skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Natural immunity works?

Have you seen how bad Sweden's numbers were? It was vaunted as a story of the success of let it rip approach, but the end result was to show the failure of the let it rip approach.

And note that it's not that good in the first place--plenty of reinfections because the immune system locked onto a part of the virus that changed. The vaccine has enough problem with immune escape, natural "immunity" fares even worse.
Author of post here. One of the cool possibilities here is that Planetiler output is just another dataset, provided it's been converted to the S3-friendly PMTiles archive format (utility here: http://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles)

While Google Maps and MapBox let you customize the appearance of vector maps, you can only modify and remove data that already exists at a zoom level. A self-hosted solution allow products like yours to have 100% custom basemap datasets specific to the application, and serve overlay datasets (like those made with tippecanoe) through the same system.
A Guide to Fewer Meetings
Also - how come Italian cuisine is famously known for its spaghetti when that innovation was quite probably brought by Marco Polo back from China... well, because food innovations constantly mingle.
if you had a lossless source then sure, otherwise lossy to lossy transcoding is not great.
Raspberry Pi update removes the default user
Things aren’t “back to normal” yet, but GPU prices are steadily falling
It was a moonshot, both in expenditure and magnitude.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/building-the-system360-mainframe-n...

"The company spent US $5 billion (about $40 billion today) to develop the System/360, which at the time was more than IBM made in a year, and it would eventually hire more than 70,000 new workers. Every IBMer believed that failure meant the death of IBM."
Computer algebra systems and so on in particular. The sort of stuff Wolfram made is fortune on.

I also think "pure software" entering adulthood. The peak might last decades to come, but it's definitely not 1990 or 2010 anymore. CS still has lots of exciting things in the fire, but most of them involve more than "pure software". If that makes sense.
That seems incredibly optimistic.

Asbestos exposure often takes up to 50 years to have a detectable impact, then kills in short order.

Lead poisoning can take an incredibly long time to identify unless you find the source of exposure up front.

Plastics haven’t even existed for a century, and have been ubiquitous only in the last few decades.
> so I suggested to the AME that I could drop the drugs for 2 months, get the 3rd class, and then immediately apply for the BasicMed and hop back on whatever I was taking in the first place. One guy refused to talk to me after that.

Unfortunately, despite what their flowcharts say, it actually doesn't work like that if you've been taking the prescription for any length of time. They don't actually follow their little flowchart. You will need the full special issuance.

What you described you can get away with ONLY IF you've never applied before and they have no record of you ever being on the medication. That AME likely did you a huge favor by not talking to you after that.
Add to that the fact that complexity tends to exist in an exponential curve, and even though the DOM is relatively slow, it is still very fast.

So the number of projects where there is enough DOM interaction that WASM will be slow, but not enough that JS is still usable is very small.
It worked well for me. I've heard the same stories and understand in some cases a the better version of a driver ends up being an older one, instead of the latest, so there are some quirks. But the games I tried all got great performance.

Experience will vary widely by game, however. From the lookups I've done on ProtonDB so far, I do understand in some titles I may lose some fps- but it's yet to have been a big enough hit to bother me
Why is Kopper and Zink important? a.k.a. the future of OpenGL
No, again they weren't wrong. Where did I say I don't believe something? My statement was that these sites don't want to host links to illegal revenge porn. They were absolutely not wrong to delete that, and I bet you would feel the same way if it was revenge porn of you or your loved ones that was being shared so indiscriminately. We're here talking about the story, and I've probably heard about this story thousands of times in the last year, so any statement about it being censored is complete nonsense. Please avoid this type of rhetoric.
Wow, these numbers are like those from pets.com:

> "During its first fiscal year (February to September 1999) Pets.com earned $619,000 in revenue, and spent $11.8 million on advertising." (Wikipedia)

> "The company raised $82.5 million in a February 2000 IPO but filed for bankruptcy nine months later." (Investopedia)

Fast rasied $102 million in capital and had $600k in revenue that year... Is Big Finance about to hit the panic button again?
> Originally released in 1993, the Onyx from SiliconGraphics was an absolute powerhouse. The machines were powered by between one and four MIPS processors (originally the R4400’s) — ranging from 100 MHz to 250 MHz.

250 MHz in 1993 is insanity, considering that was the 33 MHz 486 era.

> The RAM on these machines were not industry standard [...] and could handle up to 8 GB of RAM. 16 GB in the rackmount version (yeah, there was a massive rackmount version).

8 gig of RAM at a time when home users didn't even have 1 GB hard drives. 16 GB of RAM at a time when a home user's desktop could read memory at < 100 MB/s.

