skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This “hoax” has killed nearly a million people in the US alone. Countries that enforced stricter measures have significantly lower per capita rates.

We have untold millions of samples showing the original virus and mutations.

If you haven’t been sick or dead: congratulations many people are asymptomatic and you appear one of them. Happily that means that you are simply a carrier host that can transmit to others.
OK, this is now closer to approaching a cogent counter-argument. So why exactly is it that having something at stake would lead someone to answer that question differently?

And why do you think human beings can't think hypothetically about the condition of having something at stake, the same way we can think hypothetically about most everything else?
It seemed to me like remote schooling leads to students not paying attention at all (in particular younger students who need guidance), and just minimizing the stream while doing other stuff, based on other posts I read. Hence it seems like a lose-lose.
I’m not claiming that all public companies are unethical. I’m claiming that all public companies have some unethical investors. That is, the operations of the company directly benefit some unethical actors. This has nothing to do with “money being tainted” in general.

Just to be clear, this is what you said that I was responding to:

> I think the concern is that they are taking money from someone with highly debatable/questionable ethics.

Some investors in almost all public companies have highly debatable ethics.
The Strange Phenomenon of Mukbang
How do you guys debug bevy? Especially on Windows?
Extreme weather can occur in both directions. A year with more rain may be less prone to fire but more prone to flooding. It also does not take natural disaster to notice extremes. People who have lived in the same area awhile will know if there is an unusually wet, dry, hot, or cold year.
I never became comfortable with neither the scope of systemd as a project, nor the ever expanding set of skills required to effectively use it. I was tempted to use the word mastering, but that would make the goal seem even more elusive, especially since with every new version one's knowledge would have to expand to cover its new features. 10 years later, it still looks to me like the project with a solution for everything in the IT industry, following trends, trying to cover all the bases. Always new things to learn, always the goalpost moving further and further.
Is there a reason having a local login + apple services is much better than the “default” Apple ID login account?

Obviously this issue of needing to change accounts is problematic and I can see resetting your account password through your Apple ID to be a pro/con depending on the person. Is there something else I’m missing?
I miss AIM, honestly. Nothing quite matches it, these days.
"raisin d'oatmeal" is my new favorite saying.
Luckily we have the freedom to act as we wish.
The article argues that non-urgent non-important things still have value, but I'm not sure that's a good way of looking at the matter; it sounds like given the examples (playing an instrument, ...) are actually important in the author's value system and were just misclassified as not being so.
There seems to be a common lifecycle of indexes within applications. First you start off with almost none, maybe a few on primary keys

Not to be rude or anything but I hope he doesn't mean this.

Every single postgres primary key (and unique constraint) automatically gets an index. That's how the unique constraint is implemented. Primary keys being naturally unique.
Yes, right after the change (back in the day, you could view anyone without them getting notified, or being able to see who'd been checking them out), a small cottage industry of "snoopers" popped up. They charged something like $1 - $3.5 pr. query. But that seemed to have died out a bit now.

I think most people simply don't care enough to check out other people, while risking to come off as a snooper.
If you can name some things you like, I'll try to name some Netflix originals that might match?

I think you could be pleasantly surprised
It looks nicer than most wiki software out of the box, has nice integrations and editor stuff. So aesthetically it's very pleasing and it's pretty easy to use (the big asterisk is when performance gets in the way and suddenly stuff is slow).

In theory I'm sure you could sit around, write a billion plugins to some other wiki software, and get to confluence. But you could also just pay for Confluence!

"As nice as Confluence but super speedy" is a ... $50 million dollar business (can't say billion cuz I mean atlassian does good work!)
Virulence refers to the ability of a pathogen to cause disease. Omicron is not more virulent. If anything it is likely to be much less virulent as it lacks the ability to infect lung tissue.

On the other hand because the infection is now concentrated in the upper respiratory tract, patients are much more likely to exhale and spread the virus. On top of that, the virus has sufficiently mutated thus existing vaccines and prior infections have very limited protection. Combined with the lack of ventilation and increased time spent indoors in winter, this translates to more infections.

I don't know whether "everyone" is going to get it eventually. However I have heard anecdotes that multiple insular communities in the US that have largely avoided the previous Covid strains are now badly afflicted by omicron. That is how infectious the virus is.
Covid isn't some seasonal ensemble. It's still very possible to catch the Delta variant.
Distance isn’t the best proxy for difficulty of a space mission. The delta-v to get to low lunar orbit is higher than the delta-v to get to L2. The delta-v required for lunar landing is considerably higher. And all of these manoeuvres are much less than the delta-v required to get to LEO.
> "They don't control redistribution". - They very much control it for the NFT itself.

