skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the answer is no then, they're not testing 100% of people.

The answer to what? Your question was: " Does anyone know if it's standard or best practice for them to know who involved in these studies if they also have had COVID in the past?". I think I answered this in the affirmative: "We had a questionnaire, a swab, and blood draws for antibody levels on enrolling." What else would you be looking for, to answer your own question in the affirmative?

> So the answer is no then, they're not testing 100% of people.

100% of enrollees are getting tested at enrollment as described above, which makes it seem like they're doing a "pretty good job" of determining if they've had COVID in the past. Aside from questionnaires, a PCR swab, and antibody testing, what else would you ask for?

> it's not scientifically rigorous at all

What isn't? What part of the approach are you taking issue with, and what would be a better approach?

> And testing for antibodies produced by the vaccines and/or by natural COVID infection?

I'm also unsure, but I would think that clinically evident disease would seem like a more important primary outcome, and having a weekly check-in for any suspicious symptoms that week, equipping participants with the ability to get a test (and instructing them to do so) should they develop symptoms still seems like a "pretty good job" IMO.
There isn't one that I know of, but the recent CPPCast episode on Fortran was very good.
Partly tongue-in-cheek. These review processes exist, but whether they're required or not depends on the product area and type of project.
> The sun is going to be the strongest when A/C demand is greatest

Not necessarily. There are lots of hot summer days when the sky is cloudy.

Also, there can be direct sunlight heating up NYC while there are clouds over the solar plant, which could be miles away.
So you can use lenticular lenses to shield yourself from invisibility? Or did I read that wrong? 8-)
This is what separates companies that get things done from companies that pay a lot of people to hopefully maybe get things done.

A server for a multiplayer Quake port...

Who is Google paying to hand their ass to them over that?

Who has both the authority to hand their ass to them, and a lack of discretion to not let it end at "well in general we don't do that, but I see why you did it and there's little to no risk"

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At some companies yes, someone is paid to go "I caught someone putting our proprietary code up on a competitors platform!!!!" and no one will actually think critically about what exactly was proprietary, so someone putting up a quake demo might as well have put up the Coke secret formula

And now OP who actually generated some value at little to no risk gets their ass handed to them and someone who simply lacked the skills to realize the risk profile gets a notch on their "I add value and earn my paycheck" badge.
Western PA is for all intents and purposes.
Can't let the Quake 2 source code escape Google
Relevant: There are people who don't have mental imagery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa84hA3OsHU
Most of the time managers are trying to be helpful, and most of the time they do in fact understand quite a lot of the background of a project.

I'd suggest to try to see the situation from their perspective, which you maybe already did, but sometimes this helps understanding a perceived lack of action.
You know, I've made similar remarks on HN before, but you are the first person to actually edit their comment. Amazing. Now I feel compelled to edit mine...
Yes, many scientists are communicating through blogs, etc. However, I suspect that the general public still mostly gets their science information through reporters. The general public is not reading scientists' blogs. They're free to do so, but they don't.
If it's lucrative, the listings don't go away. They just end up on sites that are out of reach of FOSTA/SESTA.
Ah really interesting, we haven't thought of this. We are building a CMS feature right now so probably similar to your first point, it could be possible by changing the CMS template.

Have you had any solution that allows you to do this with other website builders?
Why pretend? If you genuinely believe it, the confirmation bias is likely to keep you from thinking about it enough to assess whether it's true. (Do you regularly re-assess whether the sky is blue, or whether you're wearing clothes? It's just there, background knowledge.)
This type of "helpfully-correcting disagreement" (rather than pointless-but-satisfying snark) is one reason why I greatly prefer Hacker News to almost-every other social network. Thank you!
Interesting! I see that there are grading/authentication services out there for Beanie Babies. That makes sense, as a lot of commodities have systems for taking unique objects and making them tradable. E.g., the CME wheat contract definition is extremely specific: https://www.cmegroup.com/content/dam/cmegroup/rulebook/CBOT/...

I wonder if we'll see things like that in the NFT market.
Minecraft is actually a great example here—the client and server ecosystem is extremely, extremely diverse, with lots of different choices for users. Almost everyone who uses Minecraft on desktop is running some mod, if only Optifine, and the server landscape is even more diverse, with dozens of competing reimplementations, all communicating over a shared protocol. I think Minecraft is a great example in the current landscape of a naturally evolved diverse, unowned network of interactive virtual spaces. If Mojang disappeared tomorrow, the only thing the community would need to solve is authentication (and for our use-case, something like mTLS would work super well)
No, now we just have a bunch of mixed signals in the rooms for rent section....
For me it's a clear audible monolog which breaks into a dialog of self talk for problem solving and day-to-day planning. It sounds nothing like my physical voice but I feel that's my truest self

I've had this wonderful experience after learning sign language that for the first time I feel like I can talk to other people with the voice in my head! And when they sign back I hear a voice speaking aloud each sign. What I discovered is I'm quite a different person when I don't have to use my physical voice to talk, I'm much more expressive and fun, which I guess I find difficult to translate through the voice of a late 20s man. Something to work on!

