skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most any serious viral infection can potentially cause post-viral fatigue syndrome. We've known that for decades. COVID-19 is nothing special in that regard.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3063394/

But many cases of "long COVID" appear to be psychosomatic.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

And none of that is really relevant to school closure policy anyway. All of us will eventually get infected. At most closing schools again would only delay the inevitable. Instead we should focus on reducing risk factors by encouraging more people to get vaccinated and aggressively treating chronic metabolic diseases.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
> Is it only me that thinks of it most nights?

yes
I've had some kind of undefined issue for about 5 years now (long before covid) where I will go to sleep breathing fine through both nose and mouth as appropriate, sleep with zero problems and no snoring recorded by noise monitors, then wake up with a sudden onslaught of mucus which seems to generate itself (upon consciousness) throughout the upper respiratory tract and rapidly. Various sleeping positions seem irrelevant to results.

I wake up breathing freely, regardless of position. If I stay still, I can get about an hour max of no concern breathing/existence. After that time, or if I sit up, I have between 3 and 15 minutes before mucus seems to accumulate in my nose, lungs, and throat simultaneously. It starts as a mild cough to clear the airway, which I always think will be the end of it because it's a "clearing" or "productive" cough with a little spittle and/or grating feeling. Then, about 3 seconds later, some kind of loop triggers, and I cough dryly and unproductively until it's time to inhale. This repeats sort of randomly for several rounds, never really obstructing breathing and producing no obvious mucus; after a cough, I can inhale and exhale freely through my nose and mouth both, and nothing stops a full inhale/exhale cycle.

After 3-6 of those cycles, mucus magically appears everywhere; the mouth I hale and exhale becomes ragged and wheezing, the nose inhale becomes nearly impossible, and the coughs produce globs of white mucus that must be spit out or swallowed.

Sometimes it all disappears after a few rounds of this, but that's maybe 1/50 chance. If this cycle goes on for more than 5 rounds, the esophagus starts chiming in saying hey maybe I can help, and the rest of it jumps in too. Now every cough becomes a prelude to a gag, which may or may not become more. If the gag causes any output in the form of vomit, it (the vomit) is strangely not acidic like bile, nor does it contain any fragments or traces of recently consumed food/liquid. The vomit is purely aerated mucus, and causes zero pain while going the wrong way through my system. This goes on until the mucus is all gone and I breathe fine in all ways for the rest of the day, with maybe a brief encore 12 hours or so later, but inconsistently. I have no idea what this is and neither do doctors I've seen.

I am 100% sure this is the wrong place to document this and irrelevant to the rest, but it struck my mind while reading this comment as a thing to write down fully for the first time, and I trust instinct in this regard. Maybe someone needed to hear/read it, or maybe I just needed to get it out properly, who knows!
I live on a dairy. Yes, when our cows grazed on our cover crop which included radishes, it affected the flavor of the milk. And the color, too.

We actually had some customers tell us later that they wouldn't have kept buying our milk due to the unpleasant flavor, except that they knew it was temporary.
So now I have to manage not only my own key, but they keys of any of my friends who want me to vouch for them every time they lose their phone? No thank you.
Good point. Also flights are cancelled not because of a government mandate but because personnel to fly the planes are sick with Covid.

It would be bad business to fly with a sick crew.
If it was not possible to establish a clear link between school class surges and infection rates in 2 years, then there is no link. The CDC does have a list on which places transmit the virus and restaurants/cafe/bar/dancing/... were 3 of the top 5 entries if memory serves. The remaining 2 were hospitals and doctors’ offices.

Many places that people think would spread the virus don’t. For example anything outside is very safe, as are swimming pools. Outside it takes rock concert like crowd densities before clusters form. Viruses cannot deal, even for milliseconds, with uv light or rapid temperature changes and many places are already hardened against infection, and therefore quite safe, even with many people without face masks. Again, there’s a density limit, but it’s pretty high.

One study did point out that risks in school and hospital settings are closely related to the quality of the ventilation system. And yet, I haven’t read even once about attempts to identify substandard facilities for kids/patients or money for improving them being allocated. And obviously, all data suggests smaller classes drastically reduce risk.

Can’t find the list but here’s a study. Schools are not mentioned. Restaurants and any setting with on-site eating or drinking are the big vectors of infection it seems.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6936a5.htm
I'm not very knowledgeable about Web3, but what you point out, I also find confusing. Why do I need to use ETH to buy an NFT -- my credit card should just do fine -- shouldn't it?