Who gives a shit? The NFT has no actual utility.

> Yes, you can right-click and save an image all you want, but that doesn't mean you own the NFT.

Again, the NFT itself has zero actual utility. The thing it points to is what people want to look at, listen to, read, or experience.

> you can buy an oil painting from an artist, but that doesn't come with a copyright either. Same for almost all physical goods.

If I have physical possession of an actual non-fungible physical good I have exclusive control over it. I can lock it away in a vault and never show it to anyone. I can hang it in my house and only let my friends see it. They can't right click on my painting and walk away with an atom-for-atom copy of it.

> In that respect, this is very much an experiment in speculation, but all it takes is for a community of people to agree to honor the data on a particular blockchain and that can support a thriving economy like NFTs have for the last couple of years.

If we only get enough people to participate in a shared delusion, these Geoffrey dollars will be worth a fortune!
A lot of them are "optional" but strongly preferred. E.g. if one or two of the mirror wings failed to deploy, JWST would still be usable, but with a degraded resolution.

If one or two layers of the sunshade failed to correctly deploy, JWST is still usable, but the temperature of the mirrors would be higher than expected, and thus the spectrum of IR light it can image would be reduced.

If the momentum flap fails to deploy, then more fuel is needed to keep the JWST at the right attitude/position, shortening the lifespan of the mission.

But some others were make or break: deployment of the solar panels, deployment of the secondary mirror and a few others. If those had failed then the mission would be over.
True.. I feel like a complete idiot now, thanks hahahaha. WTF I was thinking holy sh*t
I think Sabine's point is more limited than "current models would be poor tools to use for deciding what to do about climate change", and more like "current models would be poor tools for extreme weather attribution".

Of course, if your threshold for action on climate change is strong extreme weather attribution, then ok. But I think it's reasonable to also have lower or different thresholds for planning nad action.

I do feel queasy about the current phrasing of extreme weather attribution, especially as portrayed in the media.
So a link from June 2020. The CBS news link I posted post-dates it, and contradicts it.

Edit: actually, it doesn't even contradict it, per se. The articles are saying the same thing, but the WaPo story just tries to generalize from a single school, without admitting it. FTA:

> At Hoyonomori Gakuen, a school in Tokyo’s Shinagawa ward, the new rules, including temperature checks, are set down in a 28-point plan designed by the school to minimize risks.

So, again, the schools determine their response. This is also my understanding of the situation.
Models say only what the modeler tells them to say.
People absolutely do use bitcoin mining for heating. It's just not yet popular enough, and it makes sense only in certain climates.
It's not an Apple thing, it's a carrier thing. MMS (green) data sizes are controlled by the carrier. WhatsApp doesn't use MMS and is a closed protocol.

iMessage (blue) sent messages are similarly a closed protocol and unencumbered by the carrier.
I kind of wish the title was "Healthier and Happier".

Despite this calamitous oversight (wink), articles such as this are a great source to be able to draw on others' experience and reap the benefits of others hindsight without experiencing the outages or time consuming problems yourself.
Not really… these telescopes aren’t like snapping a photo, they take long exposures. The famous hubble deep field image was a 20+ day exposure time spread out over months (due to orbits, etc).

Trying to get an image out of it too early would just be a mess, it’s kind of an all or nothing affair. The sensor needs to be at the right temperature and the mirrors need to be precisely aligned. It’s all built to be outrageously sensitive so it can operate at the level it’s meant to.

Also, each image it’s scheduled to take has been submitted years in advance.
> Glucose can be processed by every single cell in human body.

That processing hinges on a healthy insulin response to keep blood sugar levels in check. Which for a large part of the population is probably not the case.

Again with a suitable amount of fibres to go with that glucose intake, the load can be levelled somewhat though.
>> Could you point me to where they claim to have fine-tuned Codex?

I can't find that in the paper so I must have imagined it.

>> Codex is currently free in closed beta, but I guess cost will be the same.

In my previous comment, I'm referring to the "amount of resources" needed to train GPT-3 and then fine-tune Codex, of course.
What about the reports of users that were iMessage users, and then decided to switch to Android? And then Apple just does buggy, shitty things to them like sometimes not send SMS messages from iPhones to them. Which causes users to blame Android, for an apple bug? How is that no anti competitive?

