skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hasn’t it always been the case that younger people vaccinate to help keep the older protected?

No, polio for example.

> Also, you don’t need to die of Covid to be placed in a hospital. Fewer available beds affects everyone.

"Collective ownership and harm" is not an unrestricted pass for universal mandates. Everything is connected, every action you take affects someone else. Driving for example puts everyone at risk. Not just on the road but also carbon emissions. Where do we draw the line? Wherever the line is, it should be data driven. Just like mortality, hospitalizations are strongly skewed by age.

https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboa...

According to Ohio data, people under 50 (2/3 of the population) account for ~20% of covid-related hospitalizations.

Consider also the data towards the bottom: Total bed capacity.

Out of 100% capacity, 63% are non-covid patients, and 18% are covid related.

If we apply our 20% hospitalization rate to 18% covid beds, we get.. 4%.

4% of total beds will be occupied by people with covid under 50.

Is 4% the difference between collapse or not?

This number could double, or even triple, and we would still have over 10% of beds available.

There was a time and place when there was a real risk of disaster. We did our lockdowns, our social distancing, and we vaccinated a ton of people.

Now it's time to start thinking about moving past covid, and getting back to normal life.
Stephen King has some ideas in his 11/22/63 ;-)
I don't know why the wiki doesn't just say six million kilometers.
He was stowing away in the wheel well of the presidential limo. But he didn't fire the shot — he gave a secret sign to Oswald to proceed.
Work is generally a proxy for survival. Do you agree that you need to eat in order to survive?
Dumb question: Why is this a separate project, instead of being an improvement to the LLVM linker (given they have the same author)? Does this have any chance of being adopted by LLVM?
Crypto company Anchorage raises $350M at $3B valuation
> Your chance is higher the more un-vaxxed people around you.

People keep repeating that line, as if unvaccinated folks who have survived Covid present the same risk as those who have had neither. In fact, surviving Covid is more protective than the vaccine (studies have shown this).

Conflating unvaccinated Covid survivors with those who actually put the population at risk is at best disingenuous.

Classical epidemiology teaches us that everyone will eventually get Covid, just like everyone will eventually get influenza. Treating it like the plague (which it isn't) is creating a concentration of power among certain elites, which is never good for society.

> Vaccine mandates and masks aren't an infringement on your freedoms.

Masks aren't, but vaccine mandates and other regulations certainly can be, depending on how they are enforced. For example, restrictions on freedom of assembly (which is articulated in the bill of rights), including churches (who did sue in California and win on constitutional grounds).

> But we don't do that here, in the civilized world. We don't turn people away. Its inhumane to not help people and turn them away. Doctors take an oath to help all in need.

> It would solve the hospital problem to say "tough s*t if you get sick, did you try the vax?" but thats not a practical response. No politician or organization wants to take responsibility for that measure, and no doctor would turn away someone sick.

> I would MUCH rather wear a mask than have hospitals turn people away.

Great points, I appreciate your thoughts.
it's a shakedown, they are basically trying to pressure you into signing.
>The work may be less stimulating overall, but I think it's also less stressful.

I cannot speak for the OP, but my hesitancy around front-end web work is that browsers seem like a mess, so I worry that my trying to build a reliable front end would tend to be too stimulating and too stressful for me.
FWIW, I don’t believe this is what happened, but as I understand it the Secret Service agents had recently been issued a new carbine - an AR-15.

At any rate, George Hickey was the agent usually identified as the person who would have negligently discharged his rifle, and photos of the event clearly show him with an AR-15.

Allegedly, the Secret Service changed their procedures shortly thereafter to require their agents to carry with an empty chamber. I have no idea if that’s true.
Raspberry Pi does have guarantees, for example if you look at the Compute Module 4 page [1] it reads "Compute Module 4 will remain in production until at least January 2028".

Heck, even the 7-year-old Compute Module 1 will be in production until "at least January 2026". That's a 12-year product support lifecycle!

