skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > > This blog post argues that the risk is even higher for COVID after vaccine.

(Argues so poorly that it doesn't really deserve a response, but I'll follow this digression)

> > It might as well be that those who are vaccinated and still get sick are just predisposed to heart complications.

> No, it's based on a study with a sample size of 42 million

If someone is in poor health, they may be

A) more likely to get COVID, despite being vaccinated, AND

B) more likely to have heart problems

In turn, it doesn't matter what the sample size of your study is. A & B will be correlated, even though there's no causal relationship between vaccination+covid->heart problems; the causal relationship is between "poor health" and "heart problems".
Negative numbers are more obvious though: if you have half a number line (positive numbers) and you want to talk about relative positions of things, negative numbers make a lot of sense.
it is, but a) they don't care if it succeeds or not, b) there's a new faster grep-alike every couple of years, and c) there are diminishing returns from these performance enhancements. so if you're enjoying ag, more power to you.

btw my own "idc if it succeeds or not" is forkfreshness.com, a system to surface active downstream forks of otherwise dormant projects. if you've got a project you want to use, but it seems like abandonware, you can find out if other forks are keeping it alive.
To avoid the issue of queries with IN() polluting pg stat statements, one can in most of the case replace

WHERE a IN()

With

WHERE a = ANY()

No matter the number of options in the ANY operator, it'll hash to the same query id.
Semantics between ANY and IN are very slightly different, but 95% of the case it'll get the job done and provide better stats (by having all queries analyzed together).
Well, Snowden and Manning did, but that was for whistleblowing/journalism.
I always think the best argument for OOP is avoiding name space collisions - with procedural programs you have a bunch of functions that could be named the same - how do you separate them? OOP gives you the ability to wrap things together - their variables along with the methods that make sense for the objects - little collections of things that go together. Then once you have an object, sometimes you'll want to make a method work a bit different in different circumstances - inheritance solves this. Sometimes you'll want a bunch of objects that aren't really in an inheritance hierarchy to have some features the same - so interfaces (protocols) are born.
"Agencies" refers to parts of the US govt; that is a US govt regulation for its own agencies with respect to its own citizens and the regulation of immigration. It has nothing to do with e-commerce, cloud storage, start-ups, web services, etc.

Just as France accords its own citoyens rights that foreigners aren't entitled to.
Book directly with the hotels if possible. Lots of hotels will forgo the 24-hour cancellation charge if you ask nicely. Hotels can't do much if you book with a 3rd party since you're a customer of the 3rd party, not with the hotel.
If you're going to reference a Rich Hickey take-down of OOP, I think "Are We There Yet?" is the most pertinent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScEPu1cs4l0

Of course, Simple Made Easy is excellent too, probably his most influential talk.
Thanks for the suggestion, i didn't think about it yet. The whole page isn't quite optimized for a mobile user experience. I think that i would have to add a link that brings up the help text; maybe the link should be in the form of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at https://m.xkcd.com/ what do you think? I am not much of an expert in matters if web UI/frontend, so that any advice is very much appreciated!
I love when someone understands and summarizes the scientific method in so feew words.
Thanks.
As soon as you use a significant portion of it all the time, you don‘t have „1Gig internet“ to advertise anymore.

Be happy to be able to provide actual 1Gbps as a best-effort to your coworking space! If I were a customer, I‘d be glad that I can download my 50GB of whatever I need asap and use the full connection I paid for, and not have 50% of it clogged by some TOR relay or stuff like that.

I mean, the customers are paying for it, right? So they should be able to use it for whatever they need, as much or as little as they need.
Hello World,

My mom's a textile designer, contracting with large companies, but somehow not getting to use any fancy tools they. She says design software existd, but it's pretty expensive.

At the core, she's making plaids - a black-and-white pattern (2d grid) corresponding to vertical and horizontal threads being above one another, and color schemes (2 arrays) for the vertical / horizontal strings (in most cases, does not match the size of the grid).