If Apple wants imessage to compete with SMS, they could have made one app for SMS, and one app for imessage. But Apple doesn't want to compete with SMS. Apple wants to kill SMS, and be the only game left in town. It's similar to the old tactics that Microsoft used to use. Only difference is Apple has a much better marketing department.
Not really, you are talking about overall, while the data I was presenting was mostly specific to the topic at hand: School kids. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden...
Is the CS publish system broken?
I really do not think that all good ideas can be cooked and published in under r6 months and in the window of time required to do a submission for a top conference.
https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2006

Interesting to see how IRC peaked around 2005. The current most popular network, Libera, has a fraction of the users that Quakenet did 17 years ago.
I would have said, check your shared buffers memory and concurrency are configured right for the environment you are running on. The defaults are wrong for most production environments and the right values are highly server dependent. If you haven't specifically tuned them for your production server, chances are they are wrong and you are leaving substantial memory and / or concurrency on the table.
Embedded programming, signal processing, performance optimization.
I don't think it's fair to assume that startup founders who have applied to a Thiel Fellowship did so because of ignorance (or because they are young or "foreign").

My assumption is they obviously know he's a "titan of industry" and that's obviously why they applied for the fellowship. They may not know or care about his politics, and (yes, partially due to the fact that the bulk of these events transpired when they were much younger) may not be aware of some of his more loathsome antics.

I'm not condemning these people, or saying they're stupid. If anything I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, here.

If someone won't work for a company because a particular VC funded it, I can imagine there a much higher probability of that person causing trouble wherever they end up.

It's called ethical backbone. It is perfectly acceptable to not want to work for companies that are engaged in any manner of unethical practices. Or for people who are basically unethical and/or toxic. Or for companies they fund.

If this kind of stance falls under the rubric of "causing trouble" then well, that's the world you chose to live in.
Tails and they choose the one to the right. Which means that in 1 of 3 games the host will accidentally reveal the prize.

And what happens then? I mean, I think people have said from the start, that this behavior is outside the specification of the problem - which is that the host opens a door and reveals nothing.

The situation is about only the situation where the host choose the door with nothing. The host "opens one door without a prize". The key detail is this, "opens one door without a prize", not "knows where the prize is". If the host doesn't know where the prize but still, by chance, "opens one door without a prize", then, in this situation the contestant's information remains the same and the odds remain the same.
Oh I see! Right, yes, that applies to my two inverters, which have an "off grid" mode which I don't use for this reason.

The electrician who wired in the system offered to add in an isolator to cut the house off from the mains. That way I could use the "off grid" mode, but it'd have to be something pretty bad for me to want to use it & reconfigure the inverters too.
But how many people to multimedia desktop publishing or photoshop level editing of photos? I bet it's far less than the number of coders and people who just need a system for web browsing and light office suite usage and other "light" tasks. Linux is perfectly fine for those people. the only people I can think that aren't "almost there" are hardcore gamers and people who need professional software that only runs in windows or macos. Most things in business are in the cloud these days anyway.
No hosting offerings from myself right now although there are a couple of companies offering hosting (One of which is a sponsor on the homepage linked in the post).

There was a similar question earlier with my more verbose thoughts in regards to hosting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852376
I agree. The paper exaggerates. I was commenting on the workflow you described.
Also, I want to note my favorite part of current blockchain apologists. Instead of presenting counter-arguments, they list projects working on that problem or working on an alternate solution to that problem. You say X is a problem, and it would be if XChain didn't exist, duh. XChain is removing the entire need for X. Are there lists of blockchain projects that the apologists memorize, or is being "into crypto" all about being familiar with a never ending list of projects? How many of these projects last a year? Ugh.
Great, close the school till there is adequate staffing to teach the curriculum.

Warehousing students is wrong (especially so when creating a super spreader study hall), our school systems should not hold kids hostage with threats like charging a kid with truancy if the school is not fully staffed.
It's probably whatever was popular when you started using technology to stay in touch with your friend group.

For millenials in the USA, that's SMS/text messages. I'm a older than millenial, but too young to be a boomer. I prefer email. Boomers I know tend to prefer phone calls. "Why can't you just pick up the phone" is a common complaint.
awesome :) Thank you.
Final update: I feel like a complete idiot. As @tobiasbischoff said, a simple user swap could resolve all of this.. I hope tomorrow I can recover my lost IQ from today! ahhahaha.

PD: Apple, fix this anyway please.
I really like this animated visualization of the Raft consensus algorithm: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/ ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326645
The title doesn’t seem to match the tone or tenor of the article very well.

