skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using "live" virus is a problem. For example there are two versions of the polio vaccine. The injectable uses inactivated ("dead") virus, and the oral uses weakened("live") virus.

Both are safe, but in the oral one the virus can go to another person and cause no problems, and then to another and cause no problems, and after like a year jumping hosts it can mutate and become dangerous. Now most of the the polio cases are caused by virus that mutated from the version of the vaccine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Vaccine-induced_...

The number is much smaller that the number of cases before the vaccine, but it's concerning anyway. So they are trying to discontinue the use of the vaccine with the inactivated virus, but the other one is better when most of the population is not vaccinated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule

So ... probably the authorization and test necessaries to use a new vaccine with and attenuated virus are more difficult than a vaccine with an inactivated virus (or a vector virus, of mRNA, that also can't spread).
My guess is that since ANC already needs DSP and small headphone amp, it doesn't cost much to add a Bluetooth receiver. Removing the cable input socket and ADC could even recover some of the cost. On the other hand, it seems that there's limited market for wired headphones right now.
I'm glad you qualified this with 2/5/whatever. Usually people say #2 in everything, which is of course wrong.

Python more like #100 in terms of speed, #100 in terms of correctness, #100 in terms of sound abstractions, #10 in terms of readability for large programs. Its real strengths are quick hacks and a decent C-API.

The community is smug, conceited, does not value correctness and in general is intoxicated by Python's undeserved success. Many posers and incompetent people.
Quick and Free OCR of PDFs from the CLI
> They thought they needed to build a machine learning model when they really needed to build an entirely new organization, one that possessed the technical and cultural mindset necessary to succeed in this space.

I totally agree. It's not impossible to imagine their model working: why couldn't you serve as a market-maker for homes at a large scale, especially with the unique insights Zillow could have based on their datasets.

However I think where the hubris lay is in how they thought they could leapfrog all the way to an automated solution before building a competency as a house-flipping company.

From what I understand, where they failed was partly in building a rich enough model to properly account for the less easily quantifiable elements which ultimately account for a property's value. I.e. the price per square foot might make a property look like a steal, while something like a sewer main nearby, or problematic neighbor could radically change the value proposition to anyone standing at the site. That's a non-trivial problem to solve for even the best ML and it's not clear how you would automate this.

If you ask me, instead of focusing on building an automated price discovery system, they should have started by trying to build a quality home-flipping organization, and figuring out how to super-charge manual work using their datasets. Over time you might find ways to optimize the process and increase the level of automation to scale output relative to head-count.
Also, in the case of push, depending on the bank it might take two business days for the target account to be added as a push option.

(So that you have time to notice that someone has breached your account and stop them from emptying your accounts ?)
Google "Darren Rousar The Sight Size Cast". The two approaches to drawing are constructive and observational. Internet guides like draw a box largely neglect the observational side.
People are really bad at evaluating risk.

Rollover, Blindspot, and high speed loss of control are huge safety factors that SUVs underperform Sedans in, but "bigger is safer" has somehow persisted.
stuck alike, demon

however we meet

at least that
Yeah, it’s weird. I was watching a YouTube that showed how Amazon was building their own extra long containers and bringing them up the river in Houston on specially constructed container ships with integrated cranes for unloading/loading.
I can see it as a Seinfeld bit too
Cassette player was just too finicky to fix and maintain. I would prefer the same device, but with SD-card recorder. But then alas, there is nothing to listen on SW-bands anymore.

BTW. I have now modified my Sony, the cassette player is totally removed, but in the cassette bay there is a loose wire with 3 mm plug, which has suitable dampening so that it acts like cellphone headset microphone input. I can now record programs with my cellphone.
https://archive.md/5FYbL
Completely disagreed. I was skeptical originally, because I wasn't used to seeing unicode symbols in code, but in certain types of mathematical code, it makes it /far/ clearer because your brain can link to the appropriate symbols in textbooks.

To me, it's a matter of familiarity. clearly human brains can process large amount of symbols. Just look at some east asian languages. Historically, there has been an ASCII bias in computer languages, but that is history.

Mathematics is a /language/, and one of the most universal in humanity because it models certain human reasoning.
Yeah this is important. It's not "19 new mutations", but 19 mutations compared to the Wild type. Compared to some of the previous variants there are fewer mutations.
How is the control done? Are there servos controlling the output ducts?
Omicron seems quite a bit like what might result if some reckless research lab repeated an experiment similar to the late-2020 gain-of-function experiment on the ancestral strain, described in an earlier HN submission today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359125).

