skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like they looked at both infected and not infected individuals:

>>The crude prevalence of persistent physical symptoms was first calculated for 4 groups of participants according to both belief (ie, self-reported COVID-19 infection) and serology test results: belief negative and serology negative; belief positive and serology negative; belief negative and serology positive; and belief positive and serology positive.
Let's face it, increasing your employer's profit margin will only benefit the employees if the company is struggling and they were about to be laid off because costs were starting to eat into the margins. The only case where it does is with a bonus or with workers owning shares with dividends. "keeping it alive and successful" only matters if that wouldn't have happened otherwise and even then not much if you have good job mobility.

No need to allocate. Something like "our clever engineers managed to save us $2M per year, so we're giving everyone a $500 bonus this month" seams entirely reasonable.
I suspect it's because music (at least in the US) has a "mandatory licensing regime" for music, which is why it's possible for broadcast radio stations to play a wide variety of music. I don't think there's a corresponding legal framework for videorecordings, so each video broadcaster/streamer needs to negotiate independently with each rightsholder.
It's getting harder. I have a friend who worked at MSFT out of high school >10 years ago, and was told several years in that he could never be promoted beyond his current level without a degree. Decided to take a couple years off to get a degree in something random (theology) and when he applied for his old job, now +BA, was told he needed a CS degree to be qualified for it.
A truly banal review. The only thing I learned from it is that the author has read Ludwig Wittgenstein's Wikipedia entry. If you're interested in Wittgenstein, forget the Tractatus and PI, and instead get a copy of the blue book.
I've had the opposite experience: the newer versions are very flexible, reliable, and miles better than Home Assistant for my setup (which is Homekit-based with Node-RED doing dashboards and device characteristics handling).

And it even supports git now via the projects feature, which I am using to build an RSS feed fetcher that does translations and aggregations for 200+ feeds.

- https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/01/13/1900 (home automation stuff, before I adopted projects and Git versioning. Has most of the links to previous applications).
Very reminiscent of https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd896f...
>I'd also like to see them move development onto Github, that should make it easier for more people to participate.

This has been discussed a few times in the past 5 years. But some member refused to use Github due to it not being open source.

Not sure if that is still the case but you could certainly try and ask again.
I think history has shown enough times, that there needs to be a bigger barrier than, "no evidence currently that this data will be used in ways that differ from the stated reason"
A good example of why the concept of privilege is so useless.
The study says nothing about the symptoms being psychological. It says that people who self-diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed those symptoms to COVID-19 whether or not they showed antibodies for the virus.

The symptoms and symptom clusters mentioned - like fatigue, body ache, breathlessness, headache, and strained attention or focus - have many causes both physical and psychological. What the study is saying is that people think they've had COVID-19 because they experience these symptoms or that they've had these symptoms in addition to COVID-19 and have perhaps mistakenly attributed these symptoms to the disease.

In the words of the article itself, from the Discussion section:

Two main mechanisms may account for our findings. First, having persistent
physical symptoms may have led to the belief in having had COVID-19,
especially in the context of a growing concern regarding long COVID. Although
adjusting for self-rated health before the pandemic did not affect our
results, another disease may underlie symptoms attributed to COVID-19
infection. Second, the belief in having had COVID-19 infection may have
increased the likelihood of symptoms, either directly by affecting
perception19,20 or indirectly by prompting maladaptive health behaviors, such
as physical activity reduction or dietary exclusion. These mechanisms are
thought to contribute to the long-described persistence of physical symptoms
after acute infections.
I installed the plugin and it instantly mucked up my chrome profiles. It felt very disconcerting and I instantly removed it.
I imagine most users might not have multiple chrome profiles and so wouldn't notice, but for me it was an instant stop.
What are you doing with profiles? Why does it need to be installed as a plugin?
> No one says, "Memorize this phrase, and now write it out again."

No they say "Write this word 10 times to memorize it" then give spelling tests.
Visual Studio... Code, right?
YugabyteDB: Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper
Yes. None of them do as much good as a big network of profitable corporations do. When governments or non-profits have been primarily responsible for feeding people there is often mass starvation, for example. Business is more of a hydra that can do many things effectively simultaneously while a government is limited in focus. There is always a need for more competent CEOs.

Publicly funded research and individual effort aren't very powerful either, basically the best an individual can do is make an interesting observation that sets a corporation up to actually run with the idea.
This is probably useful for expected outcomes, but maybe not the more tragic, sudden deaths. Giving parents a chance to deal with tragic circumstances, please offer alternative ways, such as death certificate and family identification, could be done with a notarized service.
> Let me get this straight. You plan to code for hours, and your biggest concern at this point in time is your editor takes 1 - 2 seconds more to start?