It could just as easily say “US Covid deaths are 3x that of Canada’s - despite its hospital bed shortages. The difference? A more collectivist ethos.”
If you have some time you can afford to invest, help out on a popular open-source project (one that you're interested in, and that has lots of open issues which need curating/investigating/fixing). This will help you:

1. Build work experience for your resume
2. Develop expertise with the software that the project uses and produces
3. Generate ideas for your own startup
4. Meet and interact with prospective customers for your own startup, or prospective coworkers at other startups where you might like to work

Do that for 6 months or a year, and then try applying to startups which use that open source project (or start your own business solving a common problem that users run into with that project).
> Many, many people are completely checked out, burnt out after having to endure too many mentally draining and often pointless zoom meetings

so how come they are able to function pre-pandemic, having the same meetings in the office?
Tutorial to make your own NFT
I would like to start playing around with NFTs, Can someone point me guides or tutorials please?
In most states funding is related to attendance somehow, I think the details vary. At one time I think there was a thought that districts would take truancy and absences more seriously instead of ignore it if there was an impact to the bottom line.
Part of what made irc, irc is that it was decentralized. A single server breaks the entire premise of IRC. EFNet literally could not exist if it weren’t decentralized.
Was going to comment, anecdotal but I'm 24 and I absolutely prefer texting people with iMessage.

It's also a slight verification in some situations — if I were to get someone's number from a dating app, or chat with someone from Facebook Marketplace and the message was green, I'd be much more hesitant to message them.

It's a negative signal to me if it's green, as they may be using a Google Voice number or any other fake number system. This isn't to say someone couldn't have a burner iPhone, but it's way more effort than simply having a Google Voice number, and I haven't encountered that.
Most of the problems in the post are because the teachers are sick.

The kids are going to school. Teachers are out sick. Unless you have an infinite supply of teachers, it’s hard to keep schools running normally during a COVID outbreak.
I don't hate Peter Thiel but I feel compelled as an American to say I believe that we should find ways to improve our democratic system, not get rid of it. Thiel seems to believe democracy doesn't work and presumably technocrats such as himself would be better running things. Perish the thought.
Really love mobile sites that full-frame their YouTube embeds. It makes scrolling impossible without auto playing each video and interrupting whatever audio
I have playing currently.
Yeah, I don't think I've seen such an incoherent attempt to ban someone from having an opinion. It's on a level with saying you can't disapprove of Harold Shipman until you've got a medical degree.

Presumably we all have to spend the rest of our lives running around getting various professional qualifications and careers, just so that we can have opinions on utterly generic moral questions which happen to be faced by someone with that degree.
Google wouldn't assign any IP over without some terms and conditions, which may be what's limiting them from adopting it.
This is a pretty extreme claim to make without references. Have you looked at climate change computer models? Which ones what are your credentials in making this sort of "code review"? Etc.
No. The museum will be built atop its first exibit: tranquility base. See Futurama s01e02.
I spent a few days making a (very) basic 2D game engine in Rust for fun. One thing I found is that I didn't find Rust that helpful in preventing bugs due to the nature of game engine code. For instance, I was using a generational array to store components. At some point I had a use-after-free bug in the generational array code that the Rust compiler could never catch. Also, components tend to have circular references to one another, which was very annoying to program in Rust. I'm curious if you've experienced something similar and what your thoughts are now, after many months in the trenches, on Rust's suitability for a game engine.
Sony Launch EV: Will Other Techs? Apple, Meta, MS, Google, Amazon, Netflix?
> The state whose official slogan is "Live Free Or Die". I'm not surprised.

Considering they share a border with a richer more populous state with a 380-something year legacy of "step in line or GTFO" I am surprised.
Yeah, my "with friends" chat moved from MSN -> Facebook -> Skype -> Discord. My "with family/professional relations" moved Email -> Facebook -> Whatsapp in the same time. My "random internet groups" moved MSN -> IRC -> Discord -> Matrix.
Read Ray Dalio’s just recently release 576 page book “ Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail” and you will get a far deeper understanding how he comes to that conclusion. I personally thought it is an incredible well researched book with lots of analysis including historical perspectives. Worth the read to understand the big cycles.
I mostly agree with the maturity argument and because of that all the attempts to push more decision making (like voting) on younger people seem strange to me.
But the most curious topic for me at the moment is why we are lowering our expectations for 18-25 years old. We used to see them as young but fully capable adults (granted that is a shift from 14-16 years from 100-1000 years ago).
I understand the educational part of the argument as well but some of the trends seems very strange to me. For example: as far as I understand there is no strong expectation that ppl after high school know what they want to do and it’s normal to take 1-2 years break between school and college. Is it a new thing? I don’t really know. But I can’t find comparable breaks in history or other (less wealthy) societies.
Health insurance cut off dates are 21 (25?) years old. University system seems more and more similar to a nice place to spend time (better dorms before better classes) than to the place to efficiently receive your education.
It's called whatsapp. Doesn't suck, is multi platform, has a bunch of features, and the end to end encryption means that all the privacy fears people have are FUD. Only valid complaint I have is that they are too restrictive with their bot api, can't really experiment with chat bots unless you are are an established company already, and established companies are not great in experimenting.