skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See e.g.:

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/how-vaccines-...

Country-level anecdata is basically useless without a multi-factor analysis due to huge differences in restrictions and self-directed prevention by the public.
They will, but without us having the evidence, they'd be right. So we still need it, even if they won't listen.
That isn't what that article is saying.
We remove the plus sign and everything after it. Spammers love the + alias.
This is completely wrong—being vaccinated does reduce your likelihood of getting infected (and thus reduces likelihood of infecting others).

> In September, unvaccinated persons had a 5.8X risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a 14X risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to vaccinated persons.

Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
(GP here) I generally agree with this. It's why I wrote 'in the eyes of most'. IMO liberals are bad at defining their own opinions in the court of public opinion, and often are viewed as !Conservative, even if their views are more nuanced.
The hilarity will become apparent once an NFT project's servers go down.

I predict that within the next 5 years we'll see certain art NFTs that once sold for six figures turn into a 404. (This could happen en masse if one of the big NFT exchange startups doesn't make it.)

I also predict there will be at least a few cases where nobody actually has the original saved. Imagine the IPFS link has zero seeds including the owner, the startup that once hosted it/ might've had backups is dead, and the original artist lost her laptop.

And we might never hear about it, because this situation is acutely embarrassing for everyone involved, especially the person who paid $200k for that jpg.
For new designers, I always recommend starting with About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design. It’s a doorstopper of a book, but contains more or less everything you need to get started on the UX/interaction side.

To polish UI technical skills, one of the best ways is to just get in repetitions. Try copying stuff off Dribbble and figuring out how they got certain effects done. Notice spacing, alignment, color, and how all these combine to create hierarchy and draw attention to the desired parts of the design.

Good luck!!
While I do use video speed controller as well, just for the record - there are shortcuts for video speed manipulation for YouTube:

> Speed up the video playback rate.
< Slow down the video playback rate.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7631406?hl=en
Peering Through the Sands of Time (Space Archeology in Oman, 2017)
God, it's been said a thousand and one times, but in case even one person reading this hasn't seen it: you have to watch Into the Spider-Verse. I remember my mouth literally falling open at some of those scenes, and I'm not even, like, particularly "into" animation or anything. Such a visually astounding movie (aside from everything else to love about it).
my brother has vans sponsorship. he gets shirts and shoes, not money ;)

you get my point?
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I believe gp is talking about long COVID, I'm not aware of any studies into how well the vaccines protect against those effects.

Edit: this study in the lancet says 50% reduction in long COVID according to the summary.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
> founder often gets to write a press release about how they replaced themselves with someone better suited to take the company to the next level or something like that.

This is so common that when I have replaced myself I’ve had friends “comfort” me thinking I really was fired.

In my life I’ve been fired once, though I should not have been. I have also not been fired in two cases where I should have been (early in my career).
Pretty bad comparison. Covid is massively front loaded. Almost every single person in the US has a much higher chance of dying from heart disease or whatever over a legitimate period of time.
> do we really want those inane licenses no one reads, and everyone scrolls down to hit [agree]; do we really want them to legally binding?

for commercial interactions in particular between two businesses? Yes, absolutely. How else are two entities supposed to come to legally binding terms without a contract?
I'm all for a little bit of lenience when an end user didn't read the terms but you think NSO group doesn't have a lawyer and just scrolls down and clicks accept?

The little guy isn't always right because he's little. If the little guy hacks my software to sell spyware to dictators and war criminals you bet I want the right to take him to court
>> I just fucking hate the "ohh, you just don't like change" people.

> Well, you definitely are complaining about change a lot in a very impassioned way.

They are complaining about people who assumed an irrational reason for their opposition to something, while they have a rational one. I find that kind of assumption condescending ("let me, the rational one, explain to you how to get rid of your insecurities so you can appreciate how right I am") and kind of infuriating too.

> I understood that you don’t personally like that libraries change.

If you add breaking changes without maintaining the backward-compatible version for a reasonable amount of time, I'd argue your library isn't fit to be a dependency for anything important. I definitely wouldn't use it.

The Python package ecosystem may be a mess, but I still manage to use dozens of shared packages daily with quite rare breaking changes, even in libraries that see a lot of developments. I would prefer that we focus on improving API stability for shared libraries, instead of giving up and duplicating dependencies everywhere.
Just because it isn’t science doesn’t mean it isn’t true or interesting.
"The shareholders elect the Board which has the responsibility to hire and fire the CEO. The Board has the right and the responsibility to fire the CEO if they believe it is in the best interests of the company. If the shareholders don’t like the decision, they can call a special meeting of the shareholders to fire the Board and appoint new Directors. The new Board may re-hire the recently fired CEO. So the majority shareholder CEO will ultimately prevail."

