skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since initial infectious doses and peak viral loads seem to vary wildly in people who've been infected, I would speculate that it's much easier to quantify vaccine-induced immunity in a public health context relative to so-called "natural immunity", since those initial variables can be tightly controlled.

I think you are missing the largest discriminator.

The US Vaccines[1], and the related vaccines, are highly limited resistance specific to a spike protein only, perhaps with boosters, to a number of spikes seen. Total = 1, perhaps 2 if it includes a delta variant spike booster also.

Natural immunity confers with it resistance to a number of different covid-19 viral proteins, not just the spike. We know Covid-19 has 29 proteins

Now, we know that researchers saw these antibodies, as they were the ones that said, "all these antibodies could be the target of future vaccines", and the idea is there. However, we don't know the exactly count of antibodies to all these viral proteins, we just know of their existence from research. [2]

But, to compare the strength of natural immunity to a vaccine is to fail at elementary math.

However, I am not saying that people at a high risk from age, comorbidities, or both, should not take the vaccine. That is their own decision. On the other hand, the vast majority of the research indicates that natural immunity actually provides superior immunity from a breadth perspective, since a legacy vaccine protection is comparatively challenged against a mutated spike.

[1] This is not true for all vaccines, merely "spike" vaccines. So, it wouldn't apply to an attenuated viral vaccine. However, attenuated vaccines do not prompt as strong an immune response.

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32555388/
While I believe there's value in the mentality that "you don't know what you're building until you're building it", I also agree with a lot of this, as long as it means more asynchronous communication anyhow. The write-up itself was a bit focused on if it all happened in meetings, but a lot of this could also be accomplished over email or collaborative editing, RFCs, etc.

But back to the idea of many applications being emergent and/or not at all (or not entirely) what their creators intended. Maybe there's room for both approaches depending on the situation.
Agreed, it perhaps doesn't represent his career up to that point. I ran into a few issues like this; his career was distinguished but he had left active duty by the time of the snapshot I was taking (I also didn't see any evidence that it had made him visible to anyone as a potential presidential candidate, which was the thesis of the comment).

I also omitted that Teddy Roosevelt was about to publish a book on the War of 1812, and that Hoover had published a widely-used textbook on mining engineering.
It's just a personal reason. I make my living on linux and my personal computer is windows os. I like to turn off my work computer as a symbolic gesture and do my hobbies on personal computer. Just to divide work and personal headspace.

I play a lot of games and use lab software for electronic engineering so Windows is a must.

And try to convince my wife I need a third computer.
Hmm, I don't understand what would make that fraudulent, could you explain? Many users, and presumably many shareholders, click on ads that aren't relevant to them, or search for things that aren't relevant to their interests or purchases -- I would think that's just one of the many assumptions built into the advertising market.
Reuters doesn't use paywalls. Is it blocked in other countries?
Performance:

Getting Lisp to run as fast as C takes major effort when at all possible.

Resources:

Lisp needs a lot of space to do it's thing; and while it's certainly possible to downsize it, you're left with something that's not really Lisp anymore.

Ecosystem:

Finding solid libraries is tricky since it's not very popular professionally.

Power:

Unleashing the full power of Lisp in a diverse team is a recipe for an adventure, if not disaster.
What they don't tell us in the article is WHY it is $80k. Without knowing WHY, it's very hard to judge anything about it. Maybe it's price gouging. Maybe there are technical issues that make it very difficult. Maybe there are weird regulations that come into play. Maybe there are strange incentive structures. Maybe $80k is actually a loss. Who knows?
I have no knowledge in how far there have been immediate effects but several neonicotinoids have become more restricted/banned in the EU in the last 2-3 years.
The easiest way to extract and monitor data from any website
> This person is 'at risk' and has been strongly influenced by the nauseating, constant misinformation about vaccines and other things.

I agree that Facebook is a conduit for gross views, but it seems important to decide who should be sanctioned and how much. Is it the fault of the person saying the lie or the fault of the network that distributes it?

> the material legality of the allegations matters a lot.

I'm not aware of any claim that this set of docs shows legal wrongdoing, so that feels pretty well settled.

I also think there is plenty of whistle blowing that doesn't demonstrate direct illegal activity. The obvious example is Snowden who, of course, reported on programs that were all understood to be legal. Other examples I think of that I would call whistleblowers: Manning, whoever leaked the Exxon global warning docs, ditto for Big Tobacco[1], the pentagon papers, etc. There are endless examples of leaking docs demonstrating immoral activity that's not illegal (which often prompts changes).

> When someone is a 'whistleblower' they are subject to all kinds of protections not afforded to someone merely 'disagreeing' with their company.

