skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study that you are referring to took place "Between July 27, 2020, and November 14, 2020". The delta variant started in India in late 2020 and wasn't spreading widely within the United States until 2021. It was listed as a variant-of-concern by the WHO on May 31, 2021.

So the research you are referring to is in regards to other variants of sars-cov2
How many people in this thread either are professional epidemiologists or virologists, or work directly with covid patients? Can their comments get a special “I actually know what I’m talking about” tag?
I'd like to make a humble appeal to you, dear Reader, that you consider if you are able to exist without Google services and the tradeoffs they entail.
If the unit cost is higher than the maximum a manufacturer or retailer can charge, it won't be produced at all. This results in a market failure, similar to the one China's experiencing with their energy market, where the price of coal is 4x what it was earlier this year.
They really want our phone numbers. I have a few throwaway accounts for subbing to sites that require log-in that I don't want connected to a phone. IF they brick my accounts, I'm just going to stop using Gmail and turn to Proton or something else.
> As I understand it, precisely because they may then pass the infection on to those who may then end up with a severe illness

But we've already established that the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission. It may slightly attenuate transmission, but nowhere near enough to stop the spread. Given these facts, the vaccine is mainly so the vulnerable populations can protect themselves, but most children aren't among those populations (obviously immunocompromised children are).
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Programmers tend to be introverted and have some serious ego issues.

Therefore any mandatory social interaction will be met with resistance, even if it's useful for knowledge sharing or for letting your boss know how things are progressing or if they have to change resource allocation.

We can afford 5-10 minutes to chat.

Most of us spend an order of magnitude more time dicking around per day (as we should, for it's intellectual work)
Pathetic. GMail authentication was already quite broken as it is - eg for me it just won't let me in over cellular connection.
There's no lack of DVD drives, they are widely available on Amazon, BestBuy, eBay.
I think you mean history of generalized (applied to all products and services) price controls, especially in a planned economy. That definitely did not bring the hoped prosperity.

They seem to mean price controls for a limited number of essential goods and services, to ensure access to them for the least fortunate groups. Energy definitely seems to be part of this even in the most market-oriented societies.

One can look at cheap fossil fuels, and the unwillingness of Western governments to make them more expensive by integrating their negative pollution externalities into their consumer cost, as a sort of ad-hoc price control. Lots of social protests over living standards were triggered by increases in energy costs - the Gilets Jaunes in France for example.
No more fucking GIL bullshits
I see people here saying poor saying poor people don't have cars or it's for climate change. Increase in oil prices have affected public transportation and mainly cost of goods by 30-40% because of transportation cost and poor people are getting hurt :(
Cool, here is a kind of balloon that combines hot air and helium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozi%C3%A8re_balloon
Interesting - I experience the opposite in that I can only hear imagined “dialogues” involving other people, but have no inner voice of my own. My emotional priorities dictate what the imagined drama is about and, to be sure, this is a whole lot of self-pity … but the voices have distinct identities and sounds, and none of them are “me”.
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Wasn't that the pre-Delta variant(s)?
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If the vaccine isn’t very effective in stopping transmission then how does the vaccine address this?
But I think it's a good argument for reconsidering how we do wealth-distribution in America.
Some countries and ISPs do this as well. Lots of uses for download managers
I've always wondered why Siberian pine nuts (orekhi) are unknown outside Russia. They're hugely popular there and street sellers in Irkutsk will sell you a kilo of shelled nuts for under $20.
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Many governments in the West can currently borrow at rates below 1% (which is lower than China), which means that nuclear plants construction can actually be financed at that very low interest rate in the West.
Stand ups are not as much for developers as much as they are for transparency. But this overhead is deadly in a small, under-resourced team. Kanban is a better choice. Just let people blow through cards with as little communication as possible. The wonderful dynamic of a tiny team is that everyone still sort of knows what everyone else is working on.
My heater doesn't become less effective each year, requiring replacement. While ASIC concretely implies this, GPU is not excluded if you want to remain competitive (read: generating profit)
Seriously, which German university (not "FH") doesn't teach analysis and linear algebra in the first terms? I am really wondering.
Seems like a great opportunity for folk to reevaluate whether they need a Google account at all. I finally escaped in September, after first trying all the way back in 2011. Dragged my feet for so long until eventually just saying "fuck it" after a few glasses of wine, and even recorded a screen cap of the final GAFYD deletion.

For anyone attempting escape, rclone seems to be the only tool that supports exporting all Google Docs ever shared to the account. Google Takeout (or the equivalent GAFYD tool) worked for everything else
> But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle.

