skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccine is not the virus. If you take a stochastical approach to understanding immunity, that raises questions whether one can be substituted for the other in the long term. Derek Lowe has a good elementary introduction in the subject.

"It's important to realize, though, that all immune responses to a viral infection generate a mixture of neutralizing and non-neutralizing antibodies. That's one of the things about the immune system - it revs up production of a wide variety of antibodies, selected from the untold billions of them circulating around in your bloodstream. Some of them bind to one part of the pathogen, and some to another. And they bind in different conformations, sticking to different parts of the surface of the invading virus from different directions."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/antibody-dependent...
They won't show up directly but they should (hopefully) be observable via secondary effects. Linux itself doesn't have price but employees using Linux have salaries, Redhat support has a price. SaaS providers do this for countless open source projects.

Linux and free software are also used for thousands of small commercial websites and projects that show up. If everyone had to use Windows Server and SQL Server for their .NET wordpress-style site there would be fewer sites and fewer businesses.

Educational YouTube channels should lead to more educated and therefore more productive people. It could be argued that for better or worse the higher-ed and post-high school systems (degrees, credentials, etc.) have been very slow or even opposed at allowing this extra learning/knowledge to improve career/productivity outlooks.

e.g. Youtube is free but text books have increased X% in price so the net effect is diminished. Learning is easier and cheaper than ever before but most colleges are not using the more efficient learning systems (online classes, MOACs(?)). The cost of college has increased so much that college itself has decreased in productivity, etc.

Also a lot of the time spent on these free/non-profit projects are not counted as labor hours so if anything they should have zero or positive effect on the measured amount of productivity.

(Personally I think HN is responsible. /jk)
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A dimmer is a superset, in functionality, of a binary switch. Using the Lutron app or something like Home Assistant, you can treat the device like a simple on/off and drive the device to only values of 0% or 100%.
If the deal is so awful for the merchants, they can choose not to accept AmEx cards at all. Nobody is "forced." Costco switched to Visa.
Just do Khan Academy for Math, they have very succinct and clear math education videos. IXL is also very good for practice.
Apple is adding better support for virtual environments running on the Mac. Not virtual macs running on other machines. That is all coming from the community.
I think Gotham's style is very oriented towards entertainment. I don't mean this as a criticism - he has successfully entertained a lot of people. But I feel like I learn more from ChessNetwork. The absolute peak for me are the recaps Peter Svidler used to record for Chess24, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlVjicymKI - I haven't seen such deep and insightful analysis of games anywhere else.
I'd say there is more competition, but on much more specialized platforms with different purposes and smaller user bases- MOOC sites, other types of online learning sites, remote workout class platforms, Patreon, etc. There is a good amount of that video content which could be hosted on YouTube, but would be less easily accessible or monetizeable if it was.
Part of the confusion may come from poor(?) naming. An irrational number is clearly understood as one that's not representable as a ratio of integers. Non-algebraic works for me, but is a bit of a mouthful.

This is much the same as we call non-composite numbers prime, i.e. numbers missing the property of being composable as a product. Explaining what a prime number is harder than explaining what a composite number is, because it's the negative space. Similarly a transcendental number is the negative space when you remove rational and algebraic numbers from the set of real (or complex) numbers. I don't know of a way to describe such a negative space in a direct/'positive' way.
This is evidence that YouTube breaks the user's trust.
I've always wanted a full text search engine akin to "sqlite".
Especially when it is a public square. Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively.

Unacceptable and despicable. It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve.

Fuck Twitter.
Lobsters are as smart as dogs and look like spiders.
Ive reached the same conclusion, with some additional ideas to why. In recent decades the availability of capital has increased dramatically. Low interest rates, spray and pray venture capitalists, creation of new dollars at a rapid rate.

The idea behind capitals returns were that it took great risk as capital is rare and hard to get. If capital becomes easier to get, that alters the risk/reward ratio. I think we are just watching the reward part shift to where it belongs in contrast to the lower risk.
It's annoying because many Affirm loans do indeed accept credit cards, but you don't know if it truly will until you have purchased it and set up AutoPay. It seems most pay in 4/small monthly payments will accept credit cards, but my Peloton loan does not allow it.
The Constitution prefers to call them a "well regulated Militia."

I don't understand why everyone is so concerned, this is exactly how the Founding Fathers intended America to work, is it not?
If too much contrast is a problem for someone, that should be solved on the client side. And arguably by the operating system not the web browser.
The people that you want to hear from are the developers of the games that Valve sells through Steam.

And you probably won't hear from them about their experience. And that might cause you to wonder why.
What on earth are you talking about?