So she made her own monstrocity of a pipeline, with Photoshop, Plaid Maker (a rather old web app, https://www.plaidmaker.com/), screenshots, Excel (for designing stuff - yes!), and an old Soviet-era MS-DOS designer program (in Russian, of course).

Throughout uni, I was jokingly saying I'd build a better Plaid Maker for her, even if the web is not my area of work. After The Great Resignation I figured, why not?

Lots and lots of back-and-forth later, here's the outcome: https://plaid-designer.vercel.app/

Note: not for mobile, but should work on a tablet.
Privacy: no analytics are used, but it does rely on Google Firebase for authentication and auto-saving of your designs. Log in to keep them permanently; otherwise, they're saved on an anonymous account, cleared up once a week or so
I had Delta once. Prior to it I would ride 30 miles on my bike like it was a breezy day. When I'd take breaks to vacation or whatever I could pick back up easily. A year after COVID, I'm struggling to hit 20 miles and I lose my progress easily. I'm not sure it's COVID related, but nothing else has changed in my life.
I will believe it when they break ground in France to start the building process.
Saying things and making empty promises is a art western politicians have perfected over the centuries.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can you explain what you are comparing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-specific_fuel_consump...

My understanding is that rockets are good at getting a small mass to move really quickly. They will never win moving a lot of mass within the atmosphere. The fuel costs are radically different.

A 747 can lift and land ~80% of Starship's design cargo but uses something like 7 times less fuel.
There is also an architectural difference in how Linux and Solaris (at least historically) handle swap. Linux adds swap as additional memory, Solaris backs RAM with swap. So 32MB RAM plus 64MB swap give you 96MB of allocatable storage on Linux, but 64MB on Solaris. That is the origin of the "twice as much swap as RAM" rule.
I've heard of multiple people using airtags to prevent and successfully recover stolen vehicles and property after armed carjackings, and as dystopian as that feels, it seems to me far less invasive to society to narrowly target violent criminals than hiring more beat cops to randomly pull over (disproportionately innocent and disenfranchised) people over miniscule driving infractions to hunt for the actual criminals.

I'm happy to see some actual numbers but it seems the devices have been used far more often to deter actual, serious crime than to cause it. Perhaps they should focus on improving the product for what it's actually good for and not nerf it's core functionality because of the extreme edge case of a few bad actors.

Samsung has a similar product called SmartTag and it's also quite good from what I've seen, and on cursory glance seems to not be hyper focused on "fixing" this "problem".
We fire up coal/gas/biomass plants. Nature doesn't care about the ideological purity of the electricity grid - all that matters is total cumulative emissions

People treat this question with religious mindset, as if burning fossil fuels is a sin that must be banished. In reality, there's nothing wrong with powering countries ~80% of the time with renewables + storage, and ~20% of the time with fossils - that's still a decently decarbonized grid
but, in your foo example, presumably complex_function() returned some data that was important, and foo was set to null for a reason, so that when you call do_stuff() you need to know was it supposed to be called on using the result of complex_function, or should it not be run at all because there is a missing null check.

I guess what you are saying is that foo should not have been changed, but a new variable created called "can_do_stuff" and it should have been checked before the call do_stuff()

I think the old Carmack article linked somewhere below makes a very good case for why pure functions are a good thing, and I see the value of making small atomic changes to an apps state, but ultimately, almost every applications job is to mutate data.
Idiot maybe not but if any of those people cited some sort of debt and then I had to pull “it’ll take longer because parts/law change/asbestos” out of them rather than just coming out the gate with it then at best I’m going to be slightly confused about why they communicated it like that. At worst I’m going to think they’re trying to play me.
If full time means ass-in-seat 40hrs no.
Permabear.
https://smallcaps.com.au/another-jeremy-grantham-super-bubbl...
Also control group here.

