skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the source, this was about King County, Washington, where more people over age 65 have completed the full vaccination series than there are census-estimated residents of that age. Effectively everyone over 65 has been fully vaccinated there. https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...

If you tally up more age categories, about 92% of people over the age of 35 have been fully vaccinated.

Or flipped around, 80% of unvaccinated people in that county are under the age of 35, 15% are age 35–50, 5% are age 50–65, and essentially none are older than that.

It is amazing that even so, 83% of hospitalizations and 75% of deaths were among the unvaccinated. These vaccines are astonishingly effective!
> Stigmatising obese people, people who drink alcohol, people who do extreme sports, people who have children late in life. Where does it end?

You sound as if you live in a weird parallel universe where we don't stigmatise those people.

It's not difficult to find people who think along all or some of these lines: Obese people are ugly gluttons, drinkers are a danger to others and themselves and have no self control, extreme sports athletes are crazy, people who have children in their forties are inconsiderate and will get retard babies.

The reason we don't get worked up about those as much as about covidiots, is that the groups you mention don't endanger anyone else. The one exception is extreme sports (think drag racing, not wingsuit flying), and that's why we require those athletes to buy insurance.
I like the term "hedonic fast", but I would interpret it as the opposite of what it would be, as I already know "water fast", a fast where you only consume water. Perhaps "stimuli abstinence"? Abstinence is defined as "a self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure". "stimuli" would ensure that people don't think directly about sexual abstinence.
> Not literally removing all dopamine from your body, but reducing your overall levels/staying at the baseline more.

To my knowledge there is no evidence that more dopamine gets created when practicing unhealthy behaviour. Neurotransmitters are much more complex than the simplistic fasting model describes. If you don't have severe malnutrion (e.g. not enough tyrosine etc.) or Parkinson or ADHS or similar, the dopamine is just there in your brain, waiting to be released as needed. We don't create more of it just because we look at insta 50 times a day. And we can't use it all up through behavior alone (but things like amphetamines do, of course).

The metaphor of dopamine levels working like battery levels is simply wrong. High levels of dopamine correlate with good mood, but also schizophrenia. ADHS patients' symptoms can both get better and worse when consuming dopamin produgs.
Ask HN: Opinion on increasing post life to a month from 2 weeks?
I ask this because I am playing with the idea of checking HN less often. Once a month seems like a good interval for me.

Doing this, though, would take away my chance of participating in some discussions I otherwise would, as they'd be archived before I see them.

Increasing submission life to a month will mitigate that and allow me, and likely others, to reduce the amount of time spent on HN looking for interesting links and waiting/hoping for them to become successful so we have plenty of people to have a discussion with.

And there have been many threads on HN which I wish didn't die out so early, because there was plenty opportunity for it to grow further.

I'd like to read what the HN crowd thinks about this and what you like/dislike about it.
Don't soften feedback
The major problems the human race is facing all have a single solution: fewer humans. It's like fasting for individual health: simple, and solves so much. So maybe this is just nature running its course.
Well, I believe you shouldn't discriminate on age in those situations. After all older people were paying to the system for their whole life and still pay (well, depends on the country). If 30yo mother refused the vaccination I believe it's reasonable to refuse the care. I think it's unjust to save someone irresponsible instead of someone responsible just because of age.
> Often these differences don’t manifest until more code accumulates and the goals begin to drift further apart.

If an abstraction simplifies the code when it is introduced, but turns out to be wrong in hindsight, then this is a problem of software evolution rather than wrong abstraction. In such a case, I would argue that abstracted code is better than duplicate code, because detecting that the duplicate code instances are the same is more difficult than finding all instances of the abstraction and correcting them.
The reality is you can't do this kind of transition when running in Safari browser because the browser gestures get in the way. It really has nothing to do with the web being able to do this or not and everything about browser chrome getting in the way.

However, it's much, much better when running in a native web app container like Capacitor.
Placing table tags beside or below parent tags rendered differently.
It’s onus not owness
There are rumours going around that the GeForce 4090 is going to have a max TDP of 650W.

It seems insane but if true then consider that the combination of CPU and GPU is going to be 840W, and that is before the rest of the system is taken into account.

At some point we are going to need to start worrying about installing dedicated venting for computers to the outside of the house.

At some point you need to start integrating desktop computers into your HVAC designs.

At some point you need to start having dedicated electric circuits installed like for your oven.

My current computer (5950X with 3080) was already hot enough when gaming that I found it physically uncomfortable to have it under my desk and had to move it out from under there. My legs were burning up.
This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics.