Something I've wondered about is how noisy people find images: https://www.reddit.com/r/noisygifs/ is fun to explore. I find all repetitive motion has sound, like anything, no matter how abstract, I cannot help hearing some weird audio pattern when I look at it
Just to voice an opinion opposite what seems to be the prevailing one in this thread.

So what.

They bought a spare house and wanted to farm people for what they felt was a safe 8% while doing minimal work themselves. The situation changed. Life sucks doesn't it.

We don't bail market investors out in a market crash and at least they're (outside of REITs, and you can guess my views on those) not speculating on the essentials of literally living.

Why should we offer landlords a bung off the back of hard-working taxpayers who are, a large minority, already handing over vast amounts of their take-home to landlords anyway.

Worst comes to the worst they foreclose on their spare home and the bank who took a stupid risk lending eat the loss from the tenant.

Every annual company statement contains a risks section which usually includes the unforeseens such as changes to legislation. That's what's happened here, why should rent seekers get kid gloves?
There are only two seasons
> We've done two other releases in the past month and both required a day of troubleshooting to fix issues.

I feel you, it's especially frustrating when your product has such fragile and bespoke testing that things break on a regular basis. Then, us devs have to spend valuable time just troubleshooting.
Those that less productive should be compensated with more than those who are highly productive?
A thousand times this. Good, steady software ownership is generally not what leadership wants.

Big new features are, it’s infinitely easier to build process improvements into new projects vs fighting for improvements in existing areas.
Maybe, but a lot of people have legitimate reasons for holding their home in a trust.

If the savings are great enough, it would make sense to pay someone to "own" the house, with a contract saying that they must act at your direction. This isn't some crazy idea either, that's basically the approach that's already taken by these same people that hide their identities through shell companies. The "owner" of the shell company is some random B'zean who is paid to be a rubber stamp.
> It used to be that the Fed was not too focused on asset valuations, and actually drove policy on the basis of their mandates. Unfortunately they're too cowardly to do that anymore.

From the financial crisis to COVID low interest rates (and inflating asset prices) seemed almost a consequence of their inflation+unemployment mandate: even with the interest rate around zero unemployment was slow to come down and inflation was mostly in financial assets and not the consumer price level.

Post-COVID seems to be a different story though. I guess we'll see in the next year or so how they react if the inflation pressure turns out to be persistent - personally I wouldn't be surprised if they do raise rates, even though that would obviously lower most asset prices.
Take a look at the #fmty (fly me to you) hashtag on twitter someday. Twitter has become an open market for adult services.
What are you talking about? What studies? There have been several polls about the topic in question (Infratest Dimap, mdr, ZDF, Forsa ..). You can easily google them. In every single one there was a majority against gender-neutral wording in one way or another. The quote by Claus Kleber confirms this tendency. If you seriously doubt this you are the one who should show some data.
I recently bought my wife a new laptop. After 10 minutes of arguing with a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to rage quit for my own mental health:

0. There were a thousand different prompts nagging me to allow their tracking and ads (and some options amounted to either “yes to everything” or “yes to most things” with no “don’t fucking track me” option in sight.

1. Followed by Microsoft forcing my to tie my local user account to my Microsoft account. Then forcing me to enter the 30 character password that I usually just paste from my password manager for online accounts.

2. Then being greater by spamware that had an X button which literally did Jack shit.

3. And a chaotic task menu with 13 different control panels.

I handed the machine to my wife and told her I can’t be her desktop support guy for this thing because there was a high risk of me throwing the laptop out the window in a rage (maybe that’s why it’s called “Windows”?)

I honestly think the only reason people think they like Windows is down to Stockholm syndrome.
The upthread comment isn't commenting on the existence of the package manager by the coverage of the ecosystem; every language has an ecosystem, but they aren't all equivalent.
This reminds me of a story I've read some time ago, about some monkeys and bananas.

A group of monkeys in a room. In the center of the room is a tall pole with a bunch of bananas suspended from the top.

Every time a monkey tries to reach the bananas it is hit with a torrent of cold water from an overhead shower. Eventually, the monkeys learn that something bad will happen if they climb up the pole so they just sit and don’t even try again.

If a new monkey is added to replace an old monkey, it will of course try to go for the bananas. But the original monkeys will grab and drag it down before the punishment is even triggered. After a while, the monkey gets the message and it stops trying.

Repeat the action of adding a new monkey in place of an old one enough times and you will reach a point where none of the monkeys know why they shouldn't get the bananas but they still won't try.

