skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Our study found that if you have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, mild obesity and pre-diabetes or diabetes and are hospitalized with COVID-19, you have a one in four chance of developing ARDS, which is significant,"

This article is incredibly misleading. Please don't take it seriously.

First, note the dates: this study is pre-vaccine. You are vaccinated. This doesn't apply to you.

Second, note the wording: if you have X,Y and Z and are hospitalized -- that second part is extremely low probability, even if X,Y and Z are true. In other words, they're conditioning the statement on a rare event to make it sound like it's common for people with diabetes to end up with ARDS. It is not common. It's very rare (but maybe 30% less rare for people with 3+ risk factors.)

To be more specific, read this part carefully:

> Researchers from Tulane University, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Mayo Clinic followed outcomes for patients hospitalized between mid-Feb. 2020 to mid-Feb. 2021...Researchers compared 5,069 patients (17.5%) with metabolic syndrome with 23,971 control patients (82.5%) without metabolic syndrome. They defined metabolic syndrome as having more than three of the following criteria: obesity, pre-diabetes or diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.

> Patients with metabolic syndrome were 36% more likely to develop ARDS, almost 20% more likely to die in the hospital, more than 30% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 45% more likely to require mechanical ventilation.

In other words, if you restrict yourself to looking only at the sickest of the sick (i.e. people who are hospitalized; a small sub-population of everyone who gets Covid, strongly skewed toward the elderly), then those with 3+ risk factors are slightly more likely to die than those who do not have 3+ risk factors.

That's all that this study says. The MMWR study I cited more relevant to your situation, if only because you are vaccinated. You are very, very well-protected against severe disease. Even with diabetes.
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that would make for a fun gentoo ebuild
You don't need browsers for OAuth2. IIRC the 9front guys even have support for OAuth-based systems.
After TV has became almost universal, there is indeed a unification of accents. I believe it also happens in other countries as well. For Brazil, I believe it is not "accent-free brazilian portuguese" popularized by the media, but rather accent from the southeast region, specially Rio-São Paulo (the most economically developed region) and totally excludes beautiful accents like northeast (Nordeste) and south (Sul) ones which rarely find a way on media with exception of local TV shows.
I saw someone had a massive list of similar CSS frameworks here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29565438

Edit: also in here it’s a tool to quickly compare them all. I don’t know if one can mention a user so I’ll just link the comment.
> Fires happen all the time in industrial facilities. You detect them and put them out.

When we're talking about sodium fires in a nuclear facility, though, this comment reads to me like possibly a wry joke? I'm not even 100% sure it wasn't one, so apologies if I am responding inappropriately. It rather reminds me of an emergency physician I know who likes to comment that gunshot wounds are easy to treat; it's mostly a matter of plugging the hole. He enjoys seeing how saying it makes people squirm.
Compared to the others you mention Delphi is streets ahead. There's a free download at https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-dow...

Here's some resources to get you started

There's a free book here:
https://lp.embarcadero.com/Object-Pascal-Handbook-2021

and another here (pdf) (probably the best to start)
https://www.marcocantu.com/edelphi/EssentialDelphi_1033_2020...

There's intro videos here
https://www.embarcadero.com/resources/videos

They have a YouTube channel here, that has a lot of more in depth stuff
https://www.youtube.com/c/EmbarcaderoTechnologies

There's some books by Nick Hodges (former delphi product manager)
'Coding in Delphi' and 'More coding in delphi' for more advanced stuff

The negatives with delphi are its been poorly marketed for years, and it costs money to use, though the community edition is available now. Object pascal is a bit dated imho, but what makes Delphi powerful is the components, there's 2 the VCL which is the original in windows only, then fire monkey which is the new cross platform one.

If you want to see components have a look at tmssoftware.com for some drag and drop components, you can even make web applications with Delphi with their web components (they cross compile to javascript)
The Surface Go is nice. Tablet form factor, but it's an actual PC, albeit with one of the slowest modern laptop chipsets available.
I think you've got that backward. I think parent poster is complaining about teaching methods where the belief is that "answering questions" -> "mastery." "Grade-driven teaching" here refers more to the "all we're gonna do is give you homework and a test." It's like industrialization of teaching - no mentoring or individual conversation, just tests and reading material. When you've got 1 teacher and 20-40 kids, it's about all you can do.

Lots of passing of tests from short-term memorization that's then promptly forgotten.
I recently spent a fortnight using a 2009ish Asus EeePC with a whopping 2Gb of RAM. It wasn't terrible running Manjaro Linux i3. For all the browsing social media it was basically the same experience as the author. But for a handy note taking and anki machine by my bed it was perfect. I could type out notes on its almost full sized keyboard without distraction. I could review audio and picture cards just as fast as on my phone, but no danger of a notification or "accidently" opening facebook.

