skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, now it’s about group power and not individuals?

See, people keep on redefining things. So a Mexican-American being from a “super power” what, they can be made fun of by white Mexicans because?

What about Chinese from China, now that they are super power, does everyone get to pile on any individual because as a group they are powerful (based on PPP they are on par or surpassed us).

It all bullshit. If it’s not for me or it’s not right for them, then it’s not right for anyone.
Honestly, the only impact that will have is that people are poorer in real terms (due to inflation).

The overwhelming majority of people will still spend 100% of their income on disposable crap - it's just that said income is now smaller.
I would be grateful for a handful of links to the highly educated people arguing about this, if the discussion happens to be public. I did speed read a few top academic Google hits on RCTs, but none of them tackled the particular issue of long term followups.

Edit. Really, the only point I want to convey is that perhaps the highly intelligent and educated people could reflect on why RCT population of the covid studies don't seem to reflect the country population for the particular dimension of taking the vaccine as soon as the RCT ended. Perhaps this can be fixed somehow. This is as kind of a suggestion as I can muster. Perhaps they already do, and then all of this is moot.
>> Maybe the best strategy for herd immunity would be to get double vaccinated to prevent serious effects then contract Covid to gain superior antibody response.

From reading about Covid, I thought the virus had a couple of genes that make it more deadly, one of which tends to suppress the immune system for example. Why not create another variant that is a full virus without those genes and use that as a live vaccine? Sure it might escape, but so what it's less lethal than the one out there right? Obviously this raises a bunch of ethical issues, but they are similar to the issues around forced vaccination.
Yeah which never happens in reality, as it's completely incompatible with a normal (risk averse) corporate environment. And the main premise is that there's recurring daily obstacles that the scrum master somehow can resolve, which never ever happens in reality. The daily is just an idea that never work out that way in reality.
I hope teams aren't waiting for a daily stand-up to try and get unblocked, but there is definitely value in both sharing the summary of the blocker and publicly thanking anyone who helped unblock with the entire team. It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds.
The problem with pure reimplementations of XLib in other languages is that there's no way they can use the client side X extension libraries that are based on XLib.

I learned that the hard way when trying to figure out how to use Display PostScript with CLX in 1992, which is an X client library written in Common Lisp.

https://www.cliki.net/clx

Few people still write applications directly to XLib, but many do write applications directly to toolkits and libraries that DO depend on XLib.

So we're all stuck with XLib from now until eternity. If you replace it, you lose the entire ecosystem of client side extension libraries, so you have to reimplement them all from scratch.

At the time, that was a no-go if you wanted to use Adobe's proprietary Display PostScript extension, which was quite popular and included with most commercial X11 servers of the era. Even if most important X extensions are open source, how about about them NVIDIA drivers?

Display PostScript is simply an old example from 1992 of what I mean, that I wanted to use from Common Lisp via CLX, but couldn't. But it shows how this problem has been around for a long time, and is never going away. The only viable solution was to dump CLX and call XLib and the Display PostScript extension libraries directly from Lisp through a wrapper layer.

But now the problem with clients and toolkits depending on X11 extensions is much more entrenched, not just limited to high-end exotic graphics-rich apps that want to use Display PostScript to draw a nice pie chart.

That's because of how heavily all modern X11 toolkits and clients now depend on a plethora of X11 extensions and their XLib-based libraries -- just to measure the display, shape windows, listen for input, memory map pixmaps, and composite the first pixel on the screen -- because they've long since abandoned X11's horrible old built-in pixel-based rendering API, broken font model, leaky input system, etc, and switched to using full stacks of X11 extensions (via their XLib based libraries) instead.
im of the unpopular opinion that this is utterly stupid, the hard fact is our lives are time boxed and this guy is a waste of class room space and he will never put his skills to use since he'll die five minutes later.
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> 30% efficacy (of preventing transmission) is really good for vaccines.

Seriously? If you were to double that number, such a poor efficacy rate (e.g. 60%) would not even be worthy of classification as a “vaccine” per standards prior to 2019. Truth is this drug should never have been classified as a “vaccine” in the first place, but scientific standards took the backseat as fear and panic overruled. The need for having a “vaccine solution” was so paramount that we turned a blind eye to any red flags and crucified anyone who pointed out the obviously concerning facts about the Covid vaccine solution such as 1/ it was developed in less than a week, 2/ development was led by a company with zero prior successful products launched ever, 3/ used technology never been used at scale (let alone universally) 4/ all profit-driven biotech/pharma companies willing to participate were offered free money AND complete protection from ANY liability resulting from the ‘vac’ granted by .gov.
This first point is a stretch:

> It simply is not credible that a mere mortal Man, however virtuous, could simply ignore the allure of this talisman [the Ring], which Faramir does with laughable ease.

