skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any advice on how I can pay authors to get a copy of their eBook without going through Amazon or Google? I really don't want Big Tech or advertising companies profiling me based on the books I read, but I absolutely want to pay authors for their work.

I've considered torrenting books and just sending a check or something to authors, but I'd love to find a better way.
If there isn’t even a flight to Reno, why would HSR make sense?
That's a 27" 4K, so it's already low PPI compared to the monitors in the article.
Another major issue not mentioned with non-retina displays is that you have to chose between a decent on-screen text size and pixel scaling.

For example, I use a a 4K 27" LG monitor. If I use native 4K resolution, the text is way too small. If I use 2:1 resolution, the text becomes too big and I lose real estate.
I ended up with a scaled resolution with pixel approximation. I won't explain here why it may be a problem for some people, but it is.
To clarify, there's a lag for hospitalizations, and then there is another lag for deaths. COVID can even take a couple of months to kill from the initial infection if the infected person is being kept alive on a ventilator.
There's solving the problem - and there's solving the scenario.

I'd presume that a logical contestant would google blue to be the most frequently chosen random colour, and the two of you would just scream "blue" at each other other and then you'd end the game.
> This means that 20% of surgeries are going to be cancelled
> We're at 90% adults vaccinated, but "70% to 80%" of the hospitalizations are unvaccinated individuals
> our surge is already exceeding Winter-2020 levels

Can you put any links to the data on any of these? I am really curious to know where you get that from, I can't find any hospitalization data from Omicron and vaccinated rates on those hospitalizations.
Have you coded with Haskell or Elm? Im confident that re-factoring that mess that surely comes out of the 24h sprint will be re-factorable without too much pain in these languages.

Just a feeling, but coding with them feels like they are refactor-optimized langs.
> The problem with Spotify is that the artists (for the most part) get so little while providing the content.

That's because there is too much supply of music. Attention is the scarce thing today.
Ah. SF is at 87% with at least one dose and 80% with at least 2 doses.

I think 62% vs. 80% could be a big enough delta to explain the difference here versus your town.
There are lots of interesting tools and information on the Space Telescope Institute website to browse through. I'm guessing you can get the decoded data as its received.

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/data-analysis-t...
I spent two years looking and then just threw in the towel and took a job at GE. They turned out to have a far more inflated view of themselves than was warranted or even healthy...so that only lasted a few years. Consulting now with one of the few boutique firms in my city...which has been fairly nice.
Useful UX Guidelines, Tools and Resources – Smashing Magazine
cut them a break. no body's gonna to update a 2017 blog post irl, and last I checked a majority of the bloggers just use Wordpress, not exactly their problem.
> Elsewhere in the country... Florida's 300% rise in cases this past week has demonstrated that natural-immunity from Alpha/Delta was completely worthless vs Omicron.

This is simply wrong. A rise in cases is not evidence of much of anything related to immunity, let alone natural immunity. Plenty of vaccinated people are getting infected as well -- they're not dying from it.

> Florida is well on its way to having a worse surge than it ever had before. It doesn't seem like we can natural-immunity our ways out of this.

Please stop speculating. The "surge" in cases is currently lower than what happened in FL over the summer, and hospitalizations are flat:

https://covid-19.direct/state/12
This has always been my problem with Duolingo. You get a streak going, forget it two days running because you're busy with work or the dog has to go to the vet or the kid needs taking to the airport - and bam, 80 days irretrievably gone.

When this happens, I set the whole thing aside for a year, every time, even though I shouldn't.
One interesting contributor to excess deaths is a spike in deaths attributed to Alzheimer's and other dementias - there were about 42,000 more of these deaths in the U.S. in 2020 than would be expected from the previous five-year average [1,2]. These deaths are primarily attributed to the negative effects of lockdowns on dementia patients - loss of access to family and caregivers as well as social isolation generally have a substantially more negative impact on this subset of individuals than on the general population.

Using a total 2020 U.S. excess death count of ~415,000 [3], this means that just above one in ten excess deaths can be attributed to the negative effects of lockdown rather than to COVID itself. On the other hand, the alternative would likely have been letting COVID ravage senior care facilities, which could have been much worse.

[1] https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2021/alzheimer...

[2] https://www.alz.org/media/Documents/alzheimers-facts-and-fig...

[3] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101386118
...and, if you suspect that there's actual manipulation going on (as there are a lot of Chinese nationals, real people, who earnestly believe in the points that they're making, on HN), then email hn@ycombinator.com and they'll use their admin powers to take a look at it.
The point is, for every stupid DRM "solution" you come up with, some technical capable guy will find a way to crack this. Happens since more then 40 years in computer sience.
OLED isn't that great in the monitor space because you are going to get burn in, it's only a matter of 'how long?'.
Phone calls are synchronous. You have each others attention, questions can be answered quickly. Also the big one is that hard to answer questions will die in an async setting. What's your current salary, why did you leave your last job so soon, anything that creates a desire to procrastinate with an answer.
It’s not the two generals problem because you can be sure that your companion gets the message (both literally a d figuratively). The two generals problem is about inherent uncertainty, while the given problem has full transparency.
Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
I have owned the LG 5K UltraFine monitor for 6 months and it's the greatest thing ever. I will never go back to 4K.

