skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very large, six-year study in US Veterans Administration patients (N = tens of thousands), published in April, has shown that having had a recent Tdap vaccine predicts a 40% decrease in risk of dementia.

It is hard to imagine a confounder with such an effect size. (I got my Tdap booster right away, because why not?) The result was so surprising that a completely independent cohort was checked and showed an effect of the same size.

No one knows yet which component of the Tdap vaccine administered is responsible for the result.

The Viagra effect size reported was 60%. I doubt aspirin would show 60% against headache. (Unrelated, Viagra sometimes causes headache :)
good reminder, sometimes we introduce too much tech that not necessarily plays well with the environment
But the attention economy demands otherwise. Most people will click it out of being dopamined into caring for 3 seconds.
I really, genuinely don't get the appeal. I don't follow the "less code = better" ideology so maybe that's a contributor but I really don't see how this:

class Person:
def __init__(self, name, age):
self.name = name
self.age = age

is any worse than this:

@dataclass
class Person:
name: str
age: int

I'm not writing an eq method or a repr method in most cases, so it just doesn't add much for the cost.
I definitely agree that within democratic states, people will generally see and enjoy a relatively open and democratic Internet, reflective of their nation's laws and values. However, I suspect you'll find much more inspection going in and out of national borders. You'll see stricter laws about hosting data in the country you're operating in, and more servers will blanket ban access from outside of their intended service area.

Consider that if my site serves a local area only, I eliminate a very large portion of potential attackers by simply dropping all traffic not originating from an IP in my country of origin. So if I don't believe there's value to leaving that open... it's honestly silly to do so.
If you don’t want to wait, Marquez said that he thought Rabassa’s translation was better than the original!
Sure. I totally get how this looks, given the headlines. But it makes no sense to me. Tesla has no financial reason to allow drivers to trick the car into loading a game by falsely clicking the “Passenger” button. On the contrary. If a customer does this and crashes the car while playing a game, it would cause a lot of bad press for Tesla. Locking games would be the easier path for Tesla. Limiting Autopilot speed to the exact speed limit of the road would also be the easier path for Tesla. Heck, not publicly striving for FSD and getting “egg on their face” when it takes longer than expected would be the easier path for Tesla.

Why are they not doing the easier thing?
Okay, let’s work with that.

Do you also apply that logic to Sikh turbans (dastar)? In other words, do you believe that forbidding Sikhs from covering their hair is not religious persecution? How do you think Sikhs would react to that?

Edit: Or wait, I might have misunderstood: do you actually think that a hijab is equivalent to a generic headscarf? If so, it is not - please read a bit about it before commenting further.
Patagonia. Money-back guarantee, super high quality. Completely committed to the environment.

Certain publications (Economist) and Substacks.
It's another example of cyberspace is becoming more like meatspace.
If you use the runtime type validators along with the python builtin type hints you constantly repeat yourself:

id: UUID = attr.ib(validator=instance_of(UUID), …other parameters)

The type hint helps mypy and pylint work, while the validator is a runtime check by Attrs

If your attribute name is longer or you have other parameters to set, that can be a very long line (or lines) of code that you repeat for every attribute
> We have vaccines that work for a limited time

This is flat out FALSE.

There are two different possible endpoints for vaccine efficacy. One is efficacy against infection, one is efficacy against severe disease and death.

Efficacy against infection is very difficult because it is mediated by circulating neutralizing antibodies. It is just difficult to get sterilizing immunity against a muscosally invading respiratory virus in the first place. And then neutralizing antibodies wane over time.

Efficacy against severe disease is almost certainly going to be more durable because it is mediated by memory T-cell and B-cells having been already formed due to prior exposure to a related antigen.

Unfortunately the result of the phase 3 trails on the mRNA vaccines were way too good on VE against infection and it was sold as being 90% effective and as that waned people declared them to be ineffective. That should never have been the yardstick though. And in fact before those results were announced Fauci was trying to condition the population to expecting a 50% VE against infection number as being good enough. The 90% efficacy results just blew that all away though.

What gets lost is that they're still >90% effective against severe disease/death and nothing has changed there. And you can see it in the headlines with Omicron. It is almost still certainly as intrinsically virulent as D614G, if not actually more intrinsically virulent than Delta itself, but hospitalization rates and death rates are plummeting. That is the human humoral immune system working.

I'd argue everyone should probably get boosted because of the maturation in immune response which is measured against Omicron. Once we're done with that though I fully expect that people can stop getting any future vaccines and they'll just get a cold next time they catch SARS-CoV-2 until they wind up being over 65 or a cancer patient or something -- just like every other ILI-causing virus.