This data indicates that with perfect compliance with mask wearing for less than 2 weeks, this pandemic would be as active as the first SARS pandemic.

That's always been the plan, but your attitude is why the plan is now "well, I guess we have to deal with this forever, because some folks just assume this is a horrible power grab and that we're Nazi's and not medical professionals who want them to not fucking die."

But sure, tell me an anecdote about how this isn't about masks, it's about how unnatural this is, this strange desire to not die of preventable illness.
Nope. I made the mistake of architecting my current project around Amplify. Deployment errors are thankfully rare these days, but things that should be easy are hard, and there are many seemingly obvious use cases that the Amplify CLI doesn't handle.
I really appreciate to not see the full solutions in the comments :-) Was a very nice puzzle and I would appreciate an article by the author on how it is exactly done and how he came up with the idea...

Thanks man.
> the price of everything

Heh, looks familiar. Usually goes between "Some people know..." and "...but the value of nothing".
Some are already hedging their bets. Linus Tech Tips, which is a pretty big channel to say the least, launched their own Floatplane service which they use to give exclusive access to paying subscribers. Like early viewing, live streaming and videos that don't even end up on YouTube. They offer it to other channels as well. As far as I'm aware, it has no discovery so far (you need to know a channel URL).

I wish Peertube or something would take off. The kind of centralization YouTube has isn't healthy, and it's easier and cheaper to host video now than ever since HTML5 video became a thing. If you're running a business, depending on the goodwill of a third party company's free offering (which costs them a fortune to run) is nonsensical.
What are you trying to suggest? It's just a typical reflexive reactive response to any comment that the government acts in ways other than presented to you by corporate media.

It only takes 3 minutes of google searches or even a daily scan of Hacker News to see endless examples of government corruption and malfeasance. Government employees are only human after all, and there are millions of them. To think this sort of activity ends once you become an agent of the government is absurd.
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
It seems HN automatically followed the redirect, the submitted URL was https://www.google.com/pdf/GoogleSearchGuide-front.pdf

There is also a second page, "Advanced Search Options", in a different PDF: https://www.google.com/pdf/GoogleSearchGuide-back.pdf
Very cool!
I found a TLA+ implementation of the problems https://github.com/cobusve/TLAPLUS_DeadlockEmpire that I've been meaning to look at more carefully for a while.
Same thing as Facebook/Instagram Reels, another attempt to blatantly clone a rival platform.
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Obviously they have value to the people making and viewing them. Entertainment and content do have value.
Which would also massively help with our population growth and funding entitlements problem.

We celebrate quickly giving citizenship to pro bball players (Enes Freedom, who btw I think he's awesome and congrats). But it's inaccessible for so many that would be net contributors to our country!

I firmly believe it's rooted in racism & the electoral benefits of Republicans rather than an actual policy/economic debate.

Doesn't help when one political party and their news media empire catastrophize and fear monger dangerous, gun toting, drug muling, cartel infested, caravans of chain migration invasions every October on the dot. But perhaps now I'm the one politicking ;)
Nick Craig-Wood (ncw) was the CEO of the last company I worked for, and I consider it a privilege to have worked for him. He's one of the smartest people I've ever met, and an incredibly nice person too. I have many fond memories of the annual staff barbecue in his garden.
Love this tool. Along with Golang's Excelize library I use it to build a bunch of tools
I adblock youtube now and I cancelled premium due to their censorship
Then it doesn't really sound like the world is missing much by not having that comment. Make a comment on HN like "Great thread!" and it'll drop like a stone. It's a useless comment. "Great thread/video! I really like ______" would at least tell someone why you think it is great and much more useful.
You live so close to a brewery that a trip to it doesn't count as a long commute?

Edit: I just checked the three breweries closest to me on Google maps... They just look like restaurant dining rooms? I don't know if people are comfortable with someone at another table talking to them in a restaurant.
Is sOpen.nextLine() after the close also a compile time error?
Some of the more well-known YouTube creators are also on

- Curiosity Stream/Nebula (Adam Neely, Mary Spender, Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank, Super Bunnyhop)

- LBRY/odysee (DistroTube)

- FloatPlane (Linus Tech Tips)

None of these has a nice recommender like YouTube, so you'll likely either have manual curation (Nebula, Floatplane) or drown in a sea of bad/uninteresting content (LBRY)
Video calls weren't banned, so it wasn't as bad as for people that nobody calls at all.
Yes, one of the advantage of language support is that "sOpen" will be consumed by the "close()" call and can't be reused. I don't think that's really possible in Java without an extra checker. But, it's usually not a problem in practice if the user sticks to using the API in a fluent manner.
Ruby is pretty good in this, but Python I'd heavily argue against. Maybe in another decade when they manage to restabilize what they wrought - it used to be easy.

