skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that that the clinical trials for Sinovac showed ~50% efficacy against the original covid variant vs 70-something percent for AstraZeneca, and 80-something for Pfizer and Moderna, and that efficacy for all of them has decreased as new variants have emerged.

While 50% isn't useless it does seem significantly worse than the other vaccines. And frankly if I were Chinese I'd be questioning why China didn't license one of the other vaccines rather than continuing with their less effective homegrown version.

My understanding is also that regardless of vaccine used, the Chinese government is still trying to blame outbreaks on foreigners, and as such has prioritised vaccinating people like dock workers and airline staff over their elderly which seems rather questionable at this point. Australia and New Zealand also attempted a zero-covid strategy, which worked well enough until Omicron. But they have both now abandoned this strategy, and I feel like China is going to have to do the same at some point.
BBEdit is the only application besides the Finder that is always running, on all of Mac systems. I've been a paying user since v2 or thereabouts.

BBEdit just rocks.
It's not hard to design a kitchen or mud room to be hosable; commercial ones are. Main thing is tiling and draining.
I used to think like this, including videogames, too, and this still long after reading in Siddhartha that everything is transitory, hah!

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic I stopped habitually drinking alcohol (1-2 drinks/day, pretty much every day for years, because it was customary in our house and with friends, except a started to cut back for a year or so before quitting since I was noticing how I felt). Alcohol no longer has any pull with me, and I've replaced that habit with other, more-enjoyable activities.

It's okay to change, and even better to steer the ship.
Google started shutting down its GSA (Google Search Appliance) business in 2016, with the latest customers getting shut off by the end of 2018/2019. The promised cloud replacement never materialized, at least for anyone who wasn't also on GSuite/Workspace. GSA was an interesting product that I and others spent 100s of hours mastering. Really hated giving it up, although it was never the panacea for cutting through search results "noise" we had hoped it would be. ROI? Given its short lifespan, I doubt you could get a consensus on that. One thing in its favor over existing cloud based solutions: you had a lot of fine-grained control over the output. You could say that GDPR killed it, but that wouldn't be fair. It could have been queasiness over storing all that internal customer data. Or maybe the infamous short attention span of Google's executives.
Engine starts, car moves. Good enough for me.
The engine was perfectly adequate with a 5-speed and front-wheel drive, but I can see how a 2000s automatic and the extra weight of AWD could make it sluggish.
I see. “Misfile” vs “overpay”. There’s always some subtlety in finance terms!
Hector?
Good one! It might select the first word of the next line in some cases, but it's easy to deselect it with the left arrow. Thank you!
I just wish it supported smooth scrolling. Don’t know why, but I can’t stand the line-by-line scrolling.
Was it through a VPN? I feel like revealing my home IP to random people on the internet is a bad move.
Thoma Bravo to buy SailPoint for US$6.1bn
> Le Corbusier was also partly responsible for the American ideal of the ultra-zoned, socially-stratisfied, car-centric city. Le Corbusier saw society as a machine, not an organism, and his work reflects this outlook; a comprehensive plan for alienation and the decay of community.

What a myopic perspective on a man who thought that workers should be treated to a life beyond that of misery on the ant-hill of cramped tenements which grew up around factories in which they worked.