That is interesting but doesn’t justify the argument. Early in The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo asks Gandalf to take the ring and Gandalf says he himself would not be able to resist temptation. I think this point was important enough that it might have made it into the film version.

Also there’s a bit of implication in this argument that wizards are some sort of genetically differentiated group (likes elves, humans, hobbits, etc) while I have always assumed that wizards are just humans (or others I suppose) who are scholars and who get their advantages (long life, spell casting etc) through training.

So that would not contradict the Faramir argument if Gandalf kept coming by to teach him, but certainly makes the argument about the death of Findlay’s absurd.
I like the pursuit of beauty present in both.
QFUD — it's a little hard to pronounce, but I like it.
Hi there, I am sorry that you've had so many negative experience with us when it comes to technical support for hardware-related issues. And I am especially sorry that you feel our support treated you like an idiot. That's clearly not our intention. As the company's in-house English teacher, I am curious about incidents like this. Perhaps if you have a ticket number where that happened, you can share it with me. Please feel free to send them to katherine.snow@hetzner.com. --Katie
The article offers no explanation about how adversaries are able to get the encrypted data in the first place. I'm not saying it's unlikely or that they shouldn't invest in quantum-proof cryptography for the future, but it would be nice to hear about some plausible ways that data is being "harvested now". I assume that nuclear weapon design secrets aren't floating around as encrypted files on the web. One possible idea I had is that adversaries are intercepting and saving HTTPS traffic between "interesting" targets.
I don't completely understand what you are saying; the information encoded at the nucleic level does not have any analogy at the sub-molecular level (IE there is no biological information stored using subatomic particles or quantum tricks), nor do there seem to be any functional contributes to non-information molecular mechanisms.
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Right but that's not the problem here? If there are power shortages then the power companies should increase supply.
If it’s obvious the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread, then why is it table stakes for anything? At that point it’s just a personal safety choice, and I don’t care at all if others get it.
If the team in general benefits from the daily stand-ups then you may be correct.

Instead I see someone who questions the utility of this particular daily ritual. If others on the team feel the same way then it's more like they're calling the emperor naked.
Right!? I just naturally assumed that everyone could picture & model 3d shapes in their visual space (like AR), until I was in college. I used to design machines & parts "in front of me" and then build them. I think it's one if the reasons I find CAD so difficult to use.

When I draw 3D shapes, I just "visualize" the shape on the surface and trace it.
Electricity = keeps you warm, cooks your food, powers your devices.

Cryptos = suck that energy out of the power grid to gamble with one another.
Isn't scheme's 2to3 moment the R6RS schism?
> Could you help us out by quieting down? He said that most people have a hard time turning down such a request.

Can you imagine trying that somewhere in the United States? Let's just say there are quite a few people that would definitely turn down that request. I am shocked how little people in this country care about other people or society in general. Especially compared to a place like Japan.
But cryptocurrency can be mined anywhere, not just in Kazakhstan. If only Kazakhstan raises their electricity prices, then the price of the cryptocurrency will basically stay the same, but mining will naturally move elsewhere.
The other day I was talking with a friend about the high cost and perceived fragility of tape drives for long term personal archival while bemoaning the loss of higher density optical storage technology. It's not easy to backup or shuffle around terabytes of personal video, audio and pictures. Hard drives aren't exactly the right media for safe deposit boxes.

In the 90's I had an Iomega Ditto 250MB drive that held 120MB per tape for $15-20 per tape and my hard drive was 540MB. This was when hard disc storage cost $1000/GB. The tape drive had a quarter the capacity of the hard disc and was cheap by comparison. It was practical. Later when CD burners came out they offered 650 then 700MB when hard drives were less than 10GB. Then they became too small and DVD came out but shortly was also passed up as 4.7GB wasn't much storage. Bluray was DoA with too little storage to be of real interest with a paltry 25-50GB.

I'd love to see CHEAP >=1TB optical discs with a write speed of 100MB/s allowing us to burn a disc in ~10 minutes. I'd happily pay $1 a disc in bulk and upward of $1000 for a drive. I'd also happily pay $10+ for an archival disc that has a guaranteed shelf life of 50+ years. Bring back the 100 disc juke boxes while we're at it ;-) Cheap storage for everyone!
Let's not forget actual rot too. I peered into a stack of CD's not long ago to find that a lot of them have quite literally rotted while sitting in a dark and dry closet. No dust, no humidity, no smoking, no abuse, just a spindle of CD's recognizable only by their sharpie'd identifiers covered in pits of rotted foil.
That article you linked (like literally every other one I've read) makes no mention of the numbers that recovered just fine. If they all made a recovery then this vaccine push is pointless.
Thanks for reading!