Early 50's, caught original (& symptomatic) Rona early on. Heart seems fine.

Son (also control group) caught COVID recently, recovered, heart seems fine.

Wife had a vaccine so not in the control group - had an adverse reaction to it and stopped at jab #1.
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I have come to the same conclusion. State is the problem. State should be:

- minimal (amount and lifetime)

- well conceptualized (~= easy to understand the organization)

- well named

- minimally exposed

- coherent by construction (make inconsistency impossible by design of the format or by offering updating functions that ensure the invariants)

OOP can actually help with some of these things! I develop mainly in C++, which doesn't encourage a purely OOP style like Java.
We're trying to isolate just one single claim. A claim about myocarditis alone. An article saying that the vaccine reduces complications overall, and is therefore a good choice, does not address the question of myocarditis in particular, and if it is reduced in the vaccinated population.
We have plenty of storage options. We can produce various chemicals, hydrogen, methane, ammonia. Production scales, storage scales.

But, it is very expensive. At the same time new nuclear reactors are also very expensive.

So we just don't know. Countries like France should build nuclear reactors and see if they can get the price down.

Countries that are opposed to nuclear, like Germany, should investigate storage solutions and see if they can get the price of that down.
Exactly why, after this was found out, young people were vaccinated with Pfizer and not Moderna
If I'm reading Figure 5 right in the original paper*, it looks like the biggest cardiac impact is on people who were hospitalized or went to the ICU for covid, and the effect on people who were not hospitalized is present but relatively small. Am I interpreting the data correctly?

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3 h/t to @greenyoda for posting elsewhere in this thread.
Not from the US, but I cannot imagine that it allows dragnet surveillance. Since that is common practice, I don't think the 4th amendment doesn't do anything to be honest.
yes indeed — I missed it
That’s ok until you reach the logical IO and compute capacity of off the shelf PC hardware. Also 20 years of insane coupling and complexity makes it pretty difficult to move away from that architecture which is where most companies seem to end up with from experience.

Also it’s a complete fallacy that “if we’re successful or grow large enough, we’ll just rewrite it”.

And then there’s the logical problems of managing complexity, distributing work to development teams and even things as determining change impact that become terrible difficult.

I say we should design with distribution in mind but deploy without it. Assuming you can scale up forever is an expensive and stupid mistake.

Incidentally it turns out that even adding any deferred processing (in our case SQS+workers) on simple LOB systems can have nasty problems like clock skew and QoS to consider which are very distributed pains :)
I don't know about the "Western world" but in the US stock ownership is dramatically more prevalent. At the same time, pension plans have nearly disappeared in the private sector.

The ownership rates are trivially searchable. The 2nd link I found was a Gallup survey that estimated around 60% of US residents, which is roughly 1.5x the portion that have a college degree.

If you're thinking of the poor, Social Security payments increase with inflation, so they're not quite fixed-income.
Vaxxed, unvaxxed, or both?
This really sounds like one of them projects you should care if it succeeds if you’re doing it.
Majorel website

> Majorel came into being in January 2019 when Bertelsmann and Saham joined hands to create a leading customer experience organisation. Majorel brings together Arvato CRM Solutions, Phone Group,

Bertelsmann, Arvato, et al. Who ever tried their chance in Germany know these sweatshops. Working for them will impact one's mental wellbeing. Amazon receives all the hate in Germany meanwhile domestic slavers are allowed and doing well.
Yeah I was trying to make an argument the target audience might find persuasive. Inheritance is a nice concept when reasoning about (continental) contracts since a contract is only a contract if and only if it abides by contract law. That's a strict inheritance there. In truth, it's a bit more flexible: a contract could still be a contract if there are illegal provisions in the contract since at first only the illegal provisions will be scrapped by a judge.
> participants have the option to create an L1 transaction

Theoretically they have that option, but in practice do they?