I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency gained mainstream attention.
I thought we solved this in the 1980's by usenet groups having prefixes like comp.*, rec.*, hum.* etc...
I do hope to provide a derived term or syntax for something like a for loop with support for continue and break, since it's hard to match them in terms of productivity and ergonomics. I haven't tried to prototype anything like that, though, so we'll see.

However, I don't think writing Dawn will be as unfamiliar as it might seem, especially to functional programmers.
It is much worse than this this was just the start of a very long list of awful problems (my team tried to live with Cosmos for a couple of years too,luckily got approved a port to another DB and now we are not looking back).

The worst thing is Microsoft reps would always recommend the database, Microsoft support (who came onsite to us to talk with us about Cosmos) had a hard time acknowledging what should be obvious problems and so on... so it took a while for us to catch on that it actually is as beyond awful as it is.
Spotify has every incentive to play you music that costs it less. What you want really isn’t that important to their bottom line.
Plenty of air coolers can dissipate 180W. For example, almost all graphics cards come with air coolers that are capable of dissipating their full TDP, which is often much higher than 180W. Something like this:

Noctua NH-D15 chromax.Black, Dual-Tower CPU Cooler (140mm, Black) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y87YHRH/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fa...

Would be able to dissipate 180W probably without even throttling up the fans that much.
May be, but probably not a million. So they overpriced it and ended up not making it available at all.

Also, I don't think marketing is a big issue for such drug which is the only available option for affected people.
Thank you for pointing that out. I commented there.
Wolves just aren't that dangerous in North America. You should be far more concerned about bears, but dogs, mountains lions, even moose are more likely to attack and kill a human.
It is a tough call. My hope is that in spite of failing to expand surge hospital capacity, the winter delta covid waves will recede before reaching spillover point.
There is no time in US history when measles killed anywhere near 100k+ people per year. The numbers I am seeing are in the thousands.

https://i1.wp.com/vaxopedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/a...

Covid has killed upwards of 770k people in the US.
> Being an introvert means, in broad terms, that you spend energy when you are with other people and you need alone time to recharge your energy. […] Be intentional about who you give your energy to

This in a way clarifies for me why I don’t like the word “introvert”. I have always wanted to be intentional about who I give my energy to, and being in groups can undermine that intention in proportion to group size.

Introversion tends to imply that someone is inside their head, concerned with self, and prefers no interaction to some. For me, the difference isn’t internal vs external, it’s more about small vs large, or maybe intimate conversation vs public conversation.

I actually seek and crave interaction, though, even though the word “introvert” fits me better than “extrovert” most of the time. I just prefer personal interaction over groups. I want one on one discussions, I want a deeper interaction than what happens at parties, I want to find people with crossover interests or people interested in making things. Or even if it’s making small-talk, I would rather engage a single person than several.

Maybe I’m overwhelmed with group dynamics; people at parties can be complicated trying to impress each other, and it makes giving and getting attention difficult and prone to superficial demonstrations. Is this why I prefer individual sports over team sports?
Nononono, you see; Kafka is a single writer multiple reader system and therefore highly scalable.
Sadly leader-election was never implemented and the system is in a read-only state since the main died in 1924.
IIRC, the danger with storing lithium batteries at a low SoC is that they do have some small amount of self-discharge and can eventually drop to levels that cause severe degradation - and potentially catastrophic failure when next charged.
Maybe. I'm not sure how you'd measure the benefit otherwise though. If you're going to compare apples to oranges (or deer road collisions to wolf predation of livestock), dollars is one of the ways you can.
Why Land?
I thought this was going to address the burden of finding affordable childcare, rigors of child development, family insurance, and maybe even a stark anecdote about a toddler or teenager. Then I hear a story about climate change and feel super frustrated that’s where this conversation is starting.

I see the anxiety, but I just didn’t anticipate this from the title.
Mill Computing: Come on, you know we can't say
This is already the case where I live. I think it’s obvious you shouldn’t be allowed to do this on a moving car.
Random tip for New Yorkers here: there's a great restaurant in Park Slope Brooklyn named after them, Haenyeo, on 5th Ave and Carroll Street.
Don’t let perfect become the enemy of good.
They have been trained to deny evidence that leads to conclusions they don't like.
From JPEG to JFIF via an Io.Writer
Jackson Pollock and the CIA teamed up to win the Cold War
Joy is definitely an influence. In my understanding, it's the first strictly concatentive language, whereas Forth has several non-concatenative terms.
What's the most interesting or complicated flow someone has built using this? Just curious.
Indeed. That's why helmets are mandatory for motorcyclists. Helmets are to motorcycles as vaccines are to COVID. Neither guarantees that you don't die or need intensive care, but both reduce the likelihood.
I’ve said on here before, an additional extremely negative incentive that comes from an overemphasis on measurable metrics is that a lot of (important, subtle, meaningful) metrics are very difficult to dumb down for non-technical audiences, or even technical audiences lacking domain knowledge.