(Or you know keep getting boosters like you get flu shots -- I'm honestly not sure what I'll do about it, but its going to look a whole lot more like yearly flu shots than the world-record mass immunization campaign we've seen up until now).
That's defamation. Already covered.
I was watching a documentary about James Webb and they claimed that NASA has plans of using unmanned robots to potentially refuel it but no mention of fixing.
Jetbrains IDEs (Rider for me) and the Xbox Game Pass have already been mentioned here, they are totally worth the money.

Hetzner is my favourite VPS provider. Performance and great quality of service for a little price, I've never looked back since I switched from OVH to them a few years ago.

I also use Hetzner for my NextCloud instance[0]. Price for storage is worth it, you own your own data, and it removes the hassle of maintaining your NextCloud yourself.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
Imagine a world where everyone speaks only the language of the country where they were born, and doesn't learn any foreign languagues.

On your other point - is browsing HN the most economic and effective way to spend your time? I think learning a language or studying physics would be more useful. Do you not waste time browsing internet, watching Netflix, playing games?
What I’d like in a search engine? I’d like existing engines to be sources / indexes, upon which I’d add collaborative curation.

I think uBlacklist is a good implementation.

Braves proposed “goggles” is better, but as yet I don’t believe there are any implementations of it. [2]

[1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

[2] https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf
There’s also the fact that sometimes you need an actual tuple - in some places (C extensions like numpy, opencv, …) and a dataclass just doesn’t work.
VSCode has also the problem that sometimes plugins work, and sometimes they just don't. Live Share for example logs me out at random times, cannot connect, or cannot find files on the remote computer. The same kind of inconsistencies appear in the Angular plugin which sometimes finds definitions, sometimes it doesn't; it's basically roulette if I can use the jump to definition or find references functions today.

With JetBrains' products I get everything out of one hand and it just works. The IDE gets out of my way and I can focus on developing. If something doesn't work I can create an issue and it will be taken seriously.
Wow, that is quite bizarre. I hadn't noticed the comment due to my browser extensions.
I was hoping to see a collection of texts like the story of mel[1], but I think it's lovely that someone has collected sacred texts on the internet. I also think it would be fun to collect the texts "sacred" to the internet.

[1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Thanks. :) This comment is my payout for all that hard work!
There's also YouTube Vanced
Meditation works for them but they have to overcome many obstacles before seeing even the slightest sliver of success. The brain is manipulated into a very agitated state due to constant engagement.

24/7-be-ready on your phone with 35 TikTok videos followed by WhatsApp messages and then 3 emails from your boss after 8pm.

You have to overcome this shit to even just reach the starting point of people who tried meditation a few decades ago.
That's not entirely within their control though. They provide a platform for people to host things. If someone pays you to talk about their product, no one will stop you unless the thing you're selling is against their ToS.
Add the large numbers of Left and Right politicians (both Labour and Liberal) happy to sell their soul and lawmaking abilities for corrupt bags of dirty money from Chinese Communist Party / Mining / Gambling / Property Developers.

Vote all these old geezers out! The major political parties in Australia are by and large a cesspit of spineless sellouts.

Vote for the smaller independent parties, especially those with younger candidates.

Drew Pavlou's party for example (with some Uyghur-Australians).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-15/drew-pavlou-democrati...

Donate funds to these truth seekers if you can...
Event Horizon
by John Micheal Godier
I am currently working through this book, transcribing as I go along, inspired from the Dowling Method (kinda similar feel to "Learn Python the Hard Way"). Highly, highly, highly recommend.

https://www.wcdrutgers.net/Latin.htm
Yep! And to your door delivery, free.

As others pointed out, they require a minimum purchase volume typically.

We had one guy who wasn't a business per se, but we made him an account because he spent so much money. He was an enthusiast who was always working on other people's cars. We didn't deliver to him, though.
It amazes me that someone who clearly doesn't like IDEs thinks their opinion is worth anything in a comment thread about IDE usage.
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> All translations are biased by the translator; there is no such thing as a translation that "transparently" conveys the meaning of the original

All software has bugs, but not all software is equally buggy. The same goes for translations and bias, humans and honesty, etc.

This is a (common) misinunderstanding of post-modernism. The idea isn't that you should take off your critical thinking cap and dismiss everything but that you should put it on - you don't get to take it off, ever - and make judgements about the varying qualities of (the translation), while being aware of your own bias. Like software developers, we are flawed beings using flawed tools to make flawed code, but that doesn't make us powerless to do better - we still can do incredible things.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-10-29-oculus-pla...
Guess you don’t compile while on battery either then?

