skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the vaccine has been shown to reduce viral load which has an impact on rate of mutation even if you are infected.

This doesn't seem to be the case⁰:

A new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who tested positive for the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. It also found no significant difference between infected people with or without symptoms.

When they analyzed the data, the researchers found wide variations in viral load within both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, but not between them. There was no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated, or between asymptomatic and symptomatic groups.

⓪ - https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim... (Link to study in the article)
Edited my original comment to remove it. I do not have enough info to give adivice. Sorry.
Read and follow the guidelines, which include what to submit, what not to submit, and

> "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I believe the 9090 doesn’t usually have a red flourish, but this[0] anniversary edition does, and if you look at other Sapper work[1] you’ll see how the red highlight, like the track point[2] seems to fit into a theme of his he works into various products.

[0] https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/design-stories/classic/ale...

[1] https://www.artemide.com/en/subfamily/18869/tizio

[2] https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/01/08/thinkpad...
If there were a way to reliably detect neutrinos in sufficient quantities they'd be ideal since you could send messages through the earth and at near light speed, I suppose.
There are already many great suggestions from others with a number of positive things you can do that will most likely have a good impact on your future, now it's all about you making choices. I'll give you just one and a simple one that I found to be an essential building block when growing up and trying to make sense out of things around which can sometimes become overwhelming.

Exercise independent thought and awareness of yourself (self-inquiry) and those around you.

Give yourself time to do it, sink it in. Time invested in understanding yourself will bring great appreciation for life which will lay a solid foundation for all the positive things to come in your future.
It is the same problem with yachts.
Personally, when doing Friendsgiving or similar events I've solved the problem by cooking a duck instead. It's equally uncommon as turkey for nearly everyone that comes over. Before I had started doing it even I had never actually had a whole roasted duck. The grocery stores closest by me have started carrying less common poultry but it's usually incredibly marked up, but if I go down town to China Town the duck is still cheaper than turkey.

For proper family Thanksgiving, my family kind of suffered through dry turkey for years. Not really realizing there was room for improvement. My extended family is huge so we always had atleast two turkeys, usually one done by grandma and one by the host. Some years back my dad found this new turkey cooking kit he wanted to try when we hosted. It came with a needle, marinade and a new contraption for cooking the turkey. The turkey was universally loved by the family and everyone felt bad for disliking my grandma's traditional one so much in comparison.

The new device my dad had found was a turkey deep fryer. This was years before every single fire department around the country universally panned them and all the videos of people burning their houses down came out. But it is easily the best turkey I've ever had and if I'm ever cooking turkey for Thanksgiving will be the method I use. Family Thanksgiving have been on the smaller sides in recent year, but I plan to do as much research and buy the safest one if I ever get put in charge of making the turkey.
Why not set up an emulated virtual Mac? It's not very hard these days, and the performance is not a concern with modern devices.
Maybe they did not have a useless idiot sitting around asking to rewrite shit in Rust.
His world view colliding with reality. It's been clear from the beginning that Covid mostly (practically only) kills old people. People who would generally have died soon anyways (of the flu, or whatever else). There has not been significant excess mortality at all, and in countries like Sweden (with very little restrictions) it's actually been negative.
Yeah it lacks a few layers. But the embedded ~basics are worth it
Doctors know about Vitamin D. Not sure why you think they would need Dr. Fauci to tell them about it. I've also been hearing about Vitamin D from every angle on social media for the past 2 years.

I'm not sure how one of hottest COVID pop-culture prevention suggestions could be considered an underground concept at this point.

The misunderstanding might be in the magnitude of effect: Vitamin D moves the needle a little bit, but it's nowhere near a magic bullet against Vitamin D or a solution to the crisis (as many health and fitness influencers have tried to suggest).
> there's still many loops where writing it as a loop makes it more clear what's going on

I think that really depends on your language and what you are used to. For me, I would disagree.

> I'm not sure how to implement the consolidation only in terms of map, filter and friends in a way which would be more clear.

Tbh, when I read this, I'm thinking: is the data-structure wrong? Maybe you should have something like a "bundle" that contains orderItems and their invoice. It doesn't seem to make so much sense to keep an invoice ID in each orderItem. That makes sense in a relational db, but not when using objects.

I would model it like that (for lack of a better name than "bundle"):

Order(bundles: Map[InvoiceId, Bundle(invoice: Invoice, orderItems: List[OrderItem]))

Now orderItems and the invoice-amount are logically bundled together and identified by the invoice-id. Then, combining two orders becomes really simple: combinedOrder = order1 + order2

No loops needed, simply treating the data as monoids.

