skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
let's just say I've worked in science long enough to watch many exponential graphs turn to sigmoids over time and that makes perfect sense.

Personally I believe that were the flu or cold to arise anew todya, we'd have seen something very similar (a pandemic), but presumably, due to the lower rate of connectedness, local populations evolved (both in the DNA sense, and in the immune learning sense) responses that dull the scale (and even then, some bad flu years are Really Bad, although nobody really freaked out about it). The plague killed what, 1 in 10 people in Europe?

The other important thing to realize is that COVID was and isn't and won't ever be a truly existential risk, medically speaking, and the existential risks came more from economic collapse.
Another link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-x

Paxlovid and Ivermectin are both 3CLPro protease inhibitors.
It’s pretty amazing how stupid and shortsighted people are. We’re so good at overlooking the horrible situation we’re in and focusing on other things that are completely irrelevant

I used to think that one of the worst things in the USA was that 100 people per day die in preventable car accidents, but now we’re getting 10x that from a virus and people pretend that it isn’t happening
The strangest part of this dataset to me was tests being run using Daphne with Starlette, instead of Django. Unclear who would reach for that combo in production, since Daphne is meant for Django.
And if Pfizer fucked up the covid-19 vaccine, one of 20 other alternatives would gladly inform the public and remove a competitor from the market. That's the great thing about having so many alternatives for the covid-19 vaccine, all of them can gain an advantage by pointing out that a competitor's vaccine does not work.
If you open up the actual VAERS (https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html), you'll see disclaimers like this:

> Reports may include incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental and unverified information.

> The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted or used to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines.

The numbers are suddenly high, in part, because of this:

https://vaers.hhs.gov/faq.html

> Healthcare providers are required to report to VAERS the following adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination [under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)], and other adverse events if later revised by CDC...

There's a COVID-specific reporting requirement on a previously optional system.
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Back when my wife was pregnant I took the CSV export of baby name frequencies for last 10 years from the scottish National Records office (where we live) and loaded the lot into elasticsearch/kibana.

It was quite good, for any candidate name you could see popularity as a whole, trends from year to year - and it would give you ideas. Coming up with names is easy but but coming up with names that both of you like is the difficult part.
They literally say, it is not trending, but traditional.
I mainly look for backend (Rust or Python).
I’d recommend going for it, and as others have said, be prepared to read the Arch Wiki, a lot.
I think what’s most important would be to simply have the guts and the inspiration to keep going, even if you think you’ve lost all hope. Personally, I started out my Linux journey with Ubuntu, then distro hopped and tried PopOS, and Ubuntu-based distro with extra things here and there. Then, I took a Linux course online (for free) and gave me general fundamentals, it advertises as the “The Start from scratch Linux course”. After that and spending tons of time on Reddit and seeing post after post and the memes about ‘I use arch btw’ I decided to try it out. It was definitely fun and a tad time consuming at first, but after that I’ve learned a ton more about Linux and how things work. I’ve only had a broken system a couple times. Again, the ArchWiki is your friend.
Wow. To let go of a coveted position and then to land in a shitshow like this must be absolutely terrible. Props to her for speaking up, and taking what she wrote as true (I see no reason not to) that company should be avoided like the plague, both on your resume as well as as a potential customer or stockholder. This won't end well.
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Correct me if i'm wrong but aren't you describing an extremely niche market?
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Very different process though.
A fairly low quality article, imho.

The points listed could almost as easily apply to Java or C#
These days fortunately we have Python and SymPy eating Mathematica cake.
As a PR move. To be seen as a diverse employer by clueless outsiders.
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Depends on your metric. It’s perfectly reasonable to think that Kansas is doing better than Missouri because more people are able to lead the life they want.

There are other metrics beside “least fatalities” to factor.
I also fully support Taiwan's right to remain a free and independent democracy. More power to them and may China's hegemonious fascism never touch their soil
No worries, I had heard the same after a chemical plant in Houston exploded and devastated some nearby residential property. It wasn't until some of the urban planning youtube channels I watch (including the one I linked) focused on Houston that I learned the details behind the "Houston has no zoning regulations" factoid.
There's a theme in the HN comments for any article talking about Alder Lake right now.

