skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned I think this really only applies on a macro scale.

Individual anecdotes (such as my personal friends who did not change behaviour), while unscientific, paint a similar picture to what is being presented as evidence, so it's an additional data point to consider.

So, at least there is some correlation with the sentiment, and by people whom I know have not adjusted their behaviour. (including myself)

Sweden's restrictions were excessively light, by the way, 8pm closing of restaurants and gyms is not exactly a big deal to people going to the gym after work.
Just skimming through the comments, there is some negative sentiment about Booking.com. So I came to say, that over the years, I've used Booking.com numerous times, without any single problem. Yes, there are dark patterns (13 people are looking at this offer right now, etc.), but free cancellation was always free for me, reviews matched my experience, information matched the reality.

Sorry to hear about the layoffs, but customer experience has been great for me.
It makes no sense to only look at the risk of myocarditis. What you really want to know is how likely people in your age group and with similar predispositions are going to have serious health problems or die (i) if they are vaccinated and boostered and are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and (ii) if they are not vaccinated and are exposed to SARRS-CoV-2. The tricky part is the "exposed to" - if you interpret this as a symptomatic breakthrough infection, then you'll bias the study a little bit against vaccination because it seems likely that fully vaccinated people who get breakthrough cases of Covid have previously undiscovered health deficiencies in contrast to those who are vaccinated, exposed to the virus and do not show any symptoms. (I'm talking about a statistical tendency, of course, not all of those people.)

So in the end the most interesting data is still how many vaccinated get serious health problems or die versus how many unvaccinated get serious health problems or die in a time and place where both groups are likely to be exposed to the virus. If the group is large enough and randomly selected, then this should be fairly indicative. Of course, the meaning of "serious" needs to be defined and quantified.

AFAIK, myocarditis can be treated very well when its diagnosed, that alone makes the focus on it strange. Maybe the lesson to draw from the debate is that patients should be informed better so they can identify symptoms of myocarditis and seek medical help early. Just an idea...
Vercel is great. The dev just most likely fucked up his code thats why you're getting 500 on the API.
No, this isn't the FISA stuff (which, while still unconstitutional, claims authority from the FISA Amendments Act, and, yes, the secret rubber stamp FISA court), this is worse: this is the CIA doing something completely unrelated via an executive order interpretation.

This doesn't even go to the FISA court, and they didn't tell the congressional oversight committees about it (all of whom have clearance to know/hear).
Great news ! I'm still looking for my go-to tools to get things done. Today , I(m using Notion , I try to write a daily to-do list ( no more than 3 goals every days) , check it and timbe-boxing it (very manually). I'm thinking the "gamification" for timeboxing is important and have insight on how other great teams and individual organize their OKR coul be a great inputs ( through templates ?) I'd loved to test your product.
...for five seconds, no less. Just now beating a record set back in 1997.

That sentence really hit me. Is that really only how far we've come? If so, the pace is so glacial that...I don't know, maybe this isn't worth it?
It’s unclear what is being praised- is it the high working memory (and reasoning power) of those great men or the ability to have an open discussion about the merits of a case?
Listen, we're going about this all wrong:

"Hillary Clinton, Biden, Kamala and other Deep State actors want to use the EARN IT act to read your messages and check if your kids are vaccinated. Next year, if your children haven't had 5 boosters, CPS can take them and you could face jail time! FACT!"

Anyone have MS paint and a few sockpuppet FB accounts? I'm only 20% kidding here.

Edit: forgot to fit "globalists" in there
Honestly, I've been playing Minecraft since alpha-ish(?) times. I love how far the game has come but from a user experience and technical perspective it is really lackluster.

Performance getting worse with every upgrade. Servers are still(!) mostly single-threaded (there are third party servers and clustering/proxy options, but still).

Worst offender must be their account security / support. A few months ago I received a notification that my account had a password change requested. Okay, I reset it, change my email, change my password only to find out my Username, which I have had since I first created my account, has been changed to something else. Okay I guess, just ask support to help with this, right? Hell no. Support just gives a canned response along the lines of "we can't help you with this, please wait 30ish days to change you name again". Okay, I got a bit freaked that my beloved accountname would be gone by then, but apparently it's locked for 35(?) days and I have a 5 days grace period where only the previous owner can change back to it. So I wait the 30+ days only to find out I can't change my name back, because my previous name is deemed offensive (it is not, their bad word filter just picks it up because it got "chink" in the middle ("Schinken" being the full accountname).

Support was, again, not helpful just telling me "you cant change to that account name right now". I tried several times and only get the same canned response. Thus I was stuck with either the random name that person changed my name to or find something else. Try finding something nice or similiar to a very common german word, especially after a lot of people got to know you under that name for a decade.

