skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polio was a 1st world issue.

"It's a paradox of public health that being too clean can sometimes lead to disease. For centuries, infants were routinely exposed to the poliovirus in their unsanitary living conditions. Polio rarely causes paralysis in infants, partly because of the maternal antibodies still present in their systems. In the 1900s, many countries cleaned up their water and sanitation systems, and houses in more affluent communities were routinely cleaned, reducing exposure to microbes. By the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, new mothers, especially those in the middle class, had no antibodies in their immune systems to pass on to their children. When children were exposed to the poliovirus in later years, they were defenseless against the disease."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/diseases/polio...
Tesla’s Metric
I thought the Internet would be the great equalizer and bring humanity's knowledge an cohesion to an higher level, and in some way it did with great collaborative platform like Wikipedia, GitHub, etc, but social media and the intense polarization it brings is creating a huge social rift that I am incertain that it will end well.
This is a misconception: it is not known that the virus will become less deadly over time; in fact, there is good reason to believe that it may become more deadly because virulence is positively associated with tramissibility.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/will-covid-19-evolve-be-mo...
I agree with this—not only do we have the usual moral imperative to help others, but it’s actually in our primary interest. The US has actually done exceedingly well here, having delivered more donations than all other countries combined (not sure if this is still the case; I haven’t checked in a couple of months). But there’s still more work to do and other rich countries need to get on board quickly.

Apropos of nothing, I was just listening to NPR and they had someone on to talk about how we don’t donate vaccines to third world countries because they are predominantly non-white and how this is “vaccine apartheid” rather than the more likely “rich countries provide for their own citizens before providing for others” sort of thing. Is there any legitimacy to this, or is it just racemongering?
I don't think it's abusive. If you rotate on a team of 8, that should mean you go on-call once every 8 weeks (assuming weekly on-call). This really isn't bad in my opinion. Especially if the systems are decently architected and maintained.

The real problem is that management doesn't like to pay for updates/upgrades/fixes to make the system more stable (tying back to the management/engineering paragraph in the article).

Disclosure: I'm currently on call.
> Severity of disease: It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta. Preliminary data suggests that there are increasing rates of hospitalization in South Africa, but this may be due to increasing overall numbers of people becoming infected

We don't know for sure yet one way or another.
Whenever I see questions regarding virtualization security I sometimes wonder what percentage of malware is VM-aware. It would make sense to leverage software that users have a false sense of security in. That's not to say most virtualization solutions can't provide a fair amount of isolation and thwart non-sophisticated attacks, but they aren't air-tight by any stretch.
Commonly sung in UU services:

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Sung to the tune of “Holy, Holy, Holy”
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Coffee, Coffee, Coffee,
Praise the strength of coffee.
Early in the morn we rise with thoughts of only thee.
Served fresh or reheated,
Dark by thee defeated,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.

Though all else we scoff we
Come to church for coffee;
If we’re late to congregate, we come in time for thee.
Coffee our one ritual,
Drinking it habitual,
Brewed black by perk or drip instantly.

Coffee the communion
Of our Uni-Union,
Symbol of our sacred ground, our one necessity.
Feel the holy power
At our coffee hour,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.
I think the wording is kinda weird, and maybe it was a bit of encouraging people to still get vaccines? Since it's effective against Delta and other variants, it's still pretty important to get them. But it sounded unclear what impact would be at this point.

The whole snippet here:

> WHO is working with technical partners to understand the potential impact of this variant on our existing countermeasures, including vaccines. Vaccines remain critical to reducing severe disease and death, including against the dominant circulating virus, Delta. Current vaccines remain effective against severe disease and death.
By "C" libraries you just mean that python and rust talk to eachother via the same ABI that C happens to use, there doesn't need to actually be any C involved. Since python is generally the cPython implementation of python there is, but you could substitute that out for something else (i.e. a python implementation written in Java) and actually have no C without modifying anything else.

