skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can interpret this as either the vaccine not working (unlikely) or that high-income countries such as Iceland and Portugal test a larger share of their population than low-income countries such as Vietnam and South Africa (very likely)

You may interpret all you want, but I was just pointing out the lack of solid data supporting the claim: "The vaccine significantly slows the spread"

Almost 3 billion people have been fully vaccinated worldwide and yet there is still no evidence that the vaccines have any effect at all in slowing the spread of the virus. I find this rather remarkable.

This situation could very well push the evolution of the virus towards more dangerous strains. Like what happened with Marek's disease among chickens:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathog...

> Your quote shows that the AstraZeneca vaccine loses effectiveness over time. However, the chance of an unvaccinated person passing on the virus is 67%, which is significantly higher than the 58% for a person who received the Pfizer vaccine.

Pfizer buys you a bit more time, but the downward trend in your immunity is unmistakable too:

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/1626980447-vaccin...

https://imgur.com/zt0wrOo

https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vaccine-efficacy-safet...
I think the point is that it's simpler to write a functional distributed system in Erlang/Elixir that have this all baked in than to do it in the others. But the others are simpler to round up some coders and out something out with even though there are a lot of traps for the unwary and no guide rails like the ones Actor models give you.

Basically enterprise IT sometimes mistakes something being easier to finish with it actually being simpler to run long term. Hence people who write themselves into corners with Python websites etc
RSS may or may not be the best way for news depending on your perspective; It is the best way to deliver personal blogs that one updates every couple of days to every couple of months. It is a mean, blogging is the end. Let's wish the culture of blogging persists; So RSS will always have a place.
This kind of stains .NET as a whole moving forward. I now qualify .net and C# as a non-starter. Just like I would Oracle for my database needs.

Is it fast, great, nice to use? Maybe -- but I won't ever use it because it's riddled with licenses and other bullshit I really don't care about.

I'll continue to use truly open source and free tools like Postgres and Elixir.
A set of local laws that says "heavy industry isn't allowed in residential areas" is a zoning code
For C/C++ on Windows and Linux. CMake build support and cross-platform builds and debugging are available out of the box with Community version of VS.
Yeah I think we are agreeing. I’m just saying it’s a funny interpretation that Revelations took of that technique to make it physical and believing that interpretation when there is prior art is also funny.
Damn, they tagged half of all github users for review.
As more people lose faith, you have higher numbers of people that have faith in only themselves. What replaces morality? I haven't seen a large movement to replace it.
It's not really possible with just running the program. The whole issue is that the cycles are usually dwarfed by a cache miss.

You can just assume you don't miss the cache of course.
I’ve had an X1 Carbon for almost 2 years now as a development machine, and I really like it. My previous laptop was a 13” MBP.

The X1 is light and fast. I run Fedora, and work often in containers. I have the likes of Podman, VS Code, IntelliJ and Atom running and many Firefox tabs open, all without any problems.

Other good points are the 2xUSB ports, HDMI, and good battery life.

The main downside is the 256GB HDD, which fills up far too quickly, so I end up having to do a bit of housekeeping quite often. But as a dev machine, I can recommend it.
Unfortunately, many comments are not from "best HN commenters", so signal/noise ratio perhaps lower than expected.
The thing is, we're trying to solve a 90 day problem, where the packets have an 18 day round trip. And once an empty container is parked in a parking lot (without the trailer it's sitting on) you can just leave it there for years with close to zero consequences.

The downside at this point is that all the retail items for this holiday season won't be on shelves for christmas, so the damage done to brick and mortar sales industry has already been done
> Guys and girls. This starting to look exactly like communism

Is this some kind of a joke I don't get? If you're serious tho, it sounds like a positive to me.

> Cars are not the enemy

They are. Most modern cities are an unlivable toxic mess thanks to the fact we based transportation on private cars. There is no clean tech that can sustain the large scale usage of cars we currently have. Even electric pollutes a lot just during production/disposal.

I'm so tired of being poisoned (and with my greatest discomfort, my child too) every time I go out. I'm tired of having to give up something like 80% of the open space in our cities to a mass of lazy people that identify their "freedom" with the possession of a private vehicle.

> Example: Porsche's synthetic fuel

You know that only an infinitesimal part of the population will ever be able to afford a Porsche? How is that going to change anything except by calming the guilt of a few privileged individuals?

> The risk of biking injuries is always present.

That's why as they specify in the thread, you need a critical mass, in order to stop hysterical moped/car drivers from trying to dangerously pass you. Maybe if you just read it, instead of going on a rant against communism, you'd have something better to offer to this discussion.

