skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would appreciate some links. All I could find from brief googling looks more like a sales pitch than an unbiased study. Looking at absolute hospitalization prevention numbers without controls, making no distinction between incidental COVID vs. hospitalized for respiratory symptoms, and other tricks that belong to a used car salesman's arsenal, rather than a scientific context. And the disclaimers how "no, no, no, I'm not against the vaccines" remind me of the mandatory praises to Allah you would find in the papers originating from certain Middle Eastern countries.
Israel finds 4th vaccine dose not as effective vs. Omicron
The United States had a plan that would have killed one third of all people on the planet (1 billion of the 3 billion alive in the early 1960s).

Source: "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" by Daniel Ellsberg

Militaries do all kinds of planning - doesn't mean that anyone has the intention of actually executing them.

e.g. The UK did war planning of invading Eastern Europe after WW2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

Obviously, the conclusion of this planning was that it was a bad idea...

Before WW2 the United States had a plan on how to fight the British Empire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Around the same time the Canadians had plans for attacking the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1
If you want executives, you need to pay them.

Organizations without executives exist at really really small scales but they tend to be very short lived.
You must be in the US.

In certain parts of Europe, it is becoming very common for couples to not get "married" but still form a nuclear family and from what I have seen, a lot of them are doing a lot better than some of my married friends.

Also, if you had spent any time in Asia, you wouldn't be singing the praises of the cultural norm of keeping the family together. Growing up, I saw a lot of cases of frequent abuse (even beatings) but the woman was supposed to keep the family together. Did you know divorce is not allowed in Philippines, please read about the impact that has. Asians in the US typically are better educated and education has more to do with lower divorce rates than an ethnicity.

edit: this is coming from a married person, in the US
If you go back that far then you find poor people making their own clothing casually in the short term. A dress for an evening out might be assembled from available material during the day. Ready to wear clothing is a relatively new thing. Only modern people consistently lean on specialists to supply their clothes.
I sometimes wonder what other Semitic cultures think about Jewish peoples claiming “Semitic” as their exclusive word. Antisemitic would mean being against not just Jews but also other cultures that fit into the Semitic definition.
We are pushing xxTBs every month at this point, and I haven't got the call yet. I'd have to spend $yyyy dollars on Fly.io for that kind of bandwidth. By simply moving to Unbound last month, we even halved our bills, and with some planned software changes, bills should go down another 30%. Besides, Matthew Prince says pushing higher bandwidth via Workers is fair game [0].

That said, I very much prefer Fly.io to AWS for workloads not suitable for Workers... and in just these past 3 months, we committed eng resources to make sure Workers workloads can run on Fly.io too, if and when the time comes for an instant migration.

We also run workloads on AWS AppRunner and Amazon Lightsail Containers and that's only because S3 <-> EC2 bandwidth is ~$0. We'd definitely move to R2 once Cloudflare opens it up, and we hope, eventually, Fly.io reaches the scale to peer directly with Cloudflare DCs for lower latencies, if nothing else.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660
Do you have a source that isn't paywalled?

Their "Net sales of US Foods from 2012 to 2020" wasn't, but it also said sales were down in 2020.

What makes comparisons tricky is people didn't eat out as much, so that cuts spending on some metrics. On others, commercial kitchens are more efficient and buy from wholesalers, so that lowers a different metric. But people consume fewer calories when cooking for themselves.

My main point is that for everyone but the lower 5%, I'd be surprised if they got a stimulus check and ate more calories because of it. I work in tech and make decent money. Maybe I buy the organic berries instead of the regular ones, but I'm not buying twice as many baskets because I have more money. I still only needed 3.
This is as old as the dinosaurs, wherever there's money, or potential for high salaries, the talentless but highly vocal sociopaths will progressively rise to the top.

It's not about MBA's or generational issues, it's all about your abilities to talk the talk, nothing more.
A lot of employers took emplyees for granted during the pandemic using that as an excuse to cut salaries while still taking home immense salaries themselves. That's where it started. To add even more fuel to the fire in the tech enabled industries, the companies themselves reported great earnings.
Why is it damning that 88% of ammonia is used in fertilizer?
Is their some other industry that ought to consume a larger percentage?
> “exaggerate the dangers of vaccines”

You really think that this article is trying to exaggerate the dangers of the covid vaccine? Even when the headline starts with “In rare cases”

An excerpt from the article:

Probing possible side effects presents a dilemma to researchers: They risk fomenting rejection of vaccines that are generally safe, effective, and crucial to saving lives. “You have to be very careful” before tying COVID-19 vaccines to complications, Nath cautions. “You can make the wrong conclusion. … The implications are huge.”

Even when the article explicitly qualifies it claims and actively encourages the reader to not exaggerate the claims?

