skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chances of hospitalization or death due to omicron are greatly reduced for individuals with two vaccines, and further reduced with a booster.

Any reduction in transmission rates pushes and deflates the peak, which is important because of limited healthcare resources.
Looks nice, do you have example how invoices look like? How about the legal requirement (in my jurisdiction) that invoices have consecutive numbers, do you allow to set that number (so it aligns with invoices not through your system).
Or maybe the photographer simply didn't take pictures of obese people, for whatever reason.
I never understood why they didn't expand the "did you maybe mean" section when they pushed into ML based query interpretation.

Let me search what I want to search the way pagerank trained me to. Keywords over sentences.

But if you want to start pushing in that direction why not just add a "you may find better results when phrased as" section which these models appear to be preferential towards.

From the examples, ngrok for example, search didn't even care to include the keyword in all searches, even if the page is more "popular" the fact you'd (and I have repeatedly had to) quote the term to insist it be included is nuts for a search engine.

Finding obscure bug solutions was already barely possible, but has become impossible when even explicit error messages are "interpreted" to 'why won't <unrelated program> do <unrelated keywords>' on StackOverflow because it noticed that the program uses the same library and has had some searches with the same process name in the error line.
TLDR; Euler's puzzle does in fact not get any solution, and HN is okay with false headlines.
You will notice that most of the photopgraphs have been made in direct sunlight. So he could have used high aperture and short shutter time. Most likely it was a fixed-aperture and shutter setup, since he could hardly have adjusted anything while shooting covertly. Still, not all of the photos are sharp, some do have motion blur, and some have grain, perhaps from pushing during development (i.e. correcting slightly underexposed shots).

But the technical basis was definitely on top of the game at the time, under the given conditions.
There is AdonisJS, a JS framework inspired by Laravel. I don't know if it has 1:1 feature comparison with Laravel, but for someone who uses Laravel daily like me, it seems nice.
Reading some of your other posts here, you have a lot of good points, and good data that I wasn't aware of before - so I want you to keep commenting, just not as offensively.

From a positive/factual perspective, speaking like you have will get you downvoted, flagged, and maybe even banned (it's unusual but it does happen) from HN. You're taking an unpopular position in a rude way and people don't like that. Adjusting the way you speak will get people to at least read and consider your points (if I see rude language in a comment that I'm inclined to disagree with already, my brain shuts off quick).

From a normative perspective, I believe that even people who refer to others as conspiracy theorists are worthy of respect - I'm a Christian and so I believe that all humans are made in God's image, including the ones that I vehemently disagree with, or the ones that try to silence my voice.

Again, I agree with a lot of the points you're making, and I want more people to see them, so please please please consider changing the approach you take on HN.
I would appreciate recommendations for learning about SMT solvers. A good book, for instance?
I wrote my Bachelor and Master Thesis about Smalltalk stuff and I still love it to this date.
You're not wrong, but Brent's articles are just about the cream de la cream for PHP. I'm glad to see him on the HN front page. I've been coding in PHP since 1999, so I've seen the language evolve from not-Perl to what we have today. For maybe two or three years now I've relied on to Brent to bring me up to the newest state of the art without having to parse changelogs and release notes (which I usually get to around March or April, a few months after the yearly December release).

For those of us in the PHP industry, I feel that the most concise way to stay up to date is with Brent's commentary and the Jetbrains PhpStorm blog.
i'm asserting that there's no personal definition - that's my opinion! I'm not asserting that my personal definition is XYZ!
Letting fully-vaccinated status lapse carries risks. If you wanted to go on holiday abroad late summer, then it would make sense to delay getting the booster (so it will still be in scope), surely a perverse incentive.
I understand your point but I find it reasonable to expect google to do some of this stuff on its own by now. I assume that only a small portion of its users know how to use "advanced" searches such as using quotes or ~ etc. In the same way that google uses search completion, they could try to group important parts together.

But I agree with you that the example search strings seems somewhat fabricated or at least especially selected to produce bad results. In my experience the best way to get good results is to use as little relevant search strings as possible. "databricks series b" has the right answer at position 1.
Based on more than a handful of videos I have seen, the reason for having security cameras could be just as much about protecting you from police/the legal system as it is about protecting you for insurance purposes and for dissuading criminals.
RTFM was always, "read the fucking manual."
In my experience, this is the first time I have seen TFA as anything other than "the fine article."
YMMV.
In fact, it said "free water without implied fitness for a particular purpose".
Tearing down existing nuclear power and constructing new nuclear power is two different things. To decomission nuclear power at a point where the country is still dependent on imported hydrocarbons is just a very strange.
Just leaving (or extending the lifespan) of existing nuclear in a transition period seems like the least one should do in Germany's shoes.

