skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have to imagine, we already have an example of fully vaccinated population.

Gibraltar:
- vaccination: two doses >99%, boosted: 85%
- cases: 145 (7 day avg)

Gibraltar population is 33k. This is pretty good example that vaccines can't stop the spread. With examples from other highly vaccinated countries (e.g. Portugal, Australia), it doesn't look it's a path to end covid.

You should get vaccinated to improve your own chances, but taking it to protect others doesn't really work.

> the harder the people who associated with antivax will push.

Does your definition of antivax include people who are vaccinated but oppose mandates? Because I would fit that definition and don't consider myself antivax since I do recommend vaccination to people who didn't get it yet. With small difference that I don't want to force them.

And one last question for those who propose mandates. When will mandates end? What happens after 6 months when you're no longer considered vaccinated? Do you subscribe to mandatory vaccination indefinitely?
When you wrote <<sHIV>>, did you mean <<Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)>>?

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_immunodeficiency_virus
Well, nuclear power plants are not every easy to build. It takes time, knowledge, and experience. US/UK/French experience slowly degraded after this extended period of nuclear hatred. Now, when NPPs are cool again, they realised they lost core competences!

Note how Russians never stopped building NPPs so they do manage to build on time and within budget.
If you're not American, a homestead is more or less the same thing as a smallholding.
I don’t mean this disrespectfully, but this is completely wrong and comically naïve. It is not representative of academic libraries at elite US universities. I work at an academic library at an Ivy League school, and am familiar enough with our peer institutions to provide some context. What you describe is a very rosy and idealistic view of libraries and especially librarians.

The truth is, academic libraries are extremely politicized institutions which censor information they view as ideologically inappropriate ALL THE TIME, both explicitly by culling books and implicitly through social coercion and other political maneuvers (setting up ideologically slanted committees which must approve new book purchases, etc). The examples are endless.

The idea that librarians are dedicated to “privacy” and “openness” — I’m still not sure what that means tbh — is absurd. Some are, but the vast majority of PL’s are highly ideological and rigid in their thinking, will absolutely not tolerate certain views on certain subjects (fairly mainstream views, btw), and depending on the political context, have varying commitments to anything resembling privacy or openness.

I’m happy to answer any questions or provide more detailed examples if anyone is interested. And this is specific to the Ivy League + schools in its orbit (Williams, Amherst Swarthmore, etc.)
Those long durations just mean that they (the engine designers) are taking thermals into consideration, and capping at a lower power to compensate.

What you think is flat out, is really just "max it can run without burning up".
Demystifying Interviewing for Back End Engineers @ Netflix
One thing I've been looking for is a simple to-do list app that allows sharing/syncing cross platform.

There are some nice and simple to do list apps (eg. Notally on Android) that have no syncing. Then there are some platform specific solutions (eg. the Apple's Notes app) that work well on platform.

I've been looking for something just to share a shopping list with my SO, and all I could find were elaborate SaaS productivity suites with projects and deadlines and calendars and project management features, but nothing just for syncing a single to do list between an iPhone and an Android device.
Or to phrase it another way: Some people who wanted RMS gone for a long time abused the opportunity to rally the mob against him.
Yahoo! JAPAN will no longer be available from European Economic Area and UK
There is also no mention yet on Apple support for glTF file types which is important to keeping an open web based XR ecosystem.
> HP & Torque curves vs RPM should always cross at 5252 RPM

Not really. First, this number only applies to imperial units. Second, axis scaling will move the crossing point. The only way this happens (provided we are talking about imperial units) is if the torque and power axis scales are explicitly scales such that the curves intersect at 5252 RPM.
This is a nice project. I am an editor in the space and would like to help :).
> Even just discussing the problems is more than enough to get you past any cutoff or filter I've encountered.

Even assuming that this were true, the clear implication is merely that the scoring rubric for that part of the application is being disregarded, since it very explicitly says otherwise. The linked blog post series actually discusses the issue at length, so I'm not going to repeat what it says. Regardless, having scoring rubrics that explicitly demand ideological conformity to a specific point of view is still a recipe for significant problems in the future.
How about modifiying to if you can prove "prior art" on an invention but did not have sufficient capitol to file for the protection or start up a business with the patent so that someone else is granted the patent later, the prior art owner is not subject to the patent?

