skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Roughly speaking this is the difference between your risk of driving with no seat belt and no air bags (unvaccinated), no seat belt and no air bags but with a bicycle helmet (prior infection), seatbelt (vaccinated), and seatbelt and airbags (vaccinated and boosted).

It's absolutely not the same delta there. Not even close. The relative risk and absolute risk are completely different in magnitude, and unvaccinated cohorts are concentrated in younger, healthier populations with a minimal level of risk.

The most distinguishing characteristic of COVID is it's age-risk gradient. There is LITERALLY a 1000X delta in IFR between the youngest and oldest demographics. The fact that the vaccine policies don't take this into account has resulted in the greatest erosion in trust of public health authorities in history. Your analogy doesn't even take this into account, which further demonstrates the shallow aspect of it.
Why do bonds being in tax advantages accounts? My gut would suspect the opposite, since on average stocks will have higher return so you'll want them getting the tax break.
Is there any evidence that this is effective? Who refuses to get vaccinated but decides to do it for $100 or whatever?
I've had SOME great brainstorming sessions that provided great ideas for paths forward when starting new projects. I think that last part is important. Specifically, the "Discover" part of the double diamond design process.

In the cited article, sure the faster problem solvers will solve more individually. But

1) the proper grain to measure success is as the team level, and

2) it's easy to score a problem with a known answer, but it is significantly harder for a group to come to consensus as to what the best answer might be – you can't always just crunch the numbers to see who was right.

The advantages of the brainstorm at the team level can be profound: they can reach consensus as to what these better options are, as well as a shared understanding of the problem space and what the next steps are.

[1] https://www.thefountaininstitute.com/blog/what-is-the-double...
Hashes are not encryption either. They're a one way function. Encryption has to be reversible.
Chrome and Firefox will synchronize bookmarks between all of those devices too, without relying on Apple's walled garden or having to use Safari.
The difference between automated deployment mechanisms and robotic[1] orbital assembly is that we have ~60 years of experience doing the former, whereas the latter is a completely brand-new, zero-experience field.

It would be good to develop that capability, but maybe do some trial runs on assembling something a little smaller, and less critical?

[1] Human orbital assembly of the JWST is not possible, because we do not have any crewed vehicles that can make the trip.
>Brainstorming has become a heuristic, an attempted shortcut, a lossy substitution for psychological safety.

I'm glad this was where the author ended up. As I read this, I kept thinking that I know how to get better ideas out of people than a lot of typical brainstorming scenarios I've experienced in the past. My mind kept going back to how good some of the (Agile) retros I've had, and the one thing they all had in common was psychological safety was key. Creating a safe space allowed people to really express their issues, which made it much easier to address them. I've always understood one of the most important actions in a brainstorming session is the "turkey shoot" by one of the seniors. It's an idea so bad that even interns think, oh, my idea is better than that and so find it easier to participate. Without that, you can very much end up with a session dominated by hierarchy.
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Oh nice, they include an explicit acknowledgement section (in addition to the more obscure acknowledgements in the bug descriptions)
Cite your data.

Start here: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

Showing new deaths per day with 1 week averaging normalized by population, the US is about 2-3x Australia right now.

As for new confirmed cases per day normalized by population, everybody is about the same because Omicron is so infectious. I suspect the US number is a bit undercounted because the number of cases spiked so fast that confirmed cases simply couldn't keep up.
"literally no downside"

Adverse reactions to vaccinations exist. Some are severe / fatal.

Ignoring this feeds into vaccine skepticism.
The only other submission linking to that Twitter profile is about the very same thing but 7 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/jasmineri...

Did they release a new version or something that they need the eyeballs? One can’t help but wonder…
I was actually surprised (happily) that they succeeded. It just seemed to be too many precise complicated manoeuvres that weren’t allowed to fail.
Most of the time companies fail to see non-concrete costs, one of which is slowing developer time, while it's easier to cut costs on developer's machine. Not all, but many.

Same with "the meeting should be an email" type of thing, meetings are expensive but they cannot see the costs.
> * Bogleheads.org will do it for free as long as you follow their template.

phpBB with a custom "web1" frontend reminiscent of Craigslist. That's something I haven't seen in a long time.

My first impression was honestly to trust it more.

Thanks for sharing!
I do not find that claim misleading or inaccurate in any way. What is the issue?

Also, that site belongs to some sort of EU bureaucracy, not a research institution.
i've never played the game, but i think it's from portal 2
This is a very nice assessment. I interpreted it as preventing foreign capital flight and trying to calm public sentiment (eg preventing empty store shelves) But the “human shield” hypothesis is even more plausible!
If you skipped this wall of text, stop and read it. Well said.

