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>Is Austria on a different track when it comes to the epidemic?

Austria and Switzerland have shockingly high vaccine skepticism rates when compared with other advanced European countries like Ireland or Denmark.

I have no explanation for why this just that when they were measuring vaccine skepticism Switzerland and Austria were up there with Romania and Bulgaria and I was spitting out my coffee at the chart.

So it could be N95 masks are effective but other mechanisms are letting down these populations.
I'm 54 and my brain is as effective as in my twenties, if not more. Where's the evidence that the human brain "slows down by a factor of at least 2"?
#1. Tell them: “You’ll be tended to by sexy nurses bearing pointy objects!” Well, some people are into that."
Air pressure is strongly correlated to temperature. Cooling the air after compression reduces pumping effort during storage, reheating it increases turbine head pressure during generation.
+1 I really enjoyed the "Essence of ..." playlists from 2blue1brown.
To the best of my knowledge that thinking is spot on.

A possible component that might be missing (in the thinking and/or in the proposed implementation): the stored heat could also be utilised separately if needed, so if you have an intermittent heat consumer and an intermittent electricity consumer you could consume the heat first, then leave the remaining compression energy (what you could recover without reheating) "forever". Bonus points if you also happen to have a coolant consumer to benefit from the temperature delta caused heat loss or premature heat consumption.
Name and shame them.
I don't know of published applications of demand estimation in software in particular. I know that Microsoft and Amazon do this to estimate demand for cloud services, but I don't think any of that is publicly available.

In principle, _any_ time that Amazon wants to make a decision about offering an in-house version of some product that is already sold in their stores this is the kind of thing they will do first (again, none of these estimates are public to my knowledge).

There are prominent applications in:

- automobiles (Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995) - the originators of the technique),

- alcohol (Miravete, Seim and Thurk, (2018) - relevant especially to the case of a high-dimensional product space),

- the minivan (Petrin (2003) - relevant to studying a new product),

- breakfast cereal (Nevo (2003) - this is a surprisingly innovative and competitive market category!)

- radio stations (Sweeting (2013) - probably the current state of the art econometrically)

- studying vertically organized markets with unobserved prices (Villas-Boas (2007))

- (There are other applications beyond those listed here - demand estimation is a foundational issue for answering many, many, many economic questions.)

Depending on the specific features of the software demand estimation problem you are thinking about, you may find any of those references helpful.

Two very recent surveys have been published by four of the top people in this area:

1. Gandhi and Nevo: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29257

2. Berry and Haile: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~pah29/Foundations.pdf

Plus there is a now-standard Python implementation of the estimator:

https://pyblp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
> as long as Rust depends on LLVM, it won't fully make it

Why won't it? I haven't really used rust or LLVM before, so I am genuinely curious.
While it is certainly possible you got sick on the airplane itself, don't factor out the trip to the airport (cab/public transit) and all the different crowds your have to deal with at the airport itself. I know airport staff do the best they can, but during particularly busy travel times airport bathrooms can be incredibly disgusting in my experience.
> Why would a virus become unviable just because it's embedded in a smaller droplet?

From my scan, it looked like some of the smaller droplet sizes were due to desiccation of larger particles. As a particle desiccates, concentrations will change, and maybe they'll change in a way that makes the virus non-viable E.g., imagine a freshwater lake that contains certain amount of salt, as you dry it out it will get saltier and saltier, to the point where freshwater fish can no longer live in it. Eventually you get a salt pan.
Any time.

I will point out though, I would rather be undignified and call out bad arguments, than saying it takes a "certain type of person" to show bad arguments.

Prove me wrong. Show me the arguments that actually do make sense. I'd love to have a good reason not to sit on the fence, these spikes ain't doing my piles any good.

But quite frankly, my dignity doesn't care.
No, it's that it happened right next to a centre doing Gain Of Function research on coronaviruses.

If you prefer to close your eyes and keep blaming a bat in the nearby Wuhan fish market, you're free to do so.
> Earth's heat is way lower down

Very incorrect.
Yes. I would like to learn more about your union experience.
It’s worth noting that PyPlot.jl is a nearly seamless way to use matplotlib from Julia. JIT compilation of the middle layer does mean that it suffers from time to first plot problems though.
The original 1948 constitution stands with a series of amendments. The June Democracy movement of 1987 did not rewrite the constitution, they merely passed an amendment limiting the powers of the executive branch and strengthening democratic process. Collective bargaining rights have always been a feature in the South Korean economy and it would be exceedingly difficult for anyone to change this.
For a fun and fairly basic task, consider giving the 2019 advent of code a try. You will end up with a basic emulator for an imaginary machine, but you will get to solve interesting puzzles with it.
Device type: iPhone 12 Pro. Latest iOS.