Python gets more and more complex the further away the people running the tool are from fancy recentish distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch) or special constrained environments (Nix, running the CLI in docker). The moment you have to deal with unspecified RHEL version (6 is still reasonably common) or derivative, or Mac or Windows, kiss any expectation of python packaging being nice "bye bye".

Unless of course you have a platform team that can handle the packaging and distribution for you, but then it probably falls a bit under "constrained environment".
One should be superconfig. I get the chassis, motor, battery, and other (absolute) essentials, but the rest I can DIY to my heart's content. If I want to build a Mad Max cybertruck, I can do it without first having to chop shop a fully-equipped one. You won't even know it's a cyber truck underneath until you spot my solar panels. Kind of like GM sells fleet trucks. Just the basics; config as desired; priced to match. You want to get truck enthusiasts in on this game, and building another eF-150 ain't gunna cut it.
I am more than ready to degoogle myself, if only my pinephone were fully functional :/. I need a phone that can support ANY OS of my choosing, not the one the vendor provides/allows, I am a paying google customer, drive and youtube, the former mostly due to the music, I guess its time to go back to the good old days. ARRGH!!! ;)
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The US is going to get to a population of 333,333,333 people in short order. Is that not enough?

While importing cheap labour and working them hard is a road to prosperity - probably quite a good one for all involved - it is hard to see how there can be a pure labour shortage with that many people, that much wealth and that much history of advanced manufacturing.

There is probably an organisational problem here somewhere.
Nope. It's a tapered square. One of the few driver bits where you can put a screw on the end of drill, then hang/swing the drill from the screw alone. A slotted driver will not work, at all.

(I'm Canadian. Robertson is the most common driver type here, except for imported products.)
I have zero expectations about people's ability to take the right thing seriously.

You've made up your mind. You have complete confidence and conviction in the vaccine.

That's fine. I respect your right to choose based on your own risk tolerance.

So of course you and other fanatics won't take these points seriously, you think the alt premise is completely illegitimate.

It's a fool errand to try to change the mind of someone who's certain they can't be wrong, so I'm not going to try.

What I am trying to do is explain that after 2 years of worrying trends, events, and numerous unknowns.. it's reasonable to believe we're not getting the full story about the vaccine.

But you know what, I hope I'm wrong. Let's chat again in 5 years, and then we'll know for certain.
> mere money? talk about overlooking a piece of remarkable complexity

Wrong framing. "Mere money" because we virtually all have money, there are many ways to make it, and the possession of it does not encapsulate any skillset or knowledge; exchanging it for access to artifacts generated with a massive knowledge repository is like trading sand for glass.
The whole thing is a classic case of using averages to drive policy and action.

Your C student with an A doesn’t need your math class, they need an A.

The employer filters all non college graduates and then filters by GPA. With most employers, knowing what you are doing is not ranked 1st or 2nd. Price and qualification is up front.
> I don’t necessarily think there’s a right or wrong thing here.

Yeah, I feel like the giant, expensive Star Wars sets are for adults that don't intend to take their creations apart, and are actually concerned about keeping them whole while moving between apartments, condos, or homes. In that regard, I think this is kind of a feature for them.

Most parents are going to buy smaller sets throughout the year for their kids, budget permitting.
It's always great to see candid comments like these from the people involved. I appreciate you all and I know I'm not alone.
You must be very omniscient to be able to judge that her life was wasted. I pity others who are forced to go work outside the home, who have no choice due to lack of economic opportunities and are essentially forced to live as serfs. Somehow taking care of parents is a waste of life, but finding new ways to sling ads on the web (e.g. working at Google/Alphabet or Facebook/Meta) is not?

I have spent about a decade of my life being the primary caregiver for my aging parents so far; I'm in my mid 40's. And yes, I hope my kids do the same for me.

We don't outsource raising our children (homeschooling) or caring for our parents; having tutors, coaches, or domestic help is fine on occasion, but not wholesale replacement of family care.
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I'm sure he was conducting a lot of international policy initiatives in the months before his assassination
But a 45m technical interview is?
May I ask about your (and eunoia's) use case(s)?

Coincidentally, 2 hours ago I submitted Molecule.dev right here to HN (an hour before this AWS submission), a full-stack solution which aims to address all of the time consuming pain points of building (common functionality), maintaining, and releasing cross-platform apps.