Adding on, immunity declines over time, so to maintain it would either mean reinfection or booster…
The Model 3 was designed later than the original S and X, meaning it had a fit-and-finish which S and X lacked, at least until the recent refresh. I see that disparity as an example of Tesla disrupting itself, being willing to launch a lower-priced model which could compete with it's own luxury vehicles.

Since then, the S has been refreshed (including Plaid mode), making it more competitive. They are now in a situation where demand outstrips supply, with extensive delays to get hold of a Model X in particular. To me this signals that demand is now there, but Tesla is actively making the choice to focus on the 3 and Y production volume (which also contributes to the Cyber Truck, Roadster, and Semi all not being available yet).
Related anecdote: the 2008 flash crash of United Airlines stock [0]. A six-year-old article about United Airlines' 2002 bankruptcy was republished from the Chicago Tribune in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (apparently without the date), then got picked up Google News, then by an investment firm, then ultimately by Bloomberg, leading to a flash crash from $12 to $3.

0: https://www.wired.com/2008/09/six-year-old-st/
> If you destroy the demand for a service, the supply will naturally fall, but the core issue is more complex as the quote below highlights what the main problem is:

Alternative take: the demand of the service "sloth-as-pets" could lead to their domestication/breeding in captivity, like the Cobra Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive)

That's another reason I'm not so concerned for endangered species humans find yummy/cute/(...): there's a strong financial incentive we never run out of them!
There is no downside to force vaccinating a population with something new that doesn't expect the first long term study to be in until 2024? How could that be controversial?

A woman has a right to say my body my choice. You think removing that choice is without controversy?
> I have been interested in software sales as well but that seems like it could be hard to break into as an engineer.

I am currently in technical sales (Presales is the name of my org).

This absolutely is not the case. There aren't a ton of folks crossing over but one of my team members did so and has been quite successful.

While it wasn't from a software engineering role, I moved to technical sales from the org's support group so I have the faintest sense of what pitfalls that you may go through.

At the end of the day, many folks in Support groups and R&D groups can fall into the trap of thinking narrowly about a problem. Let us take the problem of getting data into an application. In this scenario a customer asks you if your tool supports 'real time data'. The direct answer is no, it takes time for the tool to fetch / process / present the data from the source system. From a technical lens, this is absolutely, 100% correct. From a selling lens, it's helpful to redirect the conversation towards the customer's goal. Their goal is that they have the lowest latency data possible. This isn't a binary yes / no situation like the previous question.

Now it's relevant to ask questions like:

- What is the source system?

- Is the source truly the originator of the data or is it a downstream consumer of a pipeline?

- If it's not the originator, then how frequently is this pipeline run? Real-time? Micro-batch? What is the latency here?

- Is the source a fixed price system or a cloud-native platform (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, etc) where there are marginal costs per query?

- How many consumers will there be of this data? 1? 100? 1000? 10,000? Data approaches often can be cost / performance effective at one scale but flounder at another.

The net result is that the key question that you have to ask involves focusing on the _problem_ the potential customer wants to solve, not just the mechanics of how to solve it.

That plus

- the politics of the deal

- answering the question at the right level of grain for an audience (engineers get different frames of the same answer than VPs / Executives)

- positioning your differentiated techniques and technologies early in the deal to nudge out competitors (they will be doing the same)

- explaining broad or complicated techniques in a consumable fashion (aka a ton of PowerPoint slides) and a number of other aspects

Feel free to ping me (email is in my profile) if you want to chat more about this.
The severe outcomes are even more rare amongst prior-infected, unvaccinated people.

I suggest you look up seroprevalence surveys. The bulk of COVID infections (barring mandatory and regular testing being extant in a given locality) go undetected, due to the mild symptoms in the vast majority of the population. The seroprevalence surveys have shown this since May 2020.
>but you never know which stories are real and which are just someone's creative writing exercise.

my simple rebuttal to this is: what do I have to lose here if I find out that some reddit post is false, but still true enough to inspire more-likely-to-be-true stories? This isn't exactly misinformation that can cost lives.

Everything should be taken with a grain of salt. I don't find this post to be exceptional in that case.
Monoid is just a binary associative "mappend" function + an identity "mempty" to that function such that "mappend whatever mempty = whatever"

It's a very common structure across programming domains.

The identity overlay is "self: super: {}"

Overlay combination is associative. If you have N overlays, it doesn't matter the order to apply them left-to-right.