Just because someone's solutions grew ubiquitous and the flaws in this paradigm grew too obvious, does not mean that these flaws were the plan all along.
Don’t assume populists will be burnt by Putin
He will simply tell his voters that Biden was responsible, and his voters will believe him.
I am stunned by these results and I find it absolutely amazing, but somehow this also makes me kind of sad. So many things we consider worth learning are loosing their value with these advances. It really makes me think if I should stop trying to improve my skills, because in maybe 20 years there is not much left what can not be done better by a machine. :/
I see you haven't gotten to the part about the other harder drives yet.
I'm sorry, the comment that I linked above was inaccurate, but the issue still persists for me, see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31009239
You must be using a dust repelling, perfectly engineered, made of naturally occurring purest of metals, first time in any iPhone kinda lighting connector because mine needs dust cleaning often.
Two vortex rings colliding in slow motion in HD (Smarter Every Day)
How’s the free tier on aws for s3 and cloudfront? I can think of free alternatives that are equally as good if not better.
However, it just so happens that all the most successful ones do.
The I-35 corridor is one of the key routes for NAFTA based traffic. It's not just Texans that will feel this. To assume so is very short sighted.
It is 20 inches shorter than a minivan. But, it's also basically a minivan with the rear cut off.
Those inspections may technically be illegal. Depending on how you turn your head and squint, impeding those trucks (especially if it's via inspections domestic vehicles don't experience) could be a violation of the commerce clause of the Constitution.
Similar problem when they are waiting 10 hours for a load to finish filling. It's all unpaid time.
More likely we are at the dawn of something we can’t yet understand.
> If there wasn't an impact on businesses and consumers then they wouldn't be scary.

It's probably scary for Amazon, but I don't see why it would be scary for consumers. I use Amazon regularly, but if they had to shut down deliveries for a few weeks I would just order from eBay, Walmart or other sources. I can't think of many things that I can order only from Amazon.
True that, but if the legislator saw the ad, they'll know they were targeted.
Nice example: inflation in China is the same as in the USA: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/chinas-producer-and-consumer...
> All of Trump's policies were inflationary.

And yet there was no inflation to speak of. Weird.
The first thing I did recently in some cleanup work for a team was set up direnv and have it auto-switch kubernetes context by location.
"Do employers care about you reaching your maximum potential?"

No. They don't care. They only care about making money or getting the job done. If they can increase your productivity by helping you achieve your potential, then the reaching potential part is merely incidental.
Depends on the authority they're claiming. If they claim to be regulating trade, that's probably gonna get slapped down really quick. The feds don't really like that. Doing background checks on the drivers would probably also get slapped down. Freedom of movement once you've been permitted entry to the US is pretty settled.

If they're claiming it's to make sure the trucks are safe enough to drive on Texas roads, it's a little different. The truckers, presumably, are allowed in the country, but they can't use any of the roads in Texas. That's the same effect, but a much more grey area. That would probably have to wind its way through the court. I'm also not sure how federal highway vs Texan maintained road would play into that.
I'm a big fan of jo[1] for making generating JSON from the shell not terrible.

[1] https://github.com/jpmens/jo
People without insurance used to get care and then go bankrupt. Today people without insurance still get care and then go bankrupt. What I’m not understanding is why people in this theoretical future without insurance wouldn’t do the same thing?

I feel like we’re talking past each other. Sorry if I’m being dense.
fd and ripgrep are the ones that have really stuck with me, replacing find and grep in my finger memory.
2/3 of trucking costs is diesel. Like 2/9 is labor, with maintenance, tolls, and other misc. rounding out the last 1/9.
Embedded IP and Ethernet Interfaces (2012)
> Nobody owes another country trade. ...not the rest of the world for wanting to avoid trading with a warmonger.

You're conflating decent people with their indecent governments. There are plenty of decent people who would gladly trade with decent people of countries we sanction, but we not only punish the entire country, we punish ourselves in the form of higher prices. Those prices ripple through the economy and we all get less.

Virtually everyone loses here, but we're supposed to take solace that the "other side" suffers more. That is pure 1984-level insanity.
Oh no! Anyways. Yeah if this stops the war I'm all in.
The Lt Governor is the key to power in Texas. Also, the Railroad Commisioner in Texas is extremely powerful compared to other states. It's all weird.
I suspect you're thinking of Windows (Live) Movie Maker. It's nice in a pinch but it's no iMovie.
I don't think Myers-briggs is fundamentally non-empirical. Empirical evidence is certainly lacking for it, but I think there's a good argument to be made that this is due to poor experimental design (for example applying the categorisations to persons rather than to mental processes) and a general difficulty in empirically measuring internal mental processes (it's notable that more mainstream competitors to the Myers-Briggs like the five-factor model don't even attempt this).