How and why someone gained access to my account I don't understand. Why a password needs email verification I understand, but why not a username change? This is the worst.

Rant over, but seriously. Mojang lost me with this.
<strong>: The Strong Importance element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/st...
It might be a thing of personal taste, but programming became significantly easier for me when I discovered map and reduce, including editing what I’d previously written.
Transport is not the main technical issue in making life multi-planetary. For the amount of time Elon spends talking about it, SpaceX spends surprisingly little time on the actual research that is needed for making an actual Martian colony self-sustainable.
Unfortunately, it's accurate. Theft is what I'd call the racket that is management companies in London.

In my case, with a London apartment, it's an "Administrative Fee", £150 to replace your lost fob.

Then for my costs as an individual, it was not only that fee, but also new locks for external door(s) and mail box, another administrative fee for the communal meter cabinet/room key, new Kensington lock and a car key/fob when my wife's keys were "lost in a known location yet never again found".

That is to say, "losing" those keys is a £300-500 affair.
OTOH:

1) Most of the time GUIs use OOP, and its the "other designs" which have a hard time being successful.

2) The rejection of multiple dispatch is very "hand wavy", a lot of Julia's success is linked to its multiple dispatch feature.
It is important to note that given the timeline in the study (March 2020 to Jan 2021) most of the COVID-19 group was likely unvaccinated. It remains to be seen whether vaccination protects against these same risks.

Edit: This is confirmed in the supplementary data. Only 347 (0.23%) of the 162,690 people in the COVID-19 group were vaccinated prior to infection. That being said, a reasonably large percentage (61.93%) were vaccinated by the end of the follow up period, which would seemingly indicate that vaccination post-infection doesn't help all that much against these risks.
Same, but I can't shake the feeling that I am missing something, as some people are really insistent that FP is the _only_ way forward.
I've had cursory glances at the ideas of FP and find it very difficult to understand (probably due to many years of OOP style imperative programming).
Now I wonder whether I should have just started with FP and ignored everything else.

Is the idea behind FP that it's just much less likely for your code to be incorrect? Because to me it looks more like the sort of thing code-golfers love, because it allows for cramming even more implied functionality into ever-tighter, ever-harder-to-read spaces. Which, I suppose, is fine if everyone is on the same level, but I'm not sure how I'd apply something like this in a larger organisation / code base.

Again, I am speaking from ignorance and openly displaying this ignorance intentionally so that I may be proven wrong. I am inviting this, as I'd like to know more about FP.
Over the past few years, my personal experience/perception is there's been less and less people with a technical grounding in crypto/blockchain who bother to engage on HN (on CT, it's often dismissively referenced as "the orange site") because not only is there such a strong anti-crypto attitude, but usually it's based on pretty shallow or often wrong comprehension of the tech/mechanisms.

I agree that it's pretty pointless to argue though. Even when blatant misinformation gets cleared up, or clear examples of how the tech is actually being used are outlined, most of the conversations then end up at "well, I don't see the value of it so it still must be useless." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I believe it was gotten from the ambiguities of English - when you say "all most programmers need is " it could mean all that is needed most of the time but probably the more usual meaning would be that a great number of programmers (most programmers - greater than 50% of programmers), will never need anything but `map` or `reduce`. If the second meaning is taken then this means as a corollary that these developers never need to be able to break or continue in a loop.

Of course if it were assumed they never need anything but the higher level methods: map, reduce, some, every etc. - then they would probably use some or every if they wanted to break.
I prefer to think of The Expanse instead. It seems a much more likely future to me.

There are countless dystopic futures (they sell better) we already avoided so I prefer optimism.
> I feel like this is ignoring the fact that if any company other than Apple made these trackers, it wouldn't do this with anyone's phones.

Right, and Apple have provided everything that AOSP would need to implement this, someone even made their own version of the entire Find My client long ago (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack), so technically AOSP could even integrate using Find My, although I imagine Apples lawyers would have a field day with this if they did.

Identifying the AirTags has also been implemented as a background service by the same organisation as above (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard).

> I guess they could make the packaging more tamper resistant somehow, but again this is kind of shifting the goals a bit. I don't think it's reasonable to expect that every device will be physically resistant to modifications that would enhance illegal use. An iPhone with the speaker removed and screen cable cut to look dead would make a pretty good tracker too.