She probably doesn't qualify for whistleblower protections under the law (edit: also, as I have seen calls for a defense fund, I don't think she is claiming she does), but as I said neither would many of the people who leaked documents in the cases above. I think it would be fair to call all of them whistleblowers.

> it rather seems to me to be disingenuous as people are not going to be aware of the planned mechanations of the organized plot

I do not understand this view. It is not disingenuous to think about an argument before making it. The Facebook critics have been quite public about their critiques. What is the "plot" here?

[1] These docs may have proved they lied to congress? Not sure.
Anyone wanting to do this doesn't need to know someone else's choices except by asking in private. Feel free to distance yourself from anyone not meeting your conditions. Whereas in general public, wear a mask and social distance.

Imposing these "rights" onto the general public is Nanny State hall monitoring on steroids, enacted and enforced by people who...we no longer have any reason to trust. Why can't we trust them? Because their entire schpiel over the last year about getting to herd immunity and endemic covid has gone out the window as of late. They are dragging their feet on acknowledging reality. Here's sources explaining why:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

"Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime"

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704...

"More than 80% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies acquired through infection or vaccination, according to a new study of over 1.4 million blood donations across the U.S."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

"Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot"

The picture that emerges is clear. These "temporary" mandates no longer have a basis in reality.
Excellent, thank you very much for taking the time - much appreciated.
They don't seem equivalent:

1. Nissan Leaf $28,375 - 150 Mile range for this price. (It is not advisable to drive this car long distances because the battery overheats and will reduce charging)

2. Mazda MX-30 $34,645 - ~100 mile range (ideal conditions)

3. Hyundai Ioniq $34,650 - 170 miles

Model 3 starts at 262 Miles and has the superchargers + most of the stuff Tesla is known for included (sentry mode, good UI software, games, etc). I don't know about you but it seems like a second gen car whereas the others are all on first gen.
People living in the cities will now be able to buy a book significantly cheaper than someone living in a rural area. And a bookstore in a city will be able to outcompete a rural one, since they'll have more local sales but the rural bookstore will not be able compete on price for the mail orders.
You're making the assumption that no company, or companies, would step in and provide a similar service for a similar or better value.
Martin Fowler's blog: https://martinfowler.com/architecture/
The Gtm.start DataLayer Variable in Google Tag Manager
Arguing with a white person

> It's rude

Arguing with a black person

> It's racist
Software developers often marry other software developers, and computer programmers often marry computer programmers, but it is apparently rare for a software developer to marry a computer programmer.

(Also, apparently mathematician isn't a real job.)
Oh, this was my mistake. It's not a paywall, it's just asking me to register to continue to read for free. Says something about my advertising blindness.

(I'm in the US, visiting from a US IP address.)
Well this is one simple reason why i don't recommend/hype up crypto anymore(or many other "decentralized" technologies).

Anyone who has been in the space could have seen it from miles away.

If people want truly decentralized,secure and anonymous money, you have to work from bottom upwards, starting with an infrastructure that's not centralized: think mesh networks,and you build on top of that.The obvious trade-off is there: performance, usability,etc, but at that point the target audience is vastly different.

Software "decentralization" is ~pointless considering the fact that if a country(US) or in best-case scenario a couple countries decide that it's over, well it is over, because they can quite literally pull the plug.Arguably Starlink looks like the next best choice, which from other aspects is even worse.
Absolutely I should expect they might do nothing. It's their project. That's how it works. Happens all the time.
And yet bitcoin has proven incredibly resilient to hard forks.
Could I get your help understanding your statement "industrial processes/power generation needs a higher differential"? Why does geothermal need a higher differential for power generation?

Power generation is already accomplished with lower heat cycles (e.g., binary plants mentioned earlier would probably use a rankine cycle to deal with the low heat), though we'd expect those power plants to have less nameplate capacity than something like a double flash-steam plant.

I think you're correct you'd get more efficiency with higher gradients, but I don't understand what's limiting about the lower temperatures. Is it economics?
Practical Socket.io Benchmarking
I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Lived experience? Explain.
I disagree. I think a way to summarize this article is that the popular languages (Algol/C family) are like Roman numerals, and Lisp is like Arabic: it composes better. It's a powerful, qualitative difference.
cursed late stage capitalism. let's reduce everything in our lives down to ROI. this article feels like a symptom and not an answer for the problem of a required college education and it's astronomically stupid costs for working families.