Comments implying the i9, a product that exists to gain max performance at all costs, should be put down for high power consumption. At the same time the same comments act like the rest of the range can be ignored because they're not the fastest of the bunch.
Only you can prevent the dismantling of the health infrastructure!
> Benchmark

> Uses a VPS

Not saying the results are wrong (though for client side code my experience is very different), but that's not really a good start.
Sorry to hear that. Just 14, it must be hard to become a father.
I have been thinking a lot about this. I wish I could invest my paltry funds into climate-focused ventures as part of a crowd of like-minded small-scale investors. So I am investing in things like renewable energy ETFs. But my impression (correct me if I’m wrong) is that I am investing in companies deploying proven technologies, rather than moonshots. I want to invest in moonshots, given the fact that I think we need moonshots in order for human civilization to survive. But a) I would need significant funds to do so, and b) realistically, I wouldn’t be able to evaluate those moonshots for technical and economic feasibility. It is a discouraging realization.
Assassinate Xi Jinping and every other CCP official who can't accept Taiwanese independence.
It’s crazy that money is such a huge incentive. Knowing that a cure for Covid is a potentially $100B market means you throw the kitchen sink at it. Imagine being this lab. Do you think they ever had trouble hiring an assistant? Buying new equipment? Getting bonuses? This environment must be fantastically different from the typical meat grinder of bio R&D.
> Once you understand the why, the how becomes so much easier.

The interesting thing is how each student has a different path to understand the "how". It sounds like you have particularly vivid mental imagery, and gravitate towards visualizations for solving problems. This isn't true for everyone; it's not necessarily aphantasia but a unit circle or slope/area curve just isn't as useful for some as it is for you, others might prefer to think in terms of limits or series or patterns or a myriad of other techniques. You can repeat "The derivative is the slope of the curve" until you're blue in the face but some people just won't 'get it', finding the means by which they can get it is the fun part.
I have been running Arch since about 2008. This used to be a problem with laptops, but I have had great experiences with this exact problem since about 2012. Or maybe I got better at buying laptops with largely compatible hardware.
Performative inclusion.

—

Inclusion: A seat at the table.
Equity: When you speak at the table, others listen.
This was what I noticed as well.

The minute your db queries become expensive the sync workers end up slowing down and stopping other functions.

If your workers are tied up doing expensive queries you might be holding up cheap queries that might be getting data from a cache or whatever.
Definitely not the current versions of batteries but those will drop in size over a short period of time. Maybe instead of stealing the battery itself the energy from it would be illegitimately transferred off ... "siphoned off" if you will
Yes, asking simple questions like this takes about 15 minutes and will weed out 98% of bad hires. I wish more companies would do this. Years ago when I would interview people for Delphi positions, the first question would be:

"What's the difference between a procedure and a function?"

Instantly weeded out 98%. Really what you are looking for is work ethic. If I pay you will you work hard. That can't really be determined in an interview.
> WRONG. Worst thing that can happen is that I get treated disrespectful in an interview and that I waste time. Most companies value your time with zero.

which can hurt your self-esteem / motivation for the next interview.
Can it run Windows? If not you've missed 75% of the desktop market.
I didn't read the comment as putting the employee in a bad light.
same with chrome 95.0.4638.69. whatever they intended it to look like, they failed.

edit. Its a dark mode issue, styling not being applied to the background rendering
This was already thoroughly discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496994

And a rebuttal from Python core dev @ambv at the time pointing out how the methodology's flawed: https://twitter.com/llanga/status/1271719778324025349
To be fair this happens with my work macbook every now and then. It hasn't died though.
The ANT+ Extended Display profile would be a good fit here. I don't know whether this product supports it.

https://www.thisisant.com/news/new-extended-display-profile-...
Agreed, that that is the most likely outcome. But that's not a guarantee. So here's to hoping that this will all blow over at some point.
Cool, I was unaware it was a supported US government opinion. I mean it was obvious when they kidnapped those Canadians to hold captive as they negotiated for the Huawei executive, but still.
Nah. Programming is its own thing. Math is lovely and all, but programming isn't applied mathematics any more than playing the cello is applied physics.
Wikipedia defines "vaccine" as "a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease", which in my view would fit the Pfizer/Moderna shots. Which definition of "vaccine" do you subscribe to that these "treatments" don't fit into?

Also, mRNA is not the only type of vaccine for COVID.

Finally, two more questions: would you clarify which definition of "experimental" you subscribe to? And do you have a source for "testing standards were reduced"?
Holy shit! Something POSITIVE out of Mozilla?! This is a year's first. Probably including the last 2 years as well.

Now (I know this is a high demand) ... maybe they could make it possible to actually find Add-Ons in the store.
I would love to know how they deal with structural degradation via neutron bombardment.
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Except they will need to support Chrome OS, so we will probably end up with Desktop Linux graphics drivers anyway.
Never had a Roomba but Botvac works without phoning home or connecting to a network.
> Knowing how to invest in webshit or getting lucky picking stocks can make you rich much easier than R&D can make you rich.