It’s really about not having the controls to do the things I normally do on a phone. A few examples:

- checking checkboxes is a nightmare. 7/10 times I attempt to check a checkbox on mobile it thinks I want to edit the block (assuming it’s because the touch points are too small - a native app would give better controls over explicitly editing certain parts of a block).

- reference brackets always produce something like this [[[something]] with the extra “[“. No idea why this happens, but it’s really annoying to type out [[, start typing my text, then get [[[ and have to manually move my cursor (which is already cumbersome on iOS) to delete the extra bracket.

- copying and pasting is easily my most used feature on mobile for almost any app. Copying in Roam on mobile is very unreliable. Sometimes text is selected, other times an entire block (which doesn’t actually produce a copy to my clipboard when I copy) is selected. A mobile app (or I guess a pwa could do the same) would allow for something like a copy button.

- lots of other small little quirks that I’m less concerned about: having to double click to create a new block, mobile menu bar is partially cutoff, etc.
Are new and renewed leases not the only ways rents can go up? That’s the main point of the lease term for the tenant?
comment of the year, and it's not even friday
Tech workers are extremely ununionised, especially in the US. While this may be the case in other industries (though I doubt it - Germany famously has much better labour laws than the US and other European countries), I don’t think it has any effect on developer salaries.
Update: it’s working great. This is amazing, and I’ll incorporate it in on all my computers!
I am very pro-union, but I feel like a part of situation you are describing is because we needs businesses. We don’t necessarily need unions. Without unions, businesses would still be here. Without businesses, where would the unions be?

Edit: I would like to reiterate that I am pro-union. I am just saying that unions are optional, but businesses (or the government as some have pointed out) are more necessary from the standpoint you don’t usually form a union and then start a business. I like unions, but they are technically optional and I think that fact is what leads to people being more critical of them. When businesses/government sucks, there’s kind of a “well that’s how it is I guess.” When a union sucks, there’s a “why even do this then?”
There are a lot of stranger things typescript makes you do make things work properly =P

Rescript doesn't make you do strange things. The async/await stuff is annoying for sure, but after 3 years of using it, we've kinda forgotten about it.
This is The Telegraph, a conservative UK paper that published such Covid-19 misinformation as the common cold conveying immunity against Covid-19 and the lockdowns were dumb and herd immunity was the way. Being devoid of fact is a feature not a bug. Fluff pieces like this from biased news sources known for spreading misinformation have no place on Hacker News.
This is the stupidest take.
youd be surprised at the waifu market size
Take a quick look at https://braintool.org Its an extension that saves bookmarks (+ notes) to an org-mode formatted text file that can be auto-synced to google Drive. The org file can then be edited and accessed from emacs or any other plain text editor.
Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’
Reminder that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, already has a union. AWU-CWA Local 1400

https://alphabetworkersunion.org/
It is being added, but not yet there in 2021 edition.

Without a proper async runtime it is very hard to write portable asynchronous code, as each library is tied to a specific runtime.
Naive question but couldn't our forerunners who otherwise succumbed to cold in harsher climates have exploited this fact to dig subterranean villages and towns?

What's the element I'm missing as to why they didn't?
> A side effect of that choice, however, is that Wordle is suddenly being ripped off in app stores by other developers who smell a quick way to make money off of unsuspecting users that either don’t care or don’t know any better.

Might I interest you in the 100s of shameless clones of apps IN the app stores.
Ah, sorry. More to your point, there's a debate (particularly among economists) how much of a degree credential is "skills" vs. "signaling". The proportion of the latter would indicate how much a prestigious degree status matters.

As a side-note, I don't think "respectable" and "prestigious" are synonymous, so you might be reading too much into their claim.
FCA Screening for those working in "controlled functions" for services providing financial services.

On the strictest interpretation it isn't everyone and only applies to a few roles.

However just like other compliance it tends to be applied by financial firms in a risk-averse maximal approach rather than a minimal approach. So it's not uncommon for background checks to be applied to all staff at a company or who provide services to such a company.

I don't agree with such maximal interpretation of the compliance rules, but this is how it happens and having that conversation with HR during interviewing is just going to get you excluded.

The original poster likely wants to avoid US travel too... given that it will require a visa due to moral torpitude.
Great article, thanks for writing that. A small question for the author: in the Addressable_intf.S signature, read_byte has regular arguments and write_byte named arguments. Is there a reason for that?
I don't think latency is multiple dispatch's fault.
Certainly, compilation caching failures aren't.
It's going to come down to the ventilation of the space you're in regardless. We're back to square zero: improperly ventilated indoor spaces are a huge public health concern, even beyond covid.
It’s incredibly presumptuous to assume you know someone else’s best interest better than them. If someone makes a different decision than you, maybe it’s because they value things differently than you and not that you’re sooooo much smarter than them,
Still better than a surgical mask. Would be better if you dropped the beard but don't let that discourage you from moving in the right direction.
The American idea of a union seems worlds apart from what I know in western Europe.