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/compute-module-4/
> Are you suggesting kids would be better off if schools didn’t exist with respect to lifetime earnings?

> Seems easy to prove wrong by trivially looking at high school dropout vs graduate incomes.

There is an implied statistical argument here that by plotting "did X drop out" on one axis and their future income on another, that a correlation would refute a statement that "Schools cause students to earn less".

Specifically, you would be:

1. Gathering many examples of individuals(a "population") with boolean "did they drop out?" V1, some income metric V2, maybe some others.
2. Comparing and aggregating V1 and V2 across the population
3. Using it to refute a statement S

That is a statistical argument for ~S because it involves comparing population aggregates. You may not have explicitly used the word "statistics" or realized you did it, but you made a statistical argument.
I think it is worthwhile to distinguish the two, and I think generally speaking it's the use of bespoke 0days that separates nation state attackers from all others.

One can't really arrange the funding of computer scientists/mathematicians working full-time on the thankless job of finding vulnerabilities without nation-state kind of money, as opposed to employing known vulnerabilities which carry lesser chance of success and greater chance of blowback in their execution.

Aftercall NSO is itself an IDF unit 8200 outfit.
You don't know what responsible oversight is. You don't even know what foundation does do or does not do.
Life is what happens when you're making other plans.

People are always spending today planning for tomorrow. Tomorrow then becomes today and the process repeats. People often forget you live your life today.
Then you assassinate the patsy so he can never tell anybody about his 'friends' who talked him into it.
Very, very cool. I've been needing something like this to help out a no-code friend.

Also I made a minor PR https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic/pull/25

Also did that from bed on my mobile while binge-watching TV. I like living here in the future
It's ok, we can just rebuild everything from scratch if we need to. We know we can cos we already do it every five years anyway without needing to
Very cool project!

It's interesting to see how different DNS providers cap the maximum TTL.

Google uses 21600s

Quad9 uses 43200s

Cloudflare does not cap at all!

And my personal unbound uses 86400s (which is the default)
Wait until you get to your 40s to appreciate other factors. "teachers, firefighters" enjoy:
* structured careers with well-defined benefits that they keep even after retirement
* accumulate experience that's valued by their employers all the way to retirement
* can find a job anywhere; don't need to emigrate/move to SFBA/NYC/London/Berlin, speak foreign languages, be surrounded by aliens from distant lands
* are respected for what they do

Software development is heavily skewed towards the young demographics. We just don't think about it when we are young and still in love with computers. In the immortal words quoted by Steve McConnell over 20 years ago: "Wanted: Young, skinny, wirey fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week."
Bear in mind it needs to take place in an environment where people trust each other and feel safe. Nothing kills the mood faster than someone saying something like "that's a stupid idea Steve, what's wrong with you?"

I definitely think remote group programming is possible, but I reckon it'd be really hard to get right _starting_ remote, and it'd never be quite as good as in person is.
Cornell University reports more than 900 Covid-19 cases this week
which is why I gave stats from the CDC
No. 13 in this list is absolutely true, but I’m not even sure that a mass casualty event would be enough. Year after year there are credit card / social security / customer data breaches, but companies have done the math on whether to put in place more upfront measures versus a cleanup afterwards. Same with performance - I used to go into companies to fix performance issues. Companies do not care if their staff has to wait minutes for that request to process. They don’t care if customers have to do stupid workarounds. Only when there is indisputable proof that (big) money is being lost will they bother to fix performance problems.
>It's possible German stocks are well priced, in a regulated, slow and rational market that cares about fitting the price with the value of the company

LOL, well regulated and rational my ass. The Deutsche Bank and Wirecard scandals (puls numerous more) proved the German government is just as corrupt when it comes to manipulating the market and threatening honest journalists, so that some rich and well connected scumbags can get even more obscenely rich. I've worked in several western countries but never saw more high-level corporate corruption than in Germany.
You spend so long researching this and learning about the CIA and Allan Dulles and Fair Play for Cuba, you kind of forget that some people still actually believe Lee Harvey Oswald was just some crazy guy acting alone.

