skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just look at well vaccinated populations like UK or Spain and then look at not well vaccinated like Bulgaria to see if it holds.

Unfortunately, in Bulgaria you see that the size of the deaths wave still follows the size of the infection wave.

The “no vulnerable people to die are left” hypothesis doesn’t hold. Those who survived survived because they were lucky, careful or vaccinated. It’s not true that the virus burned through the population and the remaining are the immune or resilient survivors.
humanity has a lot of experience building reliable one-offs, actually a lot more experience and a lot better experience than with modularity and bits and pieces.
I'm a software engineer by trade but every time I look into industry (ship building, skyscrapers, etc) you realize: that aphorism about software engineers, woodpeckers and civilization was absolutely right.
Instagram (Android) app crashes when you search “Covid”
Tried it on a pixel 4, latest update, and it closes for me too.
Depending on what your job role is, this last weekend probably sucked. But IMO it's also pretty typical that a few of these sorts of events happen every year.

Reminder that this exists: https://paulbellamy.com/vulnerability-name-generator
That's not the point neither I nor the poster above was making at all.
You understand that what you said is pure nonsense right?
Seems like the link ought to point here: https://impervious.com/beacon
"Massive" niche resurgences. Nothing remotely mainstream.
Yup, mine tilted it's head flapping it's ears. It was a real elephant and not a cartoon like Dumbo (I can "see" both). I'm not sure if that's an action I've seen before or what but I didn't seem to "request" that image from myself, it almost acted on it's own. Clearly it's in my mind, so I did it, but I didn't consciously try to do so. The mind is wild.
His major research focus is deep state and triggers for world war.

https://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
Except that interferometry at IR is still extremely hard.
> because it's infecting the previously infected and vaccinated who already have some degree of immunity.

The doctor isn't a psychic but how do _you_ know this
> For those who have already been vaccinated, a mild breakthrough infection would serve the same function as a booster shot.

Except booster shots don’t infect other people.
Actually legit medical exemptions are rare. Why can't we do mandates with exemptions (maybe an exemption card from a doctor)?
I don't know how true that is, Amazon often has a higher price than Walmart but still has higher sales online (online sellers use this a lot for arbitrage.) A lot of people don't "shop around" anymore, they go with the most convenient route. Price seekers are generally outliers in the vast consumer market nowadays.
If anyone else finds themselves in this position, don't ever entertain fixed-price bids unless you're absolutely desperate for work. Instead, insist on an hourly rate (at approximately 1.5x - 2.5x market value). You're essentially an expert consultant brought in to address a very specific need that the company has yet doesn't want to invest in mastering themselves.

Reframe a fixed price as "this will be X amount of hours". Invariably, nobody knows what kind of "gotchas" will be encountered during dev, and with fixed price, you're absorbing that risk yourself. As an hourly rate, that risk is borne by the client. This also applies to shifting scope; if the client shifts scope mid-way, they will bear that cost in an hourly setup instead of you.
Can you clarify/ expand on this idea?
They are asking for a timed exclusive on a product that isn't part of the contracted work. Timed exclusive release rights typically cost significantly more than straight-up contract work.
Your right on the pay thing.
General Relativity Withstands Double Pulsar's Scrutiny
I'd like a calculation that compares the carbon cost of building an airport and building, say, 500km of a high-speed rail line.

I love trains though; they are much easier in many regards, and give you more comfort or more chance to work while traveling than a plane.
Hex-rays is moving to a subscription model
Personally I wish we'd get beyond these low level abstractions by now. Machine learning is so wonderfully mathematical that making abstractions from the details should be incredibly easy and powerful. I can't believe like 8 years after the big ML wave e.g. frontend javascript developers aren't enjoying the fruits of these labors (despite there being no good reason for them not to be able to).
The Google one is restricted to a small subset of websites so it's useless for a generic search engine. https://developers.google.com/custom-search

The Bing one wants you to write Bing©®™ everywhere, requires you to track your user with their trackers, and forbids most features that would make an alternative search engine useful, such as sorting or filtering the results. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap...
Where do these crypto sites find themes for Dashboards and websites does anyone know. They are sleek as f*
Keras is wonderful. I can't understand whether your comment is in favor or against it. Either way, could you share why?
It was in response to a comment that stated the gist of Frankl's argument i.e. the change in outlook was a difference between persevering and perishing in the camps. The context is right there in the quotation.

To me, the idea that people died in concentration camps because they had bad attitudes is as nonsensical as suggesting gravity is a social construct. You might feel my dismissal needs more explanation. I respectfully disagree and this is a hill I'm willing to die on.
The government could stop signing free trade agreements with other countries that don't similarly protect the environment or populace.
"Everything seems pretty good so far"

There shortages of hospital beds across many states [0] If you want a full perspective on things, look further than your own state.