Agreed, which is why a lot of us minimum wage workers criticize people like Elon Musk who spend 40 hrs on Twitter and going to fancy dinners or SNL or whatever while claiming he works 80 hrs a week.

It would be great if we weren't all forced to work to subsidize their hedonistic lifestyles.
> Would be hilarious if the bad ones are sold off to foreigners.

It is hilarious that it is often the case in the industry. Most Chinese don't believe that's the case.
Good for the author, as I imagine that it must've been a great educational experience for them, but I don't really see how this would help anybody in the real world.

Seems like it reflects a very subjective way that the author wants to implement web apps in.

I mean why should anybody invest so much time to learn alternative syntaxes and configurations to replace HTML, CSS, Javascript, module bundlers, existing SSR solutions etc, all at once??

Every new tech should have a convincing excuse to exist.

We've had the likes of HAML to simplify HTML, CoffeeScript to simplify JS, SASS to simplify CSS. These worked well as they optionally replaced a small part of the stack and took great care not to deviate too much from the underlying tech. They arguably had an acceptable cost/benefit ratio. The costs were little, as they should have been.

And for the stuff that completely introduced a new world such as ELM, Purescript, ClojureScript: ELM brought in established functional programming paradigms while at the same time providing a sensible framework for the common SPA. Purescript made the web accessible to Haskellers. ClojureScript targeted Lispers and made the Clojure ecosystem accessible to them in their web apps.

I don't see how I can justify the use of this "language" other than the fact that the author "likes it this way". Everything seems so arbitrary and the "all in one" approach seems daunting.

Every good developer goes through a "framework building phase" which is a very enjoyable and educative process even if the end product is mostly useless to anybody else other than the author. I think the author is going through theirs. Best of luck.
See, this would be a better, shorter, and more insightful explanation than that an article full of mechanical transformations performed by hand.

"We start with a pointer-to-int called "a", take pointer to it and name it "p" (it's a pointer-to-pointer-to-int, although we store it in a pointer-to-whatever variable), then cast it to some weird type, dereference it thrice and store 1 into the resulting target. Two questions remain: a) what is that weird type? b) we have two levels of indirection but three dereferences, how does it work? The answer to the first question is that weird type is "pointer-to-array-of-pointers-to-int", and it helps us to answer the second question: dereferencing a value of that type is a no-op in arithmetical sense (but has a type-casting effect)."
This article is from May.
I'm not sure if this post is intentionally ironic, but I think it's worth noting that story is one of giving up freedom.
> 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?

Children exposed to COVID develop strong immunity even if they have no symptoms [1], so the vaccine likely wouldn't convey any more protection than they've already developed.

[1] https://pediatrics.duke.edu/news/children-mild-or-asymptomat...
Aren't there non-phone-number 2FA options?
> On the other hand people are far too over the top acting as if it's the most awful thing they've ever had to deal with (it's 15 minutes

It's awful when it's interrupting valuable flow time.

> in most cases the only meeting you're going to have that day

If only that were true!
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Maybe I’ve led a charmed life but I’ve never seen any problems with stand ups. It’s just a few minutes of “I’m working on this today” and “okay we’ll pair on that after lunch.” But I guess people can mess up anything.
> The biggest problem is that managers can easily fall into a trap where they have everyone in the same place so they can ask individuals questions that only really matter to them.

That can easily happen. On the other hand, where would you expect an EM to ask individual questions that matter to them ?

My experience as an EM is that this really depends on the team, including domain and maturity. For example, if you have a team of mostly junior members, well, the "micro managing" version of standup is often useful. It gives a way to see how people can communicate their issues to other team members, especially when you're new as an EM.

For more mature teams who don't have issues, I generally don't do standups, unless there is something critical and the project priorities at risk.
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Man, it's a good time to be a level designer who's sick of being underpaid in AAA
what is do you use? I'm on 10 professional and never have these problems.
Incidentally, I originally wrote 10, but then I cut it down to 3. More than happy to accept your correction. [This refers to paragraph I ended up editing out because it was not constructive enough, sorry for any confusion. Sometimes I wish HN had DMs.]
Maybe the norm is wrong.
I’ve had issues with Civ 6 on a pretty damn beefy (albeit Nvidia) machine. Multiplayer was unplayable (would get a black screen when the match started) or laggy to the point of not being playable.