Clicking the "Connect My Wallet" button is kind of fun. But I feel like I've gained nothing over just using my credit card -- in fact my credit card provides me (as the consumer) tons more benefit than using ETH -- and don't get me started on gas fees!
It's still weird to me, as it's not uncommon for things to happen that you might want to check on. Like squirrels or other animals getting in there and building nests. Or allowing an owner to check on an odd noise that could be coming from the area, etc. A hood prop being absent seems dumb.
Thanks for the suggestion. Implemented random articles (as well as random names) :)
> Why does the pandemic have anything to do with anything?

Pandemic versus climate is basically the adult's future versus children's future.

That's why I'm saying children should take a stand here.
Google censors “Mass Formation Psychosis” search results awaiting new sources
Yeah it is. Schools are run poorly because they fail to acknowledge that they are child care and as such it needs to be consistent and reliable. If school closes for 6 months where is childcare plan b going to come from. How do you replace a skilled teacher that can handle 20-30 kids with one that does 2-3 and not cause huge pain for a family’s finances?
> "this system is a blackbox"

According to this inclusive language guide, you should say "this system is a functional testing" or "this system is an acceptance testing."

Pretty soon we will just not be allowed to mention colors anymore in any context. Just refer to it by its hex code. "this system is a #000000 box."
If there's only a single string type, there should be no default comparison at all. There are many cases where ordinal or culture-invariant comparison is wrong (almost any string that can be potentially displayed in UI). There are also many cases where ordinal is the only thing that is correct. The only way to prevent sneaky bugs is to force the dev to think it through every time they have to compare strings.

(It should also be easy to compare strings in different ways. StringComparison.Ordinal is an overly long incantation for the frequency with which it's needed.)

Alternatively, we need two distinct string types - one for "displayed text", and one for internal stuff like an HTTP header - with no implicit conversions between the two, and with comparisons defined differently for either.
What are you storing in an object store that fits into 1kb?

64MB is far, far closer to our usecase than 1kb. I don’t even think our schema files/metadata which are arguably the smallest part fit into 1kb.
I managed to disable "rock chair as far backwards and forwards as possible throughout meal" by adopting the Erlang approach of "let it crash".
"'the world is on my side" is objectively false" is not at all equivalent to "the world is a harsh place that doesn't owe anyone anything"
There are a lot of comments here about why public transit in the DC area doesn't work, but nobody that I've seen has put their finger on it.

The biggest issue is that the area covers two states, at least ten counties depending on what you count as the “DC area”, plus the District of Columbia, which isn't a state, doesn't have control over its own budget, and has no representation in Congress. Oh, and in Virginia cities are not part of counties so for instance Arlington is it’s own political entity. Plus DC doesn't have control over a large part of its own tax base because the biggest landholder in the city is the federal government, which is exempt from local property taxes. And because unlike everywhere else in the US DC workers who live in Virginia or Maryland don't pay DC taxes, because the Virginia and Maryland Congressional delegations have warped the DC tax code such that all that money stays in their own states.

Any area-wide public transit project thus has to politically negotiate two Congressional delegations, one city that is in theory represented by the entirety of Congress, and 10+ local governments, any of which effectively has veto power over a project; and the primary beneficiary of the project, DC, is de facto not going contribute financially in proportion to how much it benefits because it’s budget won't allow it to do so.

Similarities to e.g. Hong Kong or Europe fail on those grounds. DC area public transit fails because the DC area is a living example of how federalism fails.
I don’t see how you can stop, for example, the flow of Rt. 17 truck traffic onto I-95 diverting to the surface streets. Something like 75% of the 95 traffic in the affected section is not local. How do you ensure that they not use 95 and also not use the surface streets (which in this area are absolutely not capable of handling their current traffic, let alone overflow from the highway)?
I know it's intimidating to go places alone and try to make friends there, it's what a lot of us have had to do any time we moved away from our social groups.
I use a GitHub enterprise instance, and we have enough server power to spare. There's no option to say "we have the server capacity, please render large diffs."
This article is dehumanizing to volumetricly challenged persons experiencing youth.
> mortality rate is 7.5% in Mexico

That is probably the CFR (case fatality rate). This depends on actually testing. If you don't test mild or asymptomatic cases, the mortality will look way larger.

But we know the actual global mortality, is about 0.7%.
Original Mozilla founder and author call out the project for accepting crypto
I don't see why a mine is an indication of a local kingdom. It seems reasonable that it would be an outpost specific to resource extraction. All of the stuff they found could be the modern equivalent of finding a Rolex at an oil derrick in Oklahoma.
I mean check out that 3000 year old smelting furnace. Not only does it work as a piece of aesthetically intriguing sculpture, it probably still works as a blast furnace! I think about this a lot actually. When ancients built, they had to built for survival, so the focus, care and attention was exponentially multiplied. The result is of course things that were implicitly designed to last for generations.