Over here, jobs are not favorably handed out to union members just for being a union member. It's completely irrelevant if you're a union member. Not only does it not directly favor you in getting in, you also don't get any individual protection.

What a union over here does instead:

- Collective bargaining of salary increases, yearly. Mostly based on the macro trend of the economy. It's not even the goal to maximize the increase, above all the goal is maintain purchase power. So it aims to compensate inflation, and will leave the rest to markets and individuals.

- Protection is only collectively, for example when a mass firing of workers is pending. Or when terms are suddenly dramatically worsened for all workers at once. Here a union may step in. And it will engage in a large number of steps before going to the absolute last resort: a large strike. Which are rare. Even strikes are regulated and bound to federal terms.

The American version sounds like a bad movie.
> Then Google should just hire 100,000 devs this year, why not?

Hold up that's actually a good idea. It would help a lot of entry level devs bulk up their resume and learn hands on skills. This would lead to an influx of sorely needed new talent to the entire tech industry and enable a lot more innovation than was possible before, if only due to HR red tape.
Only 50%; the month is zero-indexed, but the day isn't.
> But what other than artificial scarcity drives people to spend hundreds of dollars on bots to snipe sneakers?!

There's a whole sneaker collecting subculture. Some buy and wear while others just collect. The big names in sneakers do release limited production models or limited runs of certain color combinations.

Similar to any other collecting subculture.
I think using the expected logarithm of the number of solutions (entropy) makes more sense from an information theory perspective. I wonder if it works better in practice.
I hadn't thought about it that way. I was good at algebra, but can't get through calculus to save my life. I've mostly found that coding is more about logic than math. When math has come up in my work, it's generally a formula or calculation that's already defined and I just have to code it into a system, which has never been a problem for me.
Yeah like Hollywood actors —- why don’t they just drop their agents as they can negotiate themselves!
I'm not saying that no stock or great benefits aren't the common case. Rather, it's the GP saying that his salary is less than 1/4 of his total comp, which does not sound typical
If the company's in a competitive market, it's unlikely that there's a huge pot of gold somewhere to hand to employees in operations. The whole value-add for unions lately has been pitched as better employee representation in decision making. I'm all for that - if that stops management from colluding with some hedge fund to engineer an awful reverse-buyback-privitazation scheme to load the company with unservicable debt or something like that, I think unions have a lot to add.

But I can tell you from experience - it's definitely not "one lazy guy" - it becomes endemic because the process for dismissal becomes so costly. It's extremely demoralizing working alongside people who are "working the system" and are lazy as fcuk. It's better to just leave.
New variants are much more contagious, people don't wear masks all the time.
250 0-4 year olds died with Covid and 573 5-18 year olds died with Covid. Remember these are people that died in the hospital with a positive Covid test. One study out of UCSF found more than 40% of kids hospitalized with Covid were there for a reason other than Covid, like a broken arm, and then also tested positive with an asymptotic case. Likely the kids dying with Covid could be overcounted as well.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/study-number-of-kids...
Well, actually, people quite often mention pay as a reason to quit on forums like reddit. It isn’t the trigger, but low pay and difficulties coping financially, even with multiple jobs, is one of the top reasons that makes people leave their employment.
Pumped water only works if you have the right conditions. I.e. you need a certain altitude difference and enough space to have an upper and a lower water storage facility.

Pumped water storage is very efficient and an established technology, so when it's possible it's a good choice, but it's not possible everywhere.
Their point is that they're not trying to write generic code. In that case, Julia should act like an interactive Fortran, which would be nice, but then it needs to fix latency and binary building for the "this is pure Float64 and we know it" case. The only gain one really gets here is that type inference means you can write a bit simpler code, but that's not a huge win. That's a valid criticism that should hopefully be addressed soon, with https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/41936 being one of the biggest steps to getting there, along with the more precompilation stuff.
There's not really a shortcut... like lifting weights

And just like lifting weights, you will lose it when you stop doing it.