Unless you live in Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, North Dakota, or Montana then everything is not going very well. Most people don't live in these states, and many of the states with loose mask mandates are not in that short list. A small are just about holding their ground, but about 40 states have seen a >= 15% increase in infections just in the last two weeks, and one of the least restrictive states for mask mandates (Texas) has increased by 80%. [1]

[0] https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Looks very nice, but on Safari select box, checkboxes and radio buttons aren’t working as intended.
100% it wasn’t even worth the effort of asking for more. I’ve tried that, it’s just humiliating. Their offer was openly disrespectful. If more engineers were brave enough to walk away from abusive employers like this it would be a better and more equitable industry.
Happened for me too, Galaxy Note 9
Sorry about that! Should have used more clear language :)
This is real neat. However, I tend to use Cursive and REBL. I think that's some of the coolest development environment I ever used.

People who have not heard of the REBL, can check out this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52QhiXsmyI

> REBL is a graphical, interactive tool for browsing Clojure data.
So out of thousands of protesters, three were armed and none of which used their weapons during the supposed insurrection. As per your own definition, an insurrection is made "for the specific purpose of overthrowing the constituted government and seizing its powers". How does occupying the Capitol building translate into controlling the government? Are the military, the IRS, and all the other government institutions are just going to say, "Well, guess we're going to do what the shaman in the fur outfit says"?

I get that "there were no guns" is technically wrong, but ultimately you're demonstrating the above commenter's point. This mob at the capitol had zero chance of effecting any real political change, and had no real or tangible plan of seizing the government. It wasn't an insurrection any more than CHAZ was. Arguably the latter fits the bill even better: they drove out the government law enforcement, replaced it with their own security forces, and maintained independence for 3 weeks. The capitol rioters were driven out in 3 hours.
Any work day at Rayburn Building fits this description.
Use Yandex. It's all in Russian but it's... try it, and then try it some more.

I don't even find it inconvenient that I can't long-press and "search Yandex for this image" on my phone, the quality is sufficiently better enough that it's worth it to {go navigating through Recent/whatever|copy/paste the URL}
Did they also adjust for previous infection?
It's a game, not a model. Real mutations aren't directed or instantly spread to all infected people like in the game. Iirc people also don't get better once infected.
the Japanese have already handled this: $300 US

https://us.balmuda.com/collections/toaster
Honda charges $15, or your local dealership charges $15? Given cars are selling well above MSRP these days, I don't think manufacturers dictate fixed prices to dealerships.
Ebooks never gained the completely dominant position that digital photography and music did. And even those among us who prefer ebooks for fiction consisting of flowing text still prefer printed books for a lot of more reference-oriented or "coffee table" books.
I don't understand why the US doesn't try to make Central America at least moderately well-off instead of building a wall.

Here is another chance: put some of the manufacturing in Central America where costs are much lower and there's not much of a distance to market.
The Pfizer data on their new pill Paxlovid is very good. It's not emerging, it's here and will be available to people very soon. We will probably all get covid, wouldn't it be better if we all got it after treatments that cut deaths by 90% are widely available?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/14/does-pfizer...
Have you seen the charts for India?
It can be confusing.

For instance, when people speak about "the REPL" in the Clojure community they are talking about a live application thats is integrated with the editor like 99% of the time, they don't mean a command-line prompt. All Lisps use REPLs for interactive development in this manner.
Hey Artists -

Would you like to make even less money than you already do by splitting your rewards with every single person who looked at the thing you did?
> You’re assuming that everyone fully believes and supports anything in the party platform, especially the most extreme elements.

I think it doesn't matter what one personally believes if they're enabling a party/company/base that mostly campaigns and executes on items that are opposite of their views. Claiming that one is in favor of abortion until a certain limit, but then supporting a party that says none at all is the way to go is pretty off base, yeah?

Also, there's just so much trolling/conversing in bad faith that people don't want to waste their time because they feel it's difficult to have reasonable discourse.
I don't think that it is misleading. The severity of a disease is relative to the current situation.

For example, it could be the case that Omicron is actually less infectious than the original variant, when compared in the setting of 2020. It spreads faster today because, (i) because of preexisting immunity most cases are very mild, and so lots of people become unwitting carriers, (ii) people have gone back to normal behavior after vaccination, and (iii) the vaccines inhibit the other variants much more than Omnicron. So Omicron gets more opportunities to infect and spread. Of course, all this is just conjecture and could be true or false.

What matters from a practical point of view is that, Omnicron is less severe in the general population today(for various reasons), as compared to the original strain back in 2020.
I once made a website called bobswhitetrousers.com, absolutely noone ever visited.
Also keep in mind that contractor rates typically need to be 1.5-2.0x higher than salaried wages, since the contractor has to cover all healthcare+benefits themselves, plus whatever time it takes to find a next contract/gig/job when the current contract is over.
I’m smoking a wadded-up copy of that Rolling Stone article about gunshot victims waiting for the ER.
Easier to read format: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1470792736626331659.html

This quote from the thread is not accurate:

> "I own #Bitcoin because it's the one thing they can't manipulate or control."