It must be an amazing feeling to be an archeologist at the moment of new discovery. You suddenly enjoy a serendipitous connection with a human being who has been dead for ages. But is suddenly memorable again, as if reborn.

I think that human connection is the seed of "psychohistory". What message or wisdom can we wish to convey to our Future Selves?
Even today's (self-described) enlightened societies draw a distinction between the lawful killing of the children of enemy nations (as "unavoidable consequences" of war) and the unlawful killing of children by their own parents (at least once those children are outside the womb).

Unfortunately, at the time of the Canaanite cities, there wasn't really much infrastructure for providing welfare services to war orphans, and there was a very real risk that young males of conquered peoples would grow up to seek genocidal revenge on their conquerors. By that standard, offering homes to the female prisoners of war was relatively compassionate.
I'd argue that social proof often makes for a good argument. Perhaps not the best argument, but still a good one. "Best practices" still carry weight. Of course you can make an argument that the thing everyone does is wrong, and win. That's happened millions of times in this industry. But if the argument is nearly strictly between "this is what everyone does" vs "this is what I do", the former is going to win.
Physicists crack unsolvable three-body problem using drunkard&#39;s walk
> language designers have the problem of knowing when to stop

C++ will evolve as long as programming methodology hasn't been perfected. At this point it is immortal and the committee knows it.

> C++11 should have been a minimal cleanup of C++03

C++03 was a very minimal cleanup of C++98 aka ANSI C++.
Therefore they were pressed to have much wanted features in the next standard, which was delayed repeatedly to make them ready.

> C++14 onwards could have been a new language, with all the old baggage removed.

The committee seems to gravitate toward first adding the superseding features and removing those rendered obsolete only in the next standard,
to provide a clean upgrade path to legacy code. It also leaves time to see which features were really obsoleted.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely implement some of them. Regarding the mobile version: I thought it would already use the mobile version as it uses the minerva skin of Wikipedia.
> Websites that integrate web3 wallet login do get something new: built-in, straightforward payment rails.

I'm not convinced it's that a large benefit.

For the foreseeable future, any website that aspires to be anything more than a niche web3 player will need to support web2 auth and web2 payments. So web3 is just adding layers, not removing them. Until web3 becomes powerful enough that you're losing customers because you aren't supporting it, there's no incentive to support it. (Exactly the same predicament Persona was in.)

Additionally, cryptocurrency is not practical as a currency right now because of high transaction fees and slow settlement. This situation won't change until layer 2 networks come of age, which seem to have been "just around the corner" for the past five years.
David Graber’s new book leans onto this: the dawn of everything
Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.
Well, let's take it from a different angle:
We don't need malwares but AV vendors do. If there were no malwares, there would be no AV vendors too.
I see results, the tweet is 4 days old
It may sound like pat advice, but -- maybe you need to start looking for new friends.

This is good advice. However, I also think that you (the OP) also need to change your mindset.

For context on myself: I have lived most of my life in your situations like yours, until recently when I became wealthy enough to retire early.

As a kid, my family ate government assistance food. There were times when I had to look in the couch cushions for money to buy food.

For all of my life, I've known people who are very visibly wealthy. However, I was fortunate enough to learn early to hold wealth in mild disgust and also not make a big deal about it. I encourage you to develop this sort of attitude.

As randycupertino mentions above. Not only is the hedonistic treadmill is real, it's actually sort of pathetic. Many people who are rich become sort of helpless. Unable to do simple things like changing a car tire by themselves. Learn to be self sufficient and take pride in it.

The other thing to realized is that past a point money won't buy you happiness. And you are in control of where that point is.

Now, to add to what vanusa says above. You need new friends. I say this because one of my good friends is very wealthy, but I never once felt bad or envious about it. My friend's parents came from very humble backgrounds and they did a wonderful job at staying grounded and kind. This family didn't brag about money, they wouldn't enthuse whilst telling me of their good fortune.

Furthermore, I think it's very tacky and shallow to talk about wealth.

Personally, when I became wealthy, my spouse and I agreed to not tell anybody about our wealth. The only people who know the true value of our wealth are me, my spouse, our accountant, the IRS, and God.

Certainly, some people have their guesses, but there is no way for people to know the precise details. We still live in the same modest house, drive the same 10 year old car, wear the same clothes, etc.

A big reason why we haven't changed our lifestyle is because our friends and family are very important to us and we don't want what was honestly a lucky break to get in the way of those things.