As a result the metrics that tend to be tracked are not just the measurable ones, but the ones for which the importance of them and the meaning of their values are comprehended by sometimes a very low common denominator audience. Usually needing to be tied directly in some way to money. (INdirectly doesn’t cut it, that ends up being too confusing a lot of the time).
Eric Weinstein’s Sour Grapes
Product engineering teams avoid dependencies–the independent executor model
Can confirm. I usually shuffle play my "liked songs" (which has nearly 1000 songs) and lately the same group of 40 or so songs play over and over. It's terrible.
It's his fault for buying a product being sold with defects that are apparently known to insiders?

This kind of shit makes me hope Framework succeeds.
There is a constant threat of nuclear annihilation. It never went away.
Don't be sorry. There's infinitely many things I no longer have any curiosity left for. Astrology, scientology, homeopathy....
The name for the game's subreddit is apparently "r/playrust." IMO they missed the opportunity to use r/ust instead.
Or he disagreed that Jobs destroyed the album.

I am having a tough time connecting the dots myself.

I can search Apple Music right now, and see plenty of albums. Not that it affects me, I have never once in my life listened to a whole album, nor do I plan to. I would never even know the lyrics to a song if it were not for the internet making it easy to look them up.
> They are not eating, exercising, listening to music, socializing, talking more than necessary, and not allowing themselves to be photographed if there’s a flash

This is the standard asceticism routine that every human religion in history followed. (And follows.)

I'll trust the weight of centuries of experience over some random internet source.
The problem is already solved by Ionic
Naming is really hard. I concur with your satire tho in all honesty, these days, when I start a new project I name it "foo", "project", or "1" ("0" is too special), and then rename it something more apt if it actually goes somewhere.

It's freeing to "break the rules" and code with single letter variable names, first letter that comes to mind. ;)
Historically a sequence of musical pieces would be defined initially, but be subjected to rework and revision over time. The LP was a departure from that. Unfortunately the poor tracks stay forever. I would swap an 'always skip this' for shuffle any day.
It is most annoying to listen to progressive rock on Spotify, removing shuffle will be great for me.
Talk starts at 6 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5L3EEWBJQw&t=6m

The audio is pretty quiet.
Honestly I really like C#'s outvar and return success idiom. It's soooo ugly and yet slick at the same time. C does the same thing but I think the inline out var declarations make a huge difference to using them. Of course you miss out on error context an Exception or Result<T, Err> gives you but for many of the Try* functions it really doesn't matter.
I think there is still an emotional cost of raising animals and having them murdered by wolves, even if you come out even economically.

On some level, this system tells you the wolf is more important to society than you.

I speak from absolutely no experience, imagining how I might feel.
No wonder I had the DejaVu feeling.
I use ahref, tried SEMrush and like it but seems 5x more expensive for the same stuff. And, the UI/UX is 10x more confusing.

I used Moz for 5 years but switched to AHREF about 1.5 years ago.

I've tried others but nothing beats ahref yet.
Awesome. Now just have it carry a few containers and we're really on our way!
First of all, the law is only as good as its enforcement. Without enforcement the law effectively does nto exist.

Second, that link says nothing about audience consumption, it only preserves the provenance and integrity of the work. As mentioned elsewhere copyright covers the rest but both of these constructs are mental and somewhat illusory. More importantly your audience has to subscribe to them to follow them.

Third, at first glance that appears to only cover the USA.

I am advocating for a rejection of these principles.
A nation requires none of those to be a nation, look at indigenous nations in the US and Canada.

A country needs to be self-governing, autonomous, and recognised by the majority of UN members. Taiwan isn't recognised by any country of note, including the US, so they fail the country test.
There should be a subreddit or other forum that does have such conversations. The alternative is that there isn't one, which would make one wonder why aren't there intelligent people discussing this? Asking why where aren't intelligent discussions on HN seems to be a special case of the latter.
Alternative to Getbeamer
I'm a web developer and typically use bootstrap or materialcss for my projects. I'm looking for a simple css framework that makes my next webapp look and feel like a mobile app. Any suggestions?
I've been in many due diligence calls for many different companies. Any VC that knows what they're doing will demand hard, objective answers to things that can't be "fuzzed":

1. What is trailing, or contracted, revenue? There is no gray area here. You're either lying or you're not, and lying is committing fraud (as Theranos appears to have done in this case). And no company I've previously worked at has lied about this in my experience.