Well, except for the fact that the JVM and OS is written in C, but you could swap out that JVM and OS for...
Yes, and it has a coordinate geometry interpretation too. Completing the square represents the original quadratic function as a basic x^2 parabola that's been scaled vertically, shifted vertically, then shifted horizontally. If you understand what each of these three operations do to the roots of the parabola, you can derive the quadratic formula. (It's basically just the algebraic way with diagrams, but may help the geometry-loving/algebra-hating types out there.)
Maybe an alternative: Xiaomi Mi A2 with CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)
Why aren't flights from South Africa banned yet?
Is “technical specifications” a normal way to put this? Seems odd to me, but I also don’t call my code “codes.”
I mean, I get the idea with profiles, sure, but I just don't understand how that's removing friction in day to day situations? You jump in your car after going to the gym, you want cold air blasting in your face - having to mess with the on-screen controls to change that temporarily is a huge amount of friction in user interaction, especially compared to the previous UI which was literally "grab a little handle, point the vent at your face, done".
It doesn't compile to C, it compiles on the fly to VM code, and there are implementations of the VM in C, Python, Scheme, and JS. Otherwise the REPL would have to invoke a C compiler. Note that while the code footprint (size of the compiled VM) is only around 4k, the ram usage is much higher. They use a heap size of 200k though smaller would probably still work.
Good point :) I'm glad to be reminded of that framing: a/b testing is just evolutionary selection within the same company-shaped container, but it's happening in the larger ecology even if you're not trying to run it.
Yeah, I initially heard it as attributed to Erdős, so the part about it being falsely ascribed to him checks out!
Nothing completely prevents infection, but vaccines are the best way to mitigate it.
The authors haven’t done any questionable transforms of the dataset - its literally the whitehouse dataset as a scatterplot. How is it garbage ?
This is absolutely my favorite thing about command pallets. Any time I need to do anything in vscode I just type something close to what I'm trying to do and scroll until I see something that looks right. Way easier than just about anything else.

macOS has a similar feature for the menu bar- every app has a Help item that allows you to search all menus at the same time. It doesn't work as well as a command pallet but it is incredibly useful for menu-heavy apps.
There's already Disneyland and Disneyworld and also Disneywhatever in France.
Is love to see a command palette terminal fusion. Thought about this many times.
> I am considering an ultra-wide monitor(the only thing really missing from my home setup at this point) but even at a 1920x1080 on all my monitors, 80 characters occupy at most 25-30% of my entire screen

It is common for people to use split-screen setup (two files / editor buffers in parallel). On common 1920x1080 screen with 10px-wide font, you have 2x96, so something like 80-90 columns is ideal.
it doesn't have to be the case, but it often seems to be the case. I think there is a model by which deadliness is usually due to an accident -- note that most contemporary deadly pandemic diseases (even flu!) jump from animals to humans, so the deadliness is "accidental" in some sense, it's less deadly in the animal reservoir.

But maybe the better way to think of it is entropically/random walk POV. Starting from a base sequence S0, if the virus starts out at a local maximum of deadliness (or at least an increase in deadliness that only has certain mechanistic "channels of escape"), and then optimizes strictly for contagiousness, statistically speaking most mutations in an S1 will make it less deadly (even if marginally so), unless contagiousness and deadliness are mechanistically linked.

I think our understanding now is that the first order bottleneck in deadliness is something like "binding to a receptor", so most increases in contagiousness will have a strictly neutral-to-deleterious effect on deadliness.
You can increase the font size if you have trouble reading. Scaling the whole UI makes everything bigger, including elements that you don't read. Also depending on the OS scaling can be implemented more or less well and efficiently.
Instagram.com/chucky

I have old password reset emails and probably some screen shots somewhere
I thought exactly the same thing!

For those unaware, Queensland (population 5.185 million) _still_ has yet to have a large scale outbreak since March 2020.

It's common to have windows permanently open with fly screens here. And houses in the typical Queenslander architectural style[0] are up on stilts and deliberately laid out to encourage a breeze pulling air from front to back. Rooms are often not sealed, with fanlights above door-frames allowing in airflow. This design philosophy extends to commercial buildings as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture)
"[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

From the same source:
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

I can see here mention of "exclusive Right".

Can't see there man in the middle having exclusive Right though who also allowed to strip all the rights from the Authors and Inventors. Can't see there any "copyright". Can't see there entitlement "to prohibit to anyone in having right to make a copy". Selling copy is something else. But who can prohibit making copy?

If you read this text you have copied it to your brain from the 'screen copy' of 'memory copy' of 'web response copy' of data stored on server which is 'copy of what I wrote' . There are more stages that I've mentioned of course and each of them produces copy.

>the idea at least is that restricting copies means more people buy the "real" thing