It seems like you missed my point, because I make all my money investing nowadays too after failing forever trying to turn R&D into viable products. It's easy to raise money on bullshit and almost impossible to actually make it work. In fact, it likely is actually impossible, we just don't know yet.

> Sam isn't investing because this is the best risk-adjusted return for his portfolio. He's investing because, if it does pay out, it also very literally changes the course of humanity in the process.

I've met Sam and I don't think he cares about making the world a better place. I think he just likes money and attention.

You seem awfully idealistic. I'm terribly cynical. We're not going to agree and that's fine.
A way to "upload" your own name list would be an incredible feature. Whether it is a .csv or a plain .txt with one name per line.
Tram, bike, you name it. But specially in the beginning of the Autumn, with 2 days of rain, you see few bikes in the street. I'm biker myself. Right now I'm seating in the tram 16. In the traffic jam, because of a construction site.
How could I know? My lungs aren't so great, so maybe they did.

Also, the WHO definition of "Long COVID" is

“Post-COVID-19 condition occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, usually 3 months from the onset of COVID-19 with symptoms that last for at least 2 months and cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis.”

That's any symptoms, not necessarily organ damage.
Why do you trust this company?

https://corporatewatch.org/pfizer-six-scandals-to-remember/

1986: Pfizer had to withdraw an artificial heart valve from the market after defects led to it being implicated in over 300 deaths. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdrew its approval for the product in 1986 and Pfizer agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation after multiple lawsuits were brought against it.

2003: Pfizer has long been condemned for profiteering from AIDS drugs. In 2003 for example, it walked away from a licencing deal for its Rescriptor drug that would have made it cheaper for poorer countries.

2011: Pfizer was forced to pay compensation to families of children killed in the controversial Trovan drug trial. During the worst meningitis epidemic seen in Africa, in 1996, Pfizer ran a trial in Nigeria their new drug Trovan. Five of the 100 children who took Trovan died and it caused liver damage, while it caused lifelong disabilities in those who survived. But another group of 100 children were given the conventional “gold standard” meningitis antibiotic as a “control” group for comparison. Six of them also tragically died because, the families said, Pfizer had given them less than the recommended level of the conventional antibiotic in order to make Trovan look more effective.

2012: Pfizer had to pay around $1billion to settle lawsuits claiming its Prempro drug caused breast cancer. Prempro was used in hormone replacement therapy, usually for women going through the menopause. The settlements came after six years of trials and hardship for the women affected.

2013: Pfizer paid out $273 million to settle over 2,000 cases in the US that accused its smoking treatment drug Chantix of provoking suicidal and homicidal thoughts, self harm and severe psychological disorders. Pfizer was also accused of improperly excluding patients with a history of depression or other mental disturbances from trials for the drug. Later, in 2017, a coroner in Australia ruled that the drug had contributed to a man’s suicide. The man’s mother campaigned to change the label on the drug.

2020: Pfizer reached an agreement with thousands of customers of its depo-testosterone drug in 2018 after they sued it for increasing the likelihood of numerous issues, including heart attacks.
You're making a tradeoff. You no longer have to alarm for things like your server failing due to disk failure or other stuff that lambda abstracts away from you, but you do have to alarm on things that will increase cost. Constant cost(if you aren't dynamically scaling) and more headache vs variable cost and less headache
Isn't the Xiaomi app already integrated with Fit?
Was already posted and discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496994
Believe it or not a good source of those is the Bible. Every language knows what do with them, either pronounce natively or a direct analogue; Ivan/John and so on.
During an incident you break glass if you have to. Because the risks of inaction outweigh action.
It's not a non-statement, such effects are a serious concern for nucleoside analogs. But I can't say it's an actual issue or that it's definitely not because we just don't have sufficient data.

You're correct that almost anything with a pharmacological effect has such concerns, which diminish with time. That's why prevention is superior to treatment.

Also I wasn't talking about Paxlovid, but molnupiravir, which you'd also be taking.
There's an option do disable it. Should be a button below the video.
Your take is completely wrong, OP didn't make it "political", he said Pfizer falsified data and your post confirms that.
There's should be a 'Tinder' style option where you and partner both pick names you like and it only shows you the overlap.
Yea, we don't know the circumstances of the question. Were they asked to implement string splitting from scratch to demonstrate their ability to do so, or was it just something they needed to use as a part of something else? Did they have access to docs or were they supposed to do it without any help? Something tells me the problem wasn't phrased as "google how to split a string in c#" so I assume there must've been more to it.