>Maybe those willing to pay more will get used to the new, higher price but what changes their actions is the implicit warning of "Hey, this has loads of sugar!".

It would be cool to test that effect by itself! Since retailers set their prices, it is possible to run a controlled experiment like I showed - where the left side has sugar, the right side is the sugar-free version (not subject to taxes):

https://ibb.co/hXmGt9F

(The two rows are meant to represent two different vending machines, I didn't mark it super clearly.)

In the test group (bottom row) you would include "Includes SF Sugary Drink Tax" but in the control group (top row) you do not include that label: this would isolate the effect of the label!

(In effect, on the top row you just reduce your profit as the point of sale merchant, without telling the customer about it.)

What do you think the effect would be? Same sales in top row (control group) and bottom row (test group) or, do you agree with the authors that telling the customers about the effect is the thing that causes it? (In that case the bottom row would have much lower sales than the top row.)

I predict that the sales would be similar between the test and control group in the experiment I suggest (after all it is the same product at the same price!) but I don't know for sure.
Thanks Katie for the detail.

FYI - your AX101 dedicated offering in my mind is the best offering in the market. I'd love to see this come to the US.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax101/configura...
Ideally as close to never as possible. Just have meetings with people you are working on on an as needed basis.
The paragraph text is also difficult to read on top of the page background pattern. Maybe add a white background to the text?
Almost all residential heating in big cities in Kazakhstan comes from cogeneration.

They would've gone bankrupt if they didn't do it with their weather (-40<C°)
I've heard other people say this and in addition to the common response of helping to reduce spread, I wonder: won't those children grow up to become adults who might experience more serious infection/symptoms? Isn't this like the Chicken Pox vaccine that is commonly given to infants because the disease can be more severe when contracted as an adult?
It’s not that the 15 minutes isn’t tolerable. It’s that it’s going to be scheduled poorly for someone, perhaps the entire team, in such a way as to break focus and drop context.

A previous team I was on had standups at 10 am. This meant even if you wanted to start working earlier and get heads down on something, there wasn’t much point. Add in the typical context loading time and that meant you weren’t really able to get going until 10:30. And guess what? At that point, lunch is an hour and a half away.
It's great to know that we have Hetzner fans in Australia. We're always looking out for new locations. I'll make sure to share a +1 for Australia with our business development team. :) --Katie
The paradox of the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test
article actually mentions that their modular reactor designs can be retrofitted into existing coal power plants.

No clue if it will work, but it seems like a genius plan. Obviously it could be propaganda to deflect all the criticism they get for being the world's largest polluter
Countries with very high vaccination rates such as Portugal or Singapore show quite clearly that all of these statements have been correct. At this point, antivaxers are the only reason why the pandemic is still an issue in industrialized countries.
No, it's common lisp
We stopped doing daily standups completely. It just felt like a waste of time. If we had to bring them back, I'd use something like Standuply on Slack to do it asynchronously.
I feel like some of the historical reasoning for 'evil possessions' stems from the Protestant Christian 'ethic' behind early America.
> Leader can always monitor overall progress.

If you have a leader. Standups were popularized alongside Agile, which is a framework for having all members of the team take on an equal leadership role. The idea of having standups under Agile was to provide a point for the "leaders" to coordinate themselves. If you have a designated leader, they are indeed dubious (and may also be dubious under Agile, but you cannot lean on a leader in that case, at least).
CRISPR is not "turing complete", I'm not sure where you got this impression. You could build a pseudo-turing machine (finite memory, measurable but small error rate) with enzymes and DNA, but CRISPR is not sufficient to implement turing complete computation.
Twitter Auto-Retweet Bot with Node.js and TypeScript
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In this story, we are going to build a Twitter Bot which would retweet any public tweets including one or more keywords or hashtags. We are going to use Node.js, TypeScript, DI, and IoC.
There is an emerging subfield "quantum biology" that studies biological systems under quantum mechanical influence [0]. Photoreceptor systems seem to be a prominent example.

[0] https://quantum.ch.ntu.edu.tw/ycclab/wp-content/uploads/2015...
Having a daily casual meeting where everyone brings up all of their problems and issues, and anyone in the company is welcome to listen, but not talk, is just a dumb idea. And there are never any recurring (easy) obstacles that the scrum master can resolve, and that can always wait until the next daily, the work of developing software simply doesn't work that way.

Edit: this is some bullshit inspired by rugby where you have regroup and change strategy as you learn about your opponents, what does that have to do with developing software I don't know.
This is making me curious about hot air balloons combined with hydrogen/helium. I don’t know whether the heat would affect the balloon lift in a meaningful way, but would be nice to have control.
I believe IP does this because it's anticipating a CIDR range of `10.138/16` here.
I feel we need a middle ground between standup and pair programming.