Not trying to be flippant; but our jobs necessitate a lot of power consumption.
I just need to be reachable from work and for emergencies during the day, so I am set up to recieve notifications from what could be urgent: SMS, calls, emails, and calendar reminders. Everything else gets the banhammer if it bothers me.
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I guess it's arguable what the actual whole truth is in Afghanistan, but a lot of writing on it paints the Afghan troops themselves as being unprepared to defend themselves and in many cases unreliable. We were ostensibly trying to help organize and train them, but just being there doesn't mean people will be inspired to take the risks and do the job.

It's also not the first time a highly motivated group of rebels won a guerrilla conflict in Afghanistan. The USSR fought a 9 year unsuccessful war in Afghanistan too, if you don't recall, after probably helping destabilize and overthrow the government; the current Taliban leadership grew out of factions of the mujahideen that ousted the Soviets back in the 1980s.

I'm no military expert, but it does seem like the US is not geared towards massive troop deployments right now. I've always thought that's because the expectation is that we won't have a massive troop war like WW1/WW2 again.
Have a way to discard all results that don't contain your search terms.
That's kinda what I guessed. So on the ground you can measure the distance between two observatories that are a few hundred meters apart with incredibly high precision and track that over time as the ground under them slowly deforms and moves.
This is what I end up doing for most apps. I try to customize them to only send me notifications I care about, but many apps do not let you disable notifications that are designed to increase engagement. Pixel + T-Mobile combined do a very, very good job of blocking robo-calls and spam texts too, so in general I'd say it's gotten much better.
Forgive me - what is San Pedro?
> Also, a man-made item crashing into your house is not really an accident - it's negligence. Someone other than your insurance company should be compensating you

It's not uncommon for insurance to cover damages other people are responsible for (and in exchange assume you right to collect from those parties.)

I mean, it's not like there isn't a human liable for theft, and that's a pretty common coverage in both homeowner's and renter’s policies.
A gigacorporation owns the major git repository of open source software, and uses said code to promote its own ML code creation project.

Another steals free software to implement its own live streaming, unpunished.

Thousands of developers get paid to maintain free software by donations and contributions from the very advocates you find too radical.

And you find romanticism weird‽
I missed some key goals this year that were along the lines of personal productivity and projects -

1. weight loss : I seem to have bounced up and down, lost some, then gained, then lost and then gained. Looking back it was a combination of loosing motivation to go to gym and eating clean. The key lessons seems to be "eating clean food - that tastes good and is healthier" that might mean I need to cook more at home. Second factor is consistent exercise, even if I don't go to gym, need to get enough cardio/strength training.

2. creating and shipping side projects around magic/design/code. - Being distracted with too many shiny projects and setting very high standard (aka perfection) before I ship anything led me to endlessly procrastinate. Next year the mantra is 'laser focus on few and ship'.
> comparison between literacy rates of children

I would even go so far as to say that I feel like comparing things like literacy rates (which have very arbitrary definitions) and phoneme acquisition are a very "western" way to analyze a language, and by doing so, Japanese and Chinese seem hard. If they are not analyzed with that kind of logical mindset and rather just "Do people function in society", "can the workings of a complex machine be articulated well" and "Are people able to communicate needs and emotions" I think a very different answer would be seen.
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I would subscribe to the New York Times but do not for that reason.
The next best thing is the Three Body Problem. But in many aspects I find Vinge's works unrivaled.
We are using it for essentially all of our prototype boards here at Oxide (low complexity, low layer count) -- and keeping a very close eye on it for our larger boards, where we still suffer from proprietary software. (And to be clear, when I say "suffer", I don't mean the mere principle but the true pathologies of proprietary software: license servers dying; licenses expiring incorrectly; software dying, costing lost work; formats being proprietary; etc. etc., all of which we saw over the course of building our boards.) We've been waiting for KiCAD 6 for a while, and while it's not yet to the point that we can use it for everything, it's definitely on the right trajectory!
I thought this was common knowledge. We learned this in school, I think in 7th grade or so.
My motherboard port are USB 3.2 which should support USB PD. But it is part of the things I cannot get confirmation of.

My phone used to charge fine on my old motherboard.
The Epoch Times is run by the Falun Gong, a far right cult funded by the US.
Interpreted languages have compilers too, they just emit bytecode or an AST instead of object code.

I think you're misunderstanding a lot of what I'm describing, it has nothing to do with Cargo or Rust but the fundamental limitations of C/C++ that explain why dependency management that involves either of them is extremely painful compared to any modern language.
Many moons ago a friend of mine came up with an idea called "Experimonth". Where you would pick something you want to do, and do it for an entire month. Something like wake up at 4am or not eat any meat, etc.

I've done many of these and they were great, including giving up the internet and computers/phones, with the exception of work. This was back when I went into the office and I limited myself to only work related tasks there. Wifi and computers were turned off and phones put away at home for a month.

