skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost-benefit of vaccination doesn’t always favor vaccination, which is why we mandate the polio vaccine but not the dengue fever vaccine, because the latter comes with attendant risks relative to the potential benefit.

As far as the evolving science on what has to happen, well, it’s a rapidly changing situation. If someone had said at the start of the vaccine schedule, “hey, there’s going to be an incredibly infectious strain in late 2021 that will render vaccines much less effective”, maybe they would have mandated three shots up front. But they didn’t know that, and so when the first round of vaccine trial results came back with a 90%+ efficacy rates, I remember there were people arguing that those numbers were TOO effective, and we should reduce the volume of the second dose or remove it entirely in order to vaccinate more people. Good thing we didn’t do that.

As far as the whatabouts - great, yes, therapeutics are great. More therapeutics. But focusing on omicron’s reduced level of severe cases misses the point of vaccination, which is that we don’t only vaccinate for ourselves, we do it to try to reduce spread in the community. We vaccinate to try to make it less likely that new variants that are better at escaping immune response arise. Maybe if everyone had embraced vaccination we wouldn’t be close to 2k dead/day.
'Asking technical questions' is quite a bit different than shoving a code editor in front of a candidate's face, and the interviewer all but saying "The computer will decide your fate."
I once aspired to be a kernel dev. As an aside, I once spoke to an engineer at a previous gig and told him that we don't get as low-level as what he was used to (wrote kernel code) and he was affronted. Had to calm him down and tell him that I meant "close to the metal" not "inferior software".

Didn't work out for other reasons but I was embarrassed.
Things I'm hoping to see in time for a Framework machine to become my next laptop:

- AMD processor options

- Keyboards with a trackpoint - decades of ThinkPaddery have conditioned me; I regularly use a Dell touchpad-equipped laptop & contemporary Mac laptop and still pine for a trackpoint. Very personal preference, I know, but hopefully the Framework Marketplace comes to provide this.

- Proper 14" HiDPI screen

- Long battery life under Linux

I'm impressed with what they've been able to do and really hope they become sustainably successful!
Am I the only one who's more interested in the movie itself, rather than which medium it'll be available in?

Admittedly, Toronto, red pandas and early aughts pop culture are all topics that fall very close to my heart, but even without that, I've enjoyed Pixar movies enormously.
A TS type checker in Rust the author started working on a week ago and hasn’t released in any form.

Would be more exciting when there’s something to try out.
I know. I've programmed on 36 bit machines (the amazing PDP-10), and machines with 10 bit bytes (Mattel Intellivision).

But that was over 40 years ago.

Time to move on.
How actionable do you think this is to a farmer growing staple crops in sub-Saharan africa?
Bill Maher pushes back on Fauci
I studied in Finland. From a numbers perspective the schools are great, but individual experiences may differ.

If you’re doing well and understand the subject, the teachers are unlikely to give you the time of the day.

There’s a laser focus on students who perform poorly, and consequentially high performers are essentially penalized, ignored and left to die of boredom.

Great outcomes at scale, but also tons of missed opportunities. I certainly won’t be sending my kids there to study.
First off, congrats on getting your idea out into a tangible product. Many people come up with ideas, even fewer take time, or have the skills, to try to actually build them, but you put in time and effort that made it to the end goal of putting it on the App Store. Not everyone makes it that far so congratulations on doing so.

I took a look because, as a current student, I often have to write research papers and tag ideas from multiple websites and sources. I think the cost is a little steep for Mac apps in general, let alone anything a student might want to trial. The question students are asking is "How much can I spend to improve my research paper skills?" $40 is comparable to a night out with friends or several meals and might turn off any potential customers.

Looking at the promotional screenshots for the application, I don't get a gist for what the application is or does. The actual images of the application are smaller than the text describing what is in the application. It's also not clear from those descriptions what the benefits of the application are. I'm not sure what a "structured workflow" is but maybe giving a juxtaposition between the traditional way a student might try to organize a paper and Epiphany's way might help students visualize how they could use the application themselves.

