skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it was never the case, since the beginning we all knew it was 95% of deaths among the 50+.

Then the goalposts (sorry for this language but there isn’t any other) shifted to continued transmission and viral mutation, until breakthrough became normalized. Now it’s filling up ICUs and healthcare collapse because of the unvaccinated.

It’s all really sad when the CDC itself needs to cherrypick data until it can proudly say that “vaccines are 5x better than natural immunity” as if it was a competition: man versus nature (never mind the dozens of studies proving otherwise)
If the company makes money, there is very little reason to fire the CEO. In fact pretty much the opposite, there are probably CEOs that would deserve to be fired for multiple reasons, but because the company makes good money, the board won't care. The board is responsible towards the owners, if they actually fire a CEO of a performant company, they really have to show why it was in the best interest of the owner.

All these stories where the CEOs were fired are from companies that weren't profitable, needed constant funding rounds etc. In the situation where the company is just sucking money from investors the CEO gets changed easily.
I worked for a startup for several years, as the fifth hired software developer and got to see our CEO fired within the first eighteen months. They were not the founder, but they had hired the VP of Sales and the entire sales team who were also all let go on the same day. Luckily the core product wasn't impacted and our primary clients probably didn't care.

The company hired two more CEOs over the next three years, each of which lasted less than six months. I'm not convinced that the new CEOs ever actually did anything, although that is possibly due to the board running interference.

My two takeaways from this experience are that if you are a founder you don't want to be CEO, and CEOs are basically useless.
In SV, $5M funding over 10 years would allow you to, maybe, like, rent some coworking space, rent some computing, and hire 1-2 people.
Writing Clean Code: Naming
pkg.go.dev provides a plainly worse user experience in many dimensions. It's more difficult to see the surface area of a package. It's more difficult to navigate between major versions of a given module. And there are numerous bugs on different browsers that aren't being fixed. The golang.org site provided no-frills but functionally excellent documentation which pkg.go.dev fails to match. The code behind pkg.go.dev is also plainly amateurish and buggy. It's a shame, really.
Apple will advance the security of their platform more by suing NSO and lobbying the US gov to position the official view of the US gov regarding nation-state sponsorship for malicious software as reprehensible efforts which harm everyone (eg like biological/chemical weapons). If the US sanctioned Israel and critiqued them as reckless maybe less countries will support organizations like the NSO group.
I would guess something really old such as Colossal Cave Adventure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure), Star Trek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)), or Hunt the Wumpus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus) or a computer version of hangman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game)) takes that crown. There were a lot more platforms to port to in the early days.
You just detonated a nostalgia cobalt bomb, this was my favourite as well. So well crafted in it’s thoughtful details.
Given it's not critical to my workflow (or job) I just use GIMP for editing, Krita for digital art hobby tinkering. I used to just use CS2 for the longest time due to the "free" status of it with the serial key mishap. Working on learning blender for multiple uses.

If I had to do this as a job there isn't much doubt that I'd be on a work provided Adobe subscription like many others suffer through.

Personally I try to focus on software that has the largest variety of supported ecosystems. (ie. Gimp and Blender support Win x86 and Mac/Linux x86 & arm64) I don't like using tools that I have to throw away just because I'm on a Pinebook Pro for the weekend experimenting with low powered ARM nonsense. Although blender support is janky on many ARM devices depending on your level of OpenGL support, thinks are improving gradually.

For me it makes a lot of sense to try and be as hardware/software platform agnostic as possible with my software choices. It's massively helpful that I make music with a DAW called Renoise because it's the same program whether I'm on Linux/Windows/MacOS outside of what they use for the audio backend in each OS.

In the end there is nothing wrong with just building an intel/amd powered desktop and installing Win10 or some sort of mainstream linux solution for the sake of your time and sanity. Although keep in mind Win10 is less than 5 years away from EOL.
I fear that I will reach retirement never having had a day at work that will be as memorable or interesting as the one some of these TV people had.
Hmm, it's almost like there's a reason why fiat currencies took off, and the BTC folks are rediscovering that.

