM of Linux kernel,
then other free software developers on linux ecosystem followed that (GNOME etc.).
Github became hip and took of among open source developers few years after that. Rest is network effect.

> yet bitbucket based on Hg didn’t take off

Because bitbucket UI was more clunky and corparate-y looking compared to Github. Is it really surprising Github was more popular among Silicon Valley crowd? That's totally unrelated to it using hg instead of git.
I… don’t see anything wrong with that discussion?
Yup, just wanted to share in case you hadn't scrolled to see the actual price. :)
torrents needs to be available over a browser interface to hide in the usual https traffic
Even if it is only windows you could still (more likely than not) play it on Steam on linux.

I don’t even bother with the distinction any more. Just check protondb beforehand.
My problem with this is not “J has an operator that does exactly what you want” it’s “J has operators which do entirely different things depending on the arity”, you can’t intuit the behaviour of the binary / from the unary, they are for all intents and purposes unrelated.

As a result, the original mathexchange answer introducing / by explaining its unary behaviour (despite that being used nowhere in the answer) is solely a source of confusion.
Oh, sweet, that is indeed helpful.
About the same time as the oxid.it (page is not the original anymore) tools..
Hahah, thanks, I had not and was very surprised!
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You can't take the experience of a private citizen trying to clear some brush, bridge widening delays in one of the most regulation heavy states in the country, and oil pipeline opposition, and apply it to building HVDC between countries in Europe.

Or some random place in Ohio for that matter.

The regulatory hell that cities and states wealthy enough to afford it impose on themselves is not representative of the entire country.
Facebook plans to hire 10k in Europe to build ‘metaverse’
Not completely. Most were dormant advertisements.

There is not a big tourist tax here; the biggest tax evasions for private people is probably on their income tax level, but that's not solved by this.

The direct issue it addresses is the take over of many tourists of certain neighborhoods meant for living.

The favorite hobby of habitants of Amsterdam is complaining about tourists.

The fight against Airbnb is a symbolic fight for the left winged parties in the city. Airbnb stands for big bad capitalistic wolf that makes the city unlivable for the normal people.

The issue this bigger fight addresses is that Amsterdam is slowly becoming unaffordable for normal people and especially families. Tourist rentals are partly to blame, but there are many more causes (low interest rate, rich parents, students, limited space and more)

So there are a bunch of restrictive legislations trying to deal with this, this is just one of them. Another one for instance is that since last year it's required to have a permit if you want to live in a house with more then 2 adults.

Already for years it was required to register every night you rented out your appartment. Airbnb however refused to open the books so there was no way to check it for the city. Probably this way Amsterdam can check every registered appartment that's publically listed without the help of Airbnb.
> Don't use tables for design, folks.

Wow, feels like 15 years ago, when everybody moved from table layouts to divs.
I ran a few dozen kafka clusters at MegaCorp in a previous life.

My answer to anyone who asks for kafka: Show me that you can't do what you need with a beefy Postgres.
The formatting on the X11 configuration is off. Maybe indent or use two line breaks in the editor? Anyway, it should look like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
Very interested to hear how people here overcome the limits of kafka for ordered events delivery in real world, and what those were.
"I am a blogger and Internet freedom activist in Iran, and I have a message that millions of Iranians are desperate for you to hear: The Western media is failing the Iranian people."

How do you fail those to whom you have no obligation? At most the western media could be said to be failing their intended audience. Although I'm not sure that is the case here either. I have seen coverage of Iranian protests, detaining of the people and general repression in Iran. As much as an Iranian activist would like probably not but I don't know that the level an Iranian activist would like is appropriate for Western media. If you ask China there are 195 countries but I include Taiwan and go with 196. With 196 countries to cover the amount of coverage for an individual country outside the primary reporting area of a newspaper or tv network is going to be limited on a per country basis.
>The problem with this order is that it directly attacks one of the characteristics that has always been associated with art – Progressivism

That's complete and utter nonsense. What art always has been associated with is passing fads and fashions, usually inspired by previous fads and fashions. If anything Trump is the real avant-gardist here, now that the modernists have held their hegemony over the art establishment for quite some time.