Lastly, the website[1] needs more examples and demonstrations of the application in action. I still can't tell what I would gain from spending $40 on a Mac app. To use an example, none of my friends are willing to buy the Things app[2] at $9 on iOS or $49 because they can get other apps that do the same thing for free. It's a price comparison game and there needs to be more discussion around what can be gained with this app over a competitor.

I hope this helps and I wish you well with your application.

[1]: https://epiphanyworkflow.work
[2]: https://culturedcode.com/things/
Maybe we should end the government mandate to burn corn in car engines. Biden seems more pro-ethanol than Trump, I have no idea why.
You are responsible for who you sell things to.

At worst, you can imagine selling a full nuclear bomb to Al kaeda, then being surprised pikachu when they use it to blow up IAD
But it depends on location. Natural gas in Europe is so expensive that if you were to make hydrogen in Chile from solar, it’d be cheaper
I think a lot of it is that (I assume) you can re-wear luxury pieces with far less perceived social judgement.
You're talking about the death of half the world's population:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_population_sup...
A classic sendup of the New Yorker from Seinfeld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fSMUOzufI
It's not just value, it's also about embedded energy.

Spending $1000 in additional infrastructure to recover $1001 additional methane could make financial sense. But what if manufacturing that infrastructure utilized more btus of cheaper or cleaner energy than what gets recovered?

Then you're still better off not recovering it, financially and from an embedded net energy/ greenhouse gas perspective.
Yes. It’s clearly a cultural difference because I grew up in an environment where it would be strange for adults to get worked up about a children’s movie. In America, this line doesn’t really seem to exist (anymore?)
If I had to start writing JS now, tabula rasa, I would feel the same way. For what it’s worth, TypeScript is actually pretty darn good. And it has an absurdly powerful type system (because it has to, to meaningfully represent real world JS usage). Probably too powerful, but it can be a good bit of fun if that’s interesting to you.

If you want to give it another look, I’d start with Deno. TypeScript is supported at runtime with no noticeable cost, it’s standards-based so documentation is accurate, there isn’t a shit ton of legacy stuff to wade through. And the types for stuff you’re likely to interact with are probably reasonably coherent, you probably won’t be interacting with interfaces that accept variadic maybe strings or numbers or callbacks or complex unspecified objects.
Google is already on the governing council of Hedera Hashgraph, as well as Boeing, EFTPOS, IBM, LG,and many others.
Yeah dropping Silverlight support for Mac was a shame, Microsoft finally had a good multiplatform story. They could have keep the out-of-browser mode and market it as desktop dev framework instead of browser plugin.

The biggest irony is that this tech would have allowed them to open a store on Windows 7, 10 and Mac which could have been way more popular due to market share than both the Windows and Mac app stores.
Oh?!

That is strange. I mean look at this - https://www.textpad.com/download
A note to any single folks out there with the potential to earn more than their future spouse: understand family law in your jurisdiction and understand what you are signing up for when you get legally married.

Divorce can leave you liable for more support payments than you can even afford. The other party can walk away with half of your property, including unvested RSUs(!!!), and it doesn't matter if they cheated or failed to contribute to the marriage. If you think you're being nice by trying to make the marriage work and tolerating it, you may be just setting yourself up for even more pain down the road.
Edit: "wheat" -> "corn"

"Square foot gardening" with hand labor isn't going to replace the 772 million metric tons of wheat and 1 billion metric tons of corn produced annually. Sorry, it just isn't.

Given that it's January, why not try the experiment of producing all the food you personally consume this year using the techniques in this book?

Growing a few tomatoes and a bit of lettuce is pretty easy, and is a fun and rewarding hobby. Producing every single calorie you consume using only hand labor and no chemical fertilizer is an entirely different kettle of fish.