The story concludes by stating that even if we remove the shower at this point it won't really make a difference. The learned behavior is already deeply ingrained in the culture of the group.

Funny enough, I've seen this type of issue in many human teams/projects. And usually the inertia is far too strong for just a couple of engineering "monkeys" to radically change things if they don't get support from a few management "monkeys".
Broke my t480s screen, found a replacement from a german online store, ordered it and it came to my address in croatia in a day or two. Went to a local repair shop and had it installed in less than 20 minutes. Imagine doing the same with a macbook, lol.
What is the difference between your team lead's bad reasons not to push internally for a better system:

> The other team doesn't know how to do the release.

> He wants to be a "team player" so he can't deny the release.

> Project managers will never allocate time to improve the release process.

and your good reasons not to push internally for a better system?

> My manager doesn't know anything about the code, my project, or the release project.

> He may assume it's complaining for the sake of complaining.

> It has been used as ammunition in reviews against me.
I wonder how much escort work happens through Tinder
I hardly ever "watch" TV. But I often have the TV on while I'm doing something else.

With this metaverse stuff you have to wear the stupid goggles. You can't just have it on in the background and glance up if something interesting comes on. This is why 3D TVs failed in the market. The technology worked fine but most regular people didn't want to wear the goggles just to watch a movie.
Everything stays the same until the moment that it doesn't.
The total value of all US real estate is $50 trillion. There's not a lot of situations in life where you can say, even the United States government doesn't have enough money to make a dent here- but....
The broadcaster Jenni Murray lives in author Hannah Begbie’s brain.
Well, not Murray exactly, but a facsimile of Murray, with the same
kind but quizzical voice, and a scarf flung loosely over her shoulder.
“My inner voice is a duologue, like I am in a constant state of
interviewing myself,” says Begbie, who is 44 and lives in London.
“The interviewing always happens in a plush radio studio,” she says.
“There’s nice rich crushed-velvet walls. There’s a warmth and a colour to it.”

I must just not understand what they're talking about? I have an inner dialog, but I'm very aware that it's just me. In my head I can rehearse things I want to say, or argue a topic back and forth, but it's exactly the same as playing chess against myself. I know what I'm saying and I have infinite knowledge into what the "other side" will say because it's just me. At no time are there other voices, no unexpected insight posited by an old radio announcer.

For the most part I also feel fully in control of my inner dialog. Any time I'm not in control, as in the thoughts are racing and my mind keeps skipping from topic to topic and maybe circling back to a specific topic, that means I'm having some kind of anxiety episode. I probably need a glass of wine or a smoke, and some quiet time to mull over what my brain is trying to get me to process (aka meditation lite).

The very first thing I think of when reading this article is that everyone interviewed except Hopkins is having near-constant auditory hallucinations. An inner voice that consists of an old Italian couple arguing in the kitchen? Really? Am I that disconnected from this concept?
Ah... I will go and downvote it, then.
My learned helplessness story - Another engineer fancies himself as the gatekeeper of our codebase. Nitpicks on PRs all the time. Always tries to change something.

This time around, an engineer produced a fantastic design. But this gatekeeper engineer had something else on his mind. The gatekeeper did not even communicate his thought process but continued asking ridiculous questions.

Later we found that the gatekeeper engineer wanted to change the entire design to his own, even if his own design had major flaws. Wasted a whole quarter just because the gatekeeper didn't seem to want to "concede". He would much rather have engineers make bad designs than accepting his own missteps. The author of the design fought vehemently at the expense of their own time and energy. To what end?

Other engineers on the team have forever stopped producing design docs. Learned helplessness.
I glance at the paragraph, it glows briefly, I blink, I trace a spiral from the center counter clockwise, and if I still don’t have comprehension, I go back a couple paragraphs or try again the agonizing word by word way. Sometimes I read left to right to left depending on text width and such. I can usually keep math in the right order but I'm known to add left-to-right which involves the concept of 'one past nine' as a 'digit' for the sake of forcing it into base 10 math, and then I unroll the carries right-to-left, but not always, it depends.
Why does this discussion even matter? Rent seeking is rent seeking.
> Many of the people I speak to learned late in life that their inner voices were not the norm. For years, Worrall thought that other people also had attics in their brains.

I went through exactly the same situation around 10 years ago, but it was about mental imaging. Do you know people can actually visualize and see things when they close there eyes? You probably do, but it took me 25 years to figure out that for most people closing their eyes is not like closing a black curtain.

If that is a surprise to you that people can create and see mental images, you probably have aphantasia as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

Since then I'm convinced that not two brains experience the world the same way. Inner voice and mental imaging are probably two of the many things we assume to be the norm.
This is going to be like when I discovered I had aphantasia isn’t it. People are hearing actual voices inside their heads?