I for one feel like we are ready for a more novel architectural movement, both neoclassicism and concrete UFOs seem a bit old and trite to me.
I used Gnome for a while and I just made my own very simple extension then, which was just a bunch of keybindings to move and resize the focused window. Super for a 2x2 grid or Super + Shift for a 3x2 grid, plus a Numpad key to place the window on the grid.

I guess it would still work with 40 because of how simple it was, but even if not, it would most probably be trivial to update, so you might want to consider this route.
AirBnB and everything around it has mutated into something big and ugly since where it began. Seems like we need good old couch surfing forums back.
I'd be surprised if a large % of those that no longer rent out on Airbnb can just leave their properties empty. I wonder whether those properties have shifted to other short-term rental platforms or whether they've gone back into long-term renting and what impact that the latter (would) have on the local rental market...
Haha, yeah, the reason it is a problem is because they’ve diverged so far.

If you can still merge the same changes to both branches you are home free.

Checking today and there’s differences in 2.5k files (out of 3.5k maybe?).

To be fair, a lot of that is cleanup, but still.
Roblox, the Gaming Site, Wants to Grow Up Without Sacrificing Child Safety
No.

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Yep and he apologized as you noticed, so I can't see anything too frightening to me.
Can you explain more? That still sounds like you are able to "make money by buying a few flats and renting them out" but with extra steps.
Imgin?

https://imgin.voidnet.tech/

If using firefox, try Redirector extension to redirect all imgur links to imgmin.
While opinionated, there is nothing weird about liking classical architecture or powerful people imposing their artistic preferences.

I'm not sure how anyone could manage to spin promoting classical architecture as some sort of unpleasant scheme, but I'm sure someone is going to try. The stuff is beautiful. At some point there has to be some admission that Trump isn't wrong about literally everything.
Excess mortality due to Covid-19?
Results:

In the first approach, the cumulative SMRs show that in Germany and Sweden there was no or little excess mortality in 2020 (SMR = 0.976 (95% CI: 0.974–0.978), and 1.030 (1.023–1.036), respectively), while in Spain the excess mortality was 14.8% (1.148 (1.144–1.151)). In the second approach, the corresponding SMRs for Germany and Sweden increased to 1.009 (1.007–1.011) and 1.083 (1.076–1.090), respectively, whereas results for Spain were virtually unchanged.

Conclusion:

In 2020, there was barely any excess mortality in Germany for both approaches. In Sweden, excess mortality was 3% without, and 8% with consideration of increasing life expectancy.
How can they miss the most important variable and that is the ability to freely mingle in society and lockdown measures? It's like making a study about diabetes and a drug and missing to control for diet. The outcome of this faulty study is that vaccines don't work well and that's what we DO NOT want to project. It will become a flag of anti-vaxxers.
Nope, I want the same thing and just turned off the tiling desktop feature because it was easier to manually juggle them.
Thanks for the interesting tidbits!
I played Fallout 3 on a Core 2 Duo with Intel graphics. I used the lowest graphics settings possible (the display's native resolution though - 1440x900, not the minimum) but enjoyed. Is Raspberry Pi 4 supposed to be even slower?
That doesn’t really make them left-leaning. With the same argument the CDU would be a left-leaning party.
They are consistent and hence for a old dos (not the pc) and mvs/esa support, nothing particular. Just job. And I suspect you do not have one guy (Amdahl aside) has a name to these.
using a sql db for push/pop semantic feels like using a hammer to squash a bug.. How would you model queues & partitions with ordering guarantees with pg ?
It's funny that I see that popping in HN, I've just reinstalled OpenMW the other day and am currently on my way to reveal myself to be the Nerevarine very soon.

The project is making excellent progress in my opinion. I remember a few years ago when they were actually many little things lacking (don't ask me for specific examples but I remember some game mechanics being broken) and now it's the opposite, their additions to the UI are very good (in the alchemy menu for instance) and some game mechanics have been rebalanced somewhat.
> We know antibody immunity declines over time, but protection against serious illness stays strong.

Reference?
I particularly liked when they needlessly pointed out that Döpfner (who is not Reichelt) "also owns one of Germany’s leading collections of female nude paintings". He owns such a collection, but if it's really a "leading" one is rather debatable... he owns around 350 paintings total, most of the showing nude people (according to himself, in 2019).