We actually ran that experiment for several millennia. It produced societies in which 90+% of the population were slaves, serfs, or other unfree agricultural laborers.

I'd rather we not go back to that, personally.
That’s not my personal experience at all. Yes, my $4000 14” MaxBook Pro has objectively better build quality, but I think the Framework is at least on-par with the $2000 XPS 13 I bought first (and later returned for the Framework).

Can’t comment on the trackpoint, which is something I’ve never personally liked, but if that’s a deal breaker, you’ll probably have to have a Thinkpad. But I’ve been very pleased with the build quality of my Framework.
"Ahead" by what metric? Perceived prestige level by the layperson?
Crypto, Web3, and the Big Nothing
And your kids are more likely to grow up to have successful acting careers!
Why does this not work on Windows 11?
I've read maybe 3 or 4 of his books, and it all tends to be pretty much secular.

He specifically argues against ideology, and argues for adapting buddhist teachings to the needs of another culture. IIRC, in The Art of Living he argues for an "American style of Buddhism" which is adapted to American culture.

I'm generally pretty allergic to religion, but I find his teachings to be really palatable and quit helpful.

So generally I think you'd find the Plum Village tradition pretty easy to swallow.

You might want to check out the documentary "Walk With Me" which came out in 2017 and gives a pretty good picture of what Thich What Hanh and Plum Villiage tradition is all about.
It quite pisses me off that some features they've played with, disabled, let me hanging, like Reminders, sometimes it was disabled for Google Apps accounts (even paid ones). I used to be able to leave reminders while using headphones, and one day it stopped working. These days it seems they enabled it again, but seriously, I spent like year and half without being able to set Reminders using OK Google.

Someday I stopped being able to review applications on Google Play too. This is not my imagination, I have reviews I can see I made some years ago, and then suddenly... sorry, you can't. What the heck? You're technical geniuses, if you don't really want to associate a domain that I may lose and someone use in the future, hey, use an internal ID instead, but don't screw me over.

So I'm screwed because even if I actually pay, they use me as tester for their free service. Truth be told, even if I lose these paid apps, subscriptions, images/videos, history, whatever I lose... I'll just switch to full usage of my personal, not-on-my-own-domain account. How can I be a paying customer if I can't even get same features than non-paying? Come on...
From my perspective you have four options:

1. Find a salesperson who works on commission.

2. Get a job to pay bills, and use the business revenue to hire an RFP expert/sales person.

3. Sell the business (on microacquire).

4. Devote your time to learning how to be an RFP expert and make the sales. If other people can make sales you should be able to replicate what they're doing.

I would go with #2. #3 may sound attractive short-term, but once you've run out of the money you'll have to get a job anyway, so might as well get the job now and use the revenue to hire a salesperson and grow the business. It sounds like for whatever reason you don't want to do sales or aren't willing to devote the time to do it effectively.
World hunger for the first world maybe. 80% of global food is still produced in very small, un-industrial family farms.
The main issue is most new buildings are really bad in terms of insulation and energy performance, even though this has been a solved problem for a few decades now. The main ideas behind standards such as Passive House do not require any radical changes to house construction, it's just a bit more insulation and building a quality house that is sealed properly (which also means it'll have less maintenance issues).

But the construction industry doesn't want to change because that'll mean less profits... If you buy a cookie cutter home it's probably been funded by a hedge fund, who is going to earn a pretty nice return when you buy it. This isn't just a US thing, in most of the Western World it's the same. Building housing is a very profitable business.