I promise you, I love this idea so much I am going to dedicate myself to spread it and make it a reality.
There's nothing "on par" when it comes to C/C++/C#, and these three languages are still quite big in non-web world.
Okay, how many empty container stackers are there in LA county?
Morality doesn't presuppose religion, faith or belief in the supernatural. The religious can be amoral and selfish, atheists can be moral and selfless.
GitHub Octocat designer on his famous creation: “I don't remember drawing it”
It's not malice. Your non-technical boss who says "well, if we have 3 other developers developing that API with you, it should get it done in one fourth of the time, right?" is not malicious either. But this kind of a boss doesn't "get" it, and neither does Microsoft. They don't seriously understand the mindset behind an open source project, and I don't expect them to in the future either.

So I avoid all Microsoft technologies, especially the lock-in ones like Visual Studio and .NET. I recommend you do as well.
> The WHO/CDC positions are consistent with the prevailing science.

Aren’t these the organizations that lied to the public in March 2020, saying masks were not effective?

They later justified their deception, at the cost of how many lives (?), by suggesting it was to prevent a shortage of masks for medical personnel.

These organizations are not promoting the science to shape policy, they’re promoting policy with filtered science.
Why has this obvious solution taken 3 months and a boat tour from a startup CEO to implement? Do not elect incompetent mouth breathers into local governments, folks. When such people run unopposed (or when all the alternatives suck about as hard) I write in Mickey Mouse. If this was a trend, Mickey would hold most of the elected offices in this country.
Seems like a day in a lot of big corps; embrace it or switch.
there is a Twitter video linked. it's truly nonsense and in glad it was banned tbh. he says the pandemic was planned and COVID vaccine didn't work amongst other misinformation
Incidentally, what font is being used for the main text?
C++ memory model as a distributed system
>Is there any major religion which has an expressly stated purpose of increasing the “life satisfaction” of its adherents?

Christian here. Our titular hero - the very God of our universe - was beaten and hung on a cross to die (slowly). It is hard to look at that and think "following this guy is going to increase my life satisfaction".
We don’t actually care about infections, we care about the things infections cause. A single virus infecting a single cell is an infection, what happens after that depends on the immune system. Antibodies are supposed to stick around briefly after an infection to minimize the risks of reinfection. For near lifetime immunity as provided by the measles vaccine it comes down to memory B cells which drastically speed up the adaptive immune response. Thus reducing the period an infection is contagious and reducing the risks of severe infection.

Note, the above applies both to natural infections and vaccination. Also note many childhood vaccinations are effective for decades.
It’s also entirely possible that it was locked to prevent the inevitable spam of the same comments. When GitHub issues go viral (relatively speaking) through here and Reddit, they tend to get spammed with dozens or even hundreds of comments that don’t add to the discussion.

Everyone commenting “Microsoft, why? You suck!” doesn’t add to the discussion.
They're more than allowed to say it, YouTube is equally allowed to not repeat it.
Re 4: not only had this happened earlier on the set, people walked out over poor gun safety.

And it is coming out that the Assistant Director on this shoot has a lengthy history of blowing off firearm safety: https://consequence.net/2021/10/alec-baldwin-shooting-crew-w...
It seems you are using a tactic of obfuscation and confusion to derail the conversation.

Seems like you’ve successfully done just that.
He’s talking about generally technical people, not software engineers.
This is my favorite PKD quote.

Nothing is as perfect as you believe it to be.
How Thai food took over America (2019)
That frustrated me for a long while, how hard it is to find a mentor even if you want to. Many of us are this "forced" to reinvent the wheel and stumble in the dark trying to learn as we go. I've gotten used to it and it even had its perks as it allows you to build a more robust sense of self, but I do reckon that it's not always ideal and it used to be a source of considerable emotional drag.
I agree that positive vs. negative is beside the point. But deadlock and positive feedback loop are different things though.
This is a really funny take on the supply chain problems. I guess it's always fun to blame the deplorables, but you might want to read about what the actual problems with the supply chain are, including on the front page of HN.
Welt Am Draht "predicted" The Matrix in 1973, and it was based on Simulacron-3 which also "predicted" The Matrix, written in 1964.

The Matrix was not a specifically unique concept, it was just unfamiliar to audiences at the time. That isn't to say that there isn't something especially good and powerful in it's blend of the aesthetics and themes that Welt Am Draht and the remake The Thirteenth Floor didn't have.
I can't wait to scroll down and read the comments from angry drivers who just want these damn kids to get out of the road so they can get to wherever they won't be able to park even faster.

Edit: I was not disappointed.
> Why do you think this is bad?

