skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In term of protection. For starters, if vaccine effectiveness were holding, there would be no need for boosters.

A picture from a recent preprint of 600k veterans over 6 months shows troubling VE against infection curves. J&J VE against infection is gone. Pfizer curve is just 2 months behind, at 53% and dropping.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/10/14/202...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.13.21264966v...

Fortunately VE against severe infection holds much better at 77% Pfizer for June-Sept 2021 time period. The clinical trials claimed 94%, so there is a drop there. Nobody knows what will be the VE against sever infection a year from now, and we appear to have decided to preemptively boost so we might never know.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7037e2-H.pdf

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

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Alas, none of this takes in account future virus variants and their interaction with OAS. OAS means that building an immune response against the virus today will prove ineffective for a virus variant 10 years down the line. The worst known scenario was encountered with dengue fever. An excerpt from a 2011 paper summarizing the dengue situation:

"Original antigenic sin has the advantage that a response can be rapidly mobilized from memory. However, the downside is that in some cases, such as dengue, the response is dominated by inferior-quality antibody. In influenza, original antigenic sin has been shown to reduce the effectiveness of vaccination (13, 34, 51). In dengue, the effect of original antigenic sin has considerable bearing on vaccine strategies. Once a response has been established, it is unlikely that repeat boosting will be able to change its scope, meaning that balanced responses against the four virus serotypes will need to be established with the first vaccine dose."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014204
This seems rather concerning. I am by no means an expert on banking or finance, but would this not create massive risk of contagion should the price of Bitcoin collapses?

I am all for people being able to experiment and bet their own money on cryptocurrencies, but I do not think that it is right for the general public to be exposed to this kind of risk.
Sexy. So many startups using Circular Book these days lol
I don't think books are obsolete, many people still enjoying reading them, and buying them. Also, there are plenty of government subsidized programs that are popular with people. No economic model can perfectly match our sensibilities. We as a society protect things that we think need protection. It's really as simple as that.
Where's the built-in toilet? C'mon Amazon, where's the innovation?!
It could be because it matches the order of glsl's `mix()`. Not sure why glsl chose that order, though perhaps you might find it less unintuitive for an interpolation than a select. (Mix acts as a select rather than interpolation when the third argument is a boolean)
How is it not directly comparable? People use cash, checks, wire transfers, credit cards, etc. to make or receive payments all of the time. There's no reason why you can't compare those from the user's perspective — if I want to buy a cup of coffee, how long does it take, how much does it cost, how hard is it, etc.?

> It literally doesn't matter how much energy it uses, as long as those properties are achieved.

This is like saying it doesn't matter how slow it is as long as your computing machine is Turing complete. It doesn't matter if you achieve those properties on an unworkable system and it especially isn't true that more than a tiny fraction of people value them above cost or utility — a drug deal might care a lot about untraceable but the average person doesn't care enough to pay more or use something inconvenient.
pubg doesn’t allow shooting through things, the server checks if the shot was possible. instances where it feels like that are just due to lag. in pubg you can get hit after moving, with server side hit detection instead you miss when it looked like you hit.
That is how human relations work. If you don't like my lemonade, I really don't have to listen to your alternative recipe. You can get your lemonade somewhere else, or make your own.
Is this somehow supposed to be inconsistent? One normally doesn't hate Amazon because they are successful, but because they are too successful. This is like claiming making fun of someone who says they hate cigarettes or alcohol because they are "covertly" still using both all the time, or someone who says they hate the food at their school cafeteria despite "covertly" eating it... this "you don't get to say you hate something if you use it" take is ridiculous.
It’s used in Docker often. I can see it being in that sub for that reason.
Yes, but even if

P(Survive infection|Survive first infection) > P(Survive infection|Have been vaccinated),

in general the far more interesting inequality is

P(Survive first infection) * P(Survive infection|Survive first infection) << P(Survive having been vaccinated) * P(Survive infection|Have been vaccinated)

So it usually is still a better strategy to get vaccinated than to get infected.
Search ads and Youtube ads are unaffected by ad-blockers, and that's a big chunk of their revenue.
"One could say the same if you choose to be a car-less urban dweller who relies on transit and high-density infrastructure.

You can stereotype and caricature people both ways, neither helps the discussion."

Car-less urban dweller pays ticket fees for transit, so the argument doesn't work.

They aren't car-less because they are saving money - if you give everyone who uses public transport a car, gridlock will get so bad there will be bodies in the street.
> somehow

Monero has implemented just such a system already (the RandomX PoW algorithm).
Find it interesting for this topic to be coming up after reading an article recently that goes into some detail on the concept of the perceived insect apocalypse

https://quillette.com/2021/07/25/the-insect-apocalypse-that-...
France has a long history of attempting to protect its cultural industries, including film and publishing.