NO. Mine isn't. I happily used emacs when it took a solid half a minute to fully load. Hell, I once was stuck on an AIX machine that needed lots of maintenance and figured it would "save time in the long run" if I built emacs from source so I could debug things there instead of copying files back and forth. Eight megs and constantly swapping and I feel fine. :) I was just pointing out the startup time as an easy way to pop the nonsensical argument that on today's hardware emacs is anything but lightning fast.

> On the other hand emacs is notorious for making users spend days to get a decent working set up.

Days? Powerful tools can take years to master! The best are those which let you be productive immediately, while providing a natural and built-in path for you to grow as you need to. Make easy things easy, hard things possible, &c.
it should not be that surprising. being good at a team sport means you have to process the action of many people at once
Thing I wrote about my own colour blindness a few years back, for anyone here who's never really dug into it before:

https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/colourblind-in-software-...
A head start in running a business. Maybe they would rather be a musician and are disadvantaged compared to kids from musician families.
I work in a very data heavy HPC space and you are glossing over many things.

* to get performant access to a storage cluster is non-trivial, there are many different variables in place which must be correctly tuned to get good performance. Network topology, high quality NICs and switches, a tuned Linux kernel, client side caching settings, network packet sizes, file system block sizes, erasure coding settings, etc.

* your solution mentions nothing of backups, offsite failovers, or disaster recovery plans.

* your solution mentions nothing of a physical datacenter: fire suppression, battery backups, hvac, power supplies, backup generators, server racks, sound isolation, workspaces for hardware maintenance, network cable routing.

* If you have multiple geolocations you need to have dark fiber or ip transit between locations with multiple ISPs to have high speed connections between sites without downtime.

In addition to the raw costs you have to factor in the lead time of building a qualified infrastructure team, building out the requirements, provisioning hardware and datacenter space, setting everything up, and then tuning everything. With infinite money this is probably still a 2 year lead time at minimum.

I do agree that running multi petabyte workloads in AWS is probably not optimal, but when you are a startup in the growth stage it is probably better worth your time throwing VC money at AWS and building out your product. Eventually, the business should probably migrate to self managed infrastructure once the right product fit has been found and the business is looking to streamline.
Where are you getting the 60% number? I have an extremely hard time believing this is anywhere close to accurate.
But if you’re paying X in OpEx to AWS, at some point Y in CapEx (hardware) and Z for OpEx (your people) becomes more compelling. What I believe the comment above is arguing is that if you are saving millions for 20% savings on SSD costs, X >> Y + Z.

Yes, you have to manage the hardware, and Y doesn’t automatically go to zero for year two, but the convenience of the cloud isn’t always cost effective. Don’t get caught up with the details. The 2 million figure doesn’t matter as much. It’s finding that inflection point and making the better business decision.
Very interesting idea! Thank you!

I would not move it between Node-RED and the PLC but I see other applications of a data diode. We usually create a very small DMZ around each machine and a data diode can additionally protect it (see also a very old article from us: https://docs.umh.app/docs/getting-started/usage-in-productio... )
You could place the data diode as a "firewall" between the internet and the edge PC.
yeah, i installed the extension and it immediately mucked with my chrome profiles. thanks, but no thanks. glad i'm not the only one that felt this way.
I thought the selfie to waifu generator created much more interesting and anime like results.

It does look like it doesn’t work anymore though.

https://waifu.lofiu.com/
Do you know how much the tuition/fees cost for this?
The loan burden is on many people who do not complete their degrees. If a college's options are: enroll people in very low margin degrees, with likely comparable costs, or enroll people in the high margin (& high earning) degrees but with a success rate of ~75% year over year, the school makes way more money but only a third come out with the value add degree. The incentive there is to push people into the alluring high risk high reward field cause they make revenue regardless. Let in more people, allow for bigger class sizes, offer more classes, etc.

The happy path might be the same or better, but the sad path gets grimmer. All that said, the completion rate fiasco is it's whole own can of worms.
I laughed at the “mad scientist” comment because every startup I’ve worked for has had a “mad scientist”. They are always very opinionated and have a lot of political capital because of seniority. The weird concoctions they create… the minute they leave all the remaining engineers immediately replace most of it with off the shelf stuff.

Home built web frameworks (which apparently aren’t “bloated” and “slow”), piles of bash scripts because they never heard of Salt (or whatever is the latest config management tool)…

Almost always they think they are “saving money” by doing what they do, rarely do they ever consider the opportunity costs to rolling the entire software stack from the hardware to web stack on their own.