Standups aren’t enough to meaningfully contribute but pair programming is frequently wasteful and dominated by one person.

I have been thinking about a daily meeting of 5-8 people with a rotation for the presenter to give a tour through their code. I would keep it 15-30 mins.

Then other devs can catch any glaring issues without getting caught in the details.
I feel what you said about the 'process' creeping in, however, if you don't mind, allow me to counter: My first N years had no version control, but that is not sufficient in my opinion to say it hasn't improved things.
Kind of. What's the clear message you deduce from a publisher having a paywall?
Sorry, it's tilix, not tilda.. used tilda for years until I got used to tilix and the splitting. I'm still missing the quake mode that's unavailable under wayland.
You've totally misread the comment you're replying to. The person described is not money-poor, but time-poor and energy-poor. These people can afford experiences but given their lifestyle, it isn't really feasible to partake in them compared to buying things like a new TV or phone.
No, would like you to stop taking so much public space by crying such cheap non-sequiturs all over the place.
> As far as I can tell cryptocurrency's value comes from how much it costs to mine the currency

This is wrong. Multiple currencies use proof-of-stake and still have value. Price is determined by demand and supply.
* Types that can actually restrict values. I think Haskell does this, but you should be able to express something like "X is an integer whose value is always greater than 1" and have the compiler implicitly perform a check when you cast to X.

* Enumerated errors. Some part of the tooling should be able to tell me all the errors that a function could raise. I don't know why this isn't more common, but sometimes errors are not of the type that I would have expected for the failure, or I don't know what type the error might have (i.e. there isn't usually a stdlib error for an HTTP 503 in a client).

* Optional static typing or a "loose syntax mode". Even if they don't behave exactly the same, it would be great to be able to do rough prototyping and production-ready work in the same ecosystem. Imagine if Python and Go or Python and Rust used the same ecosystem, and libraries were usable in either. You prototype in the loose Python syntax, and tighten it up to the Rust syntax when you're happy with the prototype.

* Macros. I don't think any language is ever perfect, and macros give you a means to work around warts in the language. They're complicated to write and maintain, but I still think it's often better than dealing with the nasty side of a language.
3 years isn't enough. People need to spend at least a decade working in human health before they can really contribute significantly towards improvements.
Not that one, I was about to read it and it disappeared. I found it later here it is https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-medi...
Gaming isn’t a major contributing cause to a country’s energy crisis.
> All your data from Photo Vault is always end-to-end encrypted

Where are the keys?

If they are on your servers then this is dead in the water. If they are in a secure vault on my device then that's a different matter.
Kazakhstan been intermittently on the 1st, and 2nd place for mining output since fall in Chinese output.

USA regained the firm lead after a few months when bigger Chinese mines moved there.
Is the chance of long covid higher than the chance of myocarditis? Is one more dangerous than the other?

Myocarditis is very serious. Any child with it will need cardiology visits for most of their life.
The design doc discusses design, the standup aligns the team by discussing the 'play' if you don't mind me elaborating on this analogy.
Hard to compete with any lisp at generating html - html is basically just a verbose lisp.
This is how the lead author of the study we are discussing interprets the new information: “Our paper, which had a global impact within 24 hours of publication, provides important support for the following crucial public health actions: vaccinate the unvaccinated ASAP; give boosters to all those who are eligible ASAP; maintain social and public health measures despite vaccination.” (This is the fifth paragraph the linked article).
I'm wondering whether these things ever go down at market open.
If not then that's a free lunch.
No, having someone fraudulently use your name for a contract does not oblige you to pay for it and then go after the fraudster yourself.
This seems like way more micromanagement than a daily, sync stand-up
It is either racist or it isn't. The now-popular punching direction catch phrase is just a way of excusing hypocrisy.
plenty of toys, as a kid I would go to my grandparents house and play with their toys. the same toys my mother and grandmother played with when they were children.

same with clothes. my mother saved a lot our children clothes and gave them no my sister when she had children.

furniture is a huge one. my grandparents and parents own a lot of furniture that could easily last hundreds of years, their current stuff is going on 50 years, and I got my eye on a lot of pieces that look like new still. and a hell of a lot better than anything you can buy today.

art and decor are others. kitchen items, basically any non perishable good in your house that isn't fixed?
This hit me the other day. I dropped my phone and smashed both the screen and display making it essentially unusable. I needed to get into my email. I had no WiFi but I had access to an older phone with data. Tried to sign in on the other phone. It said I needed to confirm the login on my device, I obviously could not, it gave me an option saying 'can't access phone' so I clicked it, it took me to a page saying too bad sorry no signing in for you and that was it, I was locked out of email until I bought a new phone and set it up.