I live in Northern Europe and the building code here requires insulation and air tigheness levels that actually exceed Passive House. All new houses must have a heat demand of less than 15kW/m2/year. That's in a place where it regularly gets to -25C / -10F in winter. Of course all the big construction companies complained about these regulations when they came out, saying how it would make housing so much more expensive - but at the end of the day it has very little impact on the overall price, and you actually save in the long run due to much lower heating costs.
https://archive.is/WNfBi
It's not the planning, the funding structure is the real problem.
I use duckduckgo
Energy descent hasn't even started yet lol
https://youtu.be/uqwWdranB5A
We could all benefit from eating more legumes in our diets, well most of us at least
I imagine for the same reasons they can't "just" quit smoking, lose weight, get in shape, write a novel, etc. They may not believe they're capable, they need support, they need structure, they need incentive, etc.
I personally wouldn’t hold it against someone for working at FB. Life and people are way more complicated (or not complicated, for that matter) than what you’ve reduced it down to. For one thing, consider that just because you exclude people who worked at FAANG, you’re not actually accounting for all the other thousand ways people can behave immorally or amorally. Screening out FAANG employees doesn’t actually get you very far in this regard. So it just looks like you’re harping on this one thing. Do you screen candidates who you think associate with politics you think are immoral? Or who have worked at tobacco companies? Etc.

That said I appreciate your attitude here. These companies are civilizationally damaging. It’s good to keep repeating that. I’m just not sure your approach makes sense.
I'm a lead that's an introvert as well. I've figured out what really drains me are any meetings that I'm not in charge of (or haven't initiated the meeting). It probably has something to do with self-confidence and I will speak rarely or if I'm called upon.

Also for me it's hard to be energetic at the start of the day when meetings slowly appear on the daily agenda. The more I speak, the more confidence I get. But this is only in the case with a meet with many participants. I have no problems with 1:1 meetings.
Tailscale isn't using UPnP. See https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
Lift heavier, eat consistent macronutrients amounts, get proficient at italian (3rd time is the charm), cut down on YouTube and other time wasting sinkholes, sleep as close to 8 hours a night as possible.
If the relationship is genial, what is the real problem with being a child if divorce? I have no doubt about your experience, I'm asking from a place of "I don't know and can't really imagine it." I was very, very lucky with the family lottery, so this is pretty foreign to me.
Going Online Like it’s 1979: The Atari 800
Of course not, there are a plethora of factors that would alter the effectiveness of UBI, looking at it so simply and then rejecting it outright is dishonest.

Money would majorly come from those who have the greater means to pay larger amounts into the system, and on the hypothesis that bettering the material conditions of those in the lower and middle class will necessarily lead to increasing productivity and thus (and 'thus' is a large leap) greater general income that can partly be paid back into the system in a cycle.
This is why I’m eyeing a Framework laptop. I have a not-so-old ThinkPad E480 that I avoid using because of this issue.

On top of that, I didn’t know what the issue was and it drove me nuts until I figured it out. Left a very bad taste in my mouth for Lenovo/ThinkPad despite all the love they receive.
> poisoning waterways

This hasn't been true for years. Most algal blooms around the US at least are caused by lawn runoff.
>There are options besides chemical fertilizers.

But as it relates to this problem (ie. food getting more expensive), your suggestion doesn't make any sense. Considering that the methods you described aren't widely used, I think it's safe to say that they're more expensive than using synthetic fertilizers. Therefore if we implemented that suggestion we wouldn't have higher food prices... because the food prices would be high to start with, probably much higher than it ever be with synthetic fertilizers.
They cannot survive that level of scrutiny.
Thanks so much mikestew, I'll have to chat with her about this. I've also considered vest for my bike, just haven't been riding much during the pandemic.
Faux Idempotency
My manager doesn't care about your company. My primary interest is in knowing what company I should avoid interviewing at.
C# on .net 6.0 with either WinForms or WPF.
I don't know what the "head of security" role is. I have no inside knowledge here. But if he wasn't on many people's reporting chain, and a big part of his role was talking to external people and selling Twitter's security program --- not an unusual portfolio for a CSO! --- then there might have been no reason to ask him to hang around. You tend not to have your outgoing CSO do high-profile meetings to sell your security programs exsternally.
Source? I suspect the number is closer to 20% than 80.
Well I’m excited about this. And if the author wants another set of eyes, before it’s ready for public consumption, I would love to be one of them. My main weekend project has been oriented around leveraging the emit side of faster compilers, but a faster type checker has a lot of advantages for other use cases I’d like to explore also.
I take the sculptor at their word that the figures represent the American frontier and the continent of Africa.
Here’s another question to focus on:

If it is mostly used to speculate, not transact, does the supply matter at all to the price?
Nowadays IBM is famous for hyping, isn't it?
Thanks for pointing that out, both of you! (If not more by now.) Obvious in hindsight and no snark on being corrected. I'd honestly forgotten the -19 nomenclature.