Here's an executable example: https://scastie.scala-lang.org/DDIRbiC5TTuOxmkzEFxTqA

You might argue that it is not clear how that works and you are right for everyone who is not used to how monoids work. But everyone who is, independent of the language, will understand exactly what happens. On the other hand, someone who is not used to loops would probably argue that your loops are hard to understand.

It really boils down to what techniques one is familiar with.
China’s space programme will go nuclear to power future missions
Its called shuffle.dev because the website keeps pivoting too.
Librem 5 is significantly more powerful, despite the CPU is the same. Much faster RAM, GPU etc.
Similar situation here in the UK.

Disney+ initially available at what I considered a fair price, and now they want to hike it by something like 50% - which seems totally unreasonable.

Furthermore, it seems like so much more content now is not included in the monthly fee - they want to extract even more money from us! And I take issue with the actual pricing here too, for example Mulan was a whopping £20 - for comparison, an adult cinema ticket is around £10! So again, this feels totally unfair and unjustified.

Disney is meant to be about "fun", but I don't think we'll be renewing, because, frankly, they are taking the piss and making me hate the service.
Why is this page so difficult to scroll through on an iPad with Firefox?
It was eight years ago when Google delivered the gadget-man’s wet dream: The Google Glass. My company at the time had a pair so we could try them. It was immediately clear that glasses aren’t the same product as smartphones. The first Google glass UX was very poor. And even if newer “glass” products can solve some issues, they will never fully replace a touch screen.
Arguing that phones will be replaced by glasses, to me, sounds like arguing you’re going to do your office work using Alexa. It just doesn’t make sense.
Excellent. I give this 10^14 / 10^14.

The pedant in me wants to point out that they are now known to have some mass and do interact a bit, but this was written in 1960.
Yeah, that’s not a bad idea. I considered that but it seemed like a lot of work to set up the container to run an SSH daemon and work out the forwarding, but maybe I’m overestimating the work involved?
No Windows based computers. As for identity theft, it happens as well here in Europe, but not as often because there is a pretty strict KYC requirement for banks.
I do not see any reason to add that complication.
How so?

That doesn't make sense. I think most of the royalties come from the long tail of companies, and market cap is a really terrible way of determining the worth of a company
Afaik the resolution is lower and some audio features are not supported in most browsers. It is only Microsoft Edge on Windows and Safari on Mac that supports 4k, https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444.
Cheap toasters today don’t have a shorter lifetime than this one. In fact, they have fewer moving parts.
Over here, contracts with telecom giants like Bell are keeping some media (e.g. HBO content) away from stand-alone streaming. They have their own pet streaming services that require a cable subscription. Possibly factoring among the reasons GoT and the like had been so rabidly pirated.

When not everything is available, online rental is now a more viable option than it once was. I wonder why it's only the tech giants like MS who offer this. Why isn't Netflix also allowing digital rentals? I'd rather not pay MS, Apple or Google to see a movie over 50 years old.

edit: according to this https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/02/playstation-store-to... even Sony stopped (or will stop) offering digital tv/movie purchases and rentals owing to the popularity of streaming. From memory, these were expensive. I guess there's a costly overhead to the service.
WestJet/TELUS launch facial recognition boarding trial at Calgary Airport
Since the current vaccines are based on recognizing the spike protein, and since this South African (Nu?) variant has many mutations on the spike protein, what are the odds that a vaccinated person's immune system would recognize the mutated spike protein as being the same as the original one?
Piracy makes me feel like I'm living 50 years in the future. One where there's no such thing as artificial digital scarcity. Yesterday, my partner and I wanted to watch something. I started downloading it because I'm not going search on which streaming service this 3 year old show is on. As I was downloading it, she found it on netflix. I stopped my download and we watched it there. From my point of view, piracy will go down by 98% when all shows and films are accessible in one place. Until that happens, 50 years from now, I'll continue to pirate.
Obviously I can’t see the business logic but I would express this (or what I believe I understand of it) as a fold that accumulates a map of structures which organize the invoice(s) alongside the orders somehow. I suspect that would result in a kind of “inversion” of responsibility that might be unfamiliar at first, but may well result in a clearer relationship between the data elements to someone new to the code (and may make refactoring a lot easier).
> legislation that forces manufacturers of consumer goods to provide an estimate of product lifetime according to some agreed standard

isn't this exactly what a guarantee or warranty is? we have this now, where the manufacturer is legally obligated to provide a device that performs/operates/works according to the published specification for at least that long. of course, it doesn't work since consumers will then complain about 'planned obsolescence' when products actually live up to these estimates...
> I don't know why they feel the need to start telling me that so far in advance, or so many times (3 emails now).