WRT forex trading, has there been a "random whale" event in say, a top 15 economy, since Black Wednesday?
This article is interesting. I don’t think the loneliness that OP is talking about here is universally bad.

I don’t have any close friends. I have a social media presence, but aside from Reddit (with which I only use the comments features), I don’t use those platforms at all. I’ve never been unhappy with this arrangement though; in fact, I love my time alone.

However, I have heaps of acquaintances (i.e. folks in my contacts list that I don’t call or see often) and am social when I go out. I know how to strike up conversation and know how to have and be a good time. I enjoy these activities, but doing without doesn’t impact me negatively unless I spend many many months not doing that.
Yes, definitely. If you're talking about instantly killing the fentanyl problem dead, bringing a bunch of people who have marginalized back into the community, reducing property crime, and saving a lot of lives, you couldn't make a better choice.

Legalizing drugs would make drug addicts far more accessible to drug treatment schemes. Regulating the supply would additionally make being a drug addict a lot safer and less dominating for one's life. Heroin is safe. It's the universe of things around heroin that kill. Lots of being murdered, and going to prison; fent ods, MRSA infections, liver failure from Hep C, AIDS; doing crime and betraying everyone you know to get a substance that costs a nickel a dose to manufacture. All of these are symptoms of drug enforcement, not heroin.
Each pit is about 5m in depth and 10m in width, i.e. pretty big holes to hack out by hand in chalky ground four and half thousand years ago.

They've found twenty of them so far and estimate that there were originally forty of them.

They were laid out to form a circle 2 km in diameter around the Durrington Walls site.

It's currently one of, if not the largest, prehistoric structure ever found in the UK.

It's close by to many other similar sites.

The Guardian's headline doesn't really do the scale of ancient endeavour being confirmed by the reported research justice.
The 7 Pillars of a Scalable System Integration Business
5 People Faced Death. Here's the Books They Want You to Read Before You Die.
On main site, macos/ff, cmd + click doesn't open in a new tab either.

However, right click, open in new tab does work.
I'm glad.

Bitcoin hasn't done anything good, except become an outlet for criminals, Ponzi schemes, gambling, and poor financial decisions.
>40% deductions from the already subpar salaries certainly compensate this /s
I could ask the same of you: develop some empathy and shame, but it would seem that you don't really care about others so long as you are entertained. More charitably, I imagine that you care at least a little bit, you just think the entertainment value to you outweighs any inconvenience it caused others to the extent that no one should feel at all embarrassed by having behaved that way. I disagree.

> you don't seem to understand why some people don't like you.

Dude, I don't even like me, so I get why people don't. Most of them I do not begrudge. My problem with you specifically is that what you don't like is that I refuse to say it is ok to mess with people you don't know for fun.
Wait until you out about five eyes and the run around the 4th amendment.
Several Hundred Google Employees Sign Manifesto Against Widened Vaccine Mandate
If taxes affect upside for investors (especially in large gain outcomes) then it would definitely reduce rational risk appetite.

Say it's rational for some untaxed investor to take a chance on 1% on no less than $10M return. If after taxes somewhere that turns into a $5M outcome then you would need a 2% chance for equivalent expected value.
Search where and for what? Searching for local file contents (e.g. inside PDFs) using mdfind on the command line works pretty well for me.
I want to disagree with you and say it doesn’t matter, but you’re definitely right hiding bad situations is in the playbook of the authoritarian and should have no place in our society.
>If nothing happens in a board meeting because it’s scripted, why do they exist?

He actually answers that later on.

>Of course, you have already told them all this on the phone, one by one, so you know how they will react. They will want to talk anyway, because part of the meeting is them performing for each other, but, again, no surprises.

Except instead of only "part of the meeting", perhaps it might even be more fitting to say "most of the meeting".