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-board-of-directors-fire-a-CEO-th...

It seems like a rock, paper, scissors kind of game if the CEO owns the majority of voting shares.
You could also do `strace --trace=open some_app` or `strace --trace=%file some_app` to have the strace do the filtering by itself (the latter will match any syscall that takes a filename)
The ISS is 109m end to end so a 56 meter diameter isn't an impossible dream. I've toyed around with a design that uses basically a shell around Starship that would be bolted together in orbit to form the station. I was aiming for 2 RPM however.

Docking would be via a central hub. Ships would have to match rotation to dock, but it shouldn't be too hard. My conclusion is that if the money and/or political will were there we could start doing this today, but the project would be hugely expensive (even with SpaceX cutting launch costs to a fraction of what they were only a few short years ago) and once you have it built it will be looking for a purpose. It would be cool for people to basically commute up to the central part (via elevator) to do zero-g research stuff, then commute back to the ring to live and avoid the various health problems with long term zero-g living like bone density loss.

You can even build a simple starter station that has only two segments on opposite sides of the central hub. This is less cool since you don't get the jogging path around the station. If stability is an issue you could also include a computer controlled mobile counterweight on the ends. I also had the concept of building it as a double hull with a layer of water between the inner and outer to reduce radiation flux and absorb micrometeorite impacts.

But in the end you are still talking about a hugely expensive project that solves problems that aren't all that bad yet. About the only way I could see this being built is if Elon decides to go all in on space and liquidates his fortune to build it. The instant some annoying bean counters ask the question "is this the best way to spend this money" the project is dead.
It’s a few things.

- positive reputation. Other founders enjoyed their experience.

- provide value through their network. This is the foundation YC built themselves on. Investors that introduce you to paying customers, other founders, other investors, etc.

- leave you alone and only help when you ask for it. These are the best types of investors. They provide advice only when you ask.

Those are the most important things.
Imagine if a policeman was saying the same thing about a crime; why investigate, finding the culprit is only conspiracy fodder, let's only take care of the victims.

Not investigating, and hiding the truth is what gives room for conspiracies to grow.

Also how can we better understand and prevent pandemics whithout understanding where they come from. Wasn't the coronavirus research lab founded on that premise?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Once a vaccinated person has a breakthrough infection they spread similarly but of course the chance to contract it is lower and the time to "virus clearance" is faster.
They don't have to value the company at $0 to fuck you over once you're gone. The current board can depreciate all of the shares by 50% and then issue themselves twice their original shares so they break even. Then do the same thing a couple of rounds later.

I haven't seen $0 but I knew a few people who got diluted to a joke. It doesn't take but a factor of 2-4 dilution of your outlook to drastically change your opinion of how you spent that time.
Computer Insecurity
And then the inevitable "Now, 30% more!".
I don't know how to think about this article https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...

It looks bad
I am not happy about this. I like having the standalone Lockwise app on my Android phone as a password manager.

When the app is discontinued, will I still be able to use autofill in other apps?

And what about the apps where autofill doesn't work? Having to open my browser for every password I need to copy on my phone just seems clunky and stupid.

I'm so fucking sick of Mozilla breaking their UX flows for every damn thing. Just keep the app!
What I would not give for a comprehensive leak of Google's major internal post-mortems.
I never used Lockwise because of this existing functionality in the main app.
An iPad extension would be cool too :)

(like Refined Github https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github#install)
Same, the cloudflare workers tagline is "Deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it exceptional performance, reliability, and scale." Maybe I missed something in the blueboat readme, but don't see how this deploys across the globe and scales automatically

How about 0ms cold starts?

Is this actually open source cloudflare workers or just open source serverless functions?

https://workers.cloudflare.com/
It's a problem if it's always rounding up. Throwing away the penny also requires legislation enforcing round to nearest.
My wife's preferred brand of pre-made iced tea recently slightly changed the packaging for their large-sized bottles. Checked, and sure enough, they dropped from 64oz to about 59oz.

[EDIT] Oh, and in the case of Everything's a Dollar (used to be better than Dollar Tree, dunno if it's still around) and similar: as someone who got a lot of toys there as a kid and has been in a handful of times in the last few years for various things, I can vouch for their toy selection being much better in the '90s.
RIP JohnnyGuru dot com :-(
Also = when prefixed with a space, which works basically like `command -v`, expanding to the full path of the executable. For example `echo =grep` results in `/usr/bin/grep`.
My Cloud Certification Notes – Linux, AWS, Azure, etc.
Apple Temporarily Halts Sales in Turkey After Currency Crash
All the zinc that goes into pennies is worth $9 million per year, based on a back of the envelope calculation. Last year, zinc suppliers/miners sold $17.3 billion of the metal, and will do even more this year.