One can have an endless debate about whether nuclear power plants and/or wind/solar/something else should be built. But to have the discussion about whether existing plants that are here NOW should be stopped, at the same time as Russia is using the energy crisis in Europe as an opportunity for a land grab is... crazy .
It is lying, so kind of, I mean it is not exactly cheating because it does not solve the puzzle as it is not solveable, contrary to the false headline, but it is cheating in that lying to claim that it is a solution. Maybe some manner of fraud?
Follow-up question: why is there always someone like you, shit-talking someone for an inoffensive post, demanding evidence while also refusing to waste your precious time providing any?

Sorry if the cool kids are making make you feel left out, with their type systems and borrow checkers and monads.
I agree as well with this partially. I have mainly heard the statements along the lines. 'It's teenagers' executing the theft. From the wide spread and increasing amounts it seems to follow, more organized members are involved with what would be required next.

I won't pretend to state what happens to a stolen car. I have nothing but speculation and the obviously known facts. I can guess that given the targets are newer models of cars with at least one form or another of lowjack style tech. This does assume the crime is not spontaneously carried out, generally.

What happens after the 'more risk prone' portion is some level of organized crime and people using 'minors' to help deliver on this is my understanding.
There is no real producticity gain through not having semicolons and somewhat leaner syntax. That was never the bottleneck: ecosystem, libraries are.
He agrees with point 1 (although argues young people don’t need a booster as their risk is already very low) and argues point 2 isn’t really true as the reduction in risk of transmission wanes quickly and isn’t that strong to start with when it comes to the Omnicron variant.

Edit: Not sure why this submission keeps getting flagged. It’s from Vinay Prasad, Professor at UCSF and all claims are supported by data.
The idea is you'd have an email client but all data is stored encrypted on chain and you'd have to pay tx costs to send things. By having this sort of stamp tax spammer wouldn't be able to scale mass messaging as it would bankrupt them.
Here's an easy thought experiment: for any propose of the type "what if they had a system that did X?", imagine that someone tells you they'll give you 10 million dollars if you can figure out a way to game that system that can't be detected by Google.

If you spend 5 minutes on it, can you think of a way? If you can, congratulations, now imagine millions of other people thought about the same tricks and you get the reason why Google can't ever really win against SEO.
From European point of view and our SMS infrastructure, I find really funny this kind of discussion.

Besides, almost everyone uses Whatsapp, regardless of the phone brand.
But the puzzle was not asking about quantum ranks, so no, that would also be a false.
I played around with Squeak over Christmas (basically trying to implement a ray tracer, although I started to lose interest after I rolled my own Matrix implementation with all the transforms).

As far as working with the code, debugging, reading and writing were concerned, it was great. It really gave me a taste for thoughtful OOP, simple documentation, and even TDD-style development again, because the whole environment just worked perfectly for it in a way that would be hard to reproduce in a traditional language where you're organising things on the file system.

Dealing with version control was a little more awkward (getting Git in place), and I'm glad I didn't have to worry about deployment or any kind of maintenance. Possibly GNU Smalltalk would be an ideal middle-ground there.

It's also one of the few occasions where I've not really had to rely on the internet so much to get help when I need it. It's been enough to have a book on Smalltalk and to rely on the documentation in the IDE.
> Just be aware: you're arguing with a scientist who worked for decades on medical biology...

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

(I'm also glad the CDC employs more than just biologists, as statistics seems to be a fault here more than biology.)

> I wasn't talking in proportions, I meant absolutely.

Cool, so entirely pointless.

This popped into my inbox today: average daily cases, per-capita, for Seattle and NYC. Another clear distinction between the two populations. https://imgur.com/a/mjVxIhB

You can dismiss it as faked or rigged or manipulated again, but there's plenty of information out there to validate this sort of thing, and you don't have to take the US's word for it; other countries publish the same sort of information.
A similar thing happened in the Netherlands. The TV show is called Lingo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(Dutch_game_show)), it uses 5-letter words and you get the first letter for free. The guy who more or less beat it wrote a blog post about it: https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow/
Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year
The phrase is "what you talkin bout Willis" - I think it's from the American TV show Different Strokes.
I’m happy to see that the repo lists itself as one of the examples…
Funnily enough Lufthansa cancelled two of my flights in 2020. Their solution to avoid refunds was to completely remove my bookings from their system and assumes it no longer exists. Their local representative is clueless, their phone support never answers and there is no way to contact a human being there.

But now I get why: They have been busy flying empty planes.