Edit: and also this "Board members show up at meetings to monitor their investment and decide if they still want you to be CEO."
I'm important, but my importance is fully decentralised. It means almost nothing :)
Buying oil, I think. And perhaps saving some for Evergrande's rainy day.
I find this outlook deplorable and a significant contributing factor to why companies can't do better.

Read: https://www.amazon.com/What-Total-Quality-Control-Japanese/d...

and do better. You have choice. Use it.
So, um, what does "banned" mean if they can continue to post?
Trust me, after a few "interesting" days at work you will think differently.
I noticed that they're only evaluating the covid-19 death rate. Not the overall death rate. Based on the latest data from England's ONS, in the 10 to 59 year old category, the vaccinated overall death rate is almost twice as high as the unvaccinated death rate
sorry about that, seems like HN is doing some URL expanding which messes it up, this was the original URL: https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-learnings
If he wants to do ML research, why doesn’t he want to do a PhD program? I dont think you can get both: if you do research, there is less focus on making operational software. If you make operational software, there is less focus on doing research. Find out what you really want to do, and go with that.
> I think gmaps excels at mapping businesses because that's where the money flows, but doesn't give a single damn about useful things like water fountains because water fountains don't buy ads.

I think it's rather the other way around: people that operate those businesses want their information to show up correctly on Google Search (or as many non-tech people call it: the internet).

It's not that Google can sell ads about those businesses so much as those businesses having a financial interest in being accurate on Google search and, which then became big due to being tied in, google maps. It seems like the very definition of using your monopoly in one market to also dominate another, but TomTom (and whatever other commercial services came before Google's map) don't seem to agree or I imagine they'd have taken action.

Meanwhile OSM sucks at this compared to benches/fountains because it's so ephemeral. People do map businesses, but it's out of date so fast, it's easy to stop bothering. Half the stores I mapped in a town near me went out of business in the past few years. Wooden unmaintained benches in a forest last comparatively longer.
In my opinion, its called root cause analysis and not a root cause pointer. No matter what you call it, its a good idea to understand the events that lead to an incident. We cannot improve if we do not know where/how we failed.
Or the the LD50 for doing coke is 20 times?
People voted for it indirectly and if they knew that the virus originated because of that (I’m not saying it did, I have no idea) it would allow them to pressure politicians in insuring it never happens again.
Cloudflare workers are executed on servers and quickly thrown away, they use APIs that make this clear as well, it has nothing to do with service workers. Could you expand a bit on you question?
The rotating corrugated metal was a clever practical simulation of the CGI background the character from the TV show was composited on top of.
This isn't low trust but rather poka-yoke mistake proofing. If you have a fallible process you either replace it with an infallible one or put in controls to mitigate the risk. When you effectively run a factory for configuring software you have an interest in not letting a single production worker shut down the whole operation.
I don't care about hackernews handle at all. Bank account is not a blockchain number, nor is my phone number..

>The value of digital property is widely accepted for decades now.

You're conflating all digital 'property' with blockchain bullshit, and also pretending my bank account is a digital property.

>What crypto adds is that you can hold the key to your property yourself. So others can not move or delete it against your will.

Society need not support your want for crypto, especially where it harms society and reduces its ability to control financial regulation.
> El Salvador: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2021 Article IV Mission

That is the original title from the article.
It's also not unlike JSF in the Java world, which went out of fashion 10 or so years ago, and for good reason: relying on a framework to paper over the distinction between client and server side turned out to be much more complicated and fragile than a cleanly defined separation. I haven't seen any authors or users of these recently developed server-side-first frameworks discuss this prior art, but I'd be interested to see if they've come up with a way around what seemed like a fundamental problem in the approach.
No, the death rate in the ONS data from England is age adjusted. So among the same aged cohorts, the vaccinated are more likely to die than the unvaccinated. Almost twice as likely for the last 6 months straight.
People don’t like to change and a lot of the time for institutions to continue existing they need a radical shift in their approach or outlook.
Show HN: Run Range vs. Range Poker Equity Simulations in the Browser
It becomes politics when becoming un-boosted means losing your access to society.
Thankfully, epidemiologists around the world did not wait for mint2 on HN to realize this. All of these all-age rates are age-adjusted according to the country’s population pyramid.
Maybe the reason these CEOs were all let go was because they were useless?
> ...the so-called "lab leak theory" of origin for sars-cov2

That isn't what this article is about.