Manipulating Bitcoin is certainly possible, even by non-state actors, e.g.,

How Much Would it Cost to 51% Attack Bitcoin? https://braiins.com/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-to-51-attack...

PoW 51% Attack Cost https://www.crypto51.app
It's also going out pretty far (the L2 Lagrange point on the other side of the moon), so they also won't be able to perform any manned post-launch repair missions like they did with Hubble.
IMO it’s a generally good mentality — the fact that dropbox is not that hard for your average programmer to replicate (by plumbing with existing tech) is exactly why you have so much variety in the software space.

Of course, turning a functional program into a function business is no simple feat, but no one should be looking at these things and thinking “it takes a genius with a once-in-a-lifetime idea” — because, well, it clearly doesn’t. And it’s really not the most incredible or innovative idea.

The intelligence was largely in transforming something you could do into something you could easily do — and identify that it has a potential for profit, and identify how to extract that profit, and executing on it long enough to achieve that profit.
Whether it happens spontaneously or is engineered love is best when it is mutual.

Suppose there is somebody who has turned their back on their past and their own values. If you can be the person who is doing what they secretly want to do they first are going to feel a bit envious, hostile, and threatened. This can later metamorphize into feelings of love.

Assuming you've picked the right "victim" for you, you are also going to find the subject is something that appeals to you and engages you emotionally. Assuming that happens you are going to transmit strong feelings, for the other person every encounter you have might seem like a scene from a movie because of this and it has a powerful effect. (e.g. the ideal person to seduce has the characteristics to seduce you.)

I developed a great deal of influence over that person but when my infatuation popped I wound up using that influence to prosecute a domestic gripe which is about as anti-seductive as it gets and that person panicked and ran off.

The Robert Greene book has a good explanation of how to operationalize this.
Sorry - you're right of course - I was just scrambling to reply to everyone and didn't mean to leave a misleading impression. I've edited my comment to be clearer now.
Fixed prices are always an incredibly bad idea, unless the price is based on your (possibly unique) expertise rather than time involved.

If you can bill $1M for a project because you're a worldwide expert, do so, otherwise bill by hour/day/week because you should already know that deadlines will be broken and the spec you are given when you sign has nothing to do with actually is required to ship the product.
Seems correct, so they became a hub by having 80 million citizens. Denmark have a population 14 times small, but the sales number for cargo bikes are only 4 times smaller and no subsidising.
How many different digital selves are we going to fracture? Ben seems to manage 6 different lives.

As a rule of thumb a manager can manage about 10 direct reports. Fewer if there is deep interaction and more if there is only a very light touch expected.

Other rules of thumb indicate the people may directly interact with around 100. Given that for some thing to become a registered club in Germany one needs 7 people which may well be sensible lower threshold for a long term social endeavor. Combined give a max of 13 social circles.

This thinking is reminiscent of Google Groups social circle thinking but on a heterogeneous technical and administrative foundation.
At a minimum, I got a good solid laugh out of this, and enjoyed the read. That helped distract me from the log4shell life.
But do they show how much mask mandates work in the real world, do they explain why Edinburgh and Glasgow are indistingishable from Mancehster and Birmingham in numbers of cases detected?
To me, this is a major dysfunction of the NASA model.

Why wasn't 5 Hubble telescopes launched? The marginal cost for the other 4 must have been vastly smaller than the first. Observation time on the original Hubble is still, after 30+ years a scarce resource. With 5 of them, we could have gotten vastly more science done at smaller cost.

I don't have a fully fleshed out theory for why, but part of it is that NASA as a government organization is ultimately a political endeavour, and it will have to optimize for what makes politicians look good in the press, rather than what gives the most science bang per buck.
Interesting then how quickly the label of vaccine on an experimental drug can skew how the whole world ends up labeling you.
I wonder if they differ in opinion with the fire departments in the other cities where this isn’t an issue?
They stole is ROOT credentials.

This is not about sneaky AWS, this is about a hack. There is not much you can do if someone gets root access to your system.