This. Plus, the noise AirTags make isn't the only way of finding them, you get the notifications, and soon (when the changes mentioned in the article are implemented) it'll be easier to find them using precision finding.
As someone currently actively applying to companies I feel like employers almost don’t want to hire people.
There is a beauty in "these bits will become those bits because physics says they fuckin' will"
This has been debunked many times
Isn't it the opposite? If there's a strong effect in "had COVID" vs "probably did not have COVID", doesn't that prove that there would be an even stronger effect in "had COVID" vs "definitely did not have COVID"?
Deflation is horrific for any economy because it makes debt more expensive to service. Like it or not, modern economies are largely able to function thanks to prolific use of credit. If you think about it, it makes a ton of sense - if a rich person or company is sitting on a bunch of money, in an inflationary environment they are encouraged to invest this money in r&d, businesses (esp risky ones, like innovative startups), better employees or benefits for existing ones, etc. In a deflationary economy the best use of money is NO use of money. It's a death trap.
Thankfully, governments and multi-trillion dollar corporations are well equipped to pay for ongoing development and maintenance of FOSS.
The change in conditional probability though likely flips when considering the third dose - the third dose is most likely to cause myocarditis, and least likely to protect against severe covid causing myocarditis (because the first two doses are already providing a high level of protection).
> Hotel would only except credit card details sent via plaintext emails

This seems very common issue in hotel business. I regularly travel with Amex business travel and our travel agency sends a temporary cc# to the hotel so I don't have to pay for the room.

So that's a temporary cc# which is a little safer, but it's e-mailed in cleartext to the hotel regularly for thousands of guests.
"Even though chess has been around for well over a
thousand years, good introductory teaching doesn't exist.
So far, nobody has survived chess baptism without scars.
Are you ready to join me in making history?"

Hyperbole much? Guides, books, teachers have been around as long as chess have [1] so to suggest that none of these provide a 'good introductory teaching' is somewhat hubristic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Ram%C3%ADrez_de_Lucena
There’s at least one German-Bulgarian company called Plan-Vision that implemented such graph-relational approach like 15 years ago. their VSQL is similarly working on the E/R conceptual level and gets translated (or compiled into) to the underlying Postgresql or Oracle. You also get a neat EcmaScript like language that works with the collections in a graph like manner.

Long before Arango, Orient etc.

The company is absolutely nowhere near to you guys in terms of marketing, but their thing works with more than 40 enterprise clients so far.

So you definitely did not ‘just’ invent the concept. A lot of companies approach the problem one way or another…
Most things last longer than their warranty, if even 5% of an item fail to reach the warranty then it's a disaster for the manufacturer. Planning for replacement is probably a good idea when you are 5* the warranty.
Probably too many queries to the database.
It's crazy that they do not say anything in their study about the biggest confound ever, the vaccine.
I'm unsure of what is surprising to Feynman. Is he saying that he assumed clever men would be obnoxious and self-righteous when they weren't?

Although an anecdote, I would imagine there are plenty of examples where the opposite would happen to people who could still fairly be called great men/people.

In fact, some times, great people are necessarily obnoxious - or at least cold. I can't imagine that kind/warm people could have got Tesla or Apple to where they are, it takes a certain hard nose to make hard choices in business.
Pre-omicron, it did. Australia and New Zealand were pretty much at the herd immunity threshold from vaccination, before even getting much third dose coverage or vaccinating children.

Omicron is sufficiently immune-escaping that it changed that, but I continue to be surprised how many people don't realise that the vaccines were actually very effective at preventing infection and transmission for pre-omicron variants.

Edit: I don't mean they prevented infection and transmission 100%, obviously. But for two doses the total reduction in transmission was like 80%, and higher still for three doses. This is more than most people (other than Australians and NZers who watched vaccination bend the curves in real time) realise, from the way people talk you'd think the vaccines barely reduced infection and transmission at all.
Annoying, isn't it. SpaceX, like all worthwhile and impressing endeavours in the past, is the work of a legion of people in front of and behind the curtain!
It probably does reduce transmission because it helps your body defeat it more rapidly, in some cases so quickly that you don't even notice you had it. More rapidly = less time to transmit it to other people.
In Göteborg SATS nor Friskis&Svettis were never closed during the pandemic. I also knew that Fitness24 was open all the way too. Which gym are you talking about?
And it is SLOW as ass ! I keep thinking I need to upgrade my phone (Xiaomi 8 core - Android) but I just can't do it from a principal point of view !
Generally speaking, the second you're running tricks to "jam" something that's overly large into a single machine, yeah you should just give up.

The issue becomes when you reach the scale of compute needs such that you cannot "jam" all your requirements into a single leader multiple node cluster.

The amount of data you'll need for THAT, is becoming unimaginable.

64 core 128 thread leader nodes have outrageous potential to scale.

That said, that doesn't quite apply to my Postgres example (barring some nifty DBA tricks and third party extensions).

But you can appreciate how much data you're going to need to blow past what 128 threads can do for you.
After recovering from covid, my resting heartbeat has gone up from 60-70 to 90-100 BPM. And I now cannot eat food without a glass of water because my throat gets so dry that I have the sensation of getting choked all the time.
Be that as it may, that doesn't make it appropriate to accuse the current team of bundling malware.