Edit: I don't mean to be too snarky, I encourage anyone to do their own research. Its just with things like this... there are always few dozen "smaller" conspiracies attached or related to it, that I truly believe a rational person would easily accept: that the CIA, for example, used certain people as actors to help rally Cuba antagonism, that JFK was himself considered a threat by the establishment at the time, that the CIA has deep connections to crime (for practical purposes). All these things, are believable and motivated by real things, and fit reality better than the official narrative. I think it's understandable though, when confronted with the "big" conspiracy, to hesitate, to be like "Well c'mon lets not be crazy." But really, I implore the diligent, tell me how this thing is NOT the sum of its parts.
Didn't Juicero suck super hard though? Like it didn't function as advertised at all? If it was a proper industrial grade juicer for the home in the aesthetic of IKEA I'm sure they'd be OK now.
Yeah, the commenter is me and that is what I am saying.

Video can refer to non-digital media, see:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video

And even if it didn't, what did you think I meant? Do you think I believe that someone shot that on a smartphone? And how is that even relevant to the question? The question was if the OP thinks, that what we see was edited.

Are you mentally disabled or something? Then please keep out of my responses until you have taken your meds.
Great article, thanks.

Something that occurs to me- currently, the main way that countries with an excess of electricity export that excess is via smelting aluminum (Tiwai in NZ and Hafnarfjörður in Iceland, for example).

It looks like it costs about $1.5 billion and takes ~2 years to create a new large polysilicon plant. Perhaps we'll see some of these places with an excess of unrealized hydroelectric capacity moving towards polysilicon production rather than aluminum.

Looks like the polysilicon plant in Washington (also an area with a lot of hydro power) is being restarted: https://www.bernreuter.com/newsroom/polysilicon-news/article...
> ...the school has decided to shut down its Ithaca, New York, campus, where it has about 25,600 students.
LOKI: An open-source enterprise cloud to call your own
Interesting table. One more column would be great, though: number of flags for all these commands in Plan 9 or 9front.
No idea why you are getting downvoted, but I fully agree with that sentiment. There are already enough open source languages who seemingly want to be "everybody's darling" and implement any reasonably sensible feature request. One example: PHP's new "match" expression (https://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.match.php). Of course, I can understand that people like Go's more flexible "switch" better than the "traditional" C-style one, but if a language already has the traditional version, does it really have to add a new one which does mostly the same thing and in doing so cause headaches for thousands of developers who use classes or constants named "match"?
Moving Beyond the Programming Classics
What Matters About Matter, the New Smart Home Standard
>does not present a clear benefit

It sounds like youre operating from a premise of unnecessary doses being slightly bad, vs slightly good. Is there a clear benefit to not taking pascals wager?
It does not need /negative matter/ or energy, though.

What is needed, in the original, non-scammer-friendly version by Alcubierre is /something/ that can push spacetime in the opposite direction that mass and energy do.

At least the original Alcubierre solution, he basically lays out the mechanism and says, paraphrasing: "hey, the numbers do work out. We just need something that doesn't make sense, or something that makes /the thing/ happen"

We see then that, just as it happens with wormholes, one needs exotic matter to travel faster than the speed of light.

However, even if one believes that exotic matter is forbidden classically, it is well known that quantum field theory permits the existence ofregions with negative
energy densities in some special circumstances (as, for example, inthe Casimir effect [4]).

The need of exotic matter therefore doesn’t necessarily eliminate the possibility of using a spacetime distortion like the one described above for hyper-fast
interstellar travel.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0009013.pdf

The excitement here is partly due to the fact that this is both a trekkie thing and one that was previously not even supposed to numerically make sense.