I can't blame them too much though. They are trying to cope up with regulations and their competitors are fierce.
Imagine if Google had implemented the small feature set of iMessage and supported it on all OSes. Imagine how much market share they could have captured.
the very fact that you don't have to think about memory management it means that there is something else taking care of it. Call it GC or otherwise, no PHP dev will be think about memory management at all, unless they are building some long-lived, large data processing
NTSC is 29.97 fps and PAL is 25 fps - PAL was higher resolution because it sacrificed frame rate. (Doesn’t change your point of course)

(Back in the cathode days seeing a TV set in Europe was like going to a strobe show.)

As TFA says (well maybe it was in the comments) there are standard ways of conversion and you pretty much hit them but newer equipment will be able to playback 24fps natively to give the “cinema experience”.
The thing about iMessage is that you don’t need a separate app. You can have iMessage and SMS right next to each other.

Google never seemed to understand this convenience. They released Allo without any SMS support and were hostile so suggestions that it was a gating feature to adoption. Allo predictably failed as it offered no benefits over competing services, and no SMS fallback so that it could be the single messaging app.

If Google wants to level the playing field they should do it by competing and innovating. I suggest they start that endeavor by better understanding why people actually use iMessage in the first place.
(Disclaimer: I am nowhere near Law Enforcement, and I am a strong believer that LE does not get any special privileges such as qualified immunity as a shield for abuses)

It seems like there is some damned convenient setup there.

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A separate notice that provided guidelines to commanding officers said that while private conversations normally would not be "used to initiate a personnel complaint investigation or used against an employee in the adjudication of a personnel complaint," there was a caveat: "unless there is evidence of criminal or egregious misconduct." The board that heard the officers' case "determined the DICVS recording could be used as evidence in the disciplinary proceeding because the misconduct captured 'would certainly be classified as egregious,'"

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So, there is evidence which is not supposed to be used, unless it is used to prove "egregious" level misconduct, but the level of misconduct is detected/documented by the evidence which isn't supposed to be used? So, a post-fact justification? Uh huh.

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In my less pessimistic moments I like to think that many are not quite that uninformed and the interviewers find enough by sheer numbers interviewed.

What gets me is how easily inexperienced people are led to saying exactly what the interviewer wants. And it is blatant: they don't even pretend that isn't what they are doing on live news anymore.
Love these ambiguous enough titles to be either something interesting for the whole population (how to learn small talk) or something incredibly specific for one subset of the programmers population.
Only a problem if you're trying to be too inventive with it.

For most cases it's enough to just define interfaces, enums and maybe bundle some of this into discriminated unions. Throw in some generics for good measure. That's not a lot of work.

I've seen people do stuff like dependent types, but unless you're writing a library you don't actually need most of the type system's features.
I agree with all of that.

But I consider that bundling to be a bad thing.

And I wish large-scale money laundering was easier to deal with in a privacy-preserving way.
Let me be more clear about my comment above: I was responding to a message claiming that nuclear disaster produced a wildlife reserve. I do not care about statistics and causes of death in this context, because they are simply irrelevant (and of course I know those facts).
If someone said that Nazis postponed climate change by reducing population of Europe, would you be equally engaged in discussing the exact numbers?
The signal:noise ratio would certainly improve for anyone voting even if they didn’t use it to adjust other people’s search results.

I’m also skeptical that all of Google’s enormous investment in ML and staffing is completely powerless to identify bad actors with atypical usage patterns. What seems far more plausible is that they’ve decided it isn’t costing them more in ad sales than it brings in. There are individual domains which would improve results by being blocked but they also pay for search ads so … unsolved grand challenge of computer science it is!
I'm not sure if you did not read what I quoted, or I misunderstand something.

Yes, PHP has reference counting, but it also has specific process that kicks in to clean up circular references.
But you do vote on search results. Google knows if you stay on a page or leave it quickly for another result. That's an implicit vote that they definitely take into account.

Having that explicit button might not really add any additional value.
> Spoiler alert: the first array is the answer array for even future wordles.

That's presumably the reason why I wouldn't want to view the source.
Measuring trust in AI
Is the volume of personal credit not absolutely exploding right now because of the real estate boom?

Maybe I misread the entire paper - but it seemed that the premise was low interest rates are correlated with or cause low volume of credit.

My understanding is that government, personal, and business debt have all grown at one of the fastest paces in history.

Am I just completely wrong? Did I misread this post entirely?
It's a non sequitur for me. Does it mean that because I have lots of tools in my garage (I own means of production) and I can create company which makes some furniture, that I do need to exploit workers?
No way are we going to have battery powered cars as a future. Its just shifting the problem from consumer side (ICE pollution) to(Battery) production side. Also many countries still use coal etc to produce power. Fuel cells are the true future.
Clever hack!
The quality of a union heavily depends on its leadership, which must be accountable to union members. But yes, a carefully conceived structure would make that possible.