Good times.
In the US any subsidies tend to just increase the overall cost to what the market will bear anyway (hence $60K/yr for college, for example), which is why you see such a huge slice of the pie (for residential) going to whoever is selling and installing the system. Also, this is probably not the cheapest system available, nor the cheapest labor available. But you could pay even more where market bears more, such as where I live - tons of FAANG people with too much money on hand. Unfortunately for them, there's no meaningful sun exposure for 6 months in any given year, so solar is utterly dumb here, unlike in Australia.
Greenpeace is shooting itself in the feed. No more coal. Okay.. Then build more nuclear. Nohoooo
Sometimes, sometimes not. A lot of common ‘prod bricks’ (S3, Managed kubernetes, etc) get used because they are convenient, and while they could be implemented in some other, more bespoke way, it’s rarer and rarer that it actually pencils out as a net win. You also have to deal with the complexity of managing your own version of it, which is non trivial over the full lifecycle of something.

If it is your core business to provide that thing? Sometimes or even often worth it. Otherwise, often not.
All these reports would be useful with the maker and model of the affected laptop. I tend to pick the boring models and they mostly work, but knowing which ones work so badly (like the XPS 13 people mention) would be extremely helpful.
Hyundai and Kia also need to get their car security fixed, because those cars get stolen all the time
I for one am just glad there are more competitors entering this space. Google search has been getting worse over the last several years to the point where I can't find what I'm looking for with non-technical searches. Google always tries to figure out my intent, and in doing so, fails miserably 1/2 the time.
Wikimedia Foundation's financials are online: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/#a1-...

Top expenses are: Salaries and wages ($56M), awards and grants[1] ($23M), professional services ($12M), other operating expenses ($10M), donation processing expenses ($5M), and internet hosting ($2M)[2].

[1] Still trying to figure out what goes into that.

[2] From my own experience and their size and availability, I would expect that to be at least an order of magnitude larger. I'm impressed.
I don't think it's just one thing. I wouldn't be surprised if almost every organ can be damaged somehow as a result of most kinds of viral outbreaks, so to make progress, it might be better to look at the specific clusters of symptoms and call each of them by their own name and study them independently of what caused them, as I doubt the therapeutics, if we find any, will have anything to do with whether it was covid or something else that caused the damage.

Of course I could be completely wrong, and perhaps covid does create a unique set of complications.
Unity is trying real hard to convince investors that it can compete with Unreal in the movie production space, while their actual capabilities are embarrassingly limited. Especially if you want to get shit done out-of-the-box, but also in terms of the max no-matter-the-budget end result quality. Hopefully they can catch up in the long run. The space needs competition.
How protein-based Covid vaccines could change the pandemic
Well, somebody has to help Germany accomplish its "Energiewende"
Can you outline advantages that this has over www.uuidgenerator.net (which supports multiple types of UUIDs, not only V4)?

(www.uuidgenerator.net can be accessed through its website or through the https://www.uuidgenerator.net/api API, which is also available on the https://graphql.stepzen.com service.)
I work in a big tech company and you have to be extraordinary to get hired without a degree as an entry level dev. 10+ years experience and it won't matter so much, no.
How Do You Run a Cybercrime Gang?
I think you are underestimating the amount of regulation and qualification that is required for various roles.
Health and safety, code compliance and best practice are tested and assessed for a vast number of professions where I am. Certainly teaching, driving, food safety, building etc. I struggle to think of a profession or trade that has no testing or legal requirement for standards (and associated proof of compliance). Many companies require online training to get their own policies across.

Probably a key detail - I’m in New Zealand, and Health and safety is taken increasingly seriously. Company directors face stiff fines/imprisonment for H&S failures and while things have a long way to go, they have also come a long way in a short time.
This is awesome, nice work
Because it isn't rational reasoning (pardon the redundancy), but emotionally self-serving.

It is like the other conspiracy theory "car that runs on water that big oil and their government cronies are keeping down". It gives them a bogeyman, a miracle solution, and a simple ordered view of the world.

Think about it for half a second and how preposterously useful the water engine would be to governments if it existed. The military logistics of naval ships not having fuel tank but taking in water is just the start.
> Without specifying some boot parameters I can't even boot an installation USB stick on Linux

Would be worth mentioning the specific model so that a) we can avoid buying it and b) maybe shame the manufacturer into fixing it.
Where is the fraud? I acknowledge the unethical behavior, but that's distinct from fraud.
Product demo and analytics platform Reprise raises $62M
I have a few toy apps on Fly and while I do like the service, it has been flaky. E.g. 12 hours ago my app raised a number of errors as it got disconnected from the Postgres database.