I drive it with an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock with CalDigit Thunderbolt cables and a maxed out 13" 2020 MacBook Pro, and as of the latest version of macOS Big Sur it is rock solid.

It's mounted on a monitor arm, so I can't comment on the included stand.
,,That really doesn’t help with my faith in medicine''

Better knowledge of anatomy doesn't help medecine. Better knowledge of aging process and immunology is much more important for increasing human lifespan and decreasing human suffering, and the last 10 years gave us amazing improvements in the knowledge part.
JQ can get you started without any db setup as you explore the data
Just wanted to second Sam Harris. Try his app “Waking Up” for a wealth of resources on different kinds of meditation for beginners and the experienced. It’s really just an audio library of incredibly useful guided meditations and discussions with leaders in meditation.

Meditating without any reference to religion or God is possible and you can change your experience in very meaningful ways.
I don't see it as strange at all.

Hitler turned around Germany's economy in the 30's. Stalin liberated Eastern Europe from the genocidal Nazis. Nelson Mandela plotted terrorist attacks as a young activist.

Good people (and organisations) do bad things, and bad people do good things. It doesn't change the fact that the British East India Company was rotten to the core, and the Opium Wars were absolutely abhorrent abuses of China's sovereignty and human rights.
You are trying apply a rational argument to faith, which is inherently irrational.
Indeed the quality to look for is strong typed, not statically typed.

Strong typed code is much easier to refactor.
I would say that if you believe that we are living inside a simulation created by a software engineer, then I am not certain whether you are theist or atheist, but leaning toward theist.
Exactly. I end up to get use to this fuzzy text, but the first time was like "Ughhh this is ugly".
Someone could start by giving me data points that show if I’m asymptomatic and not exposed to someone with covid that I’m being “selfish” for not adopting your disposition of fear.
One of the difficulties is deciding on a strategy that would work even if the other player used the exact same strategy on you.

My solution is to say something like: ‘I will nominate a colour next round. If we both nominate the same colour, I will say that colour and end the game next round. If anything else, I will nominate a different colour, proceeding alphabetically.’

Of course, it would depend on what message you receive that round - there’s probably no one size fits all approach, such as the issues of both people using an unyielding strategy. So maybe you’d have a clause which says, if the other player gives an ultimatum message, then you will go along with that.

I don’t think there’s a perfect solution here, but I could be wrong.
ending it with an overdose does sound like a very accessible and "clean" method to end life if you're either an addict or even for non addicts who have access to hard drugs. And how many of those who are addicts engage in "suicidal ideation". Is a an addict that ends themselves statistically counted as a drug casualty and at what point do we see them as just another human being that decided to end their life. For all we know the drug might have been the only reason that kept them from not committing suicide much sooner (and while sober).

it seems an odd line to draw IMO
The first hospital to declare an emergency in my state was...

https://www.umms.org/uch/news/2021/um-uch-moves-to-crisis-st...

The 70% to 80% quote is from local-TV stations.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/um-upper-chesapeake-hospital-...

> Barrueto said 70% to 80% of the hospitals' patients are unvaccinated. He said the move also sends a message to the community that it's not business as usual.
I tried to link to the youtube timestamps for most quotes. You can also see the full aws transcribed transcript here [0]

[0] https://gist.github.com/breeko/384174b3d6e628ec77c52498a9d92...
YouTube is super slow for me because of all the JavaScript. Plus I have to refresh because whenever I click on a link, it just takes too long to load, so I click refresh, at which point YouTube says I lost my Internet connection, which I did not. Sometimes I ended up having with some video with comments from the previous one. That, and I hate the "more space, less content" trend.
> A pointer to something held in an immutable log will never become invalid or otherwise point to garbage data in the future.

Now I'm wondering if we can have immutable versioned APIs
What are the indications that you need to upgrade (aside from "device has broken")?

