skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand that is:

>Findings In this cross-sectional analysis of 26 823 adults from the population-based French CONSTANCES cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic, self-reported COVID-19 infection was associated with most persistent physical symptoms, whereas laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection was associated only with anosmia. Those associations were independent from self-rated health or depressive symptoms.

They are just saying that some guys who had experienced, and following, self reported their infection, did show the most persistent symptoms. ..., lost senses, etc..
That makes the group A.

While

Other's, who obviously did not experience heavy symptoms, where confirmed tested by lab at some point in time. The only symptom this group B experienced in long term was anosmia.

So there is a discrepancy in that, which is or might be psychological. Yes. But it's just perception?
A lot of mild symptoms are resulting in unrecognized infections, because they're .. mild. So why that person should think he/she/it is infected?
.... Of course, at some point they've been tested, because they've did start to show anosmia. That's group B.

The ones thinking they're infected and experiencing symptoms (yet having COVID not a big surprise), they self reported by going to see the ICS. Group A.

So, is it not obvious to see the doctor if one starts to show symptoms of an infection with covid in the midth of a worldwide pandemic situation? If one is I'll enough to go to doctors, one can expect the illness to be severe.

And is it not obvious to just do a test (which at some point became mandatory in situations) when one's experiences very mild symptoms and not self report to ICS?

SO, what's the sense to compare A an B for obvious? As I understand, the study is about comparing A to B at the time when A/B got their infection. The grade of severeness/feeling ill is directly connected with persistent symptoms, if I may say so?

The psychological part I could derive from thinking could be that anxious people do pay more attention to every mosquito bite ("AHH it's itchi. Could be corona. Let's see the doc") and thus, they're self reporting. in contrary to the ones who say "it's not necessary to report, because it's just a nightsover or a little snooze".

And of course, that anxious people will have psychological persistent thinking they still having the same symptoms as they were at ICS. But is it thinking or perception? Some perceive the purest pain as nothing while others wizzles by the look at a spider.

But why compare that?! For me it would make more sense to compare severeness vs self report vs persistence
> As long as we ban IQ tests for employment employers are going to keep using this as the best practical proxy. I

Thats probably true to a degree, however I think the system will breakdown this decade. Given current inflation rates, anyone with an IQ >120 will soon see that the debt/benefit ratio is becoming unworkable.

The last 2 employees my company hired actually game via github - we were using an open-source repo that someone had made and eventually reached out and asked him if he wanted to consult for us and add some features to his code...that lead to an ongoing basic permanent consulting gig.
Surely the CBC, a state-run news outlet and beneficiary of over $1B of annual tax dollars, can be trusted to provide a balanced, impartial view of who should be taxed, how much, and where those dollars should be spent.
> Once you've used the VM, compress it into an xz archive and put it on a shelf somewhere [...]

This is a good idea and probably what I'll end up doing. Was just curious if maybe somebody else had implemented that "clever solution" and I just haven't heard of it or something. Thanks for the feedback!
Forget about language quirks, package management and version management in python is a nightmare. The ammount of time I wasted dealing with python environment related issues alone makes me avoid it if I can.
> In other news, NPR pledge drives are so annoying.

I'll take an NPR pledge drive over the 1-800-KARS-for-KIDS commercial any day.
I read something from Why the lucky stiff the other day where he interviewed famous programmers. A lot of them gave long complicated answers about everything and Guido van Rossum mostly gave one liners.

On the topic of what makes truly exceptional programmers exceptional his one line was: good taste.

There is not one rule set to social situations. There is no perfectly consistent framework that purely promotes free speech while being smart enough to say: we shouldn't teach creationism in school. It's a matter of having the taste to subjectively evaluate the bigger picture and say this is what's right
The example with Bill Gates at the bottom is wild! The "teardrop" under one of his eyes makes it slightly gangster, and the smooth face and awkward smile reminds me of a much younger Bill. Fascinating.
Ask HN: Creative/interesting FUSE filesystems?
What are the most creative uses of FUSE [1] filesystems that you've seen?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
Since some are complaining about the Ad Fontes methodology, here it is:

"Ad Fontes administers an internal political bias test to analysts, asking them to rank their left-to-right position on about 20 policy positions. That information allows the company to attempt to create ideological balance by including one centrist, one left-leaning and one right-leaning analyst on each review panel. The panels review at least three articles for each source, but they may review as many as 30 for particularly prominent outlets, like The Washington Post, Otero said. More on their methodology, including how they choose which articles to review to create a bias rating, can be found here on the Ad Fontes website."

From Poynter:

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2021/sh...