I do not see how current system is in the spirit of [0] and I do not see how current system is even in the spirit of what you've described. It's broken and works for other purposes. Doesn't "promote Progress of Science and useful Arts" it seems.
AUS proposed anti-troll law would require platforms to disclose personal details
We didn't get to zero polio really and people in some countries stopped vaccinating children against it.
Were you trying to convert a PDF or something? Tech books that are in an HTML-based format (epub or mobi) work just fine in Calibre because the diagrams and equations actually have a machine-readable format and can be converted from format to format losslessly. PDFs are pretty much only designed to be printed (they are really just modified Postscript documents, where Postscript is the language used by many printers)
The English Eighty comes from proto-Germanic and means eight groups of ten.
For Julia there's pycall: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl I believe there's one for the opposite direction as well.
Is there anyone who believes masks are "the final answer"? I'm very much in favor of mask wearing and would love to see some real enforcement of mask mandates, but while masks are important they are just an important factor that can help safe some lives. I've never talked to anyone who thought masks on their own are the answer.
In a virtual memory system, random access to an array of size n takes O(log n) time, and the constant factors in that O(log n) are also nontrivial. Algorithms that do O(log n) computation with O(log n) independent elements tend to take O(log^2 n) time, while those that do O(log n) computation with O(log n) contiguous elements or O(log n) iterations with O(1) elements still take O(log n) time. If the constant factors are small enough, it can be hard to distinguish the latter two from algorithms doing O(1) computation with O(1) elements.
Much more interesting than Conway's game of life! Thanks for sharing.
They have one feature that I like, at least in VSCode terminal: if you click on something that resembles a compilation error (filename:line) it will open the editor on that file on that line. That work with every compiler/tool and it's useful.

Other than that, I don't like to leave my editor to switch to a terminal. Thus when I develop I usually use the VSCode terminal because it's more practical, to compile, run tests, use git (yes, I know that VSCode has git functionalities built in... I find the terminal more practical and fast)
This is great. Many scrapers require constantly monitoring which is a bit heavy for the scraping process. I can see this tool making it easy to monitor for changes fairly quickly. Great work!
I think there's a great potential in command palette like interfaces especially if there was a library that helped you build command palette grammars.
Most third world countries don't have the infrastructure to reliably deliver refrigerated vaccines at scale. And they've got to deliver two doses, months apart.

Its very "on brand" as the kids say now on twitter for NPR to platform a race-baiter though. The west, a product of mostly european people, came up with the vaccine but blah blah blah racism. Come up with your own vaccine then NPR race bait lady.
Judging from old reviews of the phone, it looks like a positional proximity sensor. The screen had a blue hover glow where your finger approached the screen.
There is the Shortcuts app for iOS and macOS now that replaces the old Automator app and provides a friendly GUI for some basic to more advanced automation and allows for AppleScript for more complex requirements. I don't know really how widespread its use is, but there are some passionate communities of people making and sharing shortcuts that does seem to extend beyond the "terminal ubergeeks" into more typical (albeit efficiency obsessed) consumers.
This is not true. COVID-19 is unusual because symptoms don’t tend to develop until the second week of the infection, by which time most of the active virus has been neutralized by the body’s immune response.

Unlike most viruses, COVID-19 does not have the same selective pressure to become less deadly.
I also thought the line about current vaccine protection against severe disease/death sounded a little more confident than the evidence seems to justify. I’m no expert in this field and would never pretend to be. But I would like to know what they base that confidence on when there’s so little data at this point.
Well, your 2 cents would be wrong since SA is actively rejecting vaccines due to low intake: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-...
I don’t know. You don’t need 100% efficacy to achieve herd immunity (obviously I’m not an epidemiologist and my terms are imprecise) if you have a sufficiently vaccinated population.

I generally agree that we should depart from a covid zero strategy, but not because the vaccines aren’t effective; rather, because too many people are making decisions based on FUD and there doesn’t seem like much that can be done about that in the sort of timeframe during which a “covid-zero” strategy might work.
I would go further, and say we have no evidence that any human virus has evolved to become less virulent as it becomes 'endemic'. Instead, susceptible individuals simply die off (e.g. smallpox in the Americas).
1. They get paid 10's of millions of $'s a year.

2. I doubt this is true. I've worked (and do work) for fortune 500 companies and have never ever heard of a CEO being paged for some sort of emergency. Presumably there can be some sort of crisis where they'll have to be involved within some reasonable time (extremely rare) but that's not exactly the same thing. That's why they have people working for them. That's not to say that some CEOs (especially for smaller companies) don't work very hard.
Having a young kid is an edge-case while on-call is the norm? Software Engineering has jumped the shark and is now commodotized, exploited labor. Laptops and smartphones don't turn engineers into ER physicians.
Santa Susana Field Laboratory. It was picked up by Boeing when they acquired Rocketdyne and I had the pleasure(?) of visiting a few times. The building I visited was across the street from where the meltdown had occurred, but it had a separate history of some nuclear contamination. All of it had been allegedly cleaned up, except that we were all instructed to never use the running water for anything but flushing the toilet.