Except this time, they might have tried co-infecting the in-vitro tissue cultures with multiple extant wild variants, under the same mild selective pressure from antibodies to the ancestral strain. You know, just to check if a super-virus might emerge under optimal lab conditions.
Xi is by no means a common surname in China. Very uncommon.
Right, exactly! You expressed it much better than I did. :)
The patients surveyed in this study are not representative of the general population:

>The mean (SD) age of survivors was 54.4 (8.9) years, 140 196 (56%) were male, and 197 777 (79%) were hospitalized during acute COVID-19

I would expect the prevalence of severe long-term symptoms to be much higher in a population that was predominantly hospitalized for acute COVID than in the general population. I could not find any stratification by age/risk group/vaccination status from a cursory look at the study, although maybe it’s buried somewhere.

I still have yet to see a study that assesses, given full vaccination, the risk of developing severe long-term symptoms for different risk groups (e.g. ages/comorbidities). This is the most relevant metric for easing restrictions, since acute symptoms for vaccinated individuals have already been shown to be on par with a flu. If chronic symptoms are nonexistent, then there’s no reason to not totally ease restrictions amongst highly vaccinated populations.
How would we go about doing so?
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression,” Iran said.

“What? Why did you schedule that?” It defeated the whole purpose of the mood organ. “I didn’t even know you could set it for that,” he said gloomily.

-- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick
Which regulations would you relax? Surely there is some unnecessary red tape, but it's not as if building regulations have been developed for fun, it's largely in response to safety issues and so on.
In different parts of the world, there are different evolutionary paths, but I think it's wrong to start with the assumption of class and think the class of owners appears before the thing they own. It is rather the opposite -- some means of production is discovered/invented and then people compete over owning that means of production and the results of that competition gives rise to classes of those who are rich in the resource and those who are not. Nature is unequal.

In some societies, that capital was cattle (and also other livestock, like sheep). Cattle create other cattle and are a store of value, so that's all you need. Labor without capital isn't worth very much -- you can walk around picking berries. But combine labor with capital and you can feed yourself well and have some surplus left over. So those who owned the capital would attract people who want to work for them and improve their life over picking berries, and they become servants of the cattle owners, and you develop nomadic tribes of cattle owners.

You can start out with just a pair of cattle sold to you in exchange for doing some valuable service to someone else and with a little luck and wise husbandry, your great-grandson owns thousands of head of cattle and is also attracting lots of people work for your clan. This, for example, is the story of Jacob in the Bible, except he got sheep and two brides from Laban in exchange for working for him for 14 years. Or Abraham, who in old age became extremely wealthy in cattle. It's similar to people like Warren Buffet today who are both lucky and well-tempered and they end up with ridiculous amounts of capital. Some get really rich, others get really poor -- their cattle die, or they can't find good pastureland, or their children end up wasting their inheritance.

Similarly, things do not start out as slavery, slavery is what happens as a result of historical processes. Maybe you agree to work for someone for 10 years, but then after you are done you don't have many good options so you sell yourself to them and they feed you and promise to protect your offspring. Then, a few generations later, you have one class and another.

Here, I am talking about nomadic societies. In other societies, things like land and slavery could be the result of conquest by rival tribes. Most nobility in the world originally were some conquering tribe that subdued the local population, and maintained traditions that discouraged intermarriage and encouraged family wealth preservation. You could enter this system by performing some act of valor or conquest, and be rewarded with a title and entrance into the nobility for your children.

Other examples are possible.

But there are many different paths. It is important to remember that all early societies had the notion of private property. Maybe not the exact same notion we have today, but even chimpanzees believe in private property, and will fight to defend a rival taking something away from them. So ownership + the existence of capital goods => capitalism.
For the same reason they stopped naming after nation of origin... to sidestep politics and keep bad journalism to a minimum
Asking for a "great example" of punctuation use - any punctuation - is to miss the point, which is to smooth the reader's understanding of the text in the way that inflection and cadence are used in speech. As another commenter pointed out, well-used punctuation should be invisible. Only in its absence can it be properly appreciated.

Understanding language is not a strictly linear, one-word-after-another process, and these non-lexical clues all help us converge quickly on the intended meaning.

There have been several suggestions as to what might be just as good as a semicolon, but the period is a new one to me, and I strongly suspect that there are many cases where this substitution would interrupt a reader's flow. Given the importance, semantically, of the sentence, there are probably cases where this would corrupt the meaning.
The Incoherence of the Tragedy of the Commons
You're thinking of chi (χ), not xi (ξ) which is "ksai" or "zai". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter)

Xi the surname is closer to "shee" when pronounced in English.
Liquidity is good for both buyers and sellers.
It's an anagram for moronic.
Yeah, I used to drive a box truck around Atlanta for work. Learned by the second day that you just have to start moving into the lane you want. They'll get out of the way.
Actually useful is subjective. What's the carbon footprint of all the gpu rigs in the world used to play video games? Is that useful for you?
The article states that there is a movement pushing literature by diverse authors into classrooms. The article also claims that there is a great pushback against that movement. Those two is what I am referring to.