And here are a couple of links to their methodology:

https://adfontesmedia.com/white-paper-multi-analyst-ratings-...

https://adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sources/
I worked at a company that migrated a 100 PB Hadoop cluster to GCP for assorted reasons despite many years of success with colocation. I wasn't involved in any of this, but the team's decision process makes sense. You can read through their decision making in these blog posts:

* https://liveramp.com/developers/blog/google-cloud-platform-g...
* https://liveramp.com/developers/blog/migrating-a-big-data-en...

One big point was challenges of maintaining multiple colocation sites, with cross replication, for disaster recovery. Since Hadoop triple replicates all data within one DC, this requires 6 times the disk storage capacity of data size for dual DCs. In contrast, cloud object storage pricing includes replication within a region with very high availability such that storing once in cloud storage may be acceptable. Further, you also need double the compute, with one of the DCs always standing by should the other fail.
The things you mention are ostensibly true, yet still they don't make sense to me. It might make sense when you're a startup that's growing, but when your SSD costs are so large you can save millions on them, then the numbers just don't add up.

In my experience, doing things in the cloud is about as expensive per 12-18 months as buying the hardware up front is. That's super interesting for a fast growing startup that could go bust any minute and wants to spend every second of their time on growing, expanding and marketing.

But when you're spending so much on AWS you can save millions just by reducing filesystem overhead by 20%, it should have stopped making sense a while ago. $2 million should get you a team of 10 sysadmins and devops engineers. Sure automation would be more difficult, but you'd have the manpower to achieve it. Isn't that what running a business is about?

Flexibility, when you're growing quickly it's nice that you can provision new hardware instantly, but AWS is so expensive you could continuously over provision your hardware by 50% and still always be ahead of the AWS price curve. And as I said, you could fully swap out your hardware every 18 months and be at the same price basically. You could even hire a merchant to offload your old hardware and recuperate 50% of those costs.

And I'm not saying to throw AWS overboard altogether, that you have your core business outside of AWS's datacenter doesn't preclude you from buying into RDS, Kinesis, S3.

Is AWS just cutting you more financial slack than we're getting as a tiny company? Or am I underestimating the costs of getting that sysadmin team on board?
> More people in their life they can rely on

Even in this super-rare case where one father lives with multiple wives, the attention/resources of the father is still divided among even more children. Also, the wives usually view the other children as competitors. The dynamics of this setup are known from old harems/courts.
I searched something on mobile then clicked on the arrow to see more search results (the one shown above Twitter and whatever) and it redirects me to a authentication page.

That lasted a good 10 seconds before I closed the browser.
Apple is making next-level hardware but their software is consistently a mess
My comment might come off as an indictment of credit scores. But it really isn't.

They absolutely solve the problem that you are pointing out. But they also serve to kind of solve a whole class of other problems around identifying behaviors that correlate with bad credit scores.

For example, if you're a land lord who vehemently opposes divorce, it's possible to use a poor credit score as cover to deny renting to this middle-aged guy who is clearly just gone through one.
I am not sure the size of your company and the budget for in-house prices, but we realized AWS is not just a lock-in, but also a permanent money drain.
There's also some very high paying software engineering roles in the UK, such as machine learning engineers. Of course, the salary varies from the north to the south quite a bit.

Nevertheless, you can get 100k just out of uni in an ML role! Especially if it's following a PhD.
The similarity is global system of collecting every piece of data about citizens.

You start with the little. Due to complexity and sheer amounts of laws, bylaws etc. each one of us breaks few of those every day. The systems like the one being mentioned will eventually be able to track those as well making every citizen an offender. Then when the time comes who do you thing they will choose to prosecute? Most likely those pesky human rights advocates and other similar people who are already monitored.

I think unless some "Reset" button is pushed we will end up exactly like this. End up on various lists (already happening) and private companies denying vital services.
If you can outcompete local rates by 30%+, why would your employees complain about disguised employment?

Labour laws generally come into play when professions are poorly compensated or mistreated - pampered tech contractors being paid far above local market rate don't really fall into that category.
I don't understand the 28-day requirement since most vacation balances are divisible by 5 (5 days in a work-week). Are you counting holidays or are you getting that number from somewhere else?
I get a blank page in Firefox with JavaScript turned off :(

Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at inline (“script-src”).
Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://you.com/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js”.
Typesetting a whole book part III, the analog edition
It's a valid point, and there have been efforts to unite long covid and post viral fatigue as a common illness. I don't make the rules on this, but until there is consensus that they are one and the same, we just have to use the words we have to refer to the things they currently mean. No one would have any clue what you're talking about if you start calling long covid "acute necrotizing encephalopathy".
Both my tax lawyer and CPA said no tax event, and that the circumstances about why its a no have nothing to do with the crypto/blockchain component. Because it didn't move between parties. The blockchain just lets that conclusion be made faster because everyone can see the transaction, except the people who wouldnt bother to look (because blockchain) and wouldnt understand if they did look (because blockchain).