Other articles soon to come:

* Are friends worth it?
* Is family worth it?
* Is doing anything besides making money worth it?
Coordinated Bust of Dark-Web Dealers Yields 150 Arrests in U.S., Europe
Walmart on its own has more revenue than Google and Facebook combined.
“I Am Streaming in a Room”
Yep, I can say with almost 100% certainty there’s a big difference between male and female dating preferences even within the same occupation. For all the talk of feminism and empowerment, women in high status fields like law and medicine are Much less likely to “marry down” to a man in a lower status field than the other way around.
Neat, some of these got pretty close:

vascularitis
vas·cu·lari·tis

inflammation of the vascular system
"a case of vascularitis"
According to my recollection and accounts of others I've read, a huge part of Python's early success was the maintainers' decision to support a comprehensive "batteries included" distribution of extension modules, including binary compiled libraries.

Tcl made the crucial (in retrospect wrong) decision not to support a central extension package repository or well-stocked releases and chose to focus on the core. This forced users to scrounge the web for extensions and hope they compiled on their platforms, and depend on sketchy support from individual authors.

The OOP craze played a significant role as well I think. I recall that in the late 1990s Tcl was part of something of a renaissance of varied programming paradigms escaping academia and getting applied in the wild (partly in the form of clever Tcl extensions). But Java/OOP and WWW/server-client killed that movement dead.
Meh, crazy is like life. It always finds a way. Controlling it with laws is like herding mosquitoes with a chainlink fence.

What we need is a cure for crazy (this whole obsesso, brainbound, machine-pooping culture being a symptom of that).

I'm thinking psychedelics and meditation.
Bastiat is unknown in France.
I'm only familiar with the University of Wisconsin system. They use the math test to slot you into levels ranging from calculus to a remedial math course. Don't know why they don't just use SAT/ACT.

As for majors, there are limited admissions into some programs such as engineering and business, where you are not formally admitted until after your first year, and have to make a certain GPA. Not all majors had such requirements.

Then there were some unique situations. Majoring in music performance required an audition, and the incoming students tended to be playing at a very high level.
> jazzed about the democratization of technology that, in terms of message _security_, is a step backwards.

Well, you can always switch to Matrix and have democratized and secure native messaging which uses a cryptographic protocol comparable to Signal. ;)
I'm rarely ever the one to give Apple any credit for doing the right thing. In this case though I can imagine that it was a good technical decision. Being still more of a business machine than gaming a 4k 60Hz seems reasonable for now. If necessary Thunderbolt/USB-C ports can be used. What it means though is that the bandwidth/power usage of the HDMI port is better bounded.
Why is an expensive party important? You can certainly get married at a Church or at a courthouse for pretty cheap and a party isn't required, but even if it is, you can throw a decent party without thousands of dollars spent. I've been to many of them in small towns across the Midwest.
Roman numerals were based on lines and slashes? I mean, for one, five, and ten, sure. Fifty? Maybe. Beyond that? Not so much.
> I believe there are two kinds of colleges, the Rich Kids Daycare (RKD) and the Trade & Professional Formation (TPF).

jesus christ can we stop trying to redefine bourgeoisie and proletariat? what is with americans and hating karl marx and darwin
Certain schools will get your resume past the "HR drones" when other schools will not, even within the same field of study.

We can debate whether top schools actually teach any better or whether they're just skimming off top students out of high school, but there's a significant difference in groups outcomes between schools.
I've had an iDevice since 2007. I've never signed up for the paid iCloud. I get the standard 5GB plan that all Apple accounts receive. I have never accidentally uploaded a photo to it. I have never enabled it. I don't understand how your situation happens as it has never happened to me. It makes no sense other than someone (maybe you forgot, a significant other, a kid) played around with some settings? There's no other explanation that makes sense to me.
There's a trick for that. Rename the epub to <something>.png and email it to your kindle address. It'll convert it!

It's weird that Amazon doesn't support epub conversion officially but this trick has worked for years.

Of course calibre is also an option but I usually use this method because it's so simple.
The very first link of the article “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” isn’t working sine it’s pointing at www.agilemanifesto.org but the correct link is agilemanifesto.org :-)
It's called "exploration vs exploitation". Unless you meant the idea that older people need to explore less because they're already done it. I don't think there's a name for that specific idea.
Lockdowns and money printing are great for business. No wonder Google is deplatforming scientists and engaging in mass censorship.
You could say that about any successful artist
The mandates are not necessary anymore, certainly not in America or in Australia. The reason I say that is because the number of people with antibodies which prevent reinfection or most breakthrough cases, is now in major excess of what Fauci and other public servants have been saying would achieve endemic covid / herd immunity for the last year. Sources:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

"Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime"

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25398704...

"More than 80% of Americans have coronavirus antibodies acquired through infection or vaccination, according to a new study of over 1.4 million blood donations across the U.S."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

"Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot"

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-vaccine-rollou...

So for children, keep it optional if someone wants to give it to their child. Mandates would be suspect.
does the definition exist or is that machine-generated too?
For many years after OS/2 faded from consumer view, I think there were ATMs that ran on it.