It's not wrong. There are other things that are important aside from customer purchasing power.

Amazon is using its economies of scale to drive out smaller businesses. It is not unique in that. But the industries that Amazon affects may be unique to the nations that wish to preserve them.

Most centralization incrementally kills local industry, including the local culture industry. TV, railroads, chain stores, Wal-mart, you name it -- they are all killing something local.
I have a similar issue with a M1 MacBook Air.

My 1440p 144 Hz monitor works fine on my Intel MacBook Pro via USB C, but the M1 MacBook can’t do more than 60fps on the same connection.

Have not found much info about it at the time either.
I'm curious whether French independent bookstores have been harmed much by Amazon. In the US, Amazon has probably actually been a boon — the number of independent bookstores has grown dramatically over the last decade, in part because Amazon squashed the previous era's giant book retailers like Borders and Barnes and Noble, who had been crushing independent bookstores.
It means they bet on vertical integration, and they make product decisions no other manufacturer has the balls to make, and win because of it. Observe how _nobody_ can make a laptop that's better than MBP in spite of having several _decades_ to observe what Apple does. The same is the case here. Tesla has insurmountable avantage in this regard simply because they are not a "traditional" car manufacturer and have no "legacy" they have to maintain.

But the best explanation is to just go to a Tesla dealership and take one of their cars for a spin. It _feels_ like iPhone.
>In case anyone else didn't take latin in school

...note that they can pick them up on their own at any age...
Yeah -- just make no profit for two decades until everyone with shallower pockets bled out, stupid.

It's called competitiveness, baby, and it's easy peasy lemon squeezy!
Cars and vehicles in general are actually much harder because player simulation is much simpler, usually not happening in some middleware physics engine and is much more bounded in terms of the accelerations and speeds involved.

Straightforward extrapolation as with dead reckoning does poorly with both cases.

Then once you’ve mastered the art of getting cars not looking wonky you have to deal with collisions between them when they’re moving at speeds where typical gameplay latencies make it easy for discrepancies between clients to cause mispredictions which result in complete misses or large interpenetrations that physics engines have a bad time with.
It might not cost much for yourself, but when we're talking millions of people. Data points being recorded multiple times per day per customer, the size of that data would be huge.
Am I wrong to find it hard to believe they haven't filmed any of Part II? They were just sitting there on-location and going "nope, not gonna shoot any Part II material"? They've been talking up this ultimatum of "see it in theatre or else" for months, and I'm supposed to believe the studio would actually sit here and re-negotiate/re-budget cast/crew/locations? What am I missing?

Edit: For the record, I really liked Part I. How many people here watched it and were expecting to here people's mental dialogue jump on the sound track at a few points?
The links you posted have absolutely nothing to do with the assertion that “Study of history, philosophy, psychology, civics, and the like helps us pass on qualities that aren't needed to make business widgets.”

We need a term for the practice responding to requests for evidence by posting academic papers which do not contain the evidence.
Snowflake is OLAP and billed based on usage time + storage. This looks like it’s a regular OLTP SQL DB and pay by request.
Signal's core value proposition is radically increasing the expectation that one is having an e2e encrypted conversation. I love Element's product and mission, but a product which explicitly is eroding and complexifying privacy around a 3rd party product which is about privacy seems to be a bad tradeoff, and also stands to undermine the public perception of what Element is all about. I would suggest either carving out the e2e platforms (particularly Signal), or introduce functionality that will ensure conversations had through the bridge inform the counter party that the messages are not e2e encrypted. It's the right thing to do.
This is solvable with vanilla table design. Add a version column to the discounts table, make your foreign key point to (discount_id, version) instead of just discount_id, keep old discounts around. Don't mutate discounts, just add a new row with a new version. You can still group by discount_id and exclude the latest version for each discount if you want.
I will sometimes start with a zone file, like com.zone. I search for keywords in registered domainnames. Then I filter by nameserver (registrar). Finally, I run a script to fetch the page titles. You would be surprised at how effective this can be in finding websites that you would never be able to find using simple Google searches. Of course, it is cumbersome; search engines can make this process very easy but they deliberately disable this type of exploration. You can query Google's index for a list of all websites with domain names that contain a certain keyword, but you will never be able to retrieve the full list of results, and certainly not in a "neutral" order such as alphabetical.

Arguably a web comprising a large number small, diverse websites, where each user may be visiting a variety of different websites, is less suitable for advertising than one where all web users are funneled through a few large websites that survive by selling online ad services, like Google. It stands to reason that those large, online ad services sites would have little interest in showing users an undiscovered portion of the web. They want users to congregate on "popular" sites. Good for advertising.