It's likely this "not requiring any specific fringe-physics thing" is what is causing the idea to catch on and continue to be ellaborated, because having specificed this mechanics well enough, then maybe and only maybe it might be possible to cause at least an analogue of it to exist and that'd be awesome.
> https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/

Unless you are ready to update your web service config at least every year it is better to keep default SSL ciphers list. Manually configured N years ago cipher list does more harm than good. OpenSSL defaults are sensible if you use OpenSSL version which is not too old. And if OpenSSL has not been updated on your server for years you have much bigger problem.
I think it was a wrong move to brand TEDx after TED.

Back in 2012 I watched my first TED video about a guy teaching how to use a paper towel. I didn't realize that was TEDx and not TED, so I avoided all TED videos for several years, and surely missed worthwhile content.
Somebody needs to tell the troops it's over.
I'm not sure how "Dad sold his soul to work, regretted it forever, but couldn't change his ways" leads to the conclusion that "work/life balance should be difficult."

It's not really that hard, especially in STEM, where we tend to make more than enough money to meet basic needs. So, maximize your enjoyment, or your family's enjoyment. The equation is a bit different for everybody, but there's absolutely zero reason to work more than makes you happy and meets your needs.
The reality is that Earth like planets probably exist in great numbers, but we lack the technology to see them since they are small and relatively far from their host star.
DAX P/E at the end of 2020 was 27, while Apple's was 35.5. Higher, but not shockingly so.
They really hit their targets.
Nothing a good grep search can’t handle, or maybe fuzzy finder.
Very cool.

dig 'a test.hazel10.messwithdns.com' txt +short
"test"

If the owner of the site contacts me I'm happy to discuss...
nothing in that article needed deep learning (which isn't artificial intelligence); it could have been done by a semi-skilled artist.
> How is ... not lexical scoping? That's literally just how closures work under the hood.

In the presence of references in the language, these two cases may be observationally indistinguishable (maybe, I'm not a C++ guru?) but they're still different language features. Lexical scoping does not require taking a reference.

> And that's exactly why closures have to deal with references (or copies)

No, they don't. They deal with bindings. References are either an explicit thing you create (as in, int &b=a; or such), or a parameter passing mechanism...but a free variable is neither (it's not a parameter to the closure in any case), and it exists even in languages with no notion of references whatsoever, such as for example Scheme.

> I also don't understand why C++'s (or Rust's) closures would be 'fake'. If you capture by reference, they work exactly like the closures of other languages. Not having a GC just means you have to be wary of lifetimes.

Yeah, and that's at least one of the things that make it fake. Why would you have to be wary about lifetimes? Closures in languages that support them Just Work(TM).
Yeah I think the problem here is that modern "work" is too separated from survival.

This seems to be why a lot people feel much more fulfilled when then venture out into nature for a decent amount of time. The things they do there directly impact their survival. I agree that people do need work in that sense.
S3 is nothing like FTP? RDS stands for Relational Database Service. You have a valid point but picked the worst examples.
To be fair so wouldn't most humans!
>There becomes a point where if you don't want to implement the best idea we've got to address the problem

The assumption here is "something must be done". The fact is that liberty and safety are intrinsically at odds. If we're going to make progress, the question we have to face is how many rescued children is worth how many units of liberty. It's distasteful to present the issue so bluntly, but it's the implicit calculation we do in other cases, e.g. preventing child deaths in car accidents. We all implicitly agree that some amount of death and disfigurement of children is worth the economic and social benefits of cars. Similarly, how much liberty should we give up here?
You’ve described the Dunning-Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
Asmodee to Sell for €2.75B to Sweden's Embracer Group
The bullet is only "magic" if you assume the Governor's seat is directly in front of and at the same height as JFK's. It isn't.