On a small screen a tiling window manager is a must IMHO. No space wasted by bars or widgets, and any app can be full screen at the touch of a button.

The only reason I stopped was it developed a whine in the CPU fan that was particularly annoying.
It's a parody of the ridiculous notion that geeky men try to keep women out of their hobbies. Reality is that geeky men are practically gagging for women to share their interests.
Effects of photon recycling and scattering in perovskite solar cells
I’m in the same boat, I’m learning game engines and so many libraries are in C++.

It feels impossible to use Rust or Zig, but I have hope I can use Nim. It can compile to C++ and has a simple-ish way of wrapping C++ code. Maybe it would interesting for you too?
Have you actually been through this before ?

I ask because my experience wasn't the same so I'm interested in other perspectives.

One experience that jumps to mind right away - a few years back I was in charge of mentoring a group of interns. The thinkering/enthusiastic guy was smart and reminded me of myself at that stage - but I was a terrible employee at that point and it took a lot of failing to get productive, and this guy had all the same faults - overcomplicated things, didn't focus at task at hand, wasn't paying attention to requirement details... all this made him unreliable and a pain to work with.

There was one guy in the group who was average capability/enthusiasm but was hard working and focused. Wasn't the fastest to figure things out but if I left him with a problem I could see he put effort and tried to pay attention.
IIRC a spinning space station would only be beneficial if it was very large and thus far from Earth and expensive.

Otherwise the difference in gravity acting on different sides of the body and more importantly the Coriolis forces would wreak havoc and cause more harm than good.
The history of nuclear administration in Japan should teach us that privatization of nuclear energy generation is a bad idea. I realize a lot of people will read this who have specialist knowledge on the subject but that’s not really relevant to my criticism:

The purpose of the infrastructure should not be to profit but to power profit engines. This allows us to focus on safety and reliability in a way which has been shown to be difficult or impossible under private ownership.

Also, before replying with examples of bad public ownership, I am in no way arguing that “government good.” Simply that the incentives set up by public ownership set projects like this up for failure in a way which public ownership can avoid.

The consequences of failure here are too great to risk exposing it to the profit motive.
> if the faults of the application is severe enough that its worth continuing burning fossil fuels until/if there is a new and better source of energy

You make it sound as if the only two options we had were to build these reactors or to burn fossil fuels. These are not the only two options that you have.
Stress should be an answer. Life balance is different than being mentally traumatized. At least that’s what a guy I know told me.
If a cartoon drawing can be art, then NFTs can be art. "Fine art," even if it's Andy Warhol's soup can, are generally judged by a higher standard, even if the standard has to do with the concept more than the execution.

Sure, you can call anything art. But in that case, what's not art? There has to be a line drawn somewhere. Just because a bit of graphics is popular and draws in a lot of money doesn't mean diddly.

This is a hotly debated topic even before NFTs. I for one respect and agree with Wikipedia's decision.
It's not really that electricity is more efficient (is IS more efficient in most cases, but a key point of the book is that we can't "efficiency" our way out of the climate crisis). It's that as long as the generation of electricity is clean, the use of it is also clean. We already have clean ways of generating electricity that are cost-competitive with fossil fuels, and by scaling up production it will actually end up massively cheaper than fossil fuels. But there is a high upfront cost to switching, so financing the switch is one of the biggest challenges.

The book is quite thorough in laying out all the challenges (eg, handling variable production from renewables, how to get buy-in from existing fossil fuel stakeholders, etc) and presents realistic solutions for each. I recommend you pick up a copy and read it!
Heh, the really sad thing is that there are so many golden age sci fi stories that explore issues of race, sex, and gender, and could be adapted, or at least used as a template to start exploring with new material, but instead we get...Cowboy Bebop "fixing" Gren. It's frustrating.
This seems problematic. "Given the right context" a lot of words could be synonyms. It seems like it's implicit in the meaning of "synonymous" that two words share the same meaning if they're interchangeable (in their respective languages) in all contexts.
Check also Awesome WM, which is a successor of dwm configurable/scriptable with lua.
The context is more like this: we regularly have internal brainstorming sessions when we run up an interesting or tricky problem, to come up with ideas on how to solve it.

So in the context of an interview, I'm trying to treat the interviewee like a colleague who I'm coming to with a problem I'm having, so we can come up with a solution together. That often involves drawing things out on a whiteboard: not code, but more diagrams to describe the problem. Then we come up with ideas on how to do it, under various constraints that I share.