This isn't a show stopper for me as they're toys, but I would be somewhat wary of moving critical production apps to it just yet. (Also, everything else aside from PG has been rock solid for me)
Engineers alone don't make a great tech company. Because there is a global engineering shortage but not a global sales, marketing, product management, UX, etc. shortage all of the knowledge on how to do those functions effectively won't spread as quickly (if at all) and will have to be learned locally.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I definitely think dotnet is an advantage for F#, but when I learned F#, a lot of beginner resources didn't teach you how it dotnet works. I think it got easier from .NET Core 3 onwards tho.
The "hero license" concept he concludes with seems pretty close to "90% of success is just showing up," and stories about how much a good attitude has an effect on performance.
However, family, education and class can all create the hero license condition. While I don't think he linked it, there is some anecdotal data (and now that I looked it up, research! https://jumpmath.org/us/research/) from teaching kids math using an analogous hero license can have outsize results.

I'd even take it a step further and suggest the hero license comes from a teacher who can act as a real coach invested in your success as opposed to someone just transmitting received knowledge. The greatness of the family members in the article suggests the means to transmit that license were present in each case.
Probably more this talk about CUDA 3.0 https://live.juliacon.org/talk/UGX8YR or the workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz9IMJuW5hU
Liberal Hypocrisy Is Fueling American Inequality
Looks great man, keep it up!
Yandex Labs is a San Francisco company. Technically owned by Yandex, but otherwise not much difference from any other Bay Area company.
All crime gangs have to be run by force. Their "contracts" are enforced by physical violence.
If this is combined with a move away from fossiel fuel for heating and logistics - and a significant investment in renewable - then it is an excellent move for France.

I would sign up today for nuclear power in 2025 if it replaced all natural gas and diesel/petrol vehicles on the roads.
Wow. I thought everyone knew they drive trains.
DoorDash to Buy Finnish Food Delivery App Wolt for $8B
From the article:

>The social-work school was contractually required to share about 60% of revenue with 2U and ran into financial trouble.

My impression was that most of what 2u did was marketing, I might be wrong about that though. It seems like a combination of marketing and their online platform.
Beside the operational nightmare that it would be to deploy with such a strategy, it wouldn't work long term.

JITed code can be invalidated and recompiled, so your forks would still drift over time.

I'm a big proponent of unicorn (and forking setups in general) for various operational reasons, but I think JIT might be the last nail in the coffin.
Twitter is a very public platform -- you said so yourself in your previous comment. If we're willing to force a religious baker to provide services for a group they find abhorrent (however misguided they are about that), why aren't we also willing to force a much more consequential service provider to provide services for a group they find abhorrent (however right or wrong they are about that)?
> Protein vaccines have been used for decades to protect people from hepatitis, shingles and other viral infections. ... Late-stage clinical-trial data so far look promising, demonstrating strong protection with fewer side effects than other COVID-19 shots typically cause [...] Protein-based vaccines - with their inexpensive production protocols and logistical advantages, including stability at a broad range of temperatures - could help to narrow the immunization gap between rich and poor countries

> On 1 November, Indonesia granted [Novavax] vaccine its first emergency authorization [apparently still the only one]

> Protein-based designs [are] slower ... than other vaccine technologies. ... The [production] process involves many steps, each of which has to be optimized for making a specific protein

Protein based vaccines in late stage clinical trials are a few: Biological E (India); Clover Biopharmaceuticals (China); Medicago (Canada); Novavax (Maryland); Sanofi/GlaxoSmithKline (France/UK); SK bioscience (South Korea). The various products differ substantially in the payload («some use single proteins, others triads; some use full-length spike protein, others just a fragment; some proteins are free-floating, others are packaged together into nanoparticles») and adjuvants. Efficacies, accordingly, will vary.

> The shots also appear to be safe. None of the 50 or so protein-based COVID-19 vaccines now in clinical testing around the world have elicited any major side effects. Even many of the reactions typically elicited by the mRNA or viral-vector jabs - headaches, fevers, nausea and chills - have proven far less common with the protein-based alternatives. For example, less than 1% of individuals who received a protein-based shot from Taiwan’s Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation [makers of the "MVC COVID-19 vaccine", used in Taiwan with emergential status approval, using recombinant S-2P spike protein adjuvanted with CpG 1018] developed fevers in clinical studies. ... The safety profile is very much like those of influenza vaccines

Worth a highlight and repeating: «None of the 50 or so protein-based COVID-19 vaccines now in clinical testing around the world have elicited any major side effects».

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As I was looking for information about the Taiwanese MVC, I met the Wikipedia page "List of COVID-19 vaccine authorizations", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_autho... , which some surely will find interesting.
Web Support for Flutter
SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin Officially Forced into Recall Next June
It's strange to see someone use "bipartisan" as a stand un for "fair" or "factual".
I might install an extension. I have the DuckDuckGo Privacy extension for instance, and use DDG as my primary search engine. But I use Firefox, and it doesn't seem like this company provides a Firefox addon.

It's an interesting choice to launch a search engine, give reasons for using it instead of Google, but also play into the Google quasi-monopoly by not providing a Firefox addon. Hopefully it's coming soon.