Not a perfect idea, but an idea to kick around on improving rather than just the blanket statments of "kill all patents" that are so trendy. Also, we don't have to say that all garage inventors are dead.
See recent research on this, which expands on the description provided by the other replier:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sabdujyo/papers/sigcomm21-cme.pdf
I'm wary of the add-on costs here.
Does this also mean that e.g. EU business are not allowed to use Stripe or PayPal, since those are owned by US companies? Or, that it's not good enough anymore to use a EU hosting for Mixpanel or AWS or DigitalOcean?
Oh right, because they don’t want cross-site scripts to be able to see redirected URLs since they could contain secrets. I wish we could completely do away with cross-site scripts and just have nice things!
>>As an European, it feels like I am reading an article from 1830, with hp instead of kW

Where in Europe are you that anyone uses kW for engine power lol. Yes it's listed in kW on my registration document but I've literally never heard anyone using kilowatts to describe engine power instead of horsepower, and I lived in a few European countries so far.
Makes sense. Another dimension to this is that Minoan language does not appear to have had any resemblance to any form of Greek. The most ancient cultural artifacts from Mycenae seem to be of Minoan inspiration while Crete itself seems to have had intrusive Mycenean characteristics until it was completely supplanted by the Mycenean.
"""

“But you are telling me, Susan, that the ‘Society for Humanity’ is right; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future.”

“It never had any, really. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand — at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them; and no one can stop them, since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society, — having, as they do, the greatest of weapons at their disposal, the absolute control of our economy.”

“How horrible!”

“Perhaps how wonderful! Think, that for all time, all conflicts are finally evitable. Only the Machines, from now on, are inevitable!”

And the fire behind the quartz went out and only a curl of smoke was left to indicate its place.

"""

Asimov, Isaac. "I, Robot". pp. 147-148. Available online: http://ekladata.com/-Byix64G_NtE0xI4A6PA1--o1Hc/Asimov-Isaac...
People used to say a lot of nonsense back then. The thing that slowed down XP a lot was ClearType (which was off by default) and the animations. If enabled Windows Classic theme (I forget what it was called) it was as fast as Windows 2000 and looked exactly the same.

The other problems that people frequently had was that a lot of software used Win 95/98 only hacks which wouldn't run on XP (or anything NT based).
It's the other way around. Without wind and solar, Germany would produce a lot more CO2 than it produces today.

If you come from a situation where most electricity is generated from fossil fuel, with a bit of nuclear, than installing a bit of solar and wind trivially reduces CO2. Wind on the North Sea can trivially take 50% of all required electricity production.

It is the end game that is hard. With just solar and wind you can't go down to zero CO2 emission.

That said, it is not clear that you can go to zero CO2 with just nuclear. Unless you are massively overbuilding nuclear to deal with peakload.

The current problem is that no government has proposed a timeline when fossil fuel will be more expensive than storage (or than nuclear mixed with wind).

As long as fossil fuel is cheap, we will only see solar and wind, because those are currently cheaper than fossil.
Right, I don't really know anyone who seriously used ME. I guess some people who bought prebuilt computers at an unfortunate time might have been stuck with it for some time. The people I know held on to 98 (or 98SE) for as long as it served them, and then switched to 2000 or XP. I also never saw ME in schools, libraries, corporate settings, etc.
Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete
This matches my direct personal experience. I'm often tempted to say that people don't actually read, even though they've been taught to convert the marks on paper (or the screen) into sounds. The phrase "Barking at Print" is sometimes used to describe this, although like many similar phrases it's gain serious negative baggage, even though it's an accurate metaphor.

From the article:

> ... my sister watched me teach and said after, “You repeat yourself a lot.”

Yup.

Most of you here on HN are not typical, but I've defaulted to the position that the majority of people are functionally illiterate.
the guy just installed every package for arch. im...not entirely sure they comprehend the concept of bloat...
I find VS Code with the Haskell extension to be very good for displaying type signatures, code completion and navigation, etc. Holes (which are covered by the article) are the go-to way to see what's possible at the current location. You type an underscore in your code and the compiler tells you a bunch of information about what goes there including things you could put there that would typecheck.
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

Would it look better with more nuclear? Quite possible.

Does the black bar (as an example) decrease with increase in solar and wind? Yes, very much so.
Just stick with the garden that is plenty of work, homesteads are highly overrated..
> I've heard that the most celebrated holiday throughout the world (albeit on different days) is "Independence from England."

Even in England they celebrate the day someone tried to blow up the Parliament!
Because the office grind would be a little less demoralizing if it
weren't a perpetual sausagefest.
How do you get the carbonation levels to an equivalent level of commercial equivalents? I have this same setup (used mostly for beer)- but when I tried to carbonate water, it was always a bit on the flat side.
That is a good question/distinction, but even with that taken into account, some of the numbers in that article are not that far off from other places. That $2.3 million dollar house had $28,000/yr in property taxes, and here in Oregon that would be somewhere in the $30k/yr range.