$9 million is less than a rounding error there.
There is a reason I "work for the man" instead of run my own company. I could make money, but I wouldn't be a programmer. It took me almost 20 years of a CS degree before I was earning more money programming than I could have earned if I had dropped out of school and stayed at McDonald's (they offered me a management job and the career path in the direction was obvious - and also why most people even on that track decide to self limit before they reach the highest I could see from there.)

To make it clear, if you found a company you MUST be a management type person. You can maybe program 25% of the time, but the rest of your time is sales and management duties. You can hire out the sales but that means more management. Soon you are best off hiring out the programming as well and being all management.
Recently infected people haven't had as much chance to succumb. There are also delays in reporting I believe. I also think your explanation carries much of the effect size, but the timing also matters.
I'd guess a lot of it is cultural - I believe much of Europe also has a far less workaholic culture than the US, with more emphasis on living life and whatnot. And I'm sure there are other factors (France's labor laws presumably make things harder, although that's a barely informed guess on my part).
There is a controller. Unfortunately they haven’t yet revived the demo we did at CastAR where you reached out and manipulated real physical objects in the game. I have a video of that somewhere.
Yes. We emphatically want the rule of law to persist, and for legal avenues to be open for combating conduct like what NSO Group has done here.

In particular, by any standard, it certainly seems reasonable for Apple (or even companies we don't like) to prevent the use of its own tools and accounts for the purposes of attacking its products and attacking its customers. Especially when the attackers have explicitly promised not to do so.
>Eating farm animals requires you to grow 9 times as many crops to feed them as if you had just eaten the crops directly

This applies to industrial meat production. Do your thoughts change in regards to hunting/fishing which doesn't (necessarily*) rely on industrial crop agriculture?

(I realize a lot of species population numbers - especially deer in the Midwest - are inflated due to the availability of crops for them to feed upon. But there are other species where this isn't necessarily the case.)
You can - but then your startup needs to be that much more attractive to get investors in the first place.
Oceanic photosynthesis is what you want to also look at to protect, more than half (est. 50-80%) of our oxygen comes from oceanic life like plankton, algae, bacteria. If the oceans go, we're screwed.
> redirector

seems to be out of date.
a more up to date version would be "privacy redirect".
I would add to this: playing LoL and knowing the characters and story doesn't add that much to the experience. It feels very much like its own thing.
If a business is unable to grow at a rate that is faster than inflation, that would mean it's shrinking in real terms. Why am I sticking around in a firm that is shrinking dramatically? Either the industry is dying or the business is being poorly managed. Working longer hours and throwing additional value on that fire doesn't seem like a great plan. You are probably better off spending your effort looking for a new job and lately you'll end up with more then 6% to show for it.
There are charts on that webpage that have the data per week if you scroll down a little.
I'm not saying it is stupid. If someone wants to create and use crypto coins, go ahead, that is great.

I'm saying that if you want to create a way to track what each person in a family owes each other you have been able to do that with with google docs for years. Or you could use a pen and paper to create a family ledger, if you were worried about counterfeiting or your house burning down, put it in a fire proof safe.
What part of these two claims you find doubtful exactly?

Respect part is about wasting people's time (if knowingly).

The danger part is the same as with any other misleading information, which can lead people to consume damaging amounts of dangerous substances for now good reason (at least not better than just eating cucumbers instead).
I tried at the time, but received no response.
How are they going to be doing that? China seems to be banning all crypto every year.
US-based, yes.
Pretty cool website!! I'm working on a job board as well (completely un-related field) and would love any early insights you got as far as gaining traction and building up a mailing list.

Also, for the filters, could you make it so that when a user clicks outside of the filter choices, it closes the menu that pops up?
What? I had no idea you could scroll.. I can only see the background+heading+paragraph.. nothing happens when I scroll.. Guess Firefox ESR is too outdated for the "new winamp".

Can't wait for the new "app" requiring a few gigs of ram and the latest OS...
While I don’t agree with every single thing said, I think this actually provided a spectacular reference for me to give our PM and management to explain the problems we’re facing with our project at work.
This is a vague and unconstructive criticism. Perhaps you could say something more to the point.