I would also point out that I was replying to a comment that was an empirical observation. My comment highlighted that their empirical observation corresponds to the pre-existing Myers-Briggs theory (which suggests that other people have previously had similar observations).
I don't know Go but I would say most uses of generics in other languages are "Any" style uses.

The difference between a data structure that only takes any ONE type and a data structure that can only restrict to an interface is fairly huge. As the article describes, actual type safety is very nice.

Edit:
One trivial example might be a taking in a type and returning the exact same type. I don't think that's achievable with interfaces.
Ask HN: How do you find an expert?
How do you find an expert? Your car has a strange sound. Your DNS over HTTP is rejecting you. Your CI pipeline is fragile and seems non-deterministic.

It feels like there's a business opportunity here to somehow connect the people who know with the people (like me) who are willing to pay for an hour or two of a proper expert's time.

In my most recent case, I have a pihole with cloudflared dns-over-https, and I get frequent rejections. Nobody likes being rejected, especially when it means your network is useless 25% of the time. But web searches lead nowhere. I would pay for proper help, but there's no obvious service to match the experts with the clients.

Is there one? If not, is there interest to build such a matchmaking service?
How to speed up the Rust compiler in April 2022
Beliefs on how you should learn to code
I didn’t say misfile. I suggested making an estimated tax payment so that you have net credit at the IRS. It’s the same as applying your refund to the following year’s taxes. There’s no filing or claim of income, you’re simply parking money there to cover potential taxes.

To do what I’m suggesting correctly, you’d calculate your tax liability or surplus before the last estimated tax payment date (Jan 15th) and make an estimated payment for the difference between that and the amount of I series bonds you’d like to purchase.
Do you think Apple had that 1 trillion dollars entry in their balance sheet spontaneously appear in one majestic swoop of same sale?
Ebert wrote beautifully. I was lucky enough to have met him once or twice at book signing events here in Boulder. He was a regular at the Conference on World Affairs dissecting movies one shot at a time. I attended all of his "Cinema Interruptus" for Mulholland Drive, La Dolce Vita, (no small commitment actually) and a few others. On top of it, Ebert was a kind, good human. I also miss Ebert. Check out his "Great Movies" book series if you can.
For a collection like this, definitely agreed. If the users of that circular buffer want to use pointers, they can just pass a pointer type. No need to force it on all cases.
Yes you are holding it wrong because the resulting video is clearly wrong if you view the video on a TV (same aspect ratio, other orientation), a computer or if you watch movies, or if you, well, see out your eyes. If you want to capture just about any action, it's going to look better in landscape, and that is why EVERYTHING until phones were put in the hands of plebs is shot in landscape.

Now, you could argue that we've gone more mobile, and newer social media formats expect portrait, but, that doesn't change that it's risen because people take videos and never consider, "hmmm, if I turn it around, I get a better picture and it looks more like a TV! Duurrr." Just because it's more popular doesn't mean it's not stupid AF.
What functionality do you use IFTTT (assuming you made a typo with 'IFTT') for that Zapier does not support?
BBEdit still has the best multi-file search-and-replace feature of any editor I've ever used. Tons of options, a visual pattern builder, multiple simultaneous search source directories and the option to save search sets, it's saved me innumerable hours of tedium.

It's worth the price for that one feature alone.
Printed files in well-organized folders in a waterproof/fireproof locked box. I’ve had to remind my SO several times where I keep the key. I can only hope he finally remembers if I’m gone before him…
I mean, according to the Supreme Court you can squint your way into justifying almost anything using the commerce clause.
But like you can write a poem to generate pictures for it. It's revolutionary for people to present differently.
To quote the article:

> But even putting aside the fact that claiming someone else's writing as one's own is wrong, the value in survey papers is in how they re-frame the field. A survey paper that just copies directly from the prior paper hasn't contributed anything new to the field that couldn't be obtained from a list of references.