I remember doing the CFA program which is math and formula heavy. I had hundreds of formulas memorized. I couldn’t tell you the formula to calculate the standard deviation of a portfolio of three assets now if my life depended on it.
Redacted emails without any associated email thread for context with cherry-picked quotes published by two Republican Senators who have consistently spread Covid-19 misinformation.
Bcs as a lone expendable agent, your capacity to initiate company wide change is nonexistent.
I love the bio bit. That's a hilarious and really nice touch.
It can be hard to remove but usually not so hard to influence elections if and when the abuses are serious. If the union is protecting some do-nothing guy, you probably won't win an election on that, but effective theft of funds you absolutely would.
Regardless of the negatives unions bring, they still can be more beneficial to workers than to not have them. Unions can be corrupt, but is the other side of the table not corrupt as well?

My father, who did not finish high school, was able to earn a living as a construction worker that afforded us a computer in the 90’s. That is how I started programming which paved the way for to make $500k the last year I choose to work. This is absolutely survival-ship bias, but it’s my only experience with unions.
> but this is never used to discourage all participation in the labor force because employers are often shitty.

There are approximately 93 million adults (civilian noninstitutional population) that don't work[0]. I'm sure it's not all because of the employers themselves, but surely a lot don't want to deal with the politics and culture imposed on them by managerial talent [maybe some study on this portion of the population's reason for not working would be useful].

0: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm (Men, 20 years and over->Not in labor force + Women, 20 years and over->Not in labor force)
Lots of water in a reservoir is not particularly safe in itself. For example, in December 2000 at the Grande Dixence a high-pressure pipeline from the dam burst, causing a landslide that wiped out a small hamlet and killed three people. It's also not hard to find reports of massive amounts of casualties and/or property damage from dams that just outright fail.
If it makes you feel any better, those of us in the US wish we were doing as well as you guys.
Sorry but that's not true. You can adopt ReScript one file at a time. ReScript supports importing and exporting typescript types out of the box so you still get the type safety from "the other side"

We started using Rescript by adopting individual files until most of our codebase is ReScript. We still have Typescript lingering around but folks _choose_ to refactor it to Rescript because they've found it easier to work with.
> It only filters on the way in.

Absolutely not? How would that even work. A well-fitting half-face mask has virtually no leakage when breathing in or out.
I'm not saying it's not normal, I'm saying it was illegal at the time.
How many people are wearing N95s? I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild, only KN95 and that's still relatively uncommon. Most people are still going into social settings with no masks, so that's a more obvious reason for the spread.
None of those words (bullhide, copper, and ingot) even appear in the article. What do they have to with growing millet in the Sumerian summers?
Somewhat agreed.

I started a poll [1] asking if devs could get their employers to pay. Almost nobody answered. I'm not sure it would be possible to get companies to pay without regulation, as you say.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29893520
Sure one is proven to work, the other is about as well your underwear stopping your farts from smelling inside a car.

Please just end the scary virus fear mongering. This panic is ruining more lives than saving.
Warm air takes up more space. If you cool it before pumping it into the ground you will not waste time/energy.
If you pump warm air down it will lose heat into the ground and shrink and you would lose capacity - pumping that last x% the tanks will be fuller until they cool down.

You warm up the air on the way out to expand it and you get more air to spin the turbine. More bang for your buck.

I believe is the thinking.
I have a KN95. I can't get it to fit on the top. Always fogs my glasses. But when I breathe in, I can clearly see by the fabric's motion that air is substantially being pulled through the material rather than around it (edit: or that might just be pressure differential).

In any case, we are talking about mitigation of risk, minimization of exposure. If my mask is only filtering 80% of the air at 95%, that still a lot fewer viral particles I'm exposing myself to than otherwise. I don't think that its a matter of whether 1 viral particle gets through, but how many that determines likelihood of an infection or serious illness.

And its effectiveness is backed up by studies of unfitted 95s.
co-operatives?
> And Rust ints can overflow.

There are provisions to do math that won't overflow or that can saturate. For example https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u32.html#method.chec...
lots of mining caverns already had pressurized gas that was extracted, so those caverns are pretty tight to pump back some air
Im familiar with energy markets. Im also familiar with the fact that any serious seller or buyer of energy locks in yearly pricing contracts and is unaffected by these swings. Any serious datacenter or industrial buyer is not relying on spot pricing. These energy markets also dont exist in every state.
LLVM is written in C++, so any change of Rust compiler that requires changes in the backend requires C++ knowledge, and naturally dependency on a C++ compiler to get the rust compiler binary.
> wifi 7 isn't suddenly enabling that part of rf analysis or mathematics

It makes it suddenly ubiquitous when all new WiFi devices use the new standard.
I was taken aback by the photo that I have seen on the page, and it seems that it looks so wonderful to take a good look at the crops at the aerial view.
I don't know where you got that from my reply. I was simply answering the question of why people stay at Google if they are evil. I was answering the retention question only.