This was a few years ago on Ubuntu, and I had better on Fedora a bit later, though the game still need to be tuned down for multiplayer to be usable.
Last time I checked, their midrange brand Soyoustart had 250 mbps and OVH 500 mbps. Hetzner is 1 gbps. Other than that OVH prices are much higher for more or less the same specs.
Almost always the best way to solve an issue or a blocker, is for the person to simply continue to work on the task, alone. Very rarely is it productive to involve other people, and when it is, the person who is closest to this part of the work should be involved. To have a generic "issue solver" that solves everybody's issue is just not a good idea on a software team.
The video in question, for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo
People have too much of dopamine rush from the ordinary social media to get engaged in such complex projects. Second Life was an expection created in times where there was no social media and people were looking for alternative ways to pass time and were willing to invest their time in learning how to use Second Life (it is a quite complex creation tool and game client at the same time).
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> As spekcular says, the standard curriculum covers differential forms, tensors and vectors... making geometric algebra a relatively small delta to pick up.

Could you be a bit more specific about which "standard curriculum"/"standard approach" you're talking about?

For example, in my formal education (high school; masters with physics major, comp. sci. minor; 4 years of a comp. sci. PhD (abandoned)), I did not encounter differential forms, tensors, multivectors, the wedge product or multilinear algebra (or quaternions, lie derivatives, differential geometry, (co)homology, etc.).

Maybe you're talking about a "standard approach" for a pure mathematics curriculum, or perhaps physics/math grad school?

All I can say is that high school and undergraduate physics (in the UK, circa the late naughties) (a) does not standardise on those topics, (b) is filled with tricky operations which are easy to mix up or perform the wrong way around (e.g. cross products, matrix multiplication, pseudovectors), and (c) many of those annoyances would simplify-away under GA.

It's a cliche that physicists (certainly when teaching) cherry-pick the parts of mathematics they find useful. All of those concepts would certainly be useful in a physics course, but would perhaps be too much to fit in; yet there's certainly enough scope to cherry-pick GA (since we can drop Gibbs-style vector algebra[0] to make room). Perhaps something else, like differential forms, might be even better; I honestly don't know (maybe I'll do some reading about it).

[0] By "Gibbs-style" I mean the 'cross product and dot product ought to be enough for anyone' approach that permeated my undergraduate learning.
> Asynchronous communication is a decent way to replace synchronous standups if (and only if) everyone involved can respond in a timely manner and is willing to schedule a synchronous discussion when necessary.

This is the true measure of what makes someone a good team member.

> the team needs to be willing and ready to go synchronous when necessary.

Who gets to decide what counts as "necessary"? This philosophy sets the value of my time and concentration to 0 relative to the person calling a team meeting.
oh sure, break away from the thiscoffeedoesnotexist trope
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>Incidentally, using 8.5% hydrogen as lift gas will make a gnat's fart of difference; the lift force is proportional to the difference in density between air and lift gas - both helium and hydrogen are way less dense than air.

My understanding is that the intention is not to create a mixture with better lift, but which is cheaper - helium being significantly more expensive than hydrogen due to supply issues.

What few sources I can find online for elemental prices suggest helium is anywhere from 2x to 10x more expensive than hydrogen, by weight. Even an 8% substitution would be economically significant at those prices - although, as the submission says, you may lose those margins through the bad reputation of hydrogen as a lifting gas.
Encryption keys never leave your device, they are derivated from your password. When you use Touch/Face ID, your encryption key is stored in the Secure Enclave. In general, we use the same method/model as FileVault2.

More about Secure Enclave you can find here: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-sec5...
Sure, but now we're talking about the rate of complications from the vaccine vs. COVID among younger populations, and how deadly those complications are. Have you heard any of this nuanced debate, or have you just heard screaming to get everyone vaccinated with no nuance at all?
While true, modern cars - especially buying brand new take resources to build. The severe amount of limiting computers in a car now can also make them more disposable and harder to repair.

Lest us forget that in 2001 the Honda Insight achieved above 40mpg, the 90's compact cars also could achieve high fuel-efficiency targets.

At the detriment of safety, an old car can in some cases be better than a brand new car, especially in price.
New cars are heavier and increased weight does not inherently mean 'safer'
It was your fault. IANAL, but I'm reasonably sure that under German law a contract that you deliberately enter under a wrong name is retroactively void (von Anfang an nichtig). Sorry. When it comes to names, Germany doesn't f'k around.
That sounds insane.

In my experience agile works when it’s led by developers and not management.
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Yes, OTP.
It's not just a download manager!

Imagine a page with 50 links, that you each have to download by hand? Nope! Just DTA and a filter to choose what you want.

Photo gallery? Same!

Open a bunch of stuff in different tabs, and want to download the same thing (eg. .zip file) from each open tab... DTA all tabs, and *.zip filter.

Regex filter? Sure!