Boeing was pretty stupid to accept the SSFL as part of the Rocketdyne deal because they assumed liability for cleaning it up. Someday, if it ever gets cleaned up enough, the State of California will take over the land and make it into a public park.
The whole screen was mounted on a big button, so touching it was hovering and you'd press the screen with a satisfying click to execute something. It wasn't the most reliable if you weren't careful, but why not do that with a pressure sensor nowdays?
I won't get the Trump vaccine, I'll get the Biden vaccine instead! Ree!
Furthermore, if you do get called, you shouldn't go back to work until 11 hours after you finished handling that call.
https://archive.md/1y2zX
It was literally a screen mounted on a button, actually.
I don't see how that negates my point. If the virus can mutate to have a longer transmissibility window, it implies that it will also be less deadly. The period when symptoms start is the period where your immune response is ramped up. Delaying or reducing the immune response implies longer transmission window and less severe illness.
Interestingly, the dialect of French spoken in Belgium has a name for 90 - nonante.

They still use quatre vignt for 80 though.
How many IT people on call are actually making 200+k? The general rule I have seen is people on call get paid less as people eventually negotiate very slightly lower salaries for not being on call.
You can also use your phone camera for the occasional paper document. I wouldn't change my note taking strategy as a result of sometimes being given paper documents.
Their subjects however weren’t.
It ebbs and flows but I feel like we're coming to the end of a long period of "convention over configuration" that prioritized consistent, predictable behaviour across systems at the cost of powerful options & custom configurations. I understand what you're saying but there's also cost to implement and maintain all those options you want, plus a huge set of testing combinations for QA
Larger Language Models May Disappoint You
Absolutely. I’m not defending it.

But this is my point, it takes an understanding of finance and an understanding of what’s actually happening with these smart contracts. Retail will get slaughtered.
Some old SVGA cards from the 1990s had a ~132x60 mode (as well as a bunch of others), that could be activated in DOS with the RHIDE editor that came with DJGPP (no doubt there were other ways), or with SVGATextMode in Linux.
I would call the Internet resilient, in that lower level failures are often reliably re-routed, healed, etc., but at higher levels the same kinds of failures happen over and over.

Anti-Fragile would imply that each doh-inducing failure resulted in internet wide improvements. Something that famously is not happening.

The Internet: "It's Anti-Fragile!" (looking up)

The Internet: "It's Duct Tape all the Way Down" (seen from above)
The first and most important step in the New Zealand strategy is “be an island”. You need a lot of draconianism to make up for land borders.
I think that last bit is part of it -- the idea is that really there ought to be a wavefunction for the whole universe, so it is fine for the universe to be in a superposition (deemed the multiverse).
Yes, I read your link.
Yes, it has already spread.

Yes, Medical doctors are not scientists. Which class is medical school trains them in research? Uh, that would be none.
>people who make new works are stuck with all the costs, while people who sell copies

I wasn't talking about 'selling copies'. I was talking about right of making copies. Selling copies is something else I think.
The amount of corruption is epic. Anywhere from proven bad contractors constantly winning bids to the army of consultants eating hefty fees to the politicians in on the bandwagon.

Ridiculous amateur engineering failure example in the article:

Earlier this year, engineers realized that in some sections, the wheels were a half-inch narrower than the rails. Order new wheels? Tear up the tracks?

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This is a good site for some international comparisons:

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-constr...

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It seems that countries that have outsourced the making and running of bridges and tunnels to the private sector have them finished in record time as the bridge and tunnel operator has a financial incentive to finishing quicker. These examples even exist in developing countries like Turkey which have outsourced some of the biggest bridges and tunnels to private parties who will run the bridges and tunnels for different time periods and then it will revert back to the government.
Oh, ok, it used to be amortized constant O(1), but changed at some point apparently.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150310134852/https://en.cppref...
The Biro, the invention that changed the writing game
Fair enough then. I'm wrong, for amzn anyway.
I can troubleshoot during business hours.

I can triag during business hours.

I can asset tradeoffs and mitigation strategies during business hours.

Being woken up in the middle of the night never builds empathy and if you pay enough attention to the industry, we're leadning more towards trauma, depression, anxiety and self-diagnosing ADHD.

BTW, me being anti-on call is not anti-resiliency... in fact, I don't think on-call is resilient at all with how most organizations operate since the resilience isn't adaptive capacity, but "do your day job and be on call" - no matter HOW much we talk about "your on call week is the week your on call and you focus on that" - it never happens. Never ever.
Since the article didn't appear to include any samples, I resorted to Goodolegoogle and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Xnr0m-elw
For another English language source on this claim, there's a Vice article from a couple of weeks ago: "Thousands are injecting themselves with microchips that do everything from unlock doors and make payments to store COVID vaccine certificates."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd8j4/inside-an-online-comm...
> non-Mac touchpads are 10+ years behind and borderline unusable

People keep saying this but somehow the rest of the world manages to use their touchpads just fine.
Do we, though?

http://www.naciente.com/essay94.htm
Creative professionals tend to become power users of creative software. Same with e.g. business professionals and Excel.