In fact, I believe overlays are also commutative. Which makes sense - it would be silly if you wrote an overlay in isolation and how it worked depended on where it landed in your overlays list.
The video should be entirely neglected. So yes, you can define your own variables, and in particular what you call Q_total would be important for a power plant. But nobody claims that current fusion experiments are power plants, and as a matter of fact they are not power plants. The Q_total variable is entirely meaningless when talking about them!
Setting aside whether TLH is saving money or simply borrowing it from future tax liabilities, how much is 3k in capital losses worth to you? At what point does the 0.25 expense ratio cost more than the benefit to you?

By my calculations, the breakeven AUM is around $240k, assuming you always have 3k cap gains to offset.
> […] pieces falling off then driving sown the road

Your sentence is falling apart as well.
>a Core i5 laptop with 16GB of ram running at 1.6GHz

Not arguing that's enough, but it is probably better than the average customer laptop. So if you do get a much higher-end machine, it's worth making sure the app runs okay on something less capable than that.
You'd think big three would be swimming in money since they don't have to offer the usual massive discounts
I don't think anyone needs to do anything at all to realize that zipties and wood are not things that should be holding a modern automobile together.
Wordle to Townscaper
There's irony in the man page telling you not to despair. There's an xkcd about it: https://xkcd.com/1343/

By comparison, the manual to doas.conf is pretty short: https://man.openbsd.org/doas.conf.5

It seems like OpenBSD was also stuck on an older version of sudo when it was removed. It's possible they just weren't having all the churn of such a large tool? But then they also missed a bunch of important fixes: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=142270265216628&w=2

More: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=143465998814989&w=2
Used Zim for several years to maintain personal wiki for tech support tasks (mostly email drafts / canned responses on different topics). But I don’t use it now and don’t recall why I dropped it.
A company is a bad simulation of a hyperintelligent single decision maker. The best possible decisions would happen if somehow one person could be omniscient about all the things that happen in a company, and had the mental bandwidth to decide everything.

Since that's impossible, we simulate this by a network of nodes (humans) linked using a very low bandwidth communications channel (speech and it's representations). Each node has finite capacity and can only bear in mind a certain number of considerations. There are a number of well known failure modes. For example:

One node is delegated a decision affecting matters they don't understand (HR person has to buy computers for Devs)

To render the financial situation comprehensible to central nodes, it is simplified by binning costs into budgets. For example, HR budget pays for laptops, engineering budget pays Dev salaries. Decisions are made to optimize each budget separately, so HR budget is optimised by buying cheap laptops, without reference to the fact that this makes engineering less efficient.
Today was the deadline Apple gave them at the time, before which they had to comply.
This is an interesting question that shouldn't be down voted like it's being.

From how the article is written (although admittedly I only skimmed it), it seems imprisonment didn't have a huge effect on his motivation to solve the problem.

While I can't say I'd be as chipper after being jailed for a year, I can certainly understand the allure of attacking a hard problem with tenacity.

He may have also separated the party from the people he interacted with everyday. In fact, I'd imagine being imprisoned built a lot of comradory with his fellow inmates.

(Would love for someone else more knowledgeable to chime in, I just wanted to start the conversation)
The problem is the government and traditional media have been caught lying again and again. Once that trust is broken I don't know how you rebuild it.

Hell people I commonly talk to still believe a police officer was beaten to death on 1/6 and that people, other then the women shot for trying to enter the chambers, died directly due to the riot. All because of that what the news reported and quietly fixed days later without ever really owning up to it.
NASA also explored using EVAs for deployment in the 90s:

"Neutral Buoyancy Evaluation of Extravehicular Activity Assembly of a Large Precision Reflector" (https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/3.26480)

> The procedure and associated hardware are verified in simulated 0-g (neutral buoyancy) assembly tests of a 14-m-diam precision reflector mockup. The test article represents a precision reflector having a reflective surface that is segmented into 37 individual panels. The panels are supported on a doubly curved tetrahedral truss consisting of 315 struts. The entire truss and seven reflector panels were assembled in 3 h and 7 min by two pressure-suited test subjects.
The complexity is crazy for sure. Around 10 years ago I started looking at cloud costs as part of my PhD - back then there were around 10,000 price points that I was scraping manually, today there are more than 3 million prices between AWS, Azure and Google that we're fetching in https://github.com/infracost/cloud-pricing-api
No doubt, these censors and would-be censors have the best of intentions. But you've really got your head up your own ass if you convince yourself that you are protecting people by deciding the information that is appropriate for them to be exposed to. I just don't understand the shortsightedness, the naivete, or the willingness to discard the principle of free speech.
> I see, Gemini is not to make the life of content creators easier, but the life of the server and client implementers.