Sweden used to operate on hydro and nuclear, with a few fossil fuel plants operating for a short duration during the winter. Now some of those fossil fuel plants have been put to operate almost for the whole year, with only a few periods being offline during very windy days. Optimal weather only occurs that often. Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing from the energy sector, not decreasing.

Being dependent on fossil fuels has many other negative aspects. A lot of that fuel is now bought from Russia, which as recently as just a few days ago have started to give political conditions that those buying gas from them must do so through their new and quite controversial pipeline.

An other major drawback is pricing. With an ever increasing instability in the energy grid the price for stability goes up by those who can create supply. The energy also need to be transported from further distances which introduce more middle men who want their cut. In addition, with more energy be trading there are those that earn money from just energy market speculations, extracting even more money from the customer.

In addition to all that, if we listen to climate change scientists we get a pretty clear message that we can't afford digging up more fossil fuel. It need to remain in the ground. We don't have the luxury to continue burning fossil fuels and hope that some time in the future we can fix what we break today.

TLDR: burning fossil fuels is bad and being depending on burning fossil fuels is bad.
Procrastination is about managing your emotions effectively.

I imagine anxiety is somewhat related when you get outside of fight or flight.
I'm sorry you're resorting to insults when the facts don't support your argument?
Deployed against fake SEAL => https://twitter.com/smitty_one_each/status/14520363373605929...
Huh would you look at that. Shills gonna shill I guess
I like the second idea, but you need reliability in order to choose the bike as a transportation to, say, work. You can't afford to wait to randomly meet someone to share a ride with if you need to be somewhere at a specific time. This also doesn't provide the safety a critical mass would provide.
There are truck driver shortages too. It’s a crappy deal for a truck driver to take a load which they don’t know it’s risks/payout or how long of a drive they will be taking, what they’ll do at destination, or if they’ll have a return trip.

Odds are you could offer truckers a special premium flat rate to clear the blockage - but it wouldn’t be sustainable.
Plenty. That isn't actually the important question or rather important problem. The storage yards are currently stacked X x Y x 2 and now they need to be re-stacked into something like X x (Y / 2) x 4 to free up space for more empties but that re-stacking has to happen from the edges. That will take a little time.
You're missing an important point here - if US customers cannot get their Xmas gifts on time, they won't buy them (nobody is going to order Xmas gifts if they will likely only arrive in January of later). Facebook has about 5 million advertisers, and a material percentage of them relies on the Xmas season for their financials to work out on an annual basis. Millions of US business have deposited 7+ figures each in inventory deposits a few months ago, with the understanding that they will convert those deposits into profit by December at the latest. If that doesn't happen, how many of them will get bank loans to get them out of this mess? And how many people will lose their jobs with or without those loans? We truly are talking about a Lehman Brothers scale of a problem, and as Ryan pointed out, the only way to fix this is to unblock the ports. So if you're eventually going to have to do it, why not do it before millions of companies go out of business as opposed to only after that's happened?

So this is not just a matter of Chinese factories not being able to sell their goods (in which case their government will take care of them as they have done in the past). This is about US e-commerce businesses who can only fall back on their banks (and which are far more unpredictable in their generosity).

Ryan's idea to mobilize the military resources would have been a no-brainer and would have already happened in at least two countries I have lived in before.

One final detail - this may seem like a recent issue, and most of us only heard about the problem sometime in early October. In reality, the industry press has been covering this since at least March [1], when the backlog of cargo ships at LAX started exceeding 20 (it's supposed to be well below that). Now it's at over 70. So it's been 7 months with practically no action until a week ago. I am a Democrat, but this is not going to bode well for Biden.

[1] https://edisonreport.com/latest-update-on-the-global-shippin...
have you never heard of conflict of interest and availability bias? also, reasonable people understand that vaccines aren't the limiting factor to supply chains or business, it's politics.
I'm sorry you had that experience. The silver lining is now you have an opportunity to pay it forward, and take on a mentee! It can be super rewarding. And sometimes you can earn advisor shares.

Also you say "even if you want to": Do you agree with the article that business leaders seem not to want coaches? I honestly haven't seen that.
>something tells me that with only six questions, we can ascertain the impact of a person's particular religious beliefs and practices on their life in only the vaguest way.

This sounds like a game! 20 questions, but with religion!
In regards to covid in particular:

> Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/
The Greek region too remote for maps
You don't. I have a 3 years old and a 6 months old, I specifically asked to be in the living room with my desk so that I could have them with me during the day.
Sometimes they bother me, but more than 90% of the time they do well, they realize I work and my wife too.

Set the expectations for your family,I think that's really it.

And yeah, I'll have my daughter on my lap during meetings, or I'll be standing while rocking the baby occasionally. No problem, colleagues are understanding and I'm actually performing very well, so it should be possible for others to handle this.