In my opinion, most of the HN audience would be able to use it to their benefit.
EVs are also venture funded startups, and the excess is more obvious there than in an obscure PaaS company. But still, two $100 million rounds within months of each other, as Vercel has done, is pretty outside of the norm.
Pooling objects (for the purposes of minimizing GC) is consider a bad practice in modern Java. The article suggests that compacting, generational collectors are a bad thing, but they can dramatically speed up the amount of time it takes to deallocate memory if most of your objects in a given region of memory are now dead. All you have to do is remove objects that are still alive, and you're done: that region is now available for use again. The result is that long-lived objects have a greater overhead.
I really appreciate you taking the time to post that. It was a really interesting read and filled in a lot of blanks I had as to why people are still pushing XMPP. Thank you :)
> I've always had trouble getting `for` loops to work predictably, so my common loop pattern is this:

The problem with the pipe-while-read pattern is that you can't modify variables in the loop, since it runs in a subshell.
> 1. Avoid going public if at all possible.

This is basically what Bloomberg has done. Despite selling financial terminals to bank traders, the company still hasn't gone public after all these years.
ShoutCast was (is, I guess) great. I was lucky to know a guy who worked for a small ISP/hosting company in the early/mid '00s and he carved me out a little bit of free hosting space to run the server. Bandwidth was never worth worrying about as I never had more than 10-15 people listening to a 128k/sec stream - low for local playback, but great when I only had "Unlimited 3G!" on my Treo and wanted to listen to my own personal radio in the car.

Also, agreed about the visualizer being a great quick and dirty source for projections. Later on I still fired it up and routed it into Resolume for that purpose. There were other options but it worked.

Never used it for zoned audio per se, but I had my phone set up to control it running on my PC and streaming to Chromecast audio or other devices around the house, so it sorta counts in the hacky way I used it when having people over.
> If you're comfortable with running Windows 11,you're already sharing more data than the DPRK could possibly want to extract from you

Citation needed. Sure, Windows collects a lot of telemetry, but Microsoft takes great pains to ensure these data are privacy-protecting. On the other hand, if you assume an OS from an authoritarian regime is collecting info, it would seem that by definition, they want to know exactly who you are.

I'll even give Apple and Google the benefit of the doubt that they're similarly (to Microsoft) concerned about protecting PII.
We've taken out the baity bit, as the site guidelines ask.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sterilizing vaccines inhibit spread. The SARS-CoV-2 vaccines aren't sterilizing to any significant extent. Vaccinated individuals might be contagious for a slightly shorter period but in the long run that doesn't matter because the virus is now endemic and everyone will be exposed eventually. Fortunately the vaccines are still fairly effective at preventing deaths.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
This is actually debatable given that "fully" vaccinated people who get infected - a so-called 'breakthrough infection' - seem to transmit SARS2 at close to the same rate as those unvaccinated [1,2]: fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts

Whether the R-factor is reduced markedly depends on the number of breakthrough infections. In this study the infection rate in household contacts exposed to the delta variant was 25% (95% CI 18–33) for fully vaccinated individuals compared with 38% (24–53) in unvaccinated individuals, i.e. the vaccinated run ⅔ of the risk of getting infected compared to the unvaccinated. Given that the vaccinated were of a younger age than the unvaccinated the actual risk reduction is likely to be even smaller than stated.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

[2] https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/fully-vaccinated-people...
When the orders of magnitude change, so does the correct solution. In other words:

Stop comparing your startup to FAANG.

You are not FAANG. If you were, everyone else would know it. Since you aren't, their strategies don't work for you.
Reasonably sure that more people get cancer from things like smoking than their desire to build their own nuclear power plants.

People can still and will keep on buying cigarettes and smoke and give themselves cancer. Governments still permit their sale in a lot of places. I think the ship has sailed on support for the 'give up freedoms such as traveling to see your friends and family and engaging in social activities' preventative measure.
Let's Go Brandon!
Playstation games come to the Game Boy Advance (via a hacked cartridge)
Very annoying. I use Firefox, but I also loved Lockwise as a general password manager for other apps. What's the next best?
I had a C64 and my mom bought me a CompuServe starter kit at some point in the 80's. I think it was something like $6 an hour off-peak and over $20 an hour during peak hours, which might not even include long distance charges depending on where you were. That would be $20 an hour off-peak and over $60 peak in today's dollars. For 300 bits per second.

For practical purposes, the internet did not exist for people like me until the mid-90's.
Perhaps Vercel is ok having visitors bounce who don't understand what they do with the marketing copy as is. Maybe they're not trying to be everything for everyone?