However in Oregon there was a measure passed in the 90s that limits gains in evaluation of an existing house to 3%, and as a result every house always goes up by 3% assessed value. That makes it more predictable, as you can always expect that value to go up every year.
I'm interested to hear more if you can share.
Its sort of ridiculous, unless you believe the soviet defectors that say we are headed for a nuclear conflict with Russia-China.
I stick to lean and simple C89 with benign bits of c99/c11. With nice tables of functions and clever recursive pre-processor naming, you can scale that easily to large modular applications and keep everything very clean.
The absolute and unquestionable truth: a c++ compiler is abysmally more complex and hard to write than a C (89 with benign bits of c99/c11) compiler, and this is mecanically true due to the syntax complexity difference. There are many shmol and cute alternatives C compilers out there (and there are working better each day which goes by, and some are doing more than enough optimizations), and I would like to use them, that which is not possible with c++, due to its complexity hence shuting the door hard on any reasonable efforts of writing a "working" alternative.
That said, personnaly, I have high hopes (maybe too high) if RISC-V is successful: I see everything assembly (not even C anymore) with high level script languages of the like of python/javascript/lua/etc. I am writting more and more assembly these days (mostly x86_64 though, desktop RISC-V are only starting to ramp up in performance), and the main pitfall seems to be the abuse of the macro language of the assembler, which could be averted if explicitely aware of this bias.
I don't see why you are being downvoted, you are absolutely right. For example you have US Gallons and Imperial Gallons, with the Imperial ones being used in UK not US.
Makes sense. Will try if we run into this again. Thanks!
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Plus C++ devs often expose a C interface because most languages support that.
What? No love for the ELE asteroid/comet collision?
This is quite interesting and important. Do you have anything I could follow or some literature about the topic? I'm not even sure what to search for as I never thought about alternative modes of communication.
You can also reliably interchange the word "elites" with "people whose opinions I don't agree with" and you'd have a slightly more honest assessment.
This obviously violates every carrier's terms of service, at least in the United States. There are industry-wide accepted rules about this; regular local long codes are not allowed for A2P messaging. Your A2P texts will be blocked long before you get to 250,000 texts in a month. I would bet that you don't even survive the first day. You're just flying under the radar right now because your volume is low.
They can make it; they just need to pay a reasonable royalty. One of the easiest fixes for patent litigation issues would be for congress to set some bounds on what a reasonable royalty is.
I'm from a rural area in the mountains of Appalachia, grew up on a farm, and I just recently moved back with a remote job. I have seen at least 4 families move in from places like Florida, Pacific Northwest, and Pennsylvania, to try and attempt "homesteading", to say it's going poorly for them would be an understatement.

I would absolutely not recommend homesteading or owning a farm to anyone because the operation of homesteading or farming is inherently fragile. That means that all your free energy is going to be put into maintaining that fragile system. Let me give an example: Say you move out to a farm and decide to be "off grid" and for you that means you don't want to hook into a power or water. You dig a well, mount some solar panels and hook it all up your household. Now imagine you have some bad weather for a few days can't get a full recharge on your batteries you slowly loose all your power. Now because you have no power you have no water, then you decide to house potable water in a tank so that you don't lose out. That require some maintenance and plumbing knowledge Not only that you decide to buy a generator so that you have a stand by in the case of emergencies. That generator requires service that you may not know how to do and fuel that you have to go to town for, so once again you're taking more and more time and energy just to survive.

If you want to be a part of a rural community I would recommend buying a place with acreage that can still be connected to the grid; power and water preferably but power as a bare minimum. You can still have solar, you can still spread out and have a bit of freedom and you won't be as fragile. If your place has a field or farmable land I would lease it out cheaply to a local farmer. Leasing the farmable land helps the farmer, gives you a connection to the community, and helps maintain the land's current state.
From someone who's done a fair amount of SMS sending here are some things to think about.

- You'll need TCPA compliant opt-ins for US sending. There's a cottage industry of people who look for vendors that aren't compliant and sue them. The fines range from $500-1500 a SMS or call. Sounds like you've already gotten that covered, but definitely go over the requirements with a lawyer that specializes in it.

- SMS is throttled per a phone number. This is throttled at both the provider and the carrier. That means that even if Twilio sends something at 10am it might not be sent by Verizon until 11am. This absolutely impacts off-hour SMS sending.

- SMS is pricier than email and even at the highest volumes has a relatively high floor per a text. I think the floor might be $0.004X-$0.005. This is offset by having better response rates that email. And as others have mentioned the providers will give you better pricing as your volumes go up, but you'll need to talk to account reps about that.

- At a certain size (1M+/month?), you can also consider integrating directly with the carriers, although that's a longer process to get set up.