I don’t think OP is “feigning confusion” but rather that people have a knee jerk reaction to anything to do with the risks of the covid vaccine.
I was responding to someone who accused the parent comment of "feigned confusion". They seemed to be justifying the flagging of the story as an "overreaction but understandable" measure to counter anti-vax narratives.

Fighting one form of propaganda with another form, is not a game I'd ever participate in. Why would anyone? Surely we want practical measures that suit the changing conditions of a pandemic, rather than broad immovable "rules are rules" policies.

> hospitalizations and deaths are down

Depending on how you look at it. End of the day where I live...(Jan 18, 2022):

> "Victoria has declared an unprecedented system-wide ‘code brown’ emergency across all its Melbourne hospitals and six in the regions as it buckles under COVID-19 pressures."

> "Mr Merlino said hospitalisations in NSW, where the Omicron outbreak is a couple of weeks ahead of Victoria, continue to increase by about 100 people per day."

> "The number of people in ICU also decreased, by two to 127, although 43 people are now on ventilation, an increase of five."

https://www.aap.com.au/news/victoria-declares-hospital-covid...

It's not a binary argument. The vaccine prevents serious illness for many people. I thought that was a given by now. Elderly people who weren't vaccinated previously, are now vaccinated.

Any drop in hospital admission rates would also be from the less severe Omicron variant; vaccination of elderly and vulnerable; and more people managing their illness from home. At the beginning, many were panicking and rushing to hospital with a headache. They were still reported as covid hospitalisations, even though their hospital admission consisted of basic monitoring then discharged soon after.
> Instead, I am guessing (maybe hoping) that we see a return of the moderated directories, like Yahoo or DMOZ of old. A 2.0 spin on these directories, with lessons learned from all the years.

Not impossible, but given the proliferation of content on the web and the endless possibilities for competing organizing schemas and editorial choices, it would pretty much have to be a directory of directories.

So, each directory could be it's own self-organizing community, like a subreddit.
Oh, as a source file encoding. Well, it lacks the characters needed for trigraphs, so maybe we could add support with a quadgraphs extension...
> I view ad targeting as good for the world: they help make my life better by aiming me at products and services relevant to my interests and needs, sometimes when I didn't even know such a thing existed. It saves poor reinvention of the wheel in so many cases.

Let me give you another point of view:

Ads benefit the already wealthy corporations above small businesses that cannot pay billions for ads and add another lay on to inequality.

"Reinventing the wheel" is sometimes necessary for innovation, often called disrupting the market.

Also, I believe that endless consumerism is actually killing the planet and ads (no only banner ads but also product placements) play a huge part in making people feel insecure and less worthy just because they don't have the newest gadget.
The universe is huge and the Solar System alone could probably accomodate 50 billion humans. With something like artificial hibernation (we are discussing a pretty far future here), you could travel to nearby stars as well.

As for stagnation, there is an unspoken presumption built into your thought, namely that older rejuvenated people will gain younger bodies back, but that they will stay mentally old. I don't think this will be necessarily true. It rejuvenation works, it will have to work on the brain too, and rejuvenated people will revert to younger patterns of thinking as well. Only with more memories and experiences, which could actually improve their results. For example, they will be unlikely to join some populist cause if they burnt themselves twice already.
same sex a applies as well in CA!
Show HN: An open source alternative to Google Analytics back end
It’s just the back end so it logs to MongoDB database so you can add any UI you want to it, feel free to contribute!

(Suggestion’?)
On Linux, Wayland supports separate monitors natively with different scalings?
Found this doc which attempts to do that with unknown veracity - https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/...

Age group impacts illness and hospitalization but not tremendously so. Deaths under 65 weren't tracked b/c signal to noise ratio didn't meet their criteria.
In their "basic medicine kit": Oxycodone/acetaminophen (severe, short term pain)

Paracetamol isn't normally an alternative for oxycodone. Also, if travelling internationally, I'm pretty sure there are countries that will consider oxycodone as equivalent to heroin even if you have a prescription.
As DDG obtains its results from Bing I think Bing is deliberately trying to downgrade quality of search so as to make people use its service and its working I usually find the results that I need on Bing and not on DDG using same query.

Google is going in wrong way and just promoting spam sites and ads.
> Economics is not a science like physics.

It's not that economics can't be a science like physics. It's that (most) economists don't treat it like a science.
> male marriage participants live longer and are healthier [1] than non married counterparts.

or a wealthier male is more likely to be able to get married, and thus also be healthier (due to the wealth, not the marriage).

To me, happiness is the ability to do what you wish, and not have responsibility or obligations to anyone.
I use Feedly’s free version, but thanks for the tip!
What is the SaaS? We can't know until you tell us what you're doing, then we can suggest where to go, as in, a B2B is very different from a B2C is very different than a B2B2C etc.
You should try Neeva[0], made by ex-Google Search folks.