OTOH, using zone files instead of a search engine, social media or news aggregator site in the online ads (or VC) business, one can see all websites that have registered an ICANN domain name. No filters. No advertising-related algorithms. Popularity is irrelevant. The user determines relevance, not a third party.
There's a huge tangle of things with "Apple owns your computer" but I don't think most of it applies to the icloud question.

If you wanted to store photos in icloud on a Windows machine, you'd be using the Apple icloud client. Apple has at least some control over what software they write and ship does[1]. They can break 3rd party clients almost at will, so if they choose to be hostile to 3rd party clients that control is fairly strong.

Arguing over what amount of control Apple should exercise over what software runs on a device purchased by a consumer is mostly orthogonal to arguing over what amount of control Apple should exercise over what software can connect to their servers.

1: On a general purpose machine, debuggers and emulators can influence what software does, obviously, so the control isn't absolute.
Niche Website Package
The last time I saw chimpanzee research in Oxford, it didn't end well...

https://youtu.be/n8FbMY-quW4
It’s forced obsoleting. Forced existence is the pushback. There are better methods though I agree. When we finally bring more manufacturing back to the US I think that’ll be a natural way to put a damper on Amazon’s harm to our country
It's true that the relevant committee is now likely to propose this be changed in C++ 23 (or before as an errata)

But the face saving is on the part of embedded C++ proponents who'd rather never fix the C++ language than risk that the mundane C code cheap vendors actually ship can't be counted as "C++ support" because it's no longer valid C++.

That's the core of the argument in P2327. Not that this isn't a bad idea (it's obviously a bad idea) or that we shouldn't do better (alternatives to C++ already do better) but that this is the status quo and C++ can't expect to improve upon that. A sad state of affairs.

P2327's dismissal of the problem caused by UART1−>UCSR0B |= (1<<UCSZ01 ); comes down to the usual Real Programmer stance, surely every single embedded programmer will arrange "by construction" that the problem can't happen. No actual examples were examined to see if embedded developers reliably do that, which seems unlikely - we're just invited to imagine that they're all inerrant.
I hope this isn't the actual "real" code, because you've got undefined behavior before you even have to worry about the associativity optimizations. There's an uninitialized read of 'kahan_c' on the first loop iteration.
The highest quality software I ever worked on was waterfall all the way, and by God, was it high quality.

The requirements were hammered out in brutal detail by an experienced specialist. Each requirement agreed with the customer, and then each requirement carefully worked into a design. Each requirement clearly linked with every part of the design that fulfilled it. The design reviewed and approved. The code written in literal style (using a variant of noweb), with discussion and commentary, and that noweb document compiling into the source code to be onwards compiled and also a beautiful document listing the full source code and the various commentaries and discussions of it (such that one understood the code not by looking at the code, but by reading the document, which was like a structured guided tour of the code, and to look at the actual code was to see a one-to-one relationship with the documentation).

Each part of that document linked to a part of the design, and thus to the requirements. Tests had been written independently of the code, based on the design and the original requirements. Test documents were printed out, and an individual conducted every test on that document, writing down version numbers and so on, and writing down each results, circling PASS or FAIL, signing their name to it. Successful test documents were sealed in an envelope, with a date and signature, and put into storage against the customer requesting to see one (which happened every so often).

The original requirements could, years later, be followed through the design, through the code, through the tests; the whole chain verified on demand.

The software I worked on was developed over most of a decade (I was only there about four years), with a delivery a couple of times a year. The customer never once reported a bug. Every requirement was met. Other contractors had their part taken away from them and given to us, and when it was finished they took it and asked us if we could start working on the next generation product of the same.

I have never before or since worked on such high quality software. It was only possible because we happened to have really high quality customers, who actually knew what they wanted and had the ability to say it and agree to it.
Where can one buy a Bitcoin mining ASIC that isn't already obsolete?
That's fine, it can be fixed in the next sprint.
Sure, if “slighty worse that good” is “shitty”.

When you can’t sell your slightly-less-good product for a lower price to make it value-competitive to slightly-more-good one, there’s very little reason for all the users not to go to the slightly-more-good one. With free services given away to get an advertising audience, that makes slight advantages very prone to positive feedback loops.
This is the part where we need laws to protect privacy. This is arguably an overreach by the FBI in the first place and if it is legal it shouldn’t be.
According to FB only 28% of married couples meet in college.
Your anecdotes about your relatives in Australia are duly noted but disregarded as irrelevant, because it's anecdotes. I have family in Australia too, saying the complete opposite to you. Do you accept that? If not, then I have no reason to accept your anecdotes.