I thought the article actually did a real public service by moving the discussion beyond whether Covid did or didn't emerge from the Wuhan market. Because either way, it's much much more important to say, "how could we, in the future, prevent the scenario of a lab leak from happening."

It keeps the discussion focused on what's important.
At least one of the founders can be found from American homesoil NYC but we know very well nothing will come out of it because of the Israeli love story Americans have.
Maybe I will be giggling at my former statements. Most likely, actually.

But of all the things that need improving in the UI world, the templating itself is quite low down on my list of priorities.
> Because it's completely untestable and short of someone "admitting" it we will never know for sure.

What a weird assertion.

It would be perfectly testable in any democratic country. Set up an independent commission, give access to the lab's complete files, perform a lot of tests on samples held there. That's exactly what would happen. Opposition parties would be demonstrating non stop demanding answers.

Instead this is China, a communist dictatorship with, on top of that, a strong culture of never losing face. It's only untestable because of that, not for epistemological reasons.
Reminds me of the 99c DREAMS stores in Brooklyn. "Everything 99c and up!"
> as far as the example itself is concerned, you're just not engaging with it at all

That's because I feel that it's a deliberate mischaracterization of reality and is being used to insulate a false equivalence against criticism.

I'm wondering a bit of the same that you are - when the topic of harmful farming practices is the primary focus, why did we deflect to "well, what about if a building was on fire?" Where are you getting that?

Indulge me - if we substitute the ideology of speciesism here with racism, do you engage with that topic in the same way - by saying "let's not focus so much on the negative reality of racism, but how to help racists make morally good choices"? I think it's fair to lump the abstraction of each together.

My statement about things being "not the matter at hand" were aimed at your conflation of giving animals a higher moral value than humans; that still stands.
But those were actual problems back then, and they were solved only through significant engineering work to hide them, each of which had their own problems.

Frameworks like .Net WebForms were created to abstract and hide a lot of this from developers, with things like long encoded strings of "view state" that would be re-posted on each request, by serializing things to the URL, or by saving them to Cookie-backed sessions.

But each of these has issues, from privacy concerns using the URL, to security concerns with the "view state", to concurrency and integrity concerns with sessions.

IMO, the biggest reasons these didn't stand out as huge problems in the early 2000's was because:

(a) we didn't use the web like we do today, and our expectations were very different in how things would work if we, for example, added an item to a shopping cart

(b) most heavily interactive / app-like things that more closely work "the way we expect" today, were either still done as desktop apps (like business software) or were implemented as Java applets, Flash, or something else of the sort

(c) in the rare cases that neither (a) nor (b) applied, it was because some very good engineers put in a lot of work to make it work that way.
Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Group
Dollar Tree motor oil is API SN rated. It is basic oil that will work in many basic late model vehicles.
My Asus chromebook still going strong after four years (unlike my wife's Samsung laptop). Sure it cost a bit more than the average chromebook but the quality is excellent.
Tldr.. fonts suck. Article could have been 5 sentences and been more digestible.
No, but Apple probably didn't want to spend 4 years litigating the TOS issue prior to ever reaching the merits. There's also the risk that they lose the TOS issue.
Mileage is really a mess... Some place in the EU uses L / 100km, others km/L, I was using Google so I think the unit was correct.

Any case, my car does roughly 17 megameters / meter^3 -- that's proper SI units :)
Though in the business world it is always like that, whatever you do. Whatever kind of deal you are doing you have to be careful and attentive.