Having those specs then would be like running a 37 Ghz CPU with 16 TB of RAM now.
If you have a good realtor they will confirm the competing offer exists.

Eg. my realtor called up the selling realtor and asked for the name of the realtor that submitted a competing offer. My realtor called the competing realtor to confirm they had a client that submitted an offer.

Yes, of course the two other realtors could conspire together. But, now instead of one dodgy realtor you have 2 and the probabilities go down further.

Is there fraud, I'm sure there is. But, I don't think it's a significant factor in the market.
Shouldn't the control group get placebo treatment? Simply by knowing they have been "treated" could already make them feel better. When the effect you are looking for is a psychological effect, it is even more serious a research design problem.
That isn't true. The housing projects of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society poverty reduction efforts didn't start until mid decade. Before that, you could infer that there was an actual need for it (even though it ultimately failed).
less than 0.1% off the predicted value.
I think it was 2001? that Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) replaced their SGI workstations with linux boxes running RedHat 7.5 and powered by a Nvidia Quadro2 gpu.
I would add that the "Sales vs engineering and sales winning" would be a very relevant warning also:

> [sales] signed up a large number of smaller businesses on the platform. [...] However, integrating these smaller businesses was challenging thanks to several customizations needed for each new customer.

The ratio of revenue per each small customer vs the total cost of integration (and very likely on-going maintenance) was probably at least an amber flag somewhere for those who had visibility of it.

But maybe there was on-going hope that they would be able to sign up a big customer and integrate them before they ran out of money?
I must have noticed that too when I made an HN viewer and put it on hackerer.news (presumably because the shorter was taken).
And we have done this in less than 100 years. I find this incredible and fascinating how much impact we had in such a short time.

And to add one more thought. I still believe that we are too many people. Overpopulation has been proven not to be an existential that as we won't run out of resources, but i can imagine that those 8 billion of us are creating way too much trash that is impossible to handle.

By the way. Just 15 years ago i learned in school that we are 6 billion. Today we are 8 billion already.
what is the state of the art alternative, for this?
He makes concrete predictions about expected troop size in primates based on neocortex volume. You can criticize that he cherry picks the volume measure used after playing with different options, but there are real predictions that you can check against non-human animals.
>So where's that inflation at? 5.7% and still climbing. It rose by over 10% in march.

No, it rose "by over 10%" year over year in march. It didn't rise 10% "in march", which suggest a 10% growth in the span of a month.
Microplastics eventually turn into nanoplastics: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210504112641.h...

We don't know the long term effects of these but it looks like their presence will be an inevitability. Given that nanoplastics will be able to cross cell membranes, it would be prudent to conduct more research into them.
I miss my Sony Trinitron that I gave away in 2015. I remember not having an "HD TV" when I first bought a PS3, so I hooked it up to my Trinitron with component cables and it displayed beautifully. The 1080p TV I bought at a later date felt like a downgrade, despite the larger size.
I find it easier to use rebase for this than having to manage branches.
I do like the idea of using colors to indicate function, but I would be concerned that they draw attention to themselves. Sometimes that is a good thing, but sometimes it's really distracting from the content. I think Reddit's redesign if a good example of this going wrong. It's like a they hired Jackson Pollock to do the design, with colored buttons and doodads everywhere. It's something I think about a lot with my crappy-ass web design efforts.

As an accessibility thing, I have fairly large hands, and really struggle with the sort of tiny buttons shown in this GUI. I semi-frequently have to use websites in desktop mode so I can zoom in to actually press buttons. Not a great experience, and also not something app designers seem to consider.

> Sometimes feeling fast, is more important than actually being fast. This is especially the case when publishing a new post or comment.

> When publishing content on FL, you had to wait until the server successfully responded before you were allowed to do something else. Whether consciously or not, these sorts of penalties for interaction naturally discourage future interactions.

I think when submitting things is one of the times actually taking a moment can feel satisfactory. Returning immediately can feel flimsy and unreliable, like "did it really happen?" and then you refresh and don't see your content.
You can inspect certain things. But you won't be inspecting to see if there's an oil tank buried in the yard, the quality of the chimney, if there's any radiation in the basement, and plenty of other things.

But yes, you can probably inspect the construction quality and foundation pretty easily, a visual inspection of the roof and siding, and if you care the quality and age of utility appliances. You can also pull the permits if you're really interested before placing a bid. You can probably scan for termite damage, etc.

A decent inspection is a 4 hour job or longer generally in my experience.
Why post an article that you think is deceptive?
That was humour?
What exactly do you mean by Russia funding the green anti-nuclear movements? Exactly who did this?