People happily label pushback to such movements as "racist parents" and similar. I believe that people pushing back against movements shouldn't get rejected by society, this is the controversial part.
Methinks the first items are missing the point.

All the body language, eye contact etc are lab analysis. I'd bet a few dollars that even very autistic people will get this (after all many are very very intelligent) if could look at a broader panel of emotions in other people and how interacting with each others is kind of a dance act.

If you go too much into your own head while speaking to someone you will forget the other and miss the so called body language cues. The cues are not the point, getting carried away on one's own little narrative is. If you try to see talking as a simple fun exchange, to share things and keep a bit on the same track, together.

Maybe autistic people have the logical pursuit as the only mode of pleasure and have this reflex to exchange with other similarly-minded people (you teach me something new, I teach you something new) but most people just want to share simpler things and find fun, safety to an extent.

My 2 cents
clicking for each title recommendation is a bit tedious maybe have more suggestions per page?
…which is the same thing as a bank account but not FDIC insured and now you have to pay cryptocurrency transaction fees.
… and there are plenty of types of real-world containers that are defined by what they can contain, by their internal rather than external dimensions. Especially capacity in litres.

Take bicycle tyres. The most popular naming scheme in Australia approximates the external diameter in inches, which is objectively problematic. The technically vastly superior naming scheme endorsed by ISO measures the rim diameter, which is the far more important measurement for determining compatibility, in millimetres. As it stands, each inch measurement corresponds to at least two incompatible sizes, depending on the tyre’s width: for example, 16″ tyres are normally 305mm (e.g. 16×2¼″), but there’s also the rarer 349mm (e.g. 16×1⅜″) commonly used in recumbents.
The “Rex” potato peeler. A perfect piece of design: ergonomic, solid, low-cost.

Small fact: the lateral “blade” to cut out the eyes of the potato is obtained from the removed central part of the main blade; some newer models have it extended from the grip…

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/rex-the-peeler-is-king-of-the-k...
After Murders ‘Doubled Overnight,’ the N.Y.P.D. Is Solving Fewer Cases
I've injured (ie: resulted in reduced physical performance) my back numerous times lifting weights.

The first couple times it scared the life out of me, and I suffered in moderate to severe pain for a week or two, unable to put my shoes on. Even went to the ER and the doc basically said "I dunno" and offered muscle relaxants.

I later stumbled upon some content from Austin Baraki and Jordan Feigenbaum (their company is Barbell Medicine) when rehabilitating a back tweak, and it changed my life. I learned about pain science and developed so much self efficacy that if I experience pain I don't even think of seeing a doctor at first (assuming certain red flag symptoms aren't present).

Recently I tweaked my back and was incredibly effective about recovery thanks to these guys. In about a week I could squat 100kg+ discomfort free (!).

I highly recommend Austin's article regarding the "bio-psycho-social model" for pain: https://startingstrength.com/article/aches-and-pains
And the barbell medicine youtube channel for content on pain, nutrition, and training, regardless of if you personally do resistance training - though I highly recommend that as well. It's invigorating to see yourself briefly injured squatting, and through reassurance & load/exercise management recovering almost entirely in a matter of days.
I'm not sure I would consider the Netflix ones ads? They're not trying to convince you to buy additional things or otherwise give them money; they're telling you about shows you've already paid for that they think you might enjoy watching.
Check the comparison between <a href="https://www.worldtoptoday.com/2020/02/windows-7-64-bit-vs-32... 7 64 bit vs 32 bit</a> in details way.
The Thinker and the Prover: Complete Threads One-Six (2020)
I think you and the parent are saying basically the same thing. I've been working in Scala for the past 10ish years and we have definitely gone through the "hype cycle" of operator overloading. Early Scala libs went a little nuts with creating an incredible array of symbolic operators (most famously this atrocity http://www.flotsam.nl/dispatch-periodic-table.html). We collectively realized that this was overboard and now Scala libraries typically provide a more modest set of symbolic operators (and generally the symbolic operators are just aliases for named methods so you can decide which ones you want to use in any particular codebase).

I would also disagree with the characterization as shitty code. The operators are actually really nice if you manage to learn them all well. It can make the code both very concise and readable. But it optimized for people who know the libraries extremely well over people who don't, which usually is not a great tradeoff for widely used libraries.
> why couldn't you serve as a market-maker for homes at a large scale, especially with the unique insights Zillow could have based on their datasets.

Why would Zillow have unique insights? With the exception of Texas, I thought real estate sales information is public information in the US.
> There are two simple reasons why people don't want their ailments to be psychological.