Usually I have in my pocket 2-3 different approaches that we tried when we did it ourselves, and I'm looking for: can you understand the tradeoffs between these different approaches, do you understand how they work, and are you capable of implementing them to test and cross-compare them?
Unconscious bias has been debunked, anyway. But it is too useful - endless possibilities if you can make a legitimate seeming claim to know better what goes on in people's heads than those people themselves. Peak elitism, too.
According to Elon it is engineering actually, because science discovers the existing whereby engineering _engineers_ something that isn't now.
See also https://mblode.github.io/marx/
Good data. Thanks!
Some telemetry is blocked unconditionally during startup, although it is incomplete [1] (Perhaps I was a bit over-optimistic when I said a pihole was not required).

Custom CA certs are possible, which people on older models have been using to work around issues stemming from the X3 cert expiry [2].

[1] https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io/issues/19

[2] https://github.com/tf318/lg
I'm positive everyone at Zendesk knows what open source is. This isnt a mistake. Whoever wrote it knew exactly what they were doing.
Anything that cares about really small timescales would have issues. UTC and TAI seconds, microseconds, and nanoseconds are always the same length. UTC has leap seconds to account for the change in rotation of the Earth. TAI just doesn't care and keeps chugging. UT1 instead varies the length of the second so each day contains the same number of seconds. The variance would be less than 12ppm (1mil/seconds in a day), but some applications like navigation would have issues.

EDIT: Most computers end up using a modified version of UTC where the leap second is smeared at the NTP level instead of explicitly experienced. So any computer that uses that could probably use UT1. But we couldn't use UT1 universally.
Garbage and recyclables pile up as omicron takes its toll
This is true. You do have to watch for the "adult piano beginner" syndrome, though.

I'll explain: many piano teachers won't take adult beginners, purely because they have unrealistic ideas of how good they're going to be. They want to play a Chopin Etude or the Goldberg Variations or a Brahms Intermezzo, and don't want to spend time struggling with Clementi.

Well, sorry. You won't be that good for a long, long time, if ever. It could be that some beginning programmers also have wild ideas of doing a game as good as GTA, all by themselves.
Querer is also used for non romantic relationships.

Source: direct first hand experience.
Yeah- I'm guilty of this, and try to ask something like "what are you into right now?"
My point is that most of us (I'm tempted to say those of us which are psychologically normal) endure the frustrations and alienations of ordinary life without embracing intense practices which are almost certainly harmful, if not out and out a form of self harm.
> But few have the level of obsession to follow through with it.

If the goal is to release a complete product, then you're right that that's a problem. However, if the goal is learning, half a game is a great way to learn about a variety of systems and how to program for them!
Or ... instead of being 'bold and direct' and assuming that 'you are the one with integrity' ...

... try letting them know your position tactfully, and be reasonable by trying to understand your own demands in context, with eye on both industry norms and norms within the company, and creating a good outcome for both sides.

And dispense with this 'integrity' moralizing.

Much like young CEO's trying to nego with VC's, hiring managers and companies do this day in and day out, they see it all, moreover, they have a different set of objectives, which you have to respect and build them into your consideration.

It's definitely a good idea that they know you might have competing offers, or that you are strongly considering moving on, but those are things you definitely don't want to browbeat them over. A simple, tactful acknowledgement is good enough. I would recommend having a quick chat in-person about it. And stay away from hard lines or antics.

The grass is always greener on the other side, wherever you go it'll be great for 6 months and then you'll discover a bunch of things you don't like ... while there's definitely a lot to be said for moving on, sometimes I think that grinding is definitely under appreciated.
It's an issue because browsers keep getting bigger and more bloated, which encourages buying faster machines, which encourages consumption, the related production, and all the waste and pollution that come with it.
Emergent Behavior in Skyrim's Fox AI
Reflective for the people posting about it on Blind...they're usually at a top tier software engineering company. As a whole, I would imagine the salaries are a lot less than the TC you see represented on Blind. The workplace is also a lot less intense.

FWIW - I've only ever worked in big tech outside of an internship in college at a slow F500 so small disclaimer.
You were unhappy there were no advancement opportunities so you started looking?, OP is saying the same thing, if it was perfect people generally don't look for new jobs.

It is not because of loyalty it is because we are risk averse, a new job is a lot of risk. Many things can go wrong you may not like that new job, or even purely financially it can be risky as a new company may not pay as promised, shutdown, you get fired pretty quick and may not find a job at same compensation , or variable/ equity compensation wasn't as good as promised/imagined. All of these scenarios have substantial financial risk.

