skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study from Israel has been widely debunked and has yet to be supported by anything else. It's mostly cited by Fox News as an excuse for anti-vax sentiment.
I have seen many people arguing for the vaccines as an effective treatment whilst defending people's choice to refuse the vaccine. Though I got vaccinated, I was surely forced to do so else I would've lost my job, but I delayed as much as I could. However, I was very clear to advise my parents (in their late 60s) to be the first in lie to take the vaccine because I knew the risks associated with COVID far outweighed any risk associated with the vaccine. And I know of many people with similar views, though they apply to a different age group, like many parents not wanting to vaccinate their children because they understand how rare of a event is death from covid for a healthy kid.
Love this solution. Make it tougher overall but the perceived impact is less. Ooof.
yah, it usually takes me 1-2 uses of any given atm to have the whole flow memorized for getting cash out, so that the next time i go, it's like speedrun time.

even at grocery self-checkout, the quirks of a given checkout machine get embedded in my brain so that i gravitate toward the quickest route through. produce lookup and weight vs. count are usually the biggest stumbling blocks. one nice trick is that the credit card terminal is independent from the checkout flow, so you can do those more-or-less in parallel towards the end.
I said "You know I'm over 60, right?" in a friendly and informative way in case that could be an issue. The correct response would have been your comment, but instead was a quick exit and putting me on the no call list. You may not age discriminate, but that doesn't mean everyone one at Meta (Facebook at the time) does not.

I was aware of Mark Zuckerberg's comment which is why I brought up my age.

“I want to stress the importance of being young and technical,” he said. “Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30? I don’t know. Young people just have simpler lives.” -- Mark Zuckerberg, Stanford University in 2007

https://www.quora.com/Is-that-true-that-Mark-Zuckerberg-dont...

Edit: I believe you when you say you don't age discriminate. That's because everyone is watching everyone else, including internal lawyers, to make sure you don't so as to avoid law suits. However, the person that called me was on a private phone call with me that wasn't being recorded, so they could get away with it.
As a non-American, the very idea of having to drive somewhere to physically deposit pieces of paper to transfer money around sounds absurd to the point of hilarity.
Git is the subject of the linked e-mail. Mercurial is the big contender to git that is not written in a C language. Their response to Hg's performance issues was not to use or create some Python feature that allows them to speed up some fast paths, but to use a proper low level language in the first place, which happens to be Rust. I'm not sure you can get more relevant to the discussion than this.

The trend seems to go away from high level languages in the VCS space. Developer time is one of the most expensive resources that FANG pays for, so any kind investment in performance improvements is going to pay off quite well.
With infinite time and infinite skill in both languages, sure. But nobody lives in that world.
But...since Java was(maybe still is) written in C, one could literally write the Java runtime and do the exact same things...in C.

I know it's a pedantic point, but one I stand by...that there's literally nothing Java can do that C cannot because C can write Java!
>It will take us decades to understand the effects.

No it will take time to characterize the effects. Today we know exactly how and why it was designed.
Wait a second. You went from one dataset to another. You can't do that without re-doing the entire analysis.

According to the dataset you are citing, the rate of myocarditis for 18-29 yo. is 129 per million, which is 0.0129%.

COVID hospitalization rates are 0.4%.

So with that dataset instead of this one, you run as 40x higher chance to be hospitalized from COVID than from vaccine-related myocarditis.

And it is quite likely that comorbities have an effect in vaccine-related myocarditis hospitalizations.
And by comparison, a nice gas range is significantly superior to all of the electric cooktops I've ever used. By nice gas range, I mean one of the 6-burner types on one side, griddle on the other, and double side by side ovens. I'd happily electrify the rest of the building if it was economical to do so (it's still not in many places), but having gas for cooking is the one hard, non-negotiable feature I have in a property.

I suspect the average lawmaker does not take cooking seriously, which I think is fairly sad.
I'm not sure how valid this comparison is, but PyPy (written in Python) is well known for being a much faster implementation of Python than the main implementation (written in C).

https://speed.pypy.org
Why would you try to waste the time of someone who has murderous intent? I think you might have lost the plot a little bit.
The problem in America is that the other side really doesn’t believe in American values, but instead wants to take away our constitutional freedoms. They preach a hypocritical sense of morality while inflicting violence on those who cannot defend themselves. They use gerrymandering and political tricks to hold on to power, even when most people hate what they’re doing. Because of their incompetence, we’ve become a laughingstock on the world stage. And their response to the coronavirus could not be more misguided or dangerous.