I'm not in the industry, and don't know if there are any more.
BuildKite lets you run their CI agents on your own hardware. Much like self-hosted runner in GitHub Actions. BuildJet for GitHub Actions is a managed service, where we provide the hardware and manage it for you.
Android Wallpaper Fingerprints
Long before MS deprecated "the blue E", you could still "walk the web" with Yahoo Categories. Yahoo shut down dir.yahoo.com years ago:

https://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-close-204370

I don't know if there are any replacements for it.

Most of the archive.org links are still working and the directory is still worth exploring:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140927131133/https://dir.yahoo...
I was referencing my experiences of the average computer user in that time peroid, which was mostly but not exclusively home PCs. They managed. And I know nowadays many of them hate the constant UI changes and sluggish JS browser apps.

But as to organisations, if it is that bad, it sounds more like an exacting support contract or overly bureaucratic processes. (Or how things are in the public sector.) In either case, if the company makes the process of getting its work done needlessly tedious, then it deserves to founder and give way to the agile competition.

It is really unfortunate if this is a main reason that webapps are so popular with all their bloat, wastage and transience.
Not a big fan of Amazon but I also find it ridiculous and self-sacking to fixate on obsolete ideas. If you have to force a business to exist, maybe it doesn’t need to exist.
I think I’d prefer to do Waterfall correctly than pretending to be Agile.

I love the idea of Agile, hasn’t worked at our company since we got spotified.
Ask HN: Agile/SCRUM devs, do you have work 'outside' your scrum team?
I have a question for Agile/SCRUM developers, do you have work 'outside' your scrum team?

For example: specific work that comes from senior management that is not captured on a JIRA board, one-person projects to accomplish a task, work related to bonus objectives OR OKRs set by managers?
Actually, "It was like this before" IS an argument. Unless you can demonstrate that allowing unpopular speech was always bad, you lose. The world did not begin with you.

"semi-literate"?? Literacy rates in the US were always very high.

And no, we are not "at a point where we have to talk in terms of first principles." Because we have a Constitution to do that for us, is has not been abolished, and it is not going to be.
Indeed. Even this panel discussed that they must keep in mind that what they are voting on is whether to release it for optional use not mandatory use. Unfortunately they have no bearing on whether the government bodies decide to mandate it.
Ad Rank is a function of bid and QS (heavily weighted towards CTR). Adjusting weighting of any of the three public components of QS will impact all participants, ignoring cases of exceeding max bids, all bids should increase proportionately-- with some participants having different impacts, but overall a net increase.

Bid floors will exclude ads from showing unless a certain ad rank is met. If users want to continue (or start) receiving impressions, they need to meet the adjusted threshold. This won't be as common on terms like "chicago movers", but when you get into the longtail and use an Alpha/Beta structure, it can be relatively common to get a "bids below threshold" for lower volume terms that have less (think <5) auction participants as shown in search insights & sampling the SERPs manually. When you get into these niche terms, you assume terms will be cheap due to lack of participants, but that isn't typically the case.
I would love to see a youtube series of coders going through the process of getting a dataset and refining it into these as outputs. Probably not possible as a livestream but looking at the iterative process of doing the model development, eventually getting to the final generative process. (Brownie points for the web app part for web app dev neophytes :)
Skip Signal and move to Matrix before it's too late
Google's revenue growth came at least in part by creating two new markets that it has control over: youtube ads and mobile ads. In both areas, Google was able to couple a rapidly growing product with new ad space that it auctioned. I doubt most people appreciate quite how effective Youtube and Google Play are at delivering ads to users and money to Google. It's not just inflation and higher prices- it's a massive growth of the market.
It's basically moved to things like Urbit.
> Then again, many or most people still watch live sports and old school TV channels, which are chock full of ads. I cannot even stand too obvious product placement, much less ad breaks.

Everybody is different. Back in the early 2000s when I used to watch TV, I actually enjoyed ads, because they tended to be more entertaining than the TV shows themselves (remember the Budweizer lizards and eTrade babies). Even when online ads because popular, when they were still contextual, I really did not mind. It was only when ads began to follow people around online that I put an end to it.

But I still watch live sports - only online, since I no longer have TV service. I get around ads on NFL games by having more than one game streaming on different tabs, then switch to the one that's not in an ad break.

Online, there are no ads during football (the real one), tennis and volleyball matches, so I have very little to complain about.
Wheat and corn and a number of other plants are wind pollinated, so we won't lose everything. And we'll probably keep some plants that need bees alive in conservatories through manual pollination.

Still scary, in that a single disruption, like a new illness infecting crops, would have a much bigger impact.