To take that risk(even if only financial) there has to strong motivation.
I have had a unicorn for 5-6 years or so and am very happy with it. My only "complaint" is that you have to side load the peppercorns which can get messy. But otherwise the best I have ever used.
As I read, only two specific servers provide this -- ut1-wwv.nist.gov for example, is well labeled too. Its not clear if its part of the standard round-robin but the wording gives me the impression that it is not.
I'd go one step further. It resembles a company town, not just a small town. You want email? Better go with one of the big providers, because those big providers flag self-hosting as spam. You want video hosting? Better go with youtube, because nothing else will have enough of an audience to make it worthwhile. Find something out about the boss's friend? (Or the Grammarly plagiarism checker?) Good luck walking to the next town, because the boss owns everything in town.
My understanding is that television staff unions all include jumps in pay after certain numbers of seasons. That, coupled with declining viewership after 3-4 seasons (most shows seem to peak in season two or three, means that the show gets more expensive per view.
Make it a record of house repairs so people can find out if the house they are buying has something majorly wrong with it.
About 130k LAUSD students absent amid Omicron surge
Things like this amuse me in a way. I'm sure many of us have written code that worked a certain way based on assumptions we didn't realize we were making, or didn't realize could ever be incorrect. Why wouldn't we have evolved with similar "assumptions" based on terrestrial conditions?

And I don't think this is a novel observation on my part, but it does make me feel better when I have to refactor code when my assumptions turn out to be wrong.
i seem to remember having issues with blocking 17.0.0.0/8 when i first tried it. don’t remember exactly, but probably with icloud and homekit at the very least. i wish we had better info on what services talk to which ip (plus port) ranges, and why.
One of the paradoxically oddest and best ways I've seen programming taught was from a games programming class I took in high school. We were tasked with transcripting a game (custom engine) from a booklet with its code already written. So it was more-or-less just typing what was in the book. Thing was, the code was filled with typos and broken code so that if you copied it verbatim, it wouldn't work.

I'm not sure if that was intentional, but as you'd go through the book and correct typos, you'd kind of just... pick up how to code. It almost became a reflex to understand and correct the code whenever you saw any errors. Most of us in the class came out of that with basic coding skills and we didn't need to go the path of normal exercises you'd see in most programming classes.
> I've been having to redo work in the last month - even after getting it reviewed and checking in on if this is how the work is supposed to be done.

This sounds rather annoying but I don’t think that it is a sign of a failing startup. I’m extrapolating a bit here but: Your manager and PR reviewers may understand the technical aspects of the code but may not understand the big picture “why” of it. If you’re working on something, then someone within the firm - a product/project manager, a salesperson, the CEO - must be advocating for it to be done. Seek them out and build up a direct line of communication. You aren’t usurping your manager by doing this, you’re understanding pain points better and helping to build team cohesion. (That sounds like word salad but I mean it.)

> there were also laws passed that seem to be our current business model.

This is concerning. But - then again - maybe you’re misreading the law. If you don’t have the means to bring this up comfortably in an all-hands or 1:1 context, then this is yet another reason to build relationships with other employees outside of your direct chain of command. Sales and product people should definitely be knowledgeable of this sort of thing. Find a way to bring it up in conversation on a call (“I saw this article in the paper the other day...”).
On the face of it, no, it doesn't sound revolutionary. "Just switch to renewables" is something I've been hearing for 20 years and I never believed it could work until I read this book.

The book is quite thorough in laying out all the challenges (eg, handling variable production from renewables, how to get buy-in from existing fossil fuel stakeholders, how to rearchitect the grid from hub-and-spoke to something more like the internet, how to finance the massive upfront cost in a way that will actually save money, etc) and presents realistic solutions for each.

Please don't take my word for it, just pick up a copy and read it.
I'm not sure why you'd be suggesting that the already captured regulators at NRC should be even more limited, unless your wish were to see some nice nuclear fireworks.
Most people are pretty calm about it. It's just there's very noisy fringe elements who are dramatically overrepresented online.

It blows my mind how many otherwise smart people think that online comments are remotely representative of the real world. How many times have you seen a prominent online personality see racist/misogynistic comments from a handful of trolls and then claim that "racists are everywhere!"

It's the same with this.

Frankly, the biggest source of derangement is fear that is utterly detached from reality. Gallup's polling has revealed that 40% of self-identified Democrats think that 50% of people who catch COVID require hospitalization. The rest were slightly less wrong, but still far, far higher than the reality. The actual number is between 1-5%. It's the mirror image of immediately after 9/11, when self-identified Republicans dramatically overestimated the terrorism threat.
It's a coherent statement, I just don't understand how that might explain the conjecture that trans women far outnumber cis women on HN.
Most of the golden age stories seem to explore one aspect of these issues, but don't prioritize 'representation'; Stranger in a Strange Land comes to mind. It's probably easier to just put a diverse cast into a bland story.
This behavior is rewarded in the world of founders though. It’s always fun to watch people like this confront serious regulation. I once advised a startup that had to deal directly with HIPAA and the petulance of these MBAs was honestly kinda funny.
Pretty much our take at Scrimba. Except the most self-motivated students the content needs to take small steps, be relevant, be engaging and have low barriers to getting your hands on the code. So many students say they get an AHA moment with this approach.