If you model the actual position of everyone in the car at the moment of that shot, it's a straight line from the sniper's nest through all the wounds it caused

https://youtu.be/PfSXkfV_mhA
my dad is convinced that LBJ ordered the hit. I've never waded into the assassination conspiracy theories but he gets pretty animated about it.
Ask HN: User-configurable BI dashboards for document data stores?
It seems that most common BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker) require data to be in a relational model in order to have a good experience with the tool.

When Mongo is listed as a supported data store it appears to be via a relational wrapper service (https://docs.mongodb.com/bi-connector/current/).

Are there any dashboarding tools that offer good native support for data in a document store?
How we Expect the Unexpected in Kotlin
Filling out TPS reports is not a survival skill
Is it? I'm looking around my house right now and virtually everything is shoddy craftsmanship from people who were either being underpaid or just didn't give a shit. The cabinetry isn't level with the floor, the doors don't quite fit the door frame, there are paint stains on the outside of the 4th-floor windows, some of my GFCI outlets were installed with the wires connected upside down and my electricity is blowing fuses all the time, LED bulbs that are supposed to last years last weeks instead, my roof had exposed nails that eventually rotted through and created leaks.

Am I just supposed to build everything I own myself from scratch? I have a full-time job. I was also coming off three spine surgeries in the span of 16 months when I moved in and wasn't exactly in shape to build my own house.
In the car behind him - there's a 1992 book about this theory if you are curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Error
> advertising. I'm lucky if I can spot a new board discussed in a few sites, while every time a new PI is launched, the news resonates like someone set their feet on Mars.

That's not advertising, that's marketing and name recognition.
Mobile is relatively pleasant. iOS is nice.
Yes I don't know how someone figured out that if you cook pokeweed and change the water multiple times then you can finally eat it without it killing you.
> "We need work" is a social fact, nothing more, and it's only true as much as it's believed to be true.

Having gone through a handful of periods of a few months where I wasn’t working and was also not engaged in an existential struggle for survival, I have to disagree here.

Personally, I know that I need a focus for my intellectual life. It needn’t be employment, but “work” is a fair way to describe it. I can spend two or three weeks idling most of the time, but after that I need something to direct my energy and concentration toward. I need a goal that stretches my abilities, or I find myself constantly battling a depressive spiral.
> My father rushed over from his job at Philco (you can still see the building on 101 in Palo Alto). He took a couple of days to make the necessary arrangements, passed me off to my grandmother’s care, then went back to work. He had a deadline.

This story is a good reminder to me to continue to live within my means. In this situation, fuck deadlines! I'm taking my son to a ball game and helping him grieve the loss of his sister.

You deserved more OP, your father was a coward in this situation and failed to step up.
it goes beyond repairability though – look how much apple upcharges for SSD and RAM.

The majority of their profit margin comes from overpriced DRAM and flash storage:

RAM:

- 16GB -> 32GB: +$400 (+$75 retail)
- 16GB -> 64GB: +$800 (+$200 retail)

SSD:

- 512GB -> 1TB: +$200 (+$40 retail)
- 512GB -> 2TB: +$600 (+$150 retail)
- 512GB -> 4TB: +$1200 (+$350 retail)

Since you can't upgrade it yourself, buyers are paying more at point of purchase, and a high end machine depreciates significantly more over time. With something like framework, you can buy a base model and upgrade it as needed, and resell value of all models is higher because they can easily be repaired and upgraded.
Sure, but do you get to pretend your kitchen is clean at the same time?
A graphic showing this growth would be super interesting.
Lobotomising people would create a surge of labour for many tech corps..
A possible solution: less general javascript and more mircroformats with the executable code in the browser.

That way it should be possible to turn off a lot of that garbage that is generic JS. Of course, then the problems becomes website built to not work if you don't have that stuff. I suppose the solution is a protocol where it's not possible to know, i.e any server-side state is disallowed so that you cannot track id users have seen your ads OR the such a response cannot be proven.
LBJ got caught on a hot mic talking to Richard Russell saying he thought there was more than one shooter.