I can sometimes have a train of thought that I could vocalise if I wanted to but I don’t actually hear it as a voice.

Can you all hear things like music and other sounds too?
Wave launched internally at Google to much fanfare at TGIF, and the whole company was somewhat amazed at the time by its realtime collaborative editing. Wave was built as a secret project in Australia, so when it did launch, internally there was understandably some rife / confusion as to what the strategy was.

The tech for appjet was primarily Javascript server-side, and I believe it used GWT for Java->Javascript client-side. This was seen as very odd to many inside Google, as javascript on the server was a new concept back then, and a far cry from the "officially supported" languages for development at Google.

While the initial launch of Wave went ~okay, the product itself had massive scalability issues. The Appjet/Etherpad team was then aqui-hired and quickly relocated to Australia. While one would think they were acquired for the similarities between Wave and Etherpad, they were instead tasked with "fixing" the javascript server-side performance situation. This made sense to management as appjet had been pioneering the concept since before Node was a thing.

In the end this wasn't a great outcome for the acquired team, but is typical of the aqui-hiring Google does.

Doc and sheets later added comments and realtime collaborative editing, but it was all reimplemented and never directly lifted from Wave's implementation.
Fired? Zillow has explored the market and is making an operating profit on these "losses". They charge exorbitant fees to sellers, effectively buying properties at a decent market discount, while publicly showing a sale price above market so as to inflate the price.

Even though the first go at it may have failed due to whatever reason (stated or otherwise), whoever signed off on this should be promoted.
> One nice thing about Rust is that there's an excellent chance you can actually modify this code.

Chance of a random user being able to modify compilable code inside a DAW: essentially zero. Effect of language choice: essentially zero.

Real time code; threads; pure "classic" MVC; custom widgets everywhere; non-standard keybinding mechanisms; topological sorting; insanely complex effects of latency on the meaning of "time"; temporal representation ... these are just a few of the major conceptual features someone tends to need to understand to go delving around inside a DAW. Things are roughly as complex as a modern web browser, except plus the realtime component.

I wrote some thoughts down (and gots lots of comments) regarding open source vs. scripting here: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/is-open-source-a-diversion-fr...
Do they know something we don’t?
Isn't the worlds most successful drug lord ever the CIA.
They sold cocaine and the journalist Gary Webb who uncovered it was attacked by the CIA mouthpieces of corporate journalists and corporate media and "suicideded" himself. He shot himself in the head twice to succeed in the "suicide".

Afghanistan after first overturning the Taliban had the biggest increase ever in drug production ever when the CIA was running the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Alliance_(book)

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-m...
So, are you gonna tell us what you're talking about or just complain about Microsoft? Everyone complains about Microsoft at every opportunity; it's just meaningless noise at this point.
OpenCV Spatial AI Contest (Combine AI and LEGOs in a Manufacturing Context)
For me there is definitely a difference between voluntary and involuntary. I can imagine speaking to myself, for example. I do/did that when writing this very sentence. But if I'm not consciously generating language (ie speaking or writing, or thinking about either) then it's nice and quiet in my head :)
English is my first language, I also speak French, and I often avoid saying French phrases out loud in English, for fear of pronouncing them "wrong" and sounding pretentious.
Is that solution you prefer, or are you just answering with what you think gregallan's intentions were?
What I am proposing is an extension to DNS to allow individuals to find each other directly rather than having to go through middlemen like FB etc to simply message each other.

DNS already exists as a point of centralised control.
Service Providers already have to log IP vs user accounts.

don't see how extending DNS for the masses could make things any worse.

As a sibling comment points out though, who pays to run it?
Every registered user is an inhabitant, every passerby an observing alien that might convert into an inhabitant at some point.
I don't see what that's replying to. Nothing in that list would justify demanding that the app's team have knowledge or preference about which PCR zones to pick and which will just have to be corrected when they inevitably pick the wrong one.
This is paradoxically because historically everything was wide open to anyone so access-control and such isn't super fleshed out for most apps behind the proxy. Random internal app X could have been conceived and built with very little oversight and opening it up to a rotating cast of temporary workers is seen as an unnecessary risk. Broadly used apps (e.g. the bug ticket system) tend to have app-level security-controls and are not blocked by the proxy for contractors.
Thank you for the offer! If you're looking for something small, I just created issue #1. Other than that, I'm open to new ideas and anything that would make it easier to use.
THANK YOU! Why has the definition of "bricks" been diluted to anything that causes some kind of wacky issue? To brick something is to cause it to become unable to be used or repaired - you know, like a BRICK!

And gee - 10 million devices run a software update and one person has an issue? Did they talk to Apple before posting this whinny Tweet? Try any troubleshooting? Evidently not since Apple Support responded promptly via Twitter.