I've been the same using an 802.11n (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) since 2014, as well as the same modem since 2014. Aside from flashing a newer version of dd-wrt every four years, I don't think about my modem/router much and I don't know what I'm missing! Speed at my house is fine for my needs - however, my coverage doesn't seem perfect (notably, multi-room speakers have trouble staying in sync). I simply don't know if I'm in the market for a new router! Like, perhaps the coverage issue should be resolved with AP/extender/mesh (and I have no idea which one of those).
Kudos guys, love the clean design
It’s really interesting how this pandemic has got formerly cautious people all in on big pharma. You are of course correct that pharma, like all businesses, loves recurring revenue. Statins made billions and billions to just give one example. Meanwhile Gilead made a Hepatitis B cure and while it did well the first couple years, profits dropped like a rock because, well, it was a cure. Goldman Sachs even helpfully pointed out in a research note that cures are economically inferior.
… that’s us here in New Zealand too.
But isn't that exactly what the "Pigeon variation" the article mentions is?
> A very basic use case that shows up all the time everywhere, especially in systems programming, is that I have an array of items and I want to pass it to some library.

My thinking is this. Either a library function cares about what type of data you pass to it because it is designed to do some operation on it - then it will accept only a specific type, like "void func(Foo *foos, int count)". Or, the function does not care about the type of data but just wants to send it somewhere else. In this case, you can pass a void-pointer + size to it.

Interfaces like sorting functions can be seen as exceptions under the umbrella term "container library". Like the qsort() example, usually all you need is a few metrics for the data type - size, maybe alignment - and at most a few "method calls" - equality, simple get/set operations - and that's it. For all I can say these situations are not very common in systems programming, at least not for what I do. This stuff tends to come up in application level programming. It's definitely very common in my Python scripts. When it does come up in systems occasionally, a vtable struct is a good way to deal with the situation generically. In the qsort() case, the function pointer can be passed directly.

> 1. The library only accepts arrays of some specific type (e.g. int[]). If you have some other type, you have to find some way of converting to the type known in the library - in O(n) time.

Considering how computers work, I don't think it is much of a constraint to assume that arrays are of the form "Foo *foos". Coincidentally C _does_ have builtin "generics" for arrays of things, and real machines do have assembly instructions to quickly compute addresses based on hardcoded element size.

> (and of course, it's less safe, since instead of passing an int, you have to pass void* + sizeof(int), potentially getting them mixed up).

There is little real chance of getting them mixed up. If you actually run the code you will notice.
I did have a confirmation email that listed the price and the car, the person behind the counter and the manager said they couldn't honor that deal because the car didn't exist and I had paid the rate for a lower tier of car. If I wanted a car that could fit 4 adults and luggage I had to pay the difference. It was Sixt in downtown Manhattan.

Searching for "Sixt bait and switch" returns a fair number of stories and reviews that are similar to my experience.
We can travel and see friends. It’s harder, but we can.
> Tangential, but has Florida started accurately reporting their cases, hospitalizations and deaths instead of under-reporting them?

AFAIK, the only underreporting they are doing is not counting positive tests as cases unless the person is a permanent Florida resident, while everyone else is counting tests conducted in-state. Which is significant, but really only effects the case count.

(They may be doing a bad job of actually doing testing, too, but that’s not underreporting though it has a similar effect. But, again AFAIK, hospitalization and death numbers aren’t impacted.)
It's not the market evolving. It's the regulatory environment devolving.

AT&T did the same rental scam until anti-trust shut 'em down.
There is no way to know if those deaths were because or with Covid-19.

Also correlation doesn't mean causation. Confinement caused a lot of hardships on people. Hell, fentanyl alone kills hundred of thousands each year, that's not even counting alcohol, other drugs, stress and solitude.
It is quite possible to find the negation of belief in God itself be a spiritual/freeing experience, especially if this follows prior subjugation/belief in an organized religion. Relinquishing religion can itself be a "spiritual" experience precisely because of how shitty religions tend to be.

Also, many mathematicians find a spiritual purity in certain equations and proofs. There need not be anything religious about such an experience. Something can be "deep", completely devoid of the paranormal.
> wants of individuals as more important than the needs of a society

You're just introducing your own dangerous narrative into the conversation.

Making individuals subservient to the "needs of society" and disregarding individual rights has been the source of much misery and death.

A balance is needed between individual rights and government power.
I personally think the euro is a failure. It only works if every nation cooperates and the nation at the heart of the euro zone (Germany) doesn't play along with the rest.

For example, a simple way to make the euro area boom again is to let wages in Germany rise. This will never happen as German politicians think that exporting goods to eastern europe while never importing anything back is sound economics and politics.

Some economists point at Say's Law (people sell something because they want to buy something else) which postulates that this behavior should be impossible or at least highly irrational and resolves itself over the long term. Yet for some strange reason Germans have instinctively discovered that money is superior over goods and services and this hasn't changed at all since the euro was introduced.

In my opinion, neoliberalism is not really the source of the problem but rather a misguided attempt at serving near endless demand for efficiency and competitiveness. One could argue that the owners of the means of production are themselves just puppets of a higher force.