But why is this factoid even thrown into the article? For the added raunchyness alone to spice up the article, or to imply Döpfner is a bit pervy himself and maybe even wants to protect the pervy Bild editor Reichelt, who had sex with coworkers?

While I personally loathe Alex Springer, especially Bild, and then especially Reichelt, this article is really so void of fact that I can only conclude it's a deliberate hitpiece. Lots of handwaving, lots of unproven allegations, hearsay and insinuations. Bild and Reichelt, true hitpiece-afficionados, would love it... if it wasn't about them :P
Sure, double down and pull out the straw d man.
Can confirm installing macOS on unsupported hardware is very time consuming and makes me wish I had just installed Linux instead. For example, you have to manually map USB ports and install tons of random drivers to your installation media before you can get a working system. Enabling each part of the experience is a whole adventure in itself (eg. audio support requires you to set a value in the bootloader, but there are actually like five values for each kind of audio chip and you have to try each and every one until it works).

Also, WiFi support is a nightmare. Worse than I've ever had it on Linux.

Even vanilla Windows installs don't always work that well.
I don't think it's true at all that everyone knows that vaccination doesn't stop you getting infected, especially in the US - there seem to be a lot of people over there that still think herd immunity though vaccination would be a possibility if not for the evil right-wing antivaxxers screwing it up for everyone, and most of the US mainstream media has been continuing to push that narrative. There was also a big pushback against outlets reporting any evidence that vaccines wouldn't be able to achieve this anymore.
No, the landlords in these cases own the whole building, not just a few flats. If you own the whole building then you can of course rent out the flats in that building. But if you just own a couple of flats in the building, then you generally cannot easily rent them out.
That behaviour is quite culturally specific. I didn’t see any of that sort of thing here in Australia when I went to the vaccination hub. And I’ve had two people refuse social interaction recently because of vaccines. One person because she’s only had her first shot, and the other because it’s only been a couple days since getting the second dose and it takes 7-9 days for the vaccine to do it’s thing. Both highly neurotic people.

I’m sure there’s also plenty of Australians acting recklessly - but the ratios are probably very different country to country.
> it’s unfortunate that “blockchain” is apparently synonymous with proof of work cryptocurrencies and NFTs

What else would it mean?

Supposedly "trustless" consensus systems is what all the "blockchain" hype is about. (And those are only useful for censorship-resistant money. For literally everything else you don't need them and they don't even work.)

If you were to just talk about merkle trees / hash chains or anything else that's literally "chaining blocks"… well that doesn't need a buzzword. That's not new technology.
> This is basically the the same logical errer again

It's not necessarily a logical error. Extreme value theory should be the default tool for understanding tail risks (e.g. earthquake magnitude), unless we have good theoretical/logical reasons to depart from an understanding that's mostly informed by historical data.

Nuclear weapons are where I agree with your perspective. The tail risk is significantly larger than what is present in historical data, and attempts to understand this risk by looking at historical data are flawed.

Nuclear energy, like earthquake magnitude, is where I disagree with your perspective, unless you can present a coherent rationale about why nuclear power tail risk is drastically underestimated by the historical data, especially after taking into consideration modern plant designs which are safer than Chernobyl + the possibility of building them in the desert with nobody nearby.
Are there studies that you can link to demonstrating that vaccinated people get negative faster? Genuinely curious.
> COVID cases are not correlated with vaccination rate. But everyone knows that the vaccine doesn't stop you from getting infected;

I don't think that's what everyone does, or should know.

In the strict technical use of the word "stop" you are correct. it is not 100% eliminated.

But this is misleading, as the risk of being infected is much reduced by vaccination, as well as the "hospitalization and case severity".

As others have noted, the behaviours of people also influences the infection rate. Lockdown without any vaccination, or no lockdown and high vaccination percentages might give similar infection rates.
sql has many conveniences for doing so, it wouldn't be much work.

> using a hammer to squash a bug..

Agreed - but Kafka is a much much bigger hammer. SES/Az Queues are also good choices.
Yeah, countries absolutely have a negative feedback loop. In the UK, society is largely open and free to intermingle, yet the virus isn't spreading exponentially. In my mind, that's because the vaccine has significantly lowered the ability of the virus to spread, and society has opened up just as much as will cancel that gain out.
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