Theoretically I can sue visa to get the right outcome too, which is a good guarantee
I once booked a room in a reputable international chain hotel through booking.com. My sister (living in a different country) booked the same hotel for the same night for a different price and paid with her card in a different currency.

The only "link" between the two bookings was that we booked rooms in the same hotel for the same nights, the bookings were made within an hour of each other, and we share a surname.

A few days later I checked my credit card statement and I had two charges. My sister hadn't been charged at all, but one of the amounts I was charged corresponded to what she paid.

Booking.com said "talk to the hotel" and the hotel said "talk to booking.com". We ended up getting free breakfasts but I'd have loved to know what really happened there.
I've used Hotels.com dozens of times and have never had to speak to anyone, shady agent or otherwise, to cancel. And I've also cancelled for free where "Free Cancellation" was mentioned as part of the fare rules.
I can only generalise from my own experience.

If I go onto "developer Twitter", there is a thriving ecosystem of thought leaders, developers attached to well-known project, etc. If I follow those people I feel like I am a part of a conversation between People Who Matter™.

But if I compare that to my own firsthand knowledge of those same projects and what's happening in the ecosystem, I realise that there is very little overlap between reality and Twitter's projection of reality.
>All a stalker needs to do, is remove the speaker

What am I missing here-- it seems like it would have been trivial for Apple to add a microphone and have the AirTag stop sending location if the speaker isn't working. And have the firmware check the speaker is actually emitting sound, so no amount of physical rewiring can defeat it.

Anyone know why they didn't do this?
As I read the text of the study (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...) it directly says:
"First, we confirm and extend our previous findings in more than 42 million persons that the risk of hospitalization or death from myocarditis following COVID-19 infection is higher than the risk associated with vaccination in the overall population." Is it another study you have where the risk [] is higher after Moderna/Pfizer than after COVID?
Bitfinex hack details from the court documents
But in a way you are doing distributed systems; that's what the "with replication" part of your architecture is saying. Now you can choose to never ever test that your replication setup is working, but I think that "distributed systems testing is for big tech" is bad advice. Something that would work pretty well in your setup: take down the Postgres leader, and see if your website is still up. That's already Chaos Engineering.
There is a principal-agent conflict. The payoff matrix for the general public is not the same as that for health authorities. In addition, since we have eschewed some of the longer-term testing that is possible for new medicines, much of the payoff matrix for the general public is currently unknown.
Php plugin authors.
Related to your "exposed to" vs "infected" point, I've been wanting to check my understanding on something, and hopefully someone here can provide a more informed opinion. Immunity can be boosted through exposure, right?

For instance, if someone was vaccinated, but then exposed and was lucky enough not to develop an infection from their exposure, are they immunologically better off as a result of that exposure? I think they probably are, because my understanding is that's how the earliest vaccines worked (exposure on a small enough innoculum to avoid infection) but I'm not an expert, so would love to hear more about this & whether there's a name for such an immune effect when it happens in the wild.
I regularly fight bad execution plan problems like that on Oracle (more often than not after minor upgrades). And yes you can read about problems like that looking at the documented incidents on the Oracle support site.

And no, hints are not always the solution. Sometimes they even are the culprit.

If I had a wish for Postgres, I'd rather have something like SQL profiles (or similar) where you can register an alternative plan with an existing query, not hints. Very often a full deployment in order to change a single SQL isn't an option.
I love it and the people that I have share it with loved too
Did not mean to "dismiss" the conclusions in the new study per se. For example, one potential source of the contrast is that many of the studies in the Stat News article were focused on young (or young-ish) athletes, while the VA study is entirely military veterans.
Yes, but a home could also be a small apartment. On the 15th floor. In an "unsafe" neighborhood.
So alarm shouldn't be considered to anti tracking feature.
I am 31 and got a heart attack caused by a blood clot last year. Had to undergo double bypass surgery. This happened two months after my second shot so every doctor dismissed the fact of it being related to the vaccine.