Setting up a billing alert to notify you your aggregate cost exceeds a certain limit takes about 90 seconds. I don't understand the overwhelming friction to the AWS billing tools in this thread.
I think the backlash against Google Glass might have subsided if it had been a useful device that was widely available. (Of course, the wide release version was on watches)

As it was, wearing a Google Glass was making several statements: I have acccess to this special thing; I'm going to wear this mostly useless object in a highly visible location on my body; and if actually using it in public, I don't care that having a one-sided conversation with a computer annoys those around me (kind of like talking on a phone/bluetooth headset, but worse). Maybe the camera was the anchor for the issue, but I don't think it was the real issue; I don't recall seeing articles about people being shunned for wearing the Snapchat camera glasses.
Google is engaging in anti-competitive practices. E.G. Some nature docs I purchased unfailingly have "licensing issues" on YouTube on FF, but magically work on Chrome.
I think i was buying refurbs then. as i recall the issue was with the controller boards. i know a bunch got used as cheap system/boot disks on alphas at CGI render farms, too: some of my stock came from surplus "Titanic" render nodes. I recall they had special cases for them; 24 pack pink foam crates. I had at least two of the crates...
Approaching full employment? Again? Take a quick gander at labor participation rates and rethink this prediction.
You would, therefore, not be useful on the project.

Anybody useful would be able to list dozens of debilitating problems to prevent before even starting research.
Vimcal
>"Actually you were banned because you spammed racial slurs in the game and told a teammate to kill themselves."

That's more than a lot of platforms give. The trend lately is to give no information about why other than pointing at a list of rules and picking one, so as not to "let bad actors game the system". Sure, then let's just get rid of the right to know which crimes the government may accuse you of committing, and just say "we determined you broke the law, you go to jail for X years, no we won't tell you what you did, if we did then criminals could find loopholes!" while happily jailing innocents.
How can a virus have a "strategy" when all which occurs are random mutations during replication? I wonder about this a lot.
There's already data that shows masks work.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...
On the contrary, while the market has improved labor participation is way way way below where it was before COVID hit. There is plenty of slack.
Totally agree! Always a cost/benefit analysis to consider, so it's nice to hear that it was worth it for someone who made the jump.
You are not looking at this from user perspective. It's very much a paper based flow for them. Where it wins is that it lets people forget about digital devices while creating their content while letting them choosing to share some of it online post that. There are magic notebooks, magic pens etc that use ocr to achieve the same but you still need to do the creation using those devices (which are at least twice the $99 price).

Because you are a developer, you are thinking in gpt/ocr/website building etc. Lot of people especially older generations eager to share stuff will find this useful if not amusing. For them its write something on paper and get a link back. Real users don't care about WordPress plugins.
Yeah. The author calls it out clearly; their COL being insane is on them.

This feels like publicly processing having too much going on at one point.

It’s hardly Analogues fault code hipsters must absolutely live in the most expensive urban area.

Analogue is learning too. They don’t see daily life through everyone’s specific lense.

Accept that if you want to be an ornate snowflake, it will take outsiders time to understand.
I don't recall reading that. Could you post some quotes to back your claim?
lol @ non-editable limits
> Gets me thinking tho: Why stop at 5.25in drives? Let's go back to washing machine sized units or even bigger. Let's stack platters so dense and heavy that we can use the spindle as a flywheel UPS system too.

Because modern 20TB hard drives already take like a full week to read from beginning to end (aka: time for a RAID6 rebuild), which is too long as it is.

The problem with hard drives is that they need "more read heads per byte" than the current technology. You can solve this by making more hard drives (ex: RAIDing together smaller drives, say 4x5TBs), so you have more read/write heads going over your data faster.

There's multi-actuator hard drives coming up (2 independent heads per drive), which will report themselves to the OS as basically 2-hard drives in one case. I think that's where the storage market needs to go.

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Tape is the king of density: having the most bytes of storage on the fewest number of read/write heads possible. But Hard Drives encroach upon that space, especially with like 20TBs on one read/write head.

> Or how about making a truly gigantic tape spool? Perhaps kevlar threads impregnated with iron could serve as "tape" and we could spin kilometers of that onto a spool.

There's no advantage to that. A stack of 300 LTO-tapes will practically use up the same amount of space as one-tape that's 300x longer. (Besides, LTO-8 tapes are 960 meters long, roughly 1km. The idea of pulling on a thing that's 300km long and hoping for it to not rip itself apart is... pretty crazy. There's definitely some physical constraints / practicality with regards to just material science: shear/stress kind of calculations)

The "jukebox" concept... really a tape-libraries (robot that picks tapes out of storage compartments and shoves them into the drive) is the ultimate solution to density.
Why would I want to run a whole web browser for shell access?

Hard pass.
My very first job was 'senior'.
Why Windows/macOS and not Linux for the test runners? Chrome/Firefox runs just fine on Linux, and then you don't have to pay for licenses. (I suppose if you get one of those resale agreements with MS you wouldn't have to either as long as you bill the customer, but as the customer I don't care about what OS the browser is running on.)
I'm uncertain if this is the one parent mentioned, but I found this guide with a quick search: https://artdepartmental.com/blog/architectural-lettering/
So cool! I'm a bit surprised they took the time to put it together, but I'm definitely not complaining! LOL