They are the ones who removed that, in a stated effort to put SF back on the right track. They don't deserved to be maligned for their efforts.
In context of user interface, "Natural" = "Familiar". So, very low barrier to extract value, less chance of making mistakes.
I have a confession. A first time visitor from a small European town to a Japanese city last millennium, it was raining and a department store had buckets with mostly white or transparent umbrellas by the door.

How civilized, I thought, that a company would provide free umbrellas to shoppers when it rains, and so I took one.

Turns out that's where you out your umbrella when entering the store...
I had to use the CTE trick few times to solve same nasty query plan in Postgres. While it worked well for me I would still prefer query hints. They are explicit, so the intent is obvious: “Dear future developer/me mind the execution plan”. A CTE might get removed by mistake or not be reevaluated if it’s still needed after Postgres version/statistics/index changes. Also as mentioned if you are still before pg14 there is this issue that you will have to materialize your CTE to keep the hack working.

I remember that the most irritating brownout I got due to a query plan change was when a 50 millisecond query started to use a seq scan, but on a table under 10 million rows, so it wasn’t obviously hanging like in the article, but took like 2-3s. It was just enough to fly under radar for our monitoring, but to make some important process much slower.
> In Spanish B and V sounds exactly the same

Depends on accent. Some regions do diferenciate. Same with S/C/Z
As always, benchmark and profile! However, from first principles, this is one of the degenerate cases of certain JITs that often catches people off guard, but has a straightforward transformation to avoid the pessimizing behavior – especially if your loops end up looking like they're particularly hot.
"in the overall population" does a lot of heavy lifting there. Young males are both more vulnerable to vaccine-induced myocarditis and far less vulnerable to severe covid than the general population.
Oh, no doubt that intelligence gathering operations are almost always made to look nondescript and not what they are, especially nowadays with Google Maps and such. Everyone who's seen a war / spy movie will know this.

The difference being that the alleged secret organisation she claims to have proven to exist, is to conspiracy circles not just a "listening outpost" but much more sinister and powerful. Hence my comparison with the 5G mind control theories.
Try instead this for pure function: thread safe radix trie supporting ins, del, find. Purpose exclude blacklisted ip addresses. Go!
The only way out of this is embracing to become a criminal. You have to even the playing field with intelligence agencies breaking the law without any consequence. They have to justify their existence, citizens do not.

You have to protect yourself because the government cannot and will not do it. So focusing on illegal channels is the obvious choice.
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3

That's the pool of 60+ year-old veterans who were selected after testing positive and then subsequently monitored for one year.

It is likely that many were vaccinated during the 1-year period from Jan 2021 - Jan 2022.

e.g. as of July 2021, the VA % vaccinated was about 50%, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/26/va-man...

We know that mRNA vaccines have resulted in negative cardiac consequences in some patients, although that has mostly been in younger men.
if they aren't getting slower how are they going to make you buy their new ones?
Is bone particularly tough though? I would have guessed some of the harder woods would already surpass or at least match it.
It looks like it's both. But either way, it's not that extraordinary.
Come on, you just said that most people only need map or reduce, which implies they never need to break or continue.
Thanks, I'll give that a try.
>Flu doesn't usually have this sort of impact, people fully recover.

I legitimately cannot stand this flu meme any more. I'll quote Charles Stross:

"Remember, this isn't a simple pneumonia bug. It's a virus that attacks the RAAS/ACE2 system, in particular all the epithelial tissues, and any other cells that express ACE2 receptors on their surfaces. It can mess with your kidneys. It can mess with fat cells, changing their response to insulin. It apparently shows up in brain tissue. Viral RNA can be found in all of these cells many months after recovery from the acute infection: it may have long-term sequelae, like Shingles, which only show up years to decades later. We do know long COVID effects up to 15% of people who are diagnosed with an infection, and can last months to years. We know that immunity is short-lived, and people can get repeat infections (currently mostly by new strains, but reinfection with an old strain is not impossible)."

The ace2 system that covid-19 attacks plays a vital role in the regulation of the cardiovascular system, and this has been known since 2020.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-0360-5
My personal experience applying both methods in creative work currently suggests that persistent long-term planning leads to more significant results overall.

You can spend your time solving problems you have now, or you can anticipate problems you're going to have further down the line. All too often the creative solution to a future problem changes the mission requirements in the present, and thus the criteria of the next task, prompting a different design.

John Cleese's talk on creativity [1] suggests the same, that sticking with a problem after having already solved it produces better solutions the more time you're willing to endure the discomfort of ... deferring execution.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
If you want to mix SSD and hard drives then you probably want bcache.