Good survey papers can be important contributions in their own right (e.g. [1]). A good survey should contextualize works within a subject area with respect to each other and identify high level trends/ideas in that subject. These connections are not only useful for learning a topic, but also for positioning novel work or identifying under-researched areas to focus on.

If the authors felt that one of the papers they plagiarized concisely expressed what they wanted to say, they could simply quote and cite that work. Otherwise, it could be construed that the authors are claiming to be the ones drawing the conclusions they wrote. Moreover, from the article, the survey in question seems to be pretty egregiously plagiarizing, which deserves to be called out/shamed.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11426
It is generally free now and I can unlock all my freezes quickly and it instantly takes effect. I did it on the phone with a lender once. They didn’t believe it!
It’s 2022: Where are the drone deliveries we were promised?
Flights between KL and Taiwan are cheaper because labor and maintenance is cheap thanks to the much lower wages in KL and Taiwan compared to Europe and the US (so everything from maintenance to refueling is cheaper).

As far as taxes are concerned, it would be interesting to do a cost breakdown of fuel to see how much of the delta comes from taxes.
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I said Texans would be the Americans feeling most of the pain from this. Not that it wouldn't affect non-Texans. Why? Because Texas and California are, unsurprisingly, the states whose economies are most closely integrated with Mexico, and the states that engage in the largest amounts of trade with Mexico.

And most trucks destined for California from Mexico will just enter the US in California, so delays on the Texas border will not play as big a role in California as it does in Texas.

Please read my brief comment before calling me short sighted.
Dreams and realities collide in Praxis's vision of a utopian crypto city
I would relegate alcohol to ceremonial use, not the daily palliative so many use it as. To preempt such regulation, though (so far I think Portugal is doing a good thing with decriminalizing drug use, for example), I'd promote mental health education, starting with early childhood education for all parents, to reduce childhood trauma and help set the stage for more people to be skilled at noticing what they're feeling and deciding what to do next. Not a quick fix, but a quality one over the long term.
One would expect a governor to make such decisions based on evidence that can be shared with the legislature or the people (preferably the people).

Under no circumstances would one expect that Greg Abbott would do so, as he is wholly driven by a sandman's ideology.
Except no people have that, it is a lie, and I am willing to pay you $1M for showing anyone who can do that in a controlled setting.
Glad to discover fd. I've always struggled with find syntax. It's easy enough, but always kind of fiddly IME.
I’ve never seen (or heard of) a toxic workplace becoming less toxic by unionization.

Better pay? Yes. Better benefits? Yea. Less chaos? Yes.

Less toxicity? Unions give the workers a bigger say. That’s it.

How toxic are your coworkers? If they’re toxic … unionizing won’t help. If they’re not toxic … unionizing still probably won’t help.

Unions are about pooling together for a better negotiating position.

That doesn’t make anything less toxic.

For example, will the union support using H1B visa workers? Amazon had a lot of H1B tech workers. That could get very toxic very fast.
>USA doubts China

IMO misplaced doubt since forceful integration is as old has human civilization. US/west did it with indigenous peoples, and modern CCP has done it with fragmented post civil war China. People criticize cultural revolution / reeducation but forgets it works, almost always with proper application of force and commitment. Which US lacked in Afghanistan but PRC doing in spades with XJ securitization. There's been 0 terrorist attacks since. It's time tested instrument of control.

>biased media

The entire XJ genocide initiative is spearheaded under lying Pompeo, using host of US funded NGOs to launder fabricated narratives with hundreds of millions of propaganda funding directed to manufactured consent. So at least that much.

>democracy is unstable and PRC communist control with security is serenity.

No I'm saying PRC approach to COIN/deradicalization with mass monitoring and securitization infra has so far proven to be more effective for maintaining peace than haphazardly blowing people up while dumping money into corrupt reconstruction efforts. It's just a more serious and systematic approach because by all accounts US gave up rebuilding politically and was shovelling resources into a hole for maintenance mode due to politics.