2. What are the shipping capabilities of your product? Potentially some opportunity for "fluff" depending on how this is answered, but Theranos unambiguously lied here. Again, have never seen plain outright lying in a company I've worked at.

This idea that there is just a ton of lying going on with investors in SV is bullshit. The reason cases like Theranos are pretty extraordinary is they're quite rare.
These toy languages are not practical for general programming. Their purpose is to test and validate the formalized foundations of Dawn.

Once we build up functionality nearing that of Dawn, it should be more feasible to provide practical examples that demonstrate the value of the language.
Those tracks do, however, function perfectly if you stick them into a multi-disc changer with They Might Be Giants' album Apollo 18, which contains "Fingertips", a four and a half minute collection of 5-10 second songs. Going between a bunch of British guys moaning about how terrible it is to be rich while fucking with a whole bunch of the most expensive recording technology available at the time is much improved by John & John interjecting "I found a new friend... underneath my pillow!" or "What's that bluuuuuuuuuue thing doing here?".

For best effects I recommend also loading Nine Inch Nails' "The Downward Spiral" into the third slot of your CD changer.
yeah, but I figured two or three people would have done variations of 'I imagined a different kind of bacon' if used.
Of course, one of the most important skills for academic CS lies at the intersection of these two problems -- coming up with names that lend themselves to funny conference paper titles.
If your program is slow because it's waiting for external service response, you're doing programming wrong. Your program should do other work in the meantime. I guess you're already doing that, but if so, doesn't that invalidate your reply here?
Your first part was just semantic games, it wasnt any kind of meaningful argument... "It's not your money yet..." versus "Loaning your employer your labor until payday".

Looks like some other folks have already poked holes in that, anyway... I was honestly concerned that you were just ignorant, based on your original comment.
I've been living off solo SaaS products my entire adult life -- almost 20 years. These are the only services I pay for:

* AWS and Cloudflare for hosting
* Rackspace for incoming email
* Sendgrid for transactional/outbound email
* Namecheap for domains
* A merchant account and Spreedly for payments
* ShareASale to run an affiliate program and pay a percentage commission for referred sales
* Facebook and Google ads

All customers come from ads, referrals or word of mouth. I don't do any social media or outbound sales.
Title (and perhaps the pay-walled article) is misleading. Iodine is the propellant (which is shot out the other way for Newton's Laws propulsion), not the source of energy (which is solar panels).

Better discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29276960
Not to mention potential hearing damage.
I think this is what every crypto argument secretly comes down to, this ideological disagreement.

I don't want money to be separated from the state, and especially not at a cost.

One man's crypto-anarchocapitalist utopia is another man's dystopian capitalist nightmare that we sacrificed our environment for.
Easily said. Recall that the Kremlin has its hand on the thermostat of most of Europe, and winter is now upon us.
>>They are not eating, exercising, listening to music, socializing, talking more than necessary, and not allowing themselves to be photographed if there’s a flash

>Who are these legions of people?

parents of new born twins.
I too miss the days where I could use "telnet 80" to interact with a web server.

And when a website could be made by writing simple HTML/CSS code, and hosted anywhere, even by your own ISP.

Yes, HTTP has become a monstrosity. Something that's incredibly hard to comprehend and implement. It just got even worse with HTTP/3 that replaces TCP with QUIC.

On the other hand, HTTP has become a little bit more than just a protocol for serving web pages. It's become a universal transport protocol for everything: small content, very large content, interactive content, streamed content, public content, sensitive content, APIs, iOT...

With being able to be a good fit for all these radically different use cases come a lot of complexity. It's a tradeoff. And HTTP is actually doing an amazing job at balancing complexity vs being a universal protocol.
Does K stand for Kelvins? :)
Contributing to Artichoke in Rust
what about using it for map directions?
You would still have to raise several hundred millions of dollars of funding to reconduct development and clinical trials for the drug after securing the IP.

Clinical trial data and manufacturing know how cant be leveraged from the original approval.

It is incredibly difficult to get investors to fund a second round of development for a product that made it to market and still failed.

You might say this is an opportunity for the government to step in as investor, but they have little interest, knowing that they could use the same money to save many more lives in other areas.
You should have been here last year, when it was still believable you had not heard of the excess death statistics: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm...
Nobody would go to prison over this. At most it'd be a fine and if the value gained is bigger than the fine they estimate they'll have to pay, they sure as hell would take that chance. Happens all the time. Even more so, since it's literally something (most) MBAs are being taught.
These are great.

I've been using CSS since it first [barely] appeared in IE3, but I've been behind on fully getting to know flex and grid. Didn't know about aspect-ratio at all.

Maybe that says more about the amount of attention I've been paying, but I learned a lot from these examples.