Obviously a different business is if there is no fully dedicated care (e.g. Both parents work)
>As I understand it, the reason you're not supposed to do what Jeff did, is because of exactly what you say in the next sentence - favoritism and bias, that undermines morale and leads to a dysfunctional team and good people leaving.

My reading was that the poster was indignant that it took the actual outing of the affair to bring about change, when the actual workplace problems caused by them were evident beforehand.
Brand owners don't want their brands next to conspiracy theories in the same way they don't want their brands next to pornography.
You flipped the tax thing. Permanently remove the personal income tax. If your master owns the fruits of your personal labor, then you are slaves.
Meanwhile, the largest mass exterminations of humanity in the 20th century were carried out by regimes that expressly forbid the open practice of most religions.

Your view that religion is only really used to motivate war is incredibly shallow and I encourage you to broaden your horizons on this subject.
If anyone is looking for a hardware startup idea, there are a ton of "essential" chips in laptops, desktops, and servers that there are effectively only one or two suppliers for. None of these are ones that need particularly advanced IP or process technology. After what every OEM and ODM has experienced in 2020 and 2021 (and going into 2022), we're all looking for a diversified set of chip partners. Even when back-end fabs constraints will be the same, better partners to work with would be wonderful.
>rights are not only what are claimed, but that which can be exercised freely and without undue restraint

You can use a word to mean multiple things, but you have to be clear and consistent in using one meaning at a time and differentiating the context.

>In practice, inalienable rights don’t exist. This should change in my view.

Inalienable rights are an abstract idea that can't exist.

Rights that were never violated could not be conceived of as rights, like "hot" wouldn't have any meaning if there wasn't "cold".
> I don't see that they are as impactful to user experience as most other ads

Yep. Hence the comparison to mercury tilt switches.

> it feels a bit of a cheap shot to single out HN like this

Yep.
Seriously. I feel like my health and my wellbeing are hostage of a mass of angry egocentric drivers who can't possibly conceive taking a bike ride or using public transportation. Given their aggressive and uncompromising approach, I feel the only way to make this work is to literally force it on cities through critical masses, basically using the same coin they use.

They don't care about my health? I don't care about them being late to work.
>Is this some kind of a joke I don't get? If you're serious tho, it sounds like a positive to me.

How much of your life you have spend under communistic regime?
A assume none. That's was the point of my comment.
You are a sitting ducks and the rational thing is to educate yourselves, but emotions are a default response. As always.

>You know that only an infinitesimal part of the population will ever be able to afford a Porsche?

Porches synthetic fuel has nothing to do directly with their cars.

This and bio-fuel will be the actual thing to reduce the global emissions. Not some group biking.
What about people that have a disability and cannot bike?
Inclusive approach is the answer in design and in systematic thinking. Not exclusive activism that is so popular in the West now (mainly as result of libertarian-communistic minded educational system for the rich kids and the lucky ones).

Please, do a little research before making a response to my comment: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/09/porsches-new-synthetic-...

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news-environment...

https://evcentral.com.au/synthetic-petrol-understanding-pors...

>I promise you, I love this idea so much I am going to dedicate myself to spread it and make it a reality.

Wish you luck in this crusade.:)
About the domain, I recommend you get your own domain if you ever migrate off Gmail. That way you hopefully won't have to do it again anytime soon, even if you move to another provider
Let's be real. Social media doesn't have a choice. They are pre-empting orders for the government or they have already received them. There's a direct line from the white house to social media platforms. Youtube and Google is a business after-all. And the federal government could make it very hard for them to continue

From a press conference from July 15 2021

> Q Thanks, Jen. Can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in policing misinformation? Has the administration been in touch with any of these companies and are there any actions that the federal government can take to ensure their cooperation, because we’ve seen, from the start, there’s not a lot of action on some of these platforms.

> MS. PSAKI: Sure. Well, first, we are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team, given, as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic.

> In terms of actions, Alex, that we have taken — or we’re working to take, I should say — from the federal government: We’ve increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General’s office. We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation. We’re working with doctors and medical professionals to connect — to connect medical experts with popular — with popular — who are popular with their audiences with — with accurate information and boost trusted content. So we’re helping get trusted content out there.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-would-government-ce...
>... and jeans after three or four, ...

That's likely way too frequent and will quickly wear the denim out. Granted, it depends.

For casual/social wear, washing jeans every 4-6 weeks is typically fine. Obviously wash them sooner if there's any smell that simply airing them out doesn't cure, or if they're visibly dirty.

I agree that everything else on your body should pretty much be worn once and washed, barring top-layer delicates such as sweaters or cardigans.