So, I guess I was right to be in a panic about making my flight after all, based on the initial google result. (I don't know when the guidance changed, but the google result is still as I first saw it.)
> if someone bothered to do it

I didn't notice that bit, so good find. I was bummed to see that most studies don't actually try to ascertain who usually wins when both parents want custody and there are no extenuating circumstances. That seems like an obvious metric to track the health of custody laws.

This is the only government data I found: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
the reason why FAANG/M companies do ds/algo interviews is because they get an ocean of applicants and it's necessary for these questions to be the immediate filter.

Most startups I have applied to previously rarely asked ds/algo interview questions.

It's not that they want to, it's that they have to.
Do you mean the mothers fight for more custody so they can nab an income?
Not an economist, but my job role involves lots of economic theory and I'm a few classes into an econ masters.

As far as economic reasoning goes, there are some studies you can do (like optimal auction clearing) where you can hold the inputs equal and then adjust some aspects of the optimization (the objective, constraints, or decision variables) and get a very accurate picture of how market changes would impact the results. I think that is probably an exception rather than the normal case though.

In general, my thoughts during my studies has been that the economic theories of supply & demand, incentives, elasticity, theory of the firm, game theory, government intervention...etc all has more use as a generic framework of thinking (ex: if we put in a price cap, here are the expected impacts), rather than an equation I can use to get an exact answer (basically exactly what you're saying above). Doing some kind of analysis on things as complex as the US economy must have massive inaccuracies involved as there are too many factors and even behavioral economics doesn't have all the answers for why people don't always act rationally.
Hello! The causes of the current crisis include:

- the energy situation in China, suffering coal shortages, leading to shortfalls in the production of fertilizer, and

- hurricanes in Texas which shut down natural gas production, leading to shortages of ammonia and urea as inputs to fertilizer production, and

- all sorts of COVID stuff impacting production in lots of ways, and

- sanctions against Belarus, a major potash producer, and

- yes, the energy situation in Europe, where the renewables had a few problems and weren't quite cutting it yet, such that gas is in short supply, while Russia is saber-rattling.

It's a one-among-many thing.

One possibly better form of this argument would be to suggest this threat to global food security is a representative of the situation which would occur if activists' stated goals were met, but in this case an argument that does not clearly state words to this effect is an argument that is undermined by the fact this is much more coincidence rather than design.
I agree that shocks generally aren't good. I'm also a meat eater, and I don't like paying more for meat. But I do simultaneously recognize that (1) meat should be more expensive than it is, and (2) that the "real" price of food is completely divorced from the actual price.

In terms of our agricultural mean, there is no reason why every single American can't have cheap, healthy produce without having to devastate the environment. Our current pricing scheme is a product of the better part of a century of (good-intentioned) subsidies and stupendously wasteful distribution practices.
yes, I live in Japan. I bought the first pair from Amazon Japan, and then when my kid stole them (ha ha) I went back to Amazon and the second pair was in the algorithmic recommendation list.
You think netflix is a moral compromise? What about the US government?
Thanks, some of this went over my head and sounds way too complicated.

I'd be satisfied with a home-user-oriented manual tutorial, like install Debian with these packages, a nftables setup that firewalls everything but these 3 ports, how to setup auto-update, turn off root & password-only logins, and general things to be reasonably secure; as well as tips for on-going maintenance and so on.