[0]: https://neeva.com/p/signup?o=s&c=c3af6jnfmc2dehs8tq5g
Also, while I'm certainly jealous of people raised in ~~married~~ divorced households, I don't blame them in the slightest for not having much of a sense of how the other half lives. The only way to know is to live through it, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

As someone who spent their childhood wishing their parents would get a divorce already, I felt like I was in an upside down world reading your comment.

- I have never in my life gone to my parents for emotional support. They would come to me to tell me how horrible the other parent or my siblings were. And I was constantly tending to my siblings after they had been upset by my parents. Plus the normal things I heard them argue about, mostly my father stressed about losing his job and my mother spending too much money.

- I was constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop via 1) one of them directly blows up at me 2) blow up at each other and then take it out on me 3) blow up at my siblings, who would then take it out on me.

- We didn't take holidays, but even them driving together to the dentist was extremely stressful as they were guaranteed to start fighting over nothing (see above point).

- There were no logistical nightmares because we all lived in the same house. No argument there.

- I assumed they stayed together not because they cared about us, but for the same reason they treated us like burdens to kick when they were down: their culture taught them that a certain hierarchy and structure in life was more important than stupid American values like happiness, especially the happiness of children. Also my mother couldn't financially support herself without my father's income.

And, yes, there was almost no physical aspect to this unhappiness for me. My older sibling, who did suffer physical abuse, said that, both growing up and to this day, they preferred it to all the emotional injuries.

Much as you may idealise married households, perhaps I'm idealising divorced ones. If my parents had divorced, maybe I would have written your comment.
That would simply be ridiculous.

It’s the governments job to explain why something you are doing is illegal, not the other way around.
> If a woman does that, she will very often get judged by her peers.

True. We all reach an age eventually where we care little for the opinions of our peers on such matters. Wisest are those who make that realisation earlier rather than later!
Bing is best for image search but it suck on mobile.
Seriously, the biggest gripe about C is the design of standard library?

Not the pervasive undefined behaviour and compilers that become more aggressive every release about breaking previously-working code?

Not the reams of code that assume sizes of integers and signedness of char?

Not the wild build process that makes it awfully hard to actually build anything that has any dependencies whatsoever.

strtol. Damn, what a nuisance!
Australia absolutely does have laws on the books for alimony, aka spousal maintenance.
Linux does all the arguing for me.
> ask an orchestra musician how much time they put into preparing for auditions

Training is basically the main work performer has to do to earn his life, and all training is valuable. You could compare with professional athlete and see how it’s absurd.

> If you don't want to spend time preparing for job interviews, then fine, don't.

The idea is that you have to understand the process. If you don’t see the point of certain exercise, you search for a rationalization, and discrimination looks like a good one.
Also, the discrimination is not against people that won’t train for interview, but to give a bias to people that don’t evaluate returns on their invested time
Would anyone really self report excessive alcohol consumption accurately in China? Isn’t there an incentive to lie to bolster your social credit? Or are there guarantees in China against medical surveillance?
Maybe not, but I bet it's hard to claim the person you have a 10 year old child with is your room mate.
>Yeah, I know this violates the policies, but sheesh

Polite meta-commentary doesn't violate policy, the rules only apply to jerks.

To answer the question, people wouldn't be complaining on HN about Google Search multiple times per day if they could still find what they were searching for on Google. Search has been a revolutionary world changing product for two decades, and now it's completely stopped working for complex queries. Something is up with Google. Something big is up with Google.
Well I like heavier switches because they allow me to fully rest my (rather large and strong) fingers on the keys. I'm actually typing this on 78g Zealio V2s, my favorite switch. I definitely don't bottom out the keys with a ton of force, and maybe like half the time don't bottom them out at all. By comparison, I bottom out on the iPad Magic Keyboard every time and with much more force, I would guess because there isn't as much tension pushing back on my fingers and there is less distance between the actuation and the bottom out to slow my fingers down.
As an engineer, have a Minimum Spanning Stack
You can go for the DIY version without Windows installed, but you have to assemble it yourself and there isn't a supported version of Linux it seems. Giving you the option of preassembled but with no OS installed would seem to be the logical next step before maybe offering a supported Linux version down the line if it's commercially viable.
> common law relationships after a certain period of cohabitation are very similar to marriage

These laws are awful and need to be changed.
Or paid wall content
Sorry, no I did not, had to look it up. 30 years in the business is mighty impressive. The competition in the dental market is extrem, so that's a huge success your father build!!

We had a team that also build Lab management software but overtime we painfully became aware that an integrated billing service is a maintenance nightmare with yearly changes to tax laws, the myriad of different health care providers/insurance companies ever changing what treatments they subsidize to which extend on an monthly or even weekly basis. Multiply that with all the different countries we operate in, it became unsustainable.