Bootstrapping is great, but it also has challenged to overcome. Many fail to do it.
Well, with less than 20 years of my working life left, I'd like to have one
It's definitely one of the more kiddie Gundam series, but it touches upon the themes of the original 1979 show, and is one of the few to depict the Stanford torus rather than O'Neill cylinders.
I agree the top execs could be paid less but it’s still a rounding error in their overall funding. It would be a symbolic gesture, welcomed by many. But it wouldn’t make a massive difference.
An open source Prolog interpreter in JavaScript
Thanks for the report. Definitely annoying. On the list to fix.
The binary-trees benchmark on The Debian Language Shootout[1] involves allocating millions of short-lived trees and traversing them. It is informative about GC performance even with the caveat that there are 'lies, damned lies, and benchmarks', because many real-world graph analysis and brute force tree search algorithms similarly allocate zillions of short-lived nodes. For non-GC languages like C/C++/Rust it gives a decent idea of the performance difference between malloc'ing and freeing individual objects vs doing bulk arena allocations:

language secs GC'd language?
======== ==== ==============
C++ (g++) 0.94
Rust 1.09
C (gcc) 1.54
Free Pascal 1.99
Intel Fortran 2.38
Java 2.48 yes <====
Lisp (SBCL) 2.84 yes
Ada (GNAT) 3.12
OCaml 4.68 yes
Racket 4.81 yes
C# .NET 4.81 yes
Haskell (GHC) 5.02 yes
Erlang 5.19 yes
F# .NET 6.06 yes
Node.js 7.20 yes
Julia 7.43 yes
Chapel 7.96 yes
Dart 9.90 yes
Go 12.23 yes <====
Swift 16.15 * "Automatic Reference Counting"
Smalltalk (VW) 16.33 yes
PHP 18.64 yes
Ruby 23.80 yes
Python 3 48.03 yes
Lua 48.15 yes
Perl 53.02 yes

So Java has the fastest GC for this test, 2.48 secs vs 12.23 secs for Golang. The Java code is also notably perfectly idiomatic for multicore, it doesn't do heroic "avoid GC by writing C-like code manipulating a fixed global memory array" tricks. The Java code is also more concise.

The 'plain C' code that uses Apache Portable Runtime memory pools instead of standard malloc/free and uses OpenMP #pragma's strikes me as more 'heroic' than 'idiomatic', whereas C++ and Rust use standard libraries/crates and idiomatic patterns. (Note that OpenMP is 'standard' for high-performance C and well supported across GCC/LLVM/Microsoft/Intel compilers. But still....)

OCaml and Haskell made impressive showings for functional languages which are in practice the easiest for dealing with complicated tree algorithms, which is perhaps why the formally verified C compiler, CompCert, is implemented in OCaml, as is Frama-C for formally verifying ISO C programs, as is the Coq theorem prover, etc.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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I'm speaking specifically of the age 10 to 59 age group. For the last 6 months that age group, the vaccinated are almost twice as likely to die of any cause than the unvaccinated.
When I was a college student I priced Walmart and the dollar store on over one hundred items. My experience was that the dollar store was indeed cheaper than other sources.

I did notice that some of the products (like deodorant) typically "the sell by" date was much faster, but that wasn't a deterrent to me at the time.

I bought from the Dollar Store exclusively for 3 years for two reasons :
1) It was cheaper
2) the closest competitive store was 20 miles away
11:15PM is not the middle of the night? I know I'm old and all, but that's not exactly the middle of the work day either.

> You need more joy in your life if you see this as an asshole move.

Everybody seems to think I'm joyless because I think people need to be more considerate of the negative externalities of fucking pranks. No wonder the world is going to shit.
And also the Ur-SAAB (original SAAB).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Ursaab

Saab was originaly an airplane manufacturer so it was natural for them to reach for the wind-tunnel when tasked with designing a car.

The Ur-SAAB was never in series production but the (at least in Sweden) very popular production cars took a lot of inspiration from it.

We had one of these when I was a kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_96

This is an earlier model with even more similarities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_92
Appreciate the feedback - passed it along to our team. Hard to say exactly, but if I would guess, I'd say over 35,000 hours.