The basic download manager part is just an extra feature, that you usually don't need.
Google has supported WebAuthn security keys for a while now. Don't give your phone number if you don't want to.
I agree, but note that the title of the research article is "Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile, and mammal chromosomes".
That's already the case. If their algorithms decide that your activity is "unusual", they can disable your ability to login with literally no option to bypass it.

https://i.imgur.com/4YrElkJ.png

Keep that in mind when you e.g. go traveling.
I just wish we could add a delay in-between downloads so as not to hammer servers or run into 429 errors. An older version had this capability.
Been using google prompt 2-step since they first started offering it a while back. Gotta say its the most painless 2-factor authentication of any account I actively use. Although its a bit clunky to have to open gmail on an iphone to get the prompt when I'm not dailying an android phone for testing reasons.
Oh, that's a big deal, yes. (For those unaware, GIL = global interpreter lock.)
GCP and Cloudflare both have this fyi.
> If the only time ICs communicate any of that stuff is at a set time each morning, then something is already seriously wrong.

Agreed, It's much more productive to simply approach some of your coworkers, or write in a team chat after the daily. Mentioning problems in the daily just adds pressure and stress with no benefit.
This is entirely unsurprising.

The action of vaccines is to pre-prime the body to fight the virus, like letting students read the answers to the test the week before.

The result is not some kind of impermeable Star Wars shield, but a reduced likelihood that any one exposure will result in an infection.

So, given a 90% effectiveness rate, it means that an exposure level (e.g., getting directly in the way of the coughs of a contagious person) that would typically infect 10 of 10 people, will now only result in only one infection of vaccinated people.

However, if those vaccinated people expose themselves 10 times to the same viral load, they are now highly likely to get infected.

Since living in the same household as an infected person literally creates multiple large exposures per day for the contagious period, it is no surprise that many vaccinated people will get infected in that situation.

This does NOT mean the vaccine is ineffective, it is simply a limitation of the biology to be aware of.

Reducing the household infections — continuous exposure — from 38% down to 25% is a very strong effect, cutting the infection rate by 1/3, or leaving unvaccinated people 50% more vulnerable.

Moreover, these effects are multiplied. The 50% greater rate of household infections for the unvaccinated means 50% more people going out in the world infecting more people. This can have a massive effect on the R0 value, extending the pandemic greatly over the vaccinated rates.

So, yes, the lesson should definitely be to vaccinate everyone, and make sure that they keep up to date on their boosters.
Yeah, true, all they really want is our phone no's so they can sell the numbers to spammers and completely render our phones useless, even for texting . . . fuck GOOGLE
Oh vaccines reduce it by some vague amount, if at all, to vaccinated people whom you admit are at far less risk having been vaccinated? Oh well then go nuts, put in whatever draconian rules you want if it may or may not reduce some spread by some minor amount and means that someone gets COVID in 2023 instead of 2022. That's all the justification we need! Quarantine the kids. Fire police. Make everyone hate each other. Sounds totally worth it!! Yay!!

This is the cult of safetyism. A total inability to process risk/reward and tradeoffs, and eschewing basic logic for "protection" whether real or imagined no matter the cost. All I sincerely ask to people such as yourself is, "What is your long-term plan? Is this forever for you?" Usually, I watch as their brains simply break down on the side of the highway. They have no answer because their logic is so bad they get stuck in an eddy with no way to get out. Welcome to the Church of COVID.

And no, conservatives aren't banning prevention measures. Everyone alive is free to get vaccinated (and wear a mask) as most have even in places like Florida. They're banning punitive rules, and whether it's Florida or Texas or all of Scandinavia, they've demonstrated that there are no worse outcomes from simply allowing people to make their own health choices without figuratively putting a gun to their heads (mandates) or making them do anything they don't want to (masks). Meanwhile, half the world upon seeing this: "Nah nah nah I can't hear you!"
Looks interesting, but for M1 Macs only? Intel Mac users still need love too.
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How could hydrogen be a feasible approach to lifting any amount of cargo if aerogel of all things is too heavy? I just find it hard to believe that even the volume of aerogel required to support enough hydrogen to lift a useful amount of cargo would approach even a tiny fraction of the weight of the cargo itself, but perhaps I'm not imagining things correctly.
> I have only found that to be beneficial if you work with horrible communicators who struggle to get their thoughts out without repeating themselves in a multitude of ways.

That's true, that's just around 99% of the people, while it's useless for the 1% that can't communicate even with synchronous audiovisual aid.
Just to re-iterate, you are a "regular customer" running 1PB/month outgoing-traffic, at $3000/month and have had no issues?
I'm having the opposite reaction.

2FA is a strict improvement and everyone should be using it. I applaud Google for mandating a best practice.

It's far preferable to the alternative of having your account compromised because your password is guessed or stolen.