So again, kudos to your father to prevail in this space.
I'm not sure I get what you're saying. I think that there is some funding in existence, and people can compete for it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love director’s cuts for certain movies. But I don’t want every movie to be a director’s cut.
It's possible to reduce population by about 40% in 30 years without killing anyone, isn't it? Why is that obviously insignificant?
Haven’t tried Zoom on Linux but there the competitor Microsoft Teams is a total disaster Electron app. Beating that one is a really low bar.

Starting with screen sharing since that’s the main topic here. Doesn’t work at all on wayland so no point to even compare further.

Moving on to UI performance, it must be among the worst applications I’ve ever seen since 1993. Even on a super beefy gaming machine. Basic stuff like scrolling in a chat or just switching between chat tabs measures in several seconds rather than milliseconds, and always comes with some weird flicker or jank. Toggling between two open chats, you know the thing you do 1000 times per day, is equally slow and frustrating. I’d rather take no Linux support at all than this vomit.
Wait what? When did it happen? I know the cap was changed from 12 years max to 5 (or until younger child turns 12, or whatever else), but definitely not abolished alimony completely.
Definitely more than 6 megatons.
please date again and find someone that cares about you and makes you happy agai
Webb telescope has it ‘made in the shade’
Hey, Rhys!

That is definitely a future a lot of people can see. And there’s nothing stopping anyone from screensharing Fast Path and talking through the questions with a vendor or customer.

For the old school, here and now, Fast Path downloads include not just terms but a term sheet listing out all the questions answered, the answers chosen, and the other options available. It’s perfectly possible to send that across to the customer and get a markup back.

If there end up being this-not-that changes, say from no patent indemnity to one of the other options, the seller can just go back to the site and generate new terms per the finalized term sheet.
A few years ago, I experienced a similar scenario as the passenger. I was flying from Baltimore to Chicago. Bad weather forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

By the time it was safe to take off again, the rules declared that the pilot and copilot had been on-duty too long to resume flying. Thankfully, the plane also contained the off-duty pilot, copilot, etc. that were commuting to their next flight. Those guys started their work day earlier and we were back on our way.
CA doesn't have common law marriage, so it is more accurate to say that it doesn't apply to same sex couples in the same way that it doesn't to oppozit5-sex couples.
What exactly are the staggering rates? What if you exclude 60+ year-olds, overweight, smokers and immunocompromised?

From what I can hear in Canada, unvaccinated make about 10% of population and about 50% hospitalizations, that makes the vaccine reduce your chances by about 5x. But they are already vanishingly low for young healthy people. So what if we vaccinated the older folks, promoted healthy BMI, and created 20% more hospital beds? Or how does a vaccine 1 year ago compare to natural immunity from 1 year go? Or how much exactly of the taxpayer money is going to the Big Pharma as opposed to building new hospitals and training new staff?
I just tested Corel Painter by mixing blue and yellow and it does not. You end up with a sort of grey color, not green. I do not see a CMYK option in the preferences either.
Makes me wonder if this was discovered in mice engineered for inducible gene expression. TET/doxy mice are commonly used in experiments where you want to selectively turn on or off a particular gene.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27216914/
But interestingly Google's really dominant in the Web, including W3C, WICG, Chromium etc. They are just able to somehow control the "Web".
The New York Federal Reserve has a model in Julia at https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE .

The Federal Reserve has two models ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/us-models-about.htm and https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/edo-models-about.htm ), written in EViews and Dynare, respectively.
On this topic the following paper is interesting:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220770895_Understan...

They work on an H264 encoder, starting from a software implementation and adding hardware support progressively. Also comparing with a full ASIC implementation. The hardware optimized programmable implementation end up having the same performance as the ASIC, but still 3 times the power consumption.
Mandatory e-learning for "company values" and multiple choice questions? That thing is a time suck.
https://archive.is/Tmqxz
Given that UK's habits at the time I'm pretty certain we'd have found some excuse to hold onto a chunk of Russia in those circumstances.
> If you're going to sing praises to cooperation and mediation, how about you try to get people to do that during marriage?

a lot of people in the western society have come to the conclusion that individual happiness (ala, their own) is paramount, to the point where commitments which they no longer want to honour is acceptable to not honour (such as marriage).

It is rooted in the same psychological base, imho, as individual action over collective action. Divorce is an individual action, to make their own wellbeing better (e.g., they can no longer stand their partner). They are not able to suck it up for the sake of children (at least, until they are of age to leave the household).

I think the recent protesting about health mandates all across "the west" is an allusion to this phenomenon - the age of "me, me, me".
We have both of those things here.
“Objects in the rear view mirror” held a special place in the hearts of me and my friends at college. RIP.