As far as I understand, the distinction (content creator on the one hand, server and client implementers on the other) goes against the Gemini philosophy. The idea is rather that it should be reasonably easy to be both.
this describes many ER visits I've had, ones with my kids and ones I had myself.
ERs are the worst possible places to go for medical care, except for near-immediate death. Over time, especially in the US, more and more people use the ER as first-line care (especially on the weekend).

Last week, my son had COVID (tested positive) but mild symptoms. At some point he says "I have a blue tongue, I don't remember having that before". Doctor and wife want to rush him to the ER and I say no. My daughter and I debugged it a day later (he had just taken a blue gummy pill, and somehow didn't think to mention that). What would have happened if we went to the ER? Shrugs from the doctor after sitting around the ER at midnight-5AM ("yeah I guess it's not cyanosis and it's gone now"), my wife and I have increased exposure to COVID in the ER, and a $3K bill for looking at a tongue.
This is kind of a repeat of one of the straw man arguments mentioned in the article. If it's a response to how Gemini is being marketed (marketed?) then possibly the "marketers" are to blame, but I would have to see for myself, whether they're just saying "Hey here's something nifty" or going all full-blown "Hey here is the one true good right way and the solution to all problems and everything else is wrong and bad and anyone who doesn't go along is a horrifying evil person etc. and you're either with us or against us!" Sometimes the former quickly turns into the latter on the internet.
Tim O'Reilly: Andy Warhol, Clay Christensen, and Vitalik Buterin Walk into a Bar
I have no idea what the causes were specifically, but Curiosity was over two years late in launching (planned Sept 2009, actual Nov 2011), per:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Mars_Science_Labor...
If he's burnt-out from being a developer, QA will just add fuel to the fire. I feel they the most under paid and overexploited and time pressured of any role adjacent to software development and dedicated QA jobs are going extinct anyway.
('K9' is homophone for 'canine'. To be homonyms, two terms should have different meaning - if two terms share the same name and meaning, they are the same...)
Yes, even when I worked at an NPR affiliate station 10-15 years ago, automation like this was common. You could even set up lists of songs by theme ("evergreen", "newly released", "big in the last 6 months", "seasonal") and the software would rotate through them (avoiding playing songs too often or too infrequently as configured), pre-recorded underwriting/PSA's/promotions, station ID breaks, etc. It would even select tracks and subtly slow down/speed up tracks to hit a deadline as needed so that it could, for example switch to live or syndicated programming exactly on the hour without a noticeable interruption.
Yes, small satellites are simpler and cheaper. Larger systems are complicated and expensive.

But the entropy of a large system is low, because it's physically attached with the Strong Force of physics. There is a low risk to other neighbouring satellites (space junk collisions). A swarm of small satellites has high entropy, and is loosely-coupled with the Gravity force of physics.

At what point do we want to accept the financial tradeoffs involved? Humans and the economy also benefit from the large projects, and the management structures also teach efficiency to more people who can go on to create other exciting new sensors.

We could start with a small satellite like Sputnik, and make them grow. Eventually it will reach a point of stability with the neighbouring environment. That could be much larger than we expect. "That's no moon, it's a spaceship!"
That's not what this is. This is a long established concept known as tax farming.
You end up with a bunch of individual stocks in your new brokerage account. It's a pain. I separate account at etrade specifically for my "WF500" shares, and still just treat them as a single organism.
When Hangul was invented, Korean was tonal and Hangul accounted for this with diacritics.

Apparently some dialects of Korean are still tonal.

https://autolingual.com/korean-tones/
Townsclipper: Townscaper clipboard data format converter
Taxes on dividends.
once again, the 30% is not a transaction fee. It's a platform fee, and it's in line with every other platform.
Yes. It may shock you, but there are highly educated, intelligent people on the internet and elsewhere.

There are also people who don't know how much they don't know.
The prospect of nuclear war changes this entirely.

I am not entertained by the prospect of dealing with radioactive fallout and starvation.
bond dividends/interest are taxed like regular income. stocks (capital gains) are taxed at a lower rate.
Embrace Complexity Through Behavioral Planning
Hospitals do receive extra payments for treating COVID-19 patients.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
I think there is probably an argument to be made that if that’s a scary and unreasonable sounding number for your use case then it’s not the right tool for the job and maybe you might want to consider PostgreSQL knowing that you can migrate later if needed or if you don’t have a lot of many to many data relations then even a document database might get you that kind of scalability benefits but at a fraction of the cost.
wrong reference if you think it is only 10 years old