And almost all Americans agree with this, because I didn’t actually name a political party. If there’s one thing that brings Americans together, it’s knowing that the other half is pure evil.
There are approximately zero codebases of nontrivial size that are written in memory unsafe languages and free of serious security holes that would be impossible in safer languages. That is pretty good evidence that the measures you suggest are not very effective.
Alternatively you can leave your phone on Amtrak and go home for 3 days!
Quick accelerate for family car is not needed but for bus is helpful to reduce traffic jam. I wish buses have at least hybrid powertrain.
Not really sure I’d call Larrin “someone off the street.” They guy literally wrote the book on modern knife metallurgy and has a PhD in the science.
https://www.amazon.com/Knife-Engineering-Steel-Treating-Geom...

He also has a well known website and is considered one of the worlds leading experts on knife steels and knife craft.
This view is a little myopic. American Airlines just took on an additional $10B in debt. Guess what it was backed by? (answer: their loyalty program). The value of an enterprise takes assets *and* liabilities into account.
We were banned for encouraging users to fight terrorism

https://www.appunwrapper.com/2019/07/03/apple-rejects-nsa-in...
I'm surprised you chose to shelve the project after looking at Svelte, as it's by far the simplest framework compared to its contemporaries (React, Vue et al.)

For example, here is a fully functional Svelte component:

```
<h1>Hello world!</h1>
```

And here's another one that adds a bit of design:

```
<h1>Hello world!</h1>

<style>
h1 {
color: red;
}
</style>
```

I wouldn't call it particularly hard!
Best example ever is Haiti.
Modifying memory on the heap in multiple threads without a mutex, from one pointer.

Why anyone would want that on purpose, I don't know.
Maybe because not everyone has the option to get vaccinated yet.
There are other far more important priorities!!
Theoretical max performance is different from actual performance - and since all code on a given machine ends up in machine code all languages are the same speed - which is obviously false.
I’ve read that gas cooking produces about twice as much PM2.5 as electric cooking.

Some of that can probably be mitigated with good fume extraction, but it’s a consideration.
Yes.

I know that the N stands for non-deterministic. Read my comment carefully, it agrees with everything you write here. (Or at least, does not disagree. It's silent on most of the intricacies.)

For many people moving a problem from NP to P means the same as having a tractable solution. See eg Scott Aaronson's writing on the topic.
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
The optics on this seem to indicate that it is just a lateral flow test of some kind.

It's not even different. Instead of having to interpret a couple lines you have software interpret the strip and tell you over bt on your phone. So much tech for so little.
There are 3 ways to intercept HTTPS transparently (without a big SSL warning):

1. Put the intercepting SSL cert root in your local trusted store. This is how it is done in enterprise. The certificate is typically pushed through an MDM installed on each computer/phone. This is also how Fiddler works.
This requires administrative access to your device to push the certificate root as trusted.

2. Create a rogue certificate from an existing trusted certificate registrar. This is why is a risk with nations like China where "private" SSL registars mybe forced to issue certificates for Google or other sites to the government.
This was supposed to be fixed with Certificate pinning (now deprecated), and now with certificate transparency log. But the later has a few weaknesses in practice:
- rarely set as enforced by the websites, or set at at all
- requires each company to monitor the transparency log and get rogue certificate canceled. I don't know of any company which actually does that.

3. Interception inside the browser through an extension or plugin, or plain process hijack. Since the browser does the HTTPS encryption/decryption, an application taht runs inside the browser with the right access can see all decrypted traffic.
Is there a term for this phenomena yet?
"if another language is being discussed, Rust must be forced into the discussion, no matter how tenuous the connection"

Rustrusion
edit: was wrong about the test price. It should be $38.99 / ea test.
Which is why I explicitly didn't write "Rust" is my comment.
My word had a repeated letter, which doesn’t feel sporting.
Same here, can't stand a website that isn't aware of tab navigation. How else are you supposed to quickly navigate any UI without the rat ?
AWS is based in Seattle and WA does have non competes so almost every tech company there will try to have you sign one. One of the reasons why Seattle will never become a real tech hub. And I’ve never seen any stipulations of payment while non compete is pending for engineering roles
If you really believed that argument you wouldn't write C, because it's slower than assembly.

Do you actually write C programs that profile themselves and tune their code according to the input data? If not, then the fact that it's theoretically possible to do that seems pretty irrelevant.
A technical solution could help:

Make it easy to set up things so that by default whatever message you send after reasonable office hours only gets delivered in the morning.
I used generators with return values once when writing a lexer. I had generators for each of a bunch of different states of the lexer (e.g. skipping over whitespace, reading a numeric literal, reading a string literal, etc.). Each generator would yielded the tokens that it could and then either return one of the other generators (if a state transition was required) or None (if it reached the end of the input and the state was one where this wasn't an error condition). The whole thing was tied together with this function:

def lex(src):
state = skip_whitespace

while state is not None:
state = yield from state()

It wasn't particularly essential to use the return value from the generator here, as I could have just made the state variable available in the scope of the state functions for them to mutate, but this seemed like a cleaner way to do it as it enforced the idea that each new state corresponded to a new function.
I'd recommend a project from work, Geostore[1]. Highlights:

- 100% test coverage (with some typical exceptions like `if __name__ == "__main__":` blocks)

- Randomises test sequence and inputs reproducibly

- Passes Pylint with max McCabe complexity of 6

- Passes `mypy --strict`

- Formatted using Black and isort

[1] https://github.com/linz/geostore
Well, if JGit really is 2x slower than C git as claimed, then there's a bottleneck somewhere and it's not the filesystem.
Arguably, carcinization [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
group think exists because the average person has the average opinions. the more people that are in a sample, the more that sample's thinking will skew toward the average.

if you don't like group think, avoid popular websites like this one and stick to smaller, more like minded communities
This is relying on something akin to a free market for laws: immigrate to a place which has better designed laws. I find it way too simplistic for real life. Network effects and other cost of switching can sustain bad regimes for quite a while. This applies as much to people immigrating across national boundaries, to religions imposing death penalty for apostasy to musicians being forced to be present on Spotify despite its terrible economics.

Should constitutional amendments be outlawed - just because people are "free" to immigrate if they don't like it?
I thought I recognized your name from the side hustle story. :) This is super cool!!!
Well, I think all language x is faster than language y statements are pretty dumb, if I didn't make that clear.

However, I would also argue that C cannot be faster than ASM, if that's what you're asking.

And yes, I agree it's pretty irrelevant.
We don't _need_ a law. Politicians just want to be seen doing something, and people like to see them do something.

It's just more bureaucracy and fodder for the compliance department.
I know that site has a copy of all the CA certificates. I'm saying it's not the authoritative copy of them. If someone hacked into that and added a rogue CA, your browser wouldn't magically start trusting it.
Slightly going on a tangent here but how does one even approach the HR which has suddenly ghosted you after multiple rounds of what looked like good interviews and what looked like a good match? I guess I’m not really looking for an answer here but some parallel experiences perhaps if you can share.
Does Africa have a shortage of vaccines or a lack of distribution infrastructure? If we dropped a billion doses into the continent today, how many people would actually get them?
Send me an email at jobs [at] dailyedit [dotcom]

We're a Rust shop doing something interesting with NLP and web.
What stops you from doing this in Rust?
Using Differentiable Rendering (reconstructing scene setup parameter(s) from an image), possibly, although it would depend on the number of unknown params.

Mitsuba2 had an example of matching caustic patterns by modifying geometry I think...
So many great recollections playing this on MS DOS. The thrill I would feel finding obsidian items!

Makes me wonder whether a world in which those items can be carried from one meta world to another, through web3/MetaMask type wallets, is desirable. Should my hard-earned obsidian items retain some sort of secondary-market value, much like vintage Magic cards? I did work hard as heck to find them back in the day :)
It's something that streamers themselves have to do, and most don't. If the streamer doesn't separate out the audio from their mic vs the background music, then there is nothing that Twitch or anybody else can do. Separating two audio tracks that have been flattened into one (and then compressed to hell) is like trying to unmix paint.
It's a post from the same Twitter user that posted this teardown.
It's really hard to know whether your even being entirely serious, but just in case:

That piece of the IPCC report that article is cherry picking is a.) a bit out of date now and b.) assuming a warming of 2C which we've already given up on, at least according to the more recent report which framed our current condition as a "code red"[0], though I find it very hard to believe that you missed that press release this some.

And to be clear, existential risk doesn't mean I'm claiming "we're going extinct!" it means that that lies in the realm of realistic possibility. The IPCC reports are well acknowledged to be fairly conservative and fail to incorporate a lot of unknowns (Thwaite's glacier is an obvious example of this).

One example of evidence for extinction risk is work of paleontologist Peter Ward. Ward's "Under a Green Sky" is his popular science version of some of his work (and worth a read). Ward discovered that quite a few major extinction events in the past have been connected with sudden rise in atmospheric CO2 and rapid climate change. He makes well reasoned arguments about how quickly conditions can change and how that could easily lead to massive extinction events (we're already in the 6th largest extinction event right now, which again, I'm sure you know).

The main issue with climate change is there are many positive (and of course some negative, but we don't quite now the balance) feed backs that we don't understand. It is quite possible that enough of these trigger and all of our "worst case" projects turn out to be quite optimistic.

0. https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097362
So my followup question is: I have a few of these, can I do anything with them once I'm done with the test? Hook up to the headers and reprogram? What about the Binax test? Or any of the other "connected" ones?
Widely debunked? I've missed that. Care to share some papers/analyses?
> My original plan was to have a textual description of the algorithm since any choice of programming language or binary format might not be usable in 50-100 years time.

I think any description of the algorithm at all would be better than the current "go to the website and download the latest version" situation. It should be enough to say which algorithms you use and the order. It looks like you've picked common enough ones that they shouldn't be lost to history.