Another reason is that most people find it scary if someone starts tinkering with their psyche. I honestly think that every therapy should start with strategies to overcome this fear.
One major disadvantage of this approach is that if you are coming in with a bulky bag, or more (hauling carry-on luggage in an airport for instance), you have sharply limited space within to maneuver you and your stuff to a position where you can lift your skirts and do what you came here to do. Every time I go to a public bathroom with stall doors that open outward I am delighted.
Fortunately, programmers have taken up the cause and boosted the semicolon to it's rightful place.
https://archive.md/vu0cT
Nothing, those were never claimed as cryptocurrency strenghts, the opposite in fact, were accepted as weaknesses that were still worth it considering the other benefits.
People forget that tech is able to automate workflows. You don’t often yield success when you attempt to automate and invent the workflows in parallel.
>Your argument says we should be doing this forever.

Yes, I did say this is a possibility. I don't think it's likely, but it is a possibility.

>We never took this kind of moral grandstanding before. Why are we doing this for this one specific virus?

This is the first virus with this sort of reach in the era of modern science. It's pretty simple - we have never before had a virus that has infected and killed this many people while also having an understanding that masking cuts down on transmission rates.

>I’m sorry, your argument just doesn’t make sense.

You disagreeing with it doesn't mean it doesn't make sense, it just means that you, for whatever reason, value people not having to wear a mask over cutting down on the loss of human life during a global pandemic.

>You are arguing we should always be masked forever.

If we live in a state of perpetual covid-esque pandemic from now until forever, yes, that would be a perfectly prudent thing to do.
Exactly, but it's funny how now people somehow managed to make it about politics again haha
I had an advisor with the name, and I noticed the name everywhere. It is pretty common.
Something missed in the conversation, because the Honda CR-V is a smaller platform than the Honda Accord; the facts for storage capacity or seating aren't there either.

If we really examine the differences at a fact level, the main child(ren) factor is really the height (not having to bend over @ a car seat). A small convenience, and a convenience that points to Americans continuing to have less physical mobility.

Anecdotally, I do think more people are complaining about the difficulty of squatting down to my sedan seats.
> That doesn't really explain why should, say, Sweden or the EU be forced to pay, say, Turkey or Lebanon's ecological footprint of it's capital flight.

It is Turkey and Lebanon today, it was Greece yesterday, it could be Sweden tomorrow.

Banning it now means it won't be there if it's needed in the future.
That sounds hard. Why don’t we just rub some machine learning on it?
Arguably, it's good for both. Buyers have more quality inventory to choose from and can purchase a home with lower risk of getting trapped in it permanently. Sellers get faster sales with a higher floor on prices.
Oh yes, I use the map too sometimes.

The reason I mostly use Gnovies is that I often watch together with my girlfriend. So we each put one movie into Gnovies "enter 3 movies you like" form and after some experimentation we usually find a new one we both enjoy.
Buy low, sell high. You need “data science” to do this? $VNQ is up 33% since 2016. Do you realize how dumb and bad you have to be to lose money on real estate in this time? I imagine randomly picking homes off the MLS would have yielded better returns in the last five years than whatever Tableau-powered nonsense the biz ops analysts at Zillow used. The entire iBuying concept is a farce, completely divorced from basic fundamental analysis.
>then the teachers reads this and adds books because the authors are black

maybe the teacher finds appropriate authors who also happen to be black.
Completely off topic but, after doing python for ages, recently started writing Rust and semicolon does seems useless. We are doing the indentation and new lines anyway, why not just make them as default language construct as python does.

(autodidact developer here, feel free to ELI5 and enlighten me)
Blessed Friday deals are more cheaper.
Murder witnesses in New York may be less likely to come forward because their names are quickly disclosed to defendants due to recent changes in laws, as described at https://www.propublica.org/article/criminal-justice-legislat... .
I think there's a disconnect between some of the folks here and the live of the average suburban family. My mother regularly had to drop-off 4 kids at school then pick up groceries for 6 people. You can't do that with a sedan. There'd be a better case against trucks - they're undoubtedly a fashion statement most of the time, but when you need a truck (which is inevitable for someone with a house/land) there's no substitute. It's even more so in rural areas - no one's gonna throw a deer carcass in the trunk of their Tesla.
Can anyone share what this means practically?
Half the questions my bio prof gets from the general public are about who he believes created this virus: the Chinese, the CIA, the jews, or extraterrestrials. Some of these telegram groups have daily bulletins that predict the coming mass exodus of all vaccinated people. Half of the US population does little puzzles where they shift use an endless supply of degrees of freedom to "prove" that some politician's coded statement telling <X> they should kill <Y>, and did Fauci tortures dogs and children for fun? There are actual Senators saying so, and they get reelected.

What I'm trying to say is: there's no amount of transparency or obviousness that will prevent these people from letting their masturbatory cynicism devour the last remnants of rationality and humanity.