It's actually somewhat difficult to break the habit and very boring. But after about the third week you start to get used to it. By the end of the month when I could go back to "normal" I realized there was very little I actually wanted back. Mostly it was a few games I wanted to play and texting with friends on a regular basis. I lost all interest in social media after it (and that's still true) and I became very annoyed by the "ding" of the phone so I turned off all notifications and set it on DND full time (and that is also still true).

Another thing that's I got out of it is I notice how much time everyone else is distracted by their phones. It's really crazy to see when you're not one of them.
I used to trade e-mail addresses with various banks, some 15 years ago. I'd just call up their marketing departments and offer those as 'financial leads'. I had a network of people who had various ad campaigns running where a customer could win something if the'd leave their personal (financial) data.
Tired, defeatist, and giving way too much credit to the big guys. No matter how good they are at assembling a profile on me from indirect data, it's still going to be more effort and likely lower quality than if they had a giant store of data labelled as mine.
Microsoft's email behaviour seems like anticompetitive abuse - you can whitelist an address and they overrule you and block incoming email for obscured reasons.

Customers still have problems occasionally _sending_ email to one domain, which is over 15 years old and sends <1 email per day. If they initiate and email us we can't send them a reply (if they're on MS email, sometimes). We use an outlook.com email nowadays as a relay and have to treat MS using customers differently still despite using a relatively large supplier.

Some years ago, I was lead to believe, you could pay a third-party to add you to what was effectively MS's whitelist.

Aside: back then I was doing some webdev and supporting IE5+ so I already hated MS about as much as one could.

Never paying to enable interoperability that is part of being a reasonable web citizen/company. Paying them just reinforces the negative behaviour.
The great physicist Paul Dirac was renowned for his extremely thoughtful manner of speech, and would drive people crazy with long silences before he responded to any question put to him. Here he is in his later years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNBsqmH7xOQ
Interesting to consider if they gave you a useless treatment, and your pain went away the same as it did, would you have thought it was because of medicine?

I think doctors get a lot of credit for reversion to the mean.
The early days of Big Cardboard, when it was new and patented and being churned out of factories in downtown Brooklyn, saw a lot of early success in trains, where sturdy cardboard interior panels could replace wood, for a fraction of the weight. I’m not sure permanent home installs are better off using it instead of, say, plywood, unless you’re planning to move this home around.
I remember in maybe middle school a teacher giving everyone in the class a piece of paper with a massive list of instructions.

They were silly things like “sing the first Ceres of your favorite song” or “do 10 jumping jacks.”

But the first instruction was “read all the instructions first before doing anything listed here.”

The last instruction being, “ignore all of the above and hand in your paper.”

About 3/4 of the class ignored the first instructions and went through all the silly stuff. Was pretty funny I remember.
I remember in maybe middle school a teacher giving everyone in the class a piece of paper with a massive list of instructions.

They were silly things like “sing the first Ceres of your favorite song” or “do 10 jumping jacks.”

But the first instruction was “read all the instructions first before doing anything listed here.”

The last instruction being, “ignore all of the above and hand in your paper.”

About 3/4 of the class ignored the first instructions and went through all the silly stuff. Was pretty funny.
It depends how racist the country/situation is. Many countries will give English-speakers a break because many English speakers don't even try. So just being able to say something - anything - in the language counts as a plus. Anything after that is a bonus.

Even in English-speaking countries, you can screw up the grammar badly and still be comprehensible. US and British people may decide you're an idiot - and treat you accordingly - but they will mostly understand you.

So my personal ordering of importance is vocab, grammar, and finally accent/voice coaching. You will definitely need the latter for most languages, because even supposedly non-exotic ones like French require a novel set of mouth movements. Most lesson systems underemphasise this.

My working assumption as an adult is that it will take three months to learn basic conversation with full immersion and minimal distractions, and five years of constant practice to reach reasonable fluency in speaking, listening, and writing.

This is actually less time than it takes kids to learn a language, so the idea that kids are especially malleable or open is clearly wrong. Of course kids are learning language in general - and more - at the same time, so timings aren't absolutely comparable. But similarly adults are having to do a lot of distracting adult things at the same time, so it more or less evens out.
I'd wager odds you would have survived without are above 95%, so its beneficial, but when averaged out, a very slight improvement, quite possibly too low to be captured with significance in 10k people over 10 years with confidence p=0.99. A few years latter the effect of a month+ sick at home is almost certainly absent from blood pressure, etc.

Insulin might show up, though its prevalence is what, <2% ? And most diabetics do survive without, they just have to be very careful about what and when they eat, and a bit lucky. Psychiatric meds probably dont count, as its often not a part of healthcare, for similarly sane reasons as dentistry. Even if it does, it pretty much has to prevent suicide, or it will count as zero, as neither preventing forced hospitalization, nor homelessness will count as improved health.