You are the only one shoehorning your preexisting notions into a benign comment. There are so many better ways you could apply your energy. Many blockchain skeptics wind up defending the technology more often because their other skeptical friends are saying procedurally generated non-sequiturs. So they wind up in an educational role as their criticisms become more valid, and the education winds up strengthening the space by fixing the criticisms. Right now you’ve been stuck on less valid criticisms, for years. Its not going away so why not help make it better when you learn valid criticisms.
I've seen this happen first hand, albeit with far lower stakes.

I was a wire puller in a factory that refurbished subway cars. High voltage cables cannot have any breaks in insulation because they're carrying a huge amount of power and you could get shorts and fires.

Our supplier frequently shipped damaged cables. Our manager tried working with them to change their packing and shipping method to prevent this, but it still kept happening and it would cause serious delays on the line.

Our manager was under serious pressure from the top staff to straighten this out and would get livid if a new batch of cables came in damaged, often blaming us for improper handling.

Eventually employees learned to "fix" cables coming in with heat shrink and electrical tape to keep manager happy. This was dangerous and when eventually discovered by quality assurance it became a big issue. Manager was moved somewhere else.
Careful: "sort -u" and "sort | uniq" are not equivalent. The former works on keys and the latter works on lines. It should be the same if you are sorting based on the whole line, but if you are sorting on part of the line it could make a difference.

Consider this input

1 foo
2 foo
1 foo
2 bar
1 bar
2 bar

For that "sort -u" and "sort | uniq" would give the same thing:

1 bar
1 foo
2 bar
2 foo

But if you wanted to sort numerically, "sort -n -u" would not give the same result as "sort -n | uniq". The latter gives:

1 bar
1 foo
2 bar
2 foo

but the former gives:

1 foo
2 foo

The man page for GNU sort says of "-u":

> with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run

but "sort -n 1" gives:

1 bar
1 foo
1 foo
2 bar
2 bar
2 foo

and so the equal runs are "1 bar", "1 foo", "1 foo" and similarly for the "2" lines, so I'd expect the output to be "1 bar" and "2 bar", not the "1 foo" and "2 foo" that it actually gives.

The man page for BSD sort's explanation of "-u" explains what is going on:

> Unique keys. Suppress all lines that have a key that is equal to an already processed one. This option, similarly to -s, implies a stable sort. If used with -c or -C, sort also checks that there are no lines with duplicate keys.

Doing "sort -s -n 1" shows "1 foo" as the first "1" line and "2 foo" as the first "2" line, explaining why those are the two lines that make it past "-u".
Google and Facebook conquered the ad industry by providing more targeting options and analytics data.

With Google's continual removal of key performance metrics, match types and other relevant tools, combined with Facebook's history of misreporting ad impressions and fake account/bot traffic, it seems likely that they will just keep extracting more of the value from advertisers (through higher CPCs, higher cost per conversions) and consumers (the best merchant won't surface first, just those with largest budget) as rent seeking behavior.
> that would require convincing you that there is quite a bit of fundamental information needed to make those labs useful

Well you don't need to convince me of that since I admit as much in my original post!

> and there was already a great misunderstanding regarding the amount of time chemistry students spend in the lab.

I can only speak to my experience advising dual CS and Chemistry majors. The ratio of lab to class hours for them is 1:2, and worse when you add electives. So that's the basis for my statement. YMMV.
you turned me from Wikipedia cynical to wanting a job there
When registering to vote, the householder has to fill in a form, giving details of all those eligible to vote. There's a limited number of slots to name a registrant; I think its 4 or 5.

A crooked householder could, I suppose, register 5 dead people at his address; if he got caught, he'd be prosecuted. With 10 crooked householders, you could get 50 crooked votes. Hardly any elections turn on that few votes.
I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox. It was confusing for it to ask me to add an extension to Chrome.
Heck, even Ocaml!

https://www.lexifi.com/
Amazing to think how, before science existed, the universe was completely empty!
No-Code Is for Coders, Too
As someone who has done a bit of CV too, I'd like to know what are the 2 or 3 algorithms you think are really useful ?

(personally I was impressed by mixture of gaussians background removal))
There is a shortage of people - with experience. A side effect of this is employers are less willing to take on less experienced staff as they lack the employees to act as mentors.