And you'd take the Australian per-capita death rate over the US...along with their tyranny? That's not worth the cost, because in the end something much much worse emerges. Have you seen any of these links yet? Here's what's actually happening in Australia.

They're going to force people who quarantine at home (rather than a government-mandated quarantine "hotel" with guards) to install and use an app. Facial recognition, GPS tracking in your own home. And it will randomly ping you, and if you don't respond within 15 minutes it'll send the police to your house to conduct an in-person quarantine check. Source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

They're arresting people for making Facebook posts against lockdowns. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

Australia presumes to say how many people can visit your home. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097

Also to address the original point more specifically and directly:

Your links to justify "vaccine or fuck off" as a historical precedent are weak. Nobody is really opposed to requirements for certain schools or working in a hospital with sick people near by. That is a wild departure from what we are seeing in Australia and the USA with the Biden administration attempting to force this onto corporations across the board and Victoria Australia straight up banning "unvaccinated" people from normal life regardless of antibodies. What we see now is people creating a new religion out of their zeal for enforcing conformity when the evidence shows that it's pointless to have that expectation. Look at the links I gave you previously: The antibodies the vast majority of these populations have are effective regardless of where they came from. Both populations have antibodies in far excess to what Fauci and other public servants deemed necessary for ending covid.

If you cannot participate in normal life because of the covid vaccination,, that is a complete departure from what we've done in the USA. And for travel too - I've traveled abroad before and was never expected to provide vaccination records at all. If it was about health, it'd be about antibodies and suspending these mandates immediately once the threshold has been reached. That threshold has been reached since this summer.
It's easy to check - pick the biggest program, Social Security. Look at Social Security outlay, say for 2019 (pick any year) [1] and you get $1,091,345M, number of people getting benefits (71,322,000), and operating budget (13,083M).

This means expenses to provide 1.091 trillion in assistance is 0.013 trillion, so the overhead is around 1%.

In fact, they do all this for you, finding administration costs well under 1% [2] when all benefits and costs are accounted for.

Pick any program you want, do the same. Medicare, SNAP, TANF, SNAP... go ahead and show me the excessive overhead to manage these programs.

Have a citation to the contrary?

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/budget/
[2] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/admin.html
Laravel Forge does exactly this and does it beautifully
Unfortunately the cockroaches, bed bugs and ticks didn't get the memo.
That is surprising, you must have had an extremely accurate accelerometer and gyro, or employed tricks [1]. There are two problems with determining position from acceleration measurements:

1. You're integrating twice (acceleration to obtain velocity, then velocity to obtain position). So if you have any noise or error, you're integrating that, and integrate that again. Hello, parabola.

2. Gravity. It's strong. So you have to subtract it (as it induces an apparent acceleration upwards).

If the difference between actual down and where your model thinks is down is just a fraction of a degree, you'll be totally off within minutes.

See eg here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JQ7Rpwn2k&t=1401s

Or here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk//techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-696.pdf

> As a concrete example consider a tilt error of just 0.05 [degrees]. This error will cause a component of the acceleration due to gravity with magnitude 0.0086 m/s2 to be projected onto the horizontal axes. This residual bias causes an error in the horizontal position which grows quadratically to 7.7 m after only 30 seconds [and thus to 770 m after 5 minutes, unless I'm mistaken, and 110 km after an hour]

Or here: https://liqul.github.io/blog/assets/rotation.pdf (search for "Accuracy of Velocity and Position Estimates").

[1] such as assuming that your foot has velocity zero while on the ground, which does not hold when you're in an elevator, for example, and which you can't use in a drone without some serious sensor fusion.
This seems to have similarities to JAX, ie defining as functions and getting some DAGs and auto vectorization
I just call them, "Nope."

I'd really like a plugin that will override styles on links to sites on a list I get to keep.
If performance was such a problem python wouldn't have a subreddit.

I think a lot of lispers like handling various paradigms in their head and start with basic lisp, and resort to edsl to reach more appropriate semantics/mechanical sympathy. Just like people call out to C wrappers mostly.

The social side of lisp I can't say for sure but I'm sure it's fuzzier than it seems. I've just talked to a dude saying his new guy was a clojurist and his thinking is way finer than the current team.
In a trickle up economy it doesn't matter where you drop it, it will go into the stock market.
Has it generated a word for the noise you make after sipping a cup of tea or a cold drink? The “ahhhh” sound. I nominate the word “fonce” if it’s not already taken.

“The pair sat foncing so noisily over their hot cups of tea that it drove everyone else from the room”