All that green agenda, Kyoto and Paris stuff, affects Russia very badly by basically cancelling its fossil fuel export earnings. Just look at those who lobby the green agenda in Russia like Chubais.
In http://dioxuslabs.com we share our strings (interned) across the JS/Rust boundary and only send primitives back and forth. All diffing stays in Rust with bump memory allocators managing allocations. The JS side is only there to do DOM manipulation. [1] It's about 3-4x faster than React.

I'd say a lot of the ergonomics are there, but not every pattern has been translated cleanly from React into Rust yet.

[1] https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/blob/master/packages/in...
Amen! As a FF fan in the 90s, I was so incredibly hyped about this movie. I remember it major getting press in gaming magazines and going to it with my cousin. I also fondly remember it as the only movie I've ever walked out of.
It seems we have something in common! Cheers!
Policies that forbid landowners from building housing are central planning and the opposite of capitalism.

That aside, this is absolutely correct. It's constantly irritating to hear politicians praise "strong housing markets" when "strong" means "unaffordable if you're not already wealthy".
I've actually done kind of the opposite recently.

I've used Linux a lot in the past, and especially on servers pretty much exclusively - but I've always had a Windows PC for gaming and a Mac for everything else for personal use.

In the last few months I put together a tiny low power AMD PC (the 35W 8 core 5750GE!) - and I am massively impressed by how well everything works.

Proton/Wine and the OSS AMD graphics stack run older Windows games better than Windows 10 or 11 does. The DP MST setup I have just works (unlike on Windows + NVIDIA where it loves to break). Using KDE as a desktop is more consistent as a UI than Windows 11 is.

It's come a long way, and the user experience (as someone who was expecting to dislike it) is seriously improved & seriously impressive.

edit: a lot of the niggles I used to hit have just gone away - I don't get tearing, multimonitor just worked. I haven't tried disparate DPIs and I expect that would be an issue, but even so... I'm impressed.
Right.

Seatbelts and parachutes and water and oxygen don't improve mental health either.
On the flip side I have thought about getting into reverse osmosis as a side business. Afaik reverse osmosis does remove microplastics and most other harmful things from tap water. And on top of that it makes better tasting tea and coffee imo.

On top of that, reverse osmosis can get drinking water from sea water. It seems that the feasibility of reverse osmosis is directly related to available energy, but wouldn't that be a great use of excess produced electricity vs. storing in batteries?

Of all the things humanity should be looking to make technological improvements in reverse osmosis, or even better solutions (electrolysis?, distilling?), should be pretty high up.
Yes, but don’t expect perfection. That’s dangerous. My generally rule is, however many hours I’m putting into the pursuits of life, my spouse should be equally putting in those hours.

You and your spouse are a team. If your both smart and want the same things, you both should be able to figure out a routine that you both can tolerate that also achieves what each of you want. It’s both give and take.
It's only a downside if the company's priorities are so completely misaligned vs employees' priorities. But at that point, I would call that misalignment the downside!
The day cities start starving and devolve into anarchy is the day we see more serious legislation introduced to improve life for farmers.
Indeed, once you start down the path of technological development, you enter a race between exponential progress and exponential resource consumption.
There are several companies I am a regular customer of which I found via advertisements. If they stopped their ad spend, their revenue might not go down (I know I would keep buying), but if they never had ads to begin with, I wouldn't have spent hundreds of dollars on their products, nor would I have recommended their products to my friends. One ad click generated several repeat customers and thousands in revenue over the span of three years - that's a good return on investment, one your analytics probably doesn't capture, and one which you certainly wouldn't notice if you stopped your ad spend.

And that's the rub, isn't it? Advertising absolutely can work, but the numbers can be very deceiving, to the point that I'd bet most companies cannot say with any degree of certainty that their advertisements drives new sales, much less provide hard numbers on how effective their ad spend is.
You kid, but 90% of land in Canada is crown land. Nobody is allowed to own it.
Hence what happened to Usenet. I was active on comp.lang.c comp.lang.c.moderated comp.sys.3b1 comp.sys.3b2 back in the mid 1990s, by 1998, it had become a total hot mess. The moderated groups imploded, or shutdown, when the moderators just gave up. In particular, comp.lang.c.moderated was a fountain of knowledge on C language implementation specifics, then a few really pedantic asshats joined, and their MO was purely slandering and shouting. They had agendas, and they had no interest in sharing knowledge. I think a couple of them thought they could affect the evolution of the language, from outside ANSI, to suit their own personal opinions. Nasty little dictators. I completely dropped off usenet around 1998. In retrospect, I hung on for to long, hoping for a return to rational behavior.
There are bugs that don't appear as such at the unit level. Two objects might individually be in perfectly valid states, but those states can be invalid at a system level.