Maybe they hope, by informing you so early, you'll have forgotten about the price increase by the time your renewal goes through?
The website doesn't deliver 1080p video in any browser but Edge (and this may have changed with Edge being switched to Chromium)
Yes, this. All the sous-vide and spatchcocking and brining zealots are overthinking it. Roast the turkey, in an oven, until it’s cooked.
That's the way it used to work.
It is vastly easier to apply for the SSN at the hospital at time of birth. If you don't, there are many non-trivial hurdles to jump through later[0]:

At a Social Security office: If you wait to
apply for your child’s number, you must:
• Complete an application for a Social
Security card; and
• Show us original documents proving
your child’s:
— U.S. citizenship;
— Age; and
— Identity.
• Show us documents proving your identity
and your relationship to the child.

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10023.pdf
Heat May Have Driven Cell Division
I think it's totally good and human to have preferences for one sort of math over another :)
The reason the things are called "transactions" is because they were invented for banks. Bank ledgers must always be appended in pairs or not at all, never in any other number. The entire finance system is dependent on that feature.

Transactions were kept by humans, literally for a few centuries, before the algorithm was adapted for computers.
Stitching and Writing on the Margin
You cannot change the latter without having some effect in the former because of basic mathematics of ratios.
Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming
Same here in NL. Scientific data routinely gets ignored during policy making, either because the data did not originate here and we're supposedly somehow special or because it didn't fit the preferred outcome. The results are predictable.
Googling for Software Development: What Developers Search for and What They Find [pdf]
> This is my only gripe with the Lutron hardware. The Picos can only be used to trigger Lutron devices. They don't integrate into HomeKit like the switches do.

They do if you use a “middleware” to tie together the systems like Home Assistant or HomeBridge. I raise and lower zwave blinds using a pico switch.
Economic Reasons to Be Thankful
Disney seems to be the main culprit in everything copyright related! Seriously, what is wrong with them!?
As some guy once said, "Info wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive"

IP ownership as it exists today is fundamentally broken from the underlying reality. We need a culture where coming up with something new is compensated fairly but at the same time recognizes that the cost of sharing info is next to nil and we're all being held back from a global optimum by pretending otherwise.
I think this is well put.

If anyone suggests saying that someone or a group is only capable (for whatever reason) of producing 'bug ridden garbage' in any context, then I'd politely suggest that this isn't the best way to communicate the issue.
I think the folks at OpenLibrary.org would benefit from something like this.
How’s long have you been using it? How do you like it as a daily driver? If the handle/latch stays tight, it certainly does improve on the twist/twist/twist/twist… of (eg) Bialetti pots.
Bundling up products/services/value is a classic business technique. It's easy to sell customers on one low monthly price.

Also, Unbundling products/services/value is a classic business technique. It's easy to make money on providing one specific service for a small fraction of the bundled price.

These two forces happen in cycles, and streaming video is going through an unbundling phase right now.
I think I often see this disconnect, with developers on either one side or the other, and usually the distinguishing factor has to do with what their experiences have been. If you've ever maintained, like, anything - not even necessarily open source but even something at work (with users obviously) - for a significant period of time, long enough to see how a project evolves over time, you'd just... understand.

People without that experience can at times be a little too demanding when they don't get exactly what they want the first time. At times the may even act out, often in ways that are actually harmful, like trying to get managers involved to override something, writing negative stuff about you or your project online, or in general getting fairly hysterical and creating a fuss. When you try to help them they get super defensive, often before putting in the effort to understand what it is you even said.

So it's certainly the case that "bug ridden garbage" isn't optimal vernacular, but at the same, what I think can be worse is, as far as communication problems go, nitpicking project maintainer's communication whilst a.) not understanding that their underlying point remains actually true (I.e. "bug ridden garbage"), albeit not beautifully articulated and b.) not giving them the benefit of the doubt in terms of what their intent was.

Now imagine this, but literally all the time, all day, every day, etc... it can wear you down a little thin. Basically, when someone doesn't understand something, which is why the code needs to be reviewed in the first place, some tend to kind of lash out while latching onto something else they do know, e.g. I know that "bug ridden garbage" isn't a graceful way to talk, so I'll attack that.

Anyway, I'm probably not explaining this very well, and I think it's just something that people need to experience themselves. I've come to take people who are rough more as a compliment than anything, thinking, "this person thinks highly enough about me that they can just say what they really think, so I better not disappoint them by taking that trust and trashing it", obviously there are limitations, but this has helped me so much to learn from people smarter and more experienced than myself.