Think about lending a sack of potatoes with interest. If the borrower really needs potatoes today he might accept that offer, but what if he doesn't? Threatened with the prospect of having your potatoes go bad, it is you that is in trouble and therefore must lower the amount of interest that you charge. Even 0% interest may be profitable to you as getting fresh potatoes back next year would be still better than having yours spoil. There is an opportunity cost to doing nothing (spoilage is a effectively a negative interest rate), therefore the negotiations happen in a way that both parties end up happy.

Now repeat the exercise with money. As the lender you can always walk away from the deal and collect 0% interest on your cash but as money is necessary for economic specialization (through employment at a company) there will always be a borrower who will take your money. As the lender has the upper hand in these negotiations, he can get away with charging way more interest than he really ought to and we can forget the idea of 0% interest altogether.

The end result? People twist their brain into somehow paying that excessive interest. There is your endless demand for efficiency and competitiveness. Of course, thanks to our central banks interest rates do fall, but the potato analogy still isn't true. Once money spoils (negative interest rates), the problem is most likely gone.
can't make science without breaking some eggs
Thanks for the additional data-point. That 18% difference could very well make the difference.

I'll be keeping an eye on your higher-vaccination rate and how it works out in your city. I've been trying to tell my coworkers / people around me to get vaccinated (and boostered) but not everybody would listen.

EDIT: The state's average is like 80% total population. I live in an area with far below the state's average in regards to vaccinations.
>Name one war, that has no religion involved.

US Revolutionary War
War of 1812
US Civil War
Spanish American War
WWI
WWII
Korean War
Vietnam War
GWI
GWII
WoT

Nearly all of them really. Wars are fought over resources and pride of leaders. Sometimes religion can be used as a recruiting tool, but the war isn't really about religion.

You can argue that since people who fight in wars have religious beliefs that religion is involved, but you can say the same things about sticks and shoes. I don't think that is a compelling argument.
Ignoring VPNs, why are they useless?
Right, regardless of the storage, but in the research computing circles I see, it's just not done. The promises of "data destruction" that get demanded are basically accompanied by fingers crossed behind the back (is that an international thing to "cover" for lying?) considering the filesystem and backup mechanisms etc.
He expressed concern about employability beyond 40, not competence beyond 40.
Just happened to me one hour ago and got scared shitless.

Time Monday, December 27, 2021 at 3:50 PM EST
Location UNITED STATES
IP address 107.173.195.83

Actions taken, in this order:

- Head to *Advanced Options* -> *View account history* to see if anything suspicious is going on (nothing so far)
- Disable Lastpass MFA and use Google Authenticator (Authy)
- *Account Settings* -> click on *Show Advanced Settings* -> *Destroy Sessions* (to see if anyone is actively logged in)
- *Account Settings* -> click on *Show Advanced Settings* -> *Country Restriction* to my country only (luckily not in the US as the bot was)
- Change Master Password

Also moments earlier:

- Investigating all Mac processes
- Disabled all Chrome extensions and deleted most (should have made a list)

Let's hope it's not as bad as it seems.

Edit#1 | Following IP addresses are reported in the thread so far:

160.116.88.235
160.116.231.145
160.116.88.235
107.173.195.83
107.173.195.213
154.202.117.78
196.19.204.79
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This is general problem with modern public founded education system - it prizes memorization of repetitive schemes - as it's easy to check on the mass scale who is able to memorize these schemes. It's several magnitudes harder to check who really is a material for a scientist among same large population of candidates. I was educated in top university in my Central European country and to this day cannot shake off memories of people who passed calculus exams by memorizing solutions of integrals instead of understanding how to solve them. It was a general scheme - mediocre students interested only in "getting paper" aka diploma were passing exams mostly flawless some of them even get scholarships[sic(k)!] while people interested in actually understanding material and doing projects by their own (most students were making projects in groups and changing only minor details and teachers were pretending they do not see that) were struggling within that system. As the system has memorization without understanding and cheating as a fundamental of it's construction and people who resist following that pathological scheme were simply penalized. Attempts to rationalize with academic teachers in many cases resulted in absurd remarks of "everyone have equal requirements for passing classes". Puke inducing every time I think about that.
This page doesn't cover it, but surely projects need to be re-aligned (or even cancelled) just as often as the teams implementing them, if the WHY/WHAT/etc don't make sense.

And yet, I can't recall ever seeing a project that had been started actually get restructured or cancelled. Only psuedo-completed and abandoned.
Related: Japanese Door Prank (Shimura Ken (志村けん）) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-2USGVoEE
Just got the same notification 2 hours ago, from IP address 107.173.195.213
See sentence 2.

> The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days prior to onset of symptoms and the 2-3 days after.
This is not true in a live and death scenario, because with asymmetric payoffs like that - termination being the down side risk - it is not at all „rational“ to jump to the answer that gives the highest probability of success, if that answer still has a non-zero risk of death.