Problem is when said leadership starts to advertise particular interests instead of focusing on compensation and safety (work place safety, not neurosis compensation). A young union cannot really focus on much more because it is unlikely that it will get the support it needs initially.
Getting better. Well done
They're used in a generalised solution to cubic equations (analogous to the quadratic solution we all learn in high school), where they represent the side length of a square with negative area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo
I realized after testing some more, that the query might not have had many relevant search results. It’s still a strange tactic. Age is contextually important in my query - Google didn’t recognize this
That sounds plausible. There’s so much wild speculation taking place. Would certainly be nice to have better information.
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How is it more performant? If you have multiple threads than you will get serious atomic operation or other synchronization overhead.
This. And let's not forget that is the "average user" that mostly naively clicks on ads, not the power user. And selling ads is still Google core business.

Looks like Google is slowly turning into a big nigerian scam.
I can understand why people feel this way, and in the UK this is also somewhat prevalent. In part, it stems from the poor messaging on COVID risks (at the individual and population level) and control measures we have available. In short, the UK media are somewhat pushing "COVID is over" at the same time as "the only tool is lockdown, and we can't do that again". These two factors, I suspect, mean that people are encouraged by the vaccination-heavy strategy we're pursuing.

Children are one group for whom this strategy may be problematic, and is a more significant issue in the UK than US right now given that only 12+ are eligible. This review discusses some of the arguments around this topic: https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2021/11/01/archdischild-20...

We also have CEV and elderly groups for whom the vaccine still leaves a reasonable degree of risk. Here's an opinion piece that cites research into CEV & vaccine protection: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/30/vaccinated-yet-still-cl...

In addition to the health risk/benefit to the individual, there is also the societal cost to lost productivity. This is where keeping low COVID prevalence may be worth pursuing on a solely economic basis through low-invasiveness NPIs.

Of course, there's also the risk of escape variants, and that's just simple maths. As vaccine-only strategies do not keep R(eff) < 1, there is reasonable potential for escape variants like Omicron to surface. Though I am not an expert, I am personally sceptical of arguments that suggest the evolution pathways of a virus are constrained to low virulence.

In general, I think the UK is talking about living with COVID, but really means "ignoring COVID". There is room for making accommodations to our lives that keeps COVID incidence lower than present, and these are for the most part quite easy to do. Unfortunately, our vaccine-only policy & poor mask messaging has really damaged the public's appreciation for a multi-faceted public-health approach. The UK is currently enjoying far fewer restrictions than in the early waves, and life is for the most part "back to normal". However, high incidence rates after Christmas are leading to people adjusting behaviour despite few restrictions. Anecdotally, I would not visit the pubs that I went to in October/November because COVID incidence is ~7%.

It feels to me as though western countries have forgotten that the rest of the world is in the throes of the pandemic, and ignoring this fact isn't going to help us in the long run. Despite the fact that we're all tired of this pandemic, keeping on top of things doesn't have to be draconian, and will be in our best interests whilst the majority of the world are unvaccinated.
I'm just thinking there are times where there is a violent assault, for example, perhaps the person has previous and is basically a horrible person who was winding someone up or just doing stuff that most people would be disgusted with. Only some of that is easy to capture in law.

If a constitution/charter had something like "Our society does not accept people who are unecessarily aggressive or quick to get violent", then the perpetrator doesn't get away with it because they didn't actually hurt someone or reach the burden for proving "fear of violence" needed for assault.

Don't know. Probably not realistic but at least then a society could know how infrastructure, government and public services are directed; people who want to immigrate can see clearly that e.g. "We respect the rule of law and property" so that they don't think it is OK to not pay tax, to not insure their car etc; and also for people who are a pain because they are just selfish and do things that rub people up the wrong way, "we are mindful that the community is more important than the individual and the community can decide that they don't like what you are doing even if it isn't illegal"
Imaginary numbers simply represent a different and more powerful system like how integers gain power when you introduce 0 and negative numbers. Rational numbers (fractions) can’t represent irrational numbers like pi or e etc.

It’s often useful because you can use complex numbers as an intermediary step in many calculations (such as solving cubic equations) while still ending up with a non imaginary number at the end.

The history is actually fairly interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo
No, I just acknowledge that if I'm not going to look at something right now, it's unlikely that I'm going to ever.
Touching another human’s hand is disgusting? This type of fear may be the worst form of “long covid” symptoms to develop from this disease.