I'll just say one last thing. From what I've seen, the people who do tend to get defensive and kind of nitpicky about maintainer communication tend to not succeed when they become project leads themselves, and they usually just change jobs. O and obviously the maintainers who have the ability/experience and are blessed with grace, diplomacy, communication skills or however you want to call it, obviously tend to enjoy the most success.
What are you even talking about? Using sRGB won't make skin magically orange.
Organic or Conventional Farming? Wrong Question. (2018)
If you are implying they "solved the problem of having to pay artists", that isn't true as Spotify payed artists over $23 billion as of 2020.

https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/

I think they solved the problem of paying artists quite well, 70% of their revenue goes to the copyright holders (if those aren't the artists, that is a different problem Spotify can't really address).

It's hard to see a record store or different streaming service do better than that ratio.
No, if someone is eligible for an SSN, they are not eligible for an ITIN.
> Furthermore, it seems like so much more content now is not included in the monthly fee - they want to extract even more money from us! And I take issue with the actual pricing here too, for example Mulan was a whopping £20 - for comparison, an adult cinema ticket is around £10! So again, this feels totally unfair and unjustified.

That's not surprising. What if there's more than one person watching the stream?

> Disney is meant to be about "fun"

multiple decades ago, maybe
> If the rank of the verb's operand is smaller than the rank of the verb, the verb is applied to the entire operand and it is up to the author of the verb to ensure that it produces a meaningful result in that case.

This instantly brings back all my frustration with getting broadcasting in numpy to work like I want / expect. I love getting the right dot products to work between an array of matrices and an array of vectors, but I don’t do it often enough to remember how, I have to slowly re-derive the incantation every damn time.

> J does contain while. and for. constructs, but they carry a performance penalty

Question - what is the state of the art of functional programming for performance? My experience in JavaScript, Python, and C++ is that using loop-hiding pure functional constructs is difficult to impossible to optimize, often much slower than explicit loops, and worse that it’s harder to refactor when you realize your nested loops are inside-out from what they need to be. I want to use functional more often, but I feel like I hit roadblocks in practice.
I don't, but I don't have any ad-blocking outside of what Firefox supplies by default, and I'm sure that's the difference.
That chart shows revenue, so I don’t think it takes into account the higher profit margins that come with not needing to manufacture and distribute physical media.
Cassandra – A prediction based productivity tool we're building
The daily habits you build secretly shape your future. It is vital to pay close attention to these habits to increase the chances of success however you define it.

That is why we built Cassandra, a chrome extension that predicts the websites you are about to visit based on your browsing patterns.
Cassandra gives you the foresight to break bad habits that cause distraction and waste your time. Cassandra also helps you implement better habits that increase your productivity and keep you focused on what’s important.
.. Do you not see the difference between the linux kernel used on many millions of devices and a terminal emulator with a niche audience? 100 people could be turned off from pursuing their contributions to linux to completion for every 1 person who manages to get something through and it would still seem like there were no barriers. This is just survivorship bias.
I wrote this to try to clarify the space as people often talk about different things with HITL. Some mean active learning, others mean 'worker in the loop, researchers sometimes mean 'users in the loop'.

So, three main categories to HITL:

- HITL training -- e.g. active learning and interactive machine learning development

- workers in the loop -- the old school mechanical turk idea, but with a model only falling back to the worker when it's unsure

- users in the loop -- getting the user to steer the AI response, e.g. Smart Reply in gmail.

Although they're not applicable in all cases, we're starting to see far more companies adopt these approaches as it solves several problems with AI.

For example, Amazon Alexa (worked there) can't do standard user-in-the-loop. With voice interaction the user does not have patience to be read out a list of options. However, it does get weaker signals where the stops the current action ("alexa stop!"), and that informs the next action. Active learning is getting adopted there too, as with millions of live utterances coming through, reducing their annotation efforts can be a huge cost saving.
Sounds like that's pretty easy, except you have to do it instead of the hospital doing it. Sounds like they just need a birth certificate.

Anyway, I removed that part of my comment because I am not fully knowledgeable about that, and don't want spread any false information, and it probably won't help with security that much.
On yak shaving and &lt;md-block&gt;, a new HTML element for Markdown
96% of mammel biomass are humans, pets, or farm animals.

We could vaccinate all of those. If we needed to do the last 4% of wild animals, I'm betting we could vaccinate more than half of those too.
If it's "not perfect" but still logically correct and useful to the project, then by all means feel free to merge and refactor it later. But broken code that will introduce bugs/defects should not be merged.