To summarize:

- I've been in your shoes in the past

- You need better friends

- You also need to work on yourself and your mindset
The thing that stuck out to me: the length of time before getting an MRI. I notice this is something that changes from medical system to medical system.
Where I am, I could get an MRI tomorrow if the doctor requested it, the matching report would be finished on the same day and this would also be free.

(Speaking from personal experience as I’ve had a few now.)
So what you are really saying is that it comes down to a cost/benefit evaluation. You are OK with vehicles, alcohol, factories etc. harming and killing people as long as the perceived benefits to the public outweighs the cost. So nukes are not OK because clearly nobody benefits except the person who enjoys owning nukes, and the potential cost is high (millions dying when a nuke owner goes postal). The gun issue is really interesting. Obviously some people think that owning guns is worth sacrificing a few hundred school kids every year for. Others disagree. But almost everybody agrees that killing thousands of people every year using vehicles is unfortunate but acceptable. Perhaps you can argue that public roads and vehicles do benefit pretty much everybody. But guns only benefit people who likes guns and/or people who are more afraid of random violence than they are afraid of crazy people legally getting access to guns and shooting up schools.
Finally straight to the point: Web3 log in with your wallet.
Try multiplying by 10-20…
That's what kids' menus are at restaurants. Spaghetti & meatballs, chicken fingers, mac 'n cheese, pizza, sometimes fish & chips. The same staple foods that basically all kids will eat, as a separate meal course.

My wife grew up in an immigrant family, I grew up in a half-immigrant (but largely Americanized) family. This was an element of culture shock for her. In American culture the norm is that everybody eats whatever they want to eat, and it's considered rude (sometimes even abusive) to try and control someone's food. We have obesity & diabetes rates to match. In most immigrant cultures food is considered a communal experience, where set dishes are put out on the table and it's considered rude to decline or ask for something different. You see this in restaurant customs as well, where servers at American restaurants will come around and ask each person (even the kids) what they want and then bring out individual plates, while in say Chinese restaurants the servers will go to the oldest male at the table, ask for the order, and then bring dishes out family style for everyone to eat.

It's extremely difficult to raise kids against the culture they're immersed in. Our infant will eat anything - even broccoli, celery, carrots, etc. Our 3-year-old will only eat dino nuggets, or on rare occasions, noodles or rice. When our 3-year-old was an infant, he ate everything too. But he gets snacks, occasionally lunch, and occasionally parties outside the home, and in the course of that, discovers that he really likes spaghetti, dino nuggets, and PB&J sandwiches. Hence, that is now his meal, and he knows that it is possible to have them, and he won't eat anything else when placed in front of him, even things he previously enjoyed.

(I suppose we could just not buy dino nuggets and he'd be fine; he's been fine whenever we run out and I explain that we just don't have any. But it's just not that important to me. Like I said, in American culture, the norm is that if you have the means to make yourself or your family happy, you should do it, and it's not that hard to get a 5 lb bag of dino nuggets from Costco when we go.)
IMO, it's the perfect set buzzwords for the masses and the uneducated. Short enough where they can glean a meaning from it at a quick glance, and long enough where it feels sophisticated to use.
I know the definition, lol. What I meant is attitudes I found under that thinking quite often. It was just a silly observation.

I did not mean anywhere every socialist is like that or that all peopple that do that are socialist.

On top of that, that is just a personal opinion. Nothing else.
We (Frame.io/Adobe) are all-in on Elixir, and we're hiring!
As someone who grew up and continues to live between a Western European country and a developing country in the so-called "third world", I have been intensely thinking lately about how "relative" our sensations and experiences are. In one of the countries, people get really mad and their days get spoiled because a train arrives 5 minutes too late, on the other side of the globe, people have never experienced such a good train service and they wouldn't mind arriving 5 minutes too late, they would be intensely grateful for being able to get such a cheap, safe and comfortable transport service. To name one of too many such examples.

I find it so difficult to relate to such "first world problems" lately...
Ah I see, I like the UI as well nice job!
AFAIU, you don't need to use libc on OpenBSD, however only one contiguous region of code is permitted to invoke syscalls, and so you can't mix-and-match ad hoc libraries. See https://man.openbsd.org/msyscall, which implements one-time registration of a contiguous range of pages permitted to invoke syscalls.
No more talk, just maps: start 2022 off with New Year’s Covid cartography
Yeah I’m sure there is a large margin of error there. Avg HR is around 160 with peak of 190
Same here. His message to his newborn daughter immediately gave me tears.
Was there an HN post about this already?
Translations, revised editions (to fix typos, add examples or change the bookcover) and adaptations to other media formats are examples of derivative works, so copyright law would be pretty useless without that kind of protection.