It isn't a UI builder like AWS Amplify Studio, but I think we can do it better. We cover all of the most common use cases and are planning on adding more, all without any vendor lock-in or unnecessary convoluted abstractions.
Why not make this an opt-in feature? That way, big media companies with a YouTube presence who constantly have often post videos with high dislike ratios can hide the fact (although, we'll know this because of the hidden dislikes).

It's quite annoying when I'm looking at neutral, nonpolitical content, and I can't get a sense of whether or not other viewers hate it. I look at a decent amount of tutorial content for various things, and the like-dislike ratio is fairly indicative of whether or not the content is wrong or if I should even continue watching it.
They officially decided it was a mistake, as it did neither government any good to officially announce that it was intentional. But the sailors that were on the ship say otherwise.
Whenever anyone mentions anything interesting in a conversation with you, do you also ask them why they didn't monetize it instead?

Or is it some kind of sarcasm I'm not getting?
> It’s a competitive advantage

I've worked for a small company whose competitors were superior in every regard, except that all our customers could call us any time during business hours and almost immediately talk to someone who would legitimately try to help and have some idea of how the product worked internally. I suspect it was one of the few advantages keeping them in business.
> Bitcoin was engineered

To actually have wasting energy as the base of a system must be the very definition of shitty engineering.
Amplify constantly under delivers. Features are built only enough to make a demo. Now they say they can go from design tool to working app, where dozens of companies have failed over the last 25 years. Call me skeptical.
Much more likely is we increase automation in jobs that no one wants to do like burger flipper or artichoke picker. And this would be a huge productivity win. It also might be rough for society but for productivity it would be huge.
This seems inconsistent on the surface, but I think it is reasonable to want both. You can push for a more equitable world while recognizing that we currently live in a society that's pretty economically savage to some of its members, and it's understandable to want yourself and loved ones to not be the ones on the losing end of our society.
IMHO most of GOF design patterns can be seen through these lenses. Finding good names often result in finding the right metaphor/analogy.
A remarkable game between two well matched players. Very enjoyable.
Uganda used a US submarine to hack the US State Department?
Really, you’re objecting to rarity after the emphasis you presented? I went with 4 sigma because you claimed truly gifted kids would take care of themselves. As you note, you can’t get much more extreme than that. My point was to directly refute that specific claim of yours. The same principles absolutely apply for the one in a thousand, or one in a hundred, or one in twenty; they’re just proportionately less extreme for each.
> a household of 4 might use a dozen eggs per day

That's a lot!!! Even when I was raising chickens, we didn't get anywhere near those numbers: I gave away eggs like crazy.

Maybe it's a societal thing? Certain cultures use eggs a lot more than others?
Rclone is fantastic. It's much easier to use that most of the cloud storage APIs themselves.

Plus rclone makes it easy to migrate between providers. I just moved a backup process from Gcloud to B2 now my side business is growing up: you can start with whatever storage is free/convenient then switch to something more mature later with minimal effort.
To be fair, Blender is better than 99% of the projects I've ever seen, commercial or not. AND they are open source, AND they have a great community behind, AND they are also great at promotional bits like this page itself, AND they are being backed by large companies.

So IMHO it's one of the best executed desktop programs while also being in a massively difficult field, and they deserve the praise. In many places there are outliers like this; Stripe for Documentation, Wikipedia for encyclopedic knowledge, Google for search, etc.

The two main criticisms that I've found is that first the interface is very confusing (but this has been improved constantly in the last 5-10 years!). As a personal opinion, I believe this video was a big inflection point (Blender seemed stubborn before the video, but this video at the very least softened the opinion of Blender): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWacQrEcMHk

The second one is that it's not "industry standard", but as more and more people are using it for hobbies and indie projects, this will def change eventually, so I'm not too worried about that as well.
I like this idea. Using SVG on websites is quite fun to break the rigidness.

Text selection seems very wonky, sadly.
When people say "Lightweight alternative" most of the time they are implying less features also, they are not lightweight just because
Giordano Bruno said that whatever has the most value and least cost of storage becomes money.
> The results were staggering; the more prevalent the idea, in any academic field, the fewer women and people of color participating in that field. This outcome held across all thirty subjects in the study.

This is not evidence that natural talent is not needed, it is at best some evidence that minorities and women maybe don't think they have the requisite natural talent.

> Negative messages, either explicit (“I think you’d be happier if you didn’t take that hard mathematics class”) or implicit (“I’m just not a math person”), both imply that only some people can succeed.

To say the evidence for stereotype threat is "weak" is charitable at best [1], and multiple replication attempts have failed entirely.

Overall, the evidence that was cited is simply not sufficient to justify the principles you list.

[1] https://replicationindex.com/2017/04/07/hidden-figures-repli...
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