- You'll need to manage SMS bounce/spam rates like you would for email bounce spam rates. You'll end up maintaining a block list of known bad phone numbers

Edited for formatting
E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti

64k karma in 2 years

Checking current front page... Yep there's one from him :)

Not every submission gets to page 1 but since he posts several links per day, at least a few each week get there.
Perhaps you can work with this site. https://www.ontheissues.org/Issues.htm
That's a great project, would be awesome to have an EU variant to this, maybe extend to EU as well
Im no expert on batteries, but I don't see giant watery banks working in large scale, in most cities in the world. Today the better way to store energy still is with water reservoirs, and its expensive as hell, and you need a gigantic space that will be flooded.
> That's right, to get a democratic web you will need to raise a tax and have the government run (or otherwise subsidize) the infrastructure.

Is this the terrible conclusion that you were building up to? I see no problem with that compared to the alternatives (existing or non-existing).
Why would anyone talk about their problemas at home with their bosses? Is this a US culture thing where work and non-work is blended so much that you mix and match conversations?

Both as a worker and a manager, I hardly know about other co-workers lives. Gay or not gay, married with kids, or eternal bachelor, I don't really have (or want) a clue about their private life, much less have a report tell me about his. Just say 'I am dealing with something, need some time off' and there, you got it, but I don't need to know your mother has cancer or you are going through a divorce. You are an adult, take the time and use it as you need.
So we can hack AR in JS, in the browser, with a reasonable support in both Android and iOS ecosystems?
I just released a barebones MVP yesterday for a sports betting site with a little twist:

We give users a little bit of money each week to play with ($0.50 right now) and if they can run it up past a certain point we'll pay them out in cash. If they lose the money, we put another $0.50 in the next week. It's legal in the US since the users aren't allowed to deposit and mainly for entertainment purposes.

The plan is to make money through affiliate referrals if users want to bet with real cash.

I think sports betting is inherently social, so the end game is to create more of a social sports betting experience where you can invite friends and talk shit about their bets, have leaderboards and so on, so forth.

I'm a front-end dev / designer with some back-end chops but not great. I'd be down to chat with anyone who has a complementary skill set. Hit me up at will@pennywagers.com

Stack:
Next (serverless back-end),
React,
Tailwind,
Prisma ORM,
Postgres

https://www.pennywagers.com
Tangential, but have you thought about offering customers the option for emails instead? I'd much rather give you my email address, I'd much rather receive email, and it will cost you less as well!
You can also use this to wedge the C preprocessor into Swift

for example, I can inject variables into the C preprocessor in my build settings and have a C header that defines constant strings with those variables, which I can then import directly into Swift as a module
Please stop wining and make progress :)

Current situtation:
The energy sector (in Germany) was never eager to use nuclear fission power, they were pushed into it by politics in last century. The environmentalist movement is weird - in Germany. People want wind turbines but they don't want wind turbines in reach of 2 kilometer. What is stupid, because it is a minor thing compared to nuclear power plants, coal power plants or whatever harm a wind turbine can do (collapsing, hitting a bird...). One example of how people can completely lose their mind are the "Startbahngegener" in the late eighties, shot a cop to dead. Because? They were against a new runway at one of the biggest, busiest and oldest airports in Europe. The runway is not an issue and made sense. We need to handle climate change anyway, whatever we do. Nuclear fission power plant? If it blows up you, your country, your kids, the neighbor countries and everyone else is fucked. We increase the chance with every nuclear fission power plant further. It is not a matter of "if", it is a matter of "when".

Outlook:
At least in Germany. Built wind power plants, build more, store energy as hydrogen (whatever the energy loss is, it is better than not to store) and if possible use NUCLEAR FUSION. Yes Nuclear FUSION! It is much saver, creates only a minimum of nuclear waste after shutdown and in case of control loss and blowup the damage is probably on minor level. Wendelstein[2] - an experimental nuclear fusion project which shall test only but not create energy - is doing progress. Interestingly, this works without the usual international affairs which require involving some companies from every country. But we invest to less. There is no guarantee in success, but nuclear fusion is on any level better than nuclear fission. Sadly politics in cold war were no interested in fusion - nuclear fission was easier to develop and usable for weapons.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tötungsdelikte_an_der_Startbah...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X

Heads up! Not down!
You get rate limited pretty quickly from what I've heard. Normal carriers don't want you doing this.
I immediately guessed why, but for a slightly different reason.

Some people when driving (e.g. me) have an unfortunate habit of looking at the other lights, to anticipate the green.

I thought perhaps that the kid was watching the parent's head direction. In fact I suspect that this is the real answer. Lights aren't typically that hard to see ahead, even from the back seat.