Which is why there can be a false sense of security with unit testing. When you see 100% code coverage, it implies that you've tested every possible scenario, but with most non-trivial software, you haven't. Did you test what happens when the methods are passed in 100GB of data?
> communist manner

I think the word you are looking for is "collectivist".
I didn't want to go in on the powershell side of things, it's still too early, but it fits my needs as a tech user to have a smaller learning surface, safer (typed objects vs stringly typed bash) and potentially faster (maybe awk still beats powershell I don't know).

Last year I found out, powershell 5+ included a generic hashmap/table viewer, so you can get stupid simple output presentation on the fly with one pipe.
Only 6 of 63 in the no treatment group provided data at the end of the study compared to 57 of 69 of the treated provided data. Then there's a bunch of other points.

I mean, I feel like you just stopped reading to come to that conclusion.
Thanks, that helps, I haven't made sense of it yet but at least it shows that the issue isn't being ignored.
> “[W]hen we adjusted our models for receipt of PB/GAH [that is, puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones] we saw that depression and suicidality significantly worsened among youth who had not (yet) started PB/GAH at 3 and 6 months relative to baseline levels.” So the action here, as the researcher admits, comes not from the kids in the treatment group getting better, but rather from the kids in the comparison group getting worse.

This is a bit of a perspective argument. According to the small study that was conducted, treatment kept mental health the same, while it declined for those that went without treatment.

Pertinent data table: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q...

So, it's more of a semantic argument. Did it really improve mental health?

Relative to where they were at the start of the trial, no.

Relative to the decline in the control group, yes.
From Martin Hollis' wikipedia page(project head for Goldeneye 007):

> Hollis remarked that he worked non-stop on the game, "[averaging] an 80 hour week over the 2 and a half years of the project", and that the team he recruited was very talented and dedicated even though most of it was composed of people who had never worked on video games.

I guess the answer is insane levels of talent + dedication, and don't worry too much about domain expertise. Probably my favorite factoid out of there is that Goldeneye multiplayer was an afterthought, and basically one dude hacked it together in a couple of weeks at the end of the development cycle.
No, that's what the person you replied to mean when they wrote:

> hitting the limits of sprawl (congested highway commute time)

There's only so far you can bus, train, drive, bike, walk, seaplane, helicopter, hyperloop, or transporter in to go to work. Canadian cities are, just like cities in the US, hitting this limit rather aggressively.

In cities where sprawl isn't physically prohibitive, like Calgary or Toronto, the upper bound of "this shit ain't worth it" for time and money is a limiting factor. I know someone who commutes from Kitchener to Toronto on GO, so they don't even have to put up with driving, and they're debating moving back home to Winnipeg for a 40% salary cut just to not have to put up with it any more.

Remote work might help with this but even there, you have people who are moving "a little further out" but not leaving the region because they want to stay nearby for other reasons (or because they're not entirely convinced that full remote is actually on the table long term).
The thing that's most remarkable about this is that, to my knowledge, the FAA has approved multiple (at least five!) different jet fuel substitutes over the recent years, including those based on chemical transformation of sugars, other biomass, recycled cooking oil etc.
Well, you can't really tell if the other group got worse as a whole because it says later in the article that over 80% of the kids not on puberty blockers dropped out of the study so at the end there were only 6 kids left in the study who weren't on puberty blockers.
That's generally happened. House prices have notably increased not just in major cities, but also in smaller municipalities within commuting distances of Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal.

Truly "cheap" housing is historically limited to rural areas far outside the traditional commuting area of the big cities, but the covid shock has put even that in question through remote work. Even though a small number of people in absolute terms are moving to rural areas (with sufficient Internet infrastructure, etc), that still can represent a large relative demand increase.

Some of this will probably shake out over the next few years as construction catches up where it can, but that's cold comfort to younger families on the market today.
That's not entirely correct.
The theorem says that in Vickrey auctions (sealed bid 2nd price), each bidder's optimal strategy is to bid their actual valuation of the auctioned object.

It doesn't work with open bidding, because then you could bid artificially much as long as the 2nd highest bid was at your real valuation or below.
>Nobody sees nuclear as a viable path forward except the nuclear industry.

This is provably false on many fronts. There is a growing recognition that nuclear is the only low carbon source that can produce substantial carbon-free power in all weather conditions and all latitudes.

"There were over 50 additional nuclear reactors under construction in 2020, and hundreds more are planned primarily in Asia."

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/energy-nuclear-power-...

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/nuclear-power-energy-...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/23/tech-billionaires-ral...

Nuclear may or may not become the dominant energy source, but to say "Nobody sees nuclear as a viable path forward" is simply incorrect.