I was fit and healthy, no smoking, no drinking, no drugs, and exercising regularly with no family history.

I never had symptoms but maybe at some point I caught covid without knowing despite going out very rarely and always observing precautions.
These are the permanent ones. In you include temporary bases in Africa the list is longer. For 2021 it was: Djibouti, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad.
I know what it means, but the one I am responding to isn't, either out of ignorance or deliberately.

It doesn't mean anything more or anything less than that these people are verified to be who they claim they are. But the person above is trying to indicate it means some kind of "endorsement" by some vague "establishment" that he dislikes.
Yes, great question.

Free forever means your site with live on a makers.so domain like "https://makers.so/s/{random_string}". Here's an example: https://makers.so/s/5b16df0f-17dc-4045-b048-5047182e2856/

$12/month is for publishing to a custom domain.
> Arguing that nuclear is more costly than other forms is just arguing about a few pennies in the dollar.

The trouble is that cost is mostly due to the need to service considerable upfront capital investment required to build a project, starting a decade before any power is produced. No one wants to be holding the bag for that when the market can still handle some smaller cheaper renewable or natural gas projects.
That’s not how the media narrative works unfortunately.
Source: I’m in media.
I made a web app to store book recommendations https://book-rec.com.

Many times after reading a book, that I know a friend or colleague recommended me, I forgot why they told me to read it and couldn't follow up with them. I also use it to take notes of the books I'm reading.

It's open to the public but it's good enough to build on it for myself.
> Once you're born, about two days after you leave the womb, the number of cardiac muscle cells you have then is all you're going to have for the rest of your life," Parker says

Interesting. Not sure why it has to be a fish. Can't it just be suspended between two pins/flex back and forth like a beam.
It reads content of RFID tags. Once you have the content, you can write it onto another tag and essentially duplicate the key.

Some tags are easier to read than others. But so far, with a bit of digging around the net, I've been able to read various key cards and copy them.
You can for any positive n with geometric algebra (which encompasses the complex and quaternion algebras, the latter being much easier to understand in GA).
I despise the experience so much that I can’t feel bad about the demise of that website. They’re are guilty of all the dark patterns imaginable. The day you stop providing a useful tool to your users is the day you can start counting til you close shop. On the other hand google hotel is providing a top service.

This is actually my biggest worry with facebook. Even though I own their stocks, I’m scared that they are following a path where they maximize engagement versus providing utility. Facebook back in the days was definitely an amazing tool that you’d be crazy not to use. Today, not so much.
A bit like haiku, wonderful when you read it, extremely hard to maintain conversations in haiku.

Or like an improv exercise where you have to improvise a dialogue, but only by using questions, no afirmations.

Can it be done?
Sure, but not by most people, not in real time.
Again, wonderful when you see it done right.
This is a very eccentric take! Please do expand on why it shouldn't bother people
Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star
> If a user has that level of [spare cash],

I suspect they could get several cellular GPS devices for the cost of an iPhone + some AirTags - meaning they could easily offer up one or two sacrificial ones for easy finding in order to hide a smaller one "in plain sight" (as it were.)

Or they could just hire a private detective to do some stalking for them.

Or someone even less scrupulous for even less money, I'd assume?
My project called RapBits, and this sound bite nicely summarizes my expectations for it: https://rapbits.com/s/522
That'd be so great if Musk would apply his might to help us (his fellow humans) solve our current problems instead of inventing a future for the 0.001%...
Yeah; I’d prefer it if the police could nerf it (by enabling notifications) to help out stalking victims, but thieves could not.

Alternatively, if (with an actual warrant, and involvement of the airtag owner) the police could link location trajectories of any phones that travelled with the stolen airtag, that’d be nice. Not sure how to avoid abuse with that scheme.
Here's an example: https://makers.so/s/5b16df0f-17dc-4045-b048-5047182e2856/

The output code isn't suitable for sharing / exporting yet.