I don't know C# very well either. Taking 10 minutes to research the possible solutions and their pitfalls doesn't sound like a bad thing. What's the idiomatic way, and is there more than one commonly used way? What are the performance characteristics of each way? Are there any pitfalls and caveats (as e.g. strtok in C has when it comes threads or to strings that may have empty fields)? Do these ways modify the original string or do they produce copies? Is the delimiter a single character, a string, a regex?

This should indeed be simple and quick if all you need is to speedrun to an answer through Google. If you need to be thorough and understand the ins and outs of what you're doing, 10 minutes doesn't look like much at all for someone who doesn't have extensive & recent experience with the given language.
> You are not forced to take any vaccine

Can we please just stop? “Take this or lose your job and pension” is not a choice.
That doesn't make your code faster though. For a particular bit of single threaded computation the async approach is going to be slower due to context switching overhead. Same in C#, Rust, etc. If your performance is I/O bound, then, as I said, it enables greater scalability by allowing computation to continue on other contexts while waiting for that I/O operation.
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I’m actually in the same boat. My approach to save a few bucks was to buy a lower end laptop I knew was somewhat compatible with Arch. But now I want something that just works without me configuring everything (and some better hardware too). I still have a box I built at home that I can tinker with Linux if I want too.
I appreciate and agree with the attitude/approach here.

I suspect the author may be a bit removed from modern python, as the community is increasingly taking a similar stance. Python is not Haskell, but Python in 2021 with tools like type-hints, mypy, (frozen)dataclasses, Pydantic, etc. is trying to address at least the latter two points here (type-driven & illegal-states-unrepresentable). I'm not aware of ways to enforce function purity in python (do any linters complain about input modification or out-of-scope references?), but I try to make functions as pure as possible regardless of language or domain anyways.

I don't mean this as a flamewar, Haskell seems like the right choice for OP. I love how a language like python is making more of these benefits available to a wider audience and I wish more folks embraced these recent advances.
So what's their play here? That those people who refused vaccines will want to take this pill instead?
> There's no bad propaganda when it comes to persuading people to get vaccinated

This is a very dangerous road to go down. I strongly disagree that the government and media should have license to lie to people if it's a useful lie in the moment. All that does is erode trust in those institutions, the longer term results of which are the root cause of most of the anti-vaccine sentiment today.

> PLOS study constantly uses the word "risk" and "may", i.e. the authors don't know the actual probabilities of escape and use a mathematical model based on a far more mutagenic virus, HIV.

You're absolutely right. The experts are just guessing the odds of this stuff, and you and I are really only able to do the same, with even less certainty.

> It makes more logical sense to me that if your unvaccinated body takes 10 days to mount a peak immune response (as mentioned in the PLOS study), that still gives the virus more time to mutate even if there are no pressures to mutate

With all due respect, when dealing with probabilities like this, non-experts estimating what makes "logical sense" is completely useless.

> if we simply look at where the dominant mutations have come from so far, it's not from countries with high vaccination rates like Israel, New Zealand, or from asian countries that take serious measures at curbing the spread of the virus, singapore, japan, korea, china.

Israel and New Zealand have negligible populations on a world scale. The efficacy of social distancing in the east Asian countries you mentioned is clear, but completely unrelated to the question at hand. The delta variant came from India, a country of 1.4B people, before any of them had access to the vaccines. That tells us nothing about whether the vaccines net encourage or net discourage harmful virus evolution.

It's okay to say we don't know, and in fact far better to do so than to make up a politically convenient answer.
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But the virus is already in the live prod environment!
In the end, they still get the data, just in a much less desirable way for both you and the customer.
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All those countries are small aside from China whose vaccine is not very effective and people with high East Asian ancestry have natural mutations against COVID. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3

You say vaccination or serious measure, which is the truth? Could a mutation not occur elsewhere and infect a densely populated area? There isn’t evidence that the places most affected were the origins of the virus mutations.
Yeah North and South China are still mainland China to me. Taiwan is Taiwan and a perfectly useable name.
> Why do you trust this company?

The great news is that I don't have to.

The vaccines are being widely administered by dozens of countries, each with their own regulatory authorities, and the whole process is generating enormous amounts of data, including ones outside Pfizer's control/influence.
Every time this comes up (like every 3 months on here) people just kind of digest it as fact without critically reviewing this. There are multiple posts in the wild that dispute Cal's claims and raise various issues with his benchmarks. Like always consider your work load, does it need a level of optimization? Yes? Then compare various performance options.