> Another thing to deal with is what if QR codes are no longer used in 50 years time?

I'd imagine that many hundreds of years from now there will still be enough artifacts with QR codes on them that some historian will know what they are and how to decode them. They're far too common to be so easily forgotten, I think.

Maybe down the road instead of hiring a locksmith to crack your grandpa's safe, you'll hire a cryptosmith to crack into their paper wallet.
Considering the needs of the market are vast and varied it makes sense that there are so many distros.
It's like saying you don't need to wash your hands because the food is cooked and hot.
Whoa, I hadn't seen this before. Thanks for posting it. That's a lot of views.
I love Feynman and have read the books since I was a kid. Lately though I think a lot about this:

> As a rule:

> If someone uses a lot of acronyms, complexity, and jargon to explain something to you, they probably don’t understand it.

This is really common in write-ups about Feynman and his "use an example I can understand," in which he asks for a comparison to an orange or something.

I've found a lot of exceptions to this concept over the years, especially if it's used to gauge someone's expertise or competence. It could easily lead to this fallacy of "I couldn't understand your explanation, therefore you're wrong."

And IMO one of the simplest case examples is this: When the expert has no interest in getting you to understand the thing (corollary: And may benefit from a situation in which you respect how deep and complex it goes...), that is one situation when someone who really understands a thing deeply may--consciously or unconsciously--not explain that thing to you in a way you can understand.

Could be motivated by a simple "nope, not interested in summing up for you"; could be more complex. But those situations are really common.

In addition, there's another angle: People who understand a thing tend to be able to create more models to explain it. Or at least they have more opportunities to do so, as new cases and relations unfold within their understanding. This will also naturally raise a certain sense of modeling-conflict. Maybe instead of using a car, they could compare their thing to a relationship, or to a dream, or a hot dog, and more.

It's a good thing, IMO, because different models yield different types of leverage. But it also may compromise the ability to simply explain a thing, especially insofar as one may have a vested interest or alternately a disincentive in being understood.

Finally I'd add that in studying personality differentials in learning, I found that there are people who get enraged when things are explained logically, because it takes too long and they're in a hurry; they can pick up a lot through imagery and the intuition. But at the same time there are people who will become enraged when there is no deep logic to follow, and ask why the given, simple model has all these easily-spotted flaws (all models are broken). So depending on your audience, it may not matter how you chose to explain the thing. With any given approach you may have somebody wondering about your expertise.
Not a flaw in Java, a flaw in a specific overengineered logging framework. Relevantly, not a flaw that applies to JGit.
What Byzantine Literature can tell us about Fanfiction
Induction has huge advantages over gas, I’m seeing it increasingly used in newer high end homes. Gas wins out on lower end luxury builds given that a gas stove is much cheaper than an induction stove.
I'm calling BS on this one, don't agree.
That's no better, at least in my part of the world. Reservation = booking.
Sorry, I stepped out to see the new Matrix film. I like the method of Murray Carter. He put out a DVD on blade sharpening, but has since released the entire thing on YouTube[1]. I have modified it a bit over time. I free-hand sharpen, but am not that great. You really only need a three-stone setup (coarse, medium, and fine) and a leather strop with diamond spray/paste. While diamonds or CBN are only really required for certain steels, I find diamonds to work wonders on a strop. You can get some quality stropping compound for cheap. I wouldn't worry about buying all of that at once though.

There are so many different methods and tools you can use. I say find a well regarded technique and stick with it. Sharpening takes time. Sharpening can be distilled down to forming an apex and removing the burr. It doesn't matter if you use soaking stones, a fixed-angle sharpener, splash and go stones, sharpen with both hands, etc. You need to build muscle memory so there is as little change in angle as you sharpen. That will develop the apex. Then you need to remove the burr. You'll use different strokes, different pressure, and different tools. Focus more on the technique and worry less about the tools. Maybe Murray Carter doesn't appeal to you. Take a look at Big Brown Bear and Michael Christy (also on YouTube). Find a method that makes sense to you and practice a lot. Start with a simple technique with fewer grit jumps. You can add complexity over time.

The best thing I got was a jeweler's loupe. You need to understand what you are doing (or not doing) at the apex to improve. Take your time and evaluate your work often. Even an inexpensive USB microscope is helpful.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3IcKUtp8U
Perhaps we would be more in agreement if "saturated" was replaced with dispersed or diffused?
Any chance I can reuse one of these boards given that I have a few of these test kits? Or are the tools so bad that it's not worth it?
Peloton doesn't claim to make a profit, but expectations of "profits" are the expectations of "investors", where early "investors" extract gains on their investment from new money coming in from later "investors".

Just because a scheme is legal under current laws does not mean it is not a Ponzi or Ponzi-adjacent.