>brink of a peasant's revolt

Same was said about Wuhan and other PRC chernobyl moments. I'll wager there will be less upheaval than antimask/vax protests. Citing "flipflop" as if western epidemiological responses haven't had massive same week changes according to development. A privileged Tier1 city of 25m lockdown with expected logistic hiccups and so far it's mostly people moaning on social media with very little "revolt" bleeding in real life - hasn't even escalated to tier of drama at end of Hubei lock down when adjacent provinces were trying to block cross border travel. It's milder than anything experienced in the west so far for lockdown more severe than anything west have implemented. There's nothing unanticipated about public outrage over inconveniences from lockdowns - that's how humans lash out everywhere regardless of severity. But seeing "peasants revolt" and "far from serenity" because western media reposted some weibo complaints is how PRC collapsists have been consistently wrong.

Couple month from now, if SH trends the way of Jilin or Shenzheng then CCP could be bragging about system defeating infectious covid strain that broke every other system (including soon to live with virus TW). The ability to mobilize and logistically supply 25M people with some initial blunders will also be massive propaganda win - everyone blunders, state capacity is about who blunders least and self corrects quickest.
Yeah, it isn't like there are similar historically high inflation rates in the UK or Germany or the rest of the world. Nope. Biden's fault...
Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, Shubh Saran, Tigran Hamasyan fit in that crowd too.
Ok when you say a few off the top of my head it implies that there are a bunch and these are like some super obvious ones, but it sounds like this is actually only useful if you have a bunch of infrastructure set up to serve sites for projects and customers that need containerization and then you just throw this simple little static site docker instance in there because when you're maintaining a lot of docker instances it is just simpler to do?

Which seems like sort of an edge case for value adding, and makes me feel like it really doesn't add any value to do this unless you already are doing it for everything, and thus you really wouldn't be throwing out any value by just serving the static site without the docker overhead.
GoPro has been performing relative miracles for years. Their products are well worth the money for the benefits they provide -- if you have a reason to use them.

I've watched a lot of youtube videos, some of which were shot with quite expensive gear. And honestly, the ones shot with a gopro set on wide (not ultra-wide) provide reliably great video in so many conditions, and very importantly without tearing or other weird artefacts which a lot of phones introduce.

Honestly, I'd like a 4th camera in the iPhone which is a GoPro...
I highly doubt that claim. Most end to end pipelines are still heavily driven by Avid and Final Cut.

For smaller ventures, Resolve has gained a lot of traction. Especially for its color workflows.

But a claim that the vast majority of films use resolve is highly unlikely IMHO
The first time I saw his act I couldn't believe anyone would laugh at this.

Time goes by and his appearances on H Stern would leave me in stitches. He could play an audience, whether 1 person or an auditorium, like a violin.

Genius level up there with Norm and Patton. For a sample search youtube and his 'you fool' bit during Hollywood Squares.

Fun fact: He could talk like a normal person when he wanted to. There's audio of Gary D talking to him on the phone.

Fun fact 2: Gary D went to his apartment after he had been living there 3 years and he was still using plastic lawn furniture until he bought some real furninture. He was already a millionaire by this point.
Become an accredited investor, if you have enough money: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/what-is-accredited-...

There are sites like wefunder.com for the average American, but these are the investments that traditional investors passed on, so most of them aren't great.

Fig.co looked good for games, but has gone bad, since Tim Schafer joined Microsoft.
As someone who lives a lifted truck lifestyle and gets there in an subie hatchback I concur
rclone is another useful cli tool I use frequently.
Also useful for zapping text from MS Word as I recall.
Totally depends on the industry. I've been called on as an expert a few times by GLG which seems to do this as a service https://glginsights.com but I don't think they cover everything and there are other companies in more specific verticals like tech support for companies (https://www.electric.ai/)
Mosh isn't a replacement for SSH, it uses it.

> The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH

This is a cool list overall though.