Getting my first job in tech was the hardest - but since it has been smooth sailing as I have a track record of experience & war stories to tell.
My team uses PagerTree. Easy to get started with, has the tools you need without being overcomplicated.
With the sell of Alstom to the US, is France still able to build nuclear reactor ?
>"Because we need to understand the purpose of the data collection and what bad things might happen because of it."

And government would of course never abuse the data it has. We've heard that before. The have, they do and they will keep doing it.
Sure but previous to credit scores what was the option? References from friends and business acquaintances?

Sure credit scores aren’t perfect but they are better than the legacy alternative.
> cushy developer jobs in the US are on borrowed time

Maybe. But I've been hearing that since the early 90's.
Digital Legacy
The algorithm behind it is complex, but for any technical administrator or technical developer, they will never come in contact with it. Based on that, for 99% of people who are not developing blockchains from scratch, but using something like Hyperledger Burrow or another existing blockchain, it's not a visible complexity. One that can be summed up as "there's an algorithm under-the-hood which will ensure consensus, see the documentation appendix 1 to find out more".
It is a terrible name... It takes several scans of a sentence to determine if you refers to me or the search engine...
False equivalency: Apps/programs are a la carte, TV / Music services are not. Accessing a secondary app 'store', e.g. EPIC to buy a game that is not on steam costs next to nothing, just a small time investment. Accessing a movie that isn't on Netflix is a pain in the ass and money.

Frankly if I was king of the world any and all licensing deals for media would have to be explicitly non-exclusive, effectively decoupling production from distribution. Any service should be able to stream/rent any media for the same rate as any other. This would let the market sort out what people value in terms of streaming 'packages'.
The US has the tech companies MASSIVE wealth to stop this. It is all well and good to subsidize local tech companies, but for a majority of junior/senior devs you can't compete with $250K/yr in pay from FAANG companies whose stock won't stop rising and whose name on resume basically sets you up for life (exaggerating, but its not that far from the truth for a non-US and even US developers)

Your third point doesn't make any sense to me as no country will restrict their own citizens from working for a foreign company...earning massively higher salaries than local jobs (more money earned locally is more money spent locally... all metrics that nations care about will go up). Monopolizing your citizen's attention != monopolizing their talent.

Every company you just mentioned added up doesn't even equal or come close to Google's market capitalization (Atlassian, 150B, Spotify, 55B, TSM, 550B, ASML 350B, JetBrains, private, but some say 7B?, Epic Games, 30B) and of note, TSM and ASML draw much of their valuation from hardware than software.
There is fraud in the UK as well, of course.

Some of it because there is no ID, as said, and register is often out of date: For example when you move into a new home the local council will at some point sends you a list of people registered at your address to check it is still valid. How many times can you them vote? It is said that some houses in less than great neighbourhoods have up to 30 people registered as residents on the electoral register.... Right. That said this usually raises eyebrows and people do get caught [1]

Another example, because electoral registers are independently managed by councils people can be registered in several location and thus vote several times (though it is not legal). It was admitted that some students did that to vote twice in the Brexit referendum, for instance (once at their parents', once at university).

But it is downplayed because people don't want IDs and because fraud probably does not skew results (at least nationally).

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176591/Tory-counci...
So connect to some wind power which in the midwest produces 3x the capacity in the winter as it does the summer [0].

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20112
I don't know if that will really help as it is effortless for me and I've never given a lot of though to how it is for other people. My method is to go to sleep only when I'm tired. I may relax on the bed when reading a book or scrolling the web, but otherwise, I'm standing or sitting and most likely out of the bedroom. But as soon as I feel really tired, I go on the bed and remove anything that may impede my sleep. I turn off the tv and anything that is bright (lot of status leds). I remove anything on the bed and get into my relax position. Sleep usually follows soon after. If it does not, I got up and do things (watch TV, play games, browse the internet). Bed for me is heavily associated with sleep. Another trigger is my relax position.
Microsoft Announces Windows 11 SE and Surface Laptop SE
My comment about the toxic community you once again exemplified perfectly. You knew the answer to this question and instead of letting the poster know, and teaching them something interesting, you instead chose to make fun of them. And when I pointed out your toxic behavior you chose to mock me. Nice.
Famous Myths of the Fender Stratocaster Debunked
Free database of 800 temporary and permanent residence visas in 150 countries
You contact the company and offer to pay them hundreds of millions of dollars a year (see Google and Safari and Firefox).

Smaller browsers (if they at all exist) will default to Google because that's what users expect. Except Edge. Edge will stick to Bing.
A fungible token?
The Washington Post, L.A. Times, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, Reuters, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, Insider and The Hollywood Reporter.

Seems like a good way to push a ideological/political agenda, too.