skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am submitting this having in the past reported¹ other information about ratios of Long Covid sufferers: again numbers and the definition swing - though this time we get an official name, 'PASC' - "Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19".

¹See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854321 and the abridgements and notes therein

> Three British studies, near in time, put to "chance of long covid after infection" the values of 2.3%, 13% and 40%, another article (mentioned in these pages) indicated 25% (as the component with cognitive symptoms 8 months after infection)

From the divulgative article:

> Surprisingly, ethnicity, older age, and socioeconomic status were not associated with the syndrome

> The UCLA researchers studied 1,038 people who were enrolled in the UCLA COVID Ambulatory Program between April 2020 and February 2021. Of those, 309 developed Long COVID. A person was determined to have the syndrome if they reported persistent symptoms on questionnaires 60 or 90 days after infection or hospitalization

Original research article:

Sun M. Yoo et al, Factors Associated with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) After Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19 in the Inpatient and Outpatient Setting in a Diverse Cohort, Journal of General Internal Medicine (2022), https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07523-3

> The most common persistent symptom was fatigue (31.4%) followed by shortness of breath (15.4%) in hospitalized patients and anosmia (15.9%) in outpatients. Hospitalization for COVID-19 (odds ratio [OR] 1.49, 95% [CI] 1.04–2.14), having diabetes (OR, 1.39; 95% CI 1.02–1.88), and higher BMI (OR, 1.02; 95% CI 1–1.04) were independently associated with PASC. Medicaid compared to commercial insurance (OR, 0.49; 95% CI 0.31–0.77) and having had an organ transplant (OR 0.44, 95% CI, 0.26–0.76) were inversely associated with PASC. Age, race/ethnicity, Social Vulnerability Index, and baseline functional status were not associated with developing PASC
If you (like me) can't tell the difference, is it really a problem in the first place?
Most programs should be done in a garbage–collected language. Let the runtime deal with whatever you throw at it!

Rust is for those cases where that would cost too much money, and you’re willing to pay the programmers to spend their time working out the memory allocation details so that that the computers don’t have to. Most of the time programmers are more expensive than computer run time, so the extra cost isn’t worth paying.
A solid point. This reminds me the old days when I carefully programmed my VHS video to record Blade Runner from a public broadcast on TV. How happy I was. "Now I will be able to watch Blade Runner whenever I want!" I even remember having purchased a more expensive VHS tape just for that, I didnt want to have no image quality issues in the future.
He probably shouldn't listen to music then at all? At least not with this setup.
For lithium hydroxide sales to fund anything they first need to actually manage to profitably produce it. And we are far away from that yet. And its very questionable that it will ever get three. And even if it does, the idea that it is profitable enough to finance all that people are hoping is questionable. Lithium mining is a low margin business.
You might be thinking about the geographical center of U.S. in rural Kansas which is the default geolocation for U.S. IPs.
My German phone number is on my website since 2017. I get a phone call every few days at most, always from the same lot: German housing guys. Otherwise it's dead quiet.

It's definitely worse in the US, by quite a bit it seems
Chef isn't an alternative to NixOS. Chef is imperative and stateful as it could possibly get. The whole thing is piles upon piles of unrestricted Ruby code that gets evaluated during deployment. NixOS has the exact opposite design.

Compared to NixOS, Chef's design allows for flexible deploy time decisions, but it comes at a price. With Chef, it's hard to ever predict everything that's going happen during deployment. Chef code takes a bunch of external inputs in the form of Chef attributes and also has full visibility into server state. All of this happens during deployment. So to make sense of what would happen during deployment, you'd have to run your Chef code in the exact same environment as your target server. To make things even more challenging, Chef code can easily mutate server state irreversibly unless you go to extreme lengths to prevent it.

NixOS, on the other hand, prioritizes predictability and reproducibility. It builds the files required for deployment beforehand in a sandboxed environment before the deployment phase, with all the necessary inputs fed upfront. During deployment, it mostly copies those files into an isolated location under /nix/store and creates symlinks to them in /etc and elsewhere to activate the system. Figuring out what would happen during deployment beforehand is a matter of inspecting the built files.

Furthermore, unlike Chef configuration, NixOS configuration doesn't concern itself with deploy time actions. Its focus is on expressing static configuration. The Nix language is used for this purpose, so comparing it the against unrestricted general purpose programming languages is a mistake. A better comparison would be languages like JSON, YAML, Jsonnet, and Dhall.
I remember, about 25 years ago when I was in the military, marching at night after a week of sleep and food deprivation, that I started seeing things. Just over the tree silhouettes I saw a circus tent, and I heard circus music and ruckus.

The mind does strange things when you are tired, bored, or stimulated to (eg flicker-induced hallucinations).

I also firmly believe tales of gnomes and such are a way to explain what cannot otherwise be explained. "I don't know what caused this, gotta be the rascal tomte again." Reasons have always been invented even when the invented reasons themselves raise more questions than what they should explain.
Also even the population of brown bears that polar bears are descended from didn't go extinct either. They're still here, they're just polar bears.
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I would go with even less - a 1% to 2% dilution is what I normally go for, but only after tasting the whisk(e)y neat. Some open up better than others with the addition of a few drops of water.

For example, a particularly good Balblair whisky in my collection transforms into a sweetshop of flavours with a ~2% dilution.
Joplin note app works on ownCloud/nextCloud/DropBox/iCloud or Joplin cloud.

The app is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. A terminal app is also available!

E2EE and fast client app.

Using it across five different platforms using my ownCloud, I am.

https://joplinapp.org/

Oh, yeah; front-end PIN too for mobile apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxMind
We recently adopted it at my company for managing local dev machines, project environments, and CI. It definitely has some warts, often the best documentation is “read the source code”, but man is it an awesome tool. I’ve switched all of my machines / servers over to it and I’ll never look back.

Now I’m looking at my iPad and iPhone and wishing I could manage them through Nix too.

I’d put it at a comparable difficulty to learn / powerful tool as git. Which given that they’re both based on hash trees makes sense.
I just got used to waking up early due to my annoying alarm. But sleeping early also helps
I do think secret services did more damage than good with their forward surveillance of citizens, which basically was wild west surveillance initiated by states. The lost trust cannot be repaid for decades, maybe even centuries. It basically voided the significance of huge parts of constitutions of many countries that explicitly forbid such actions. This is beyond political realities of realpolitik where the justification was an alleged immediate threat of terrorism.

And that is an overall problem. The fears decide the action. So improving security is becoming dangerous, because parents or teachers just putting their children into a cage of complete surveillance is the most probable outcome. Because the ambition is to get more control. But that doesn't provide much security at all and creates even far greater threats than the "wild west" free open net ever posed in the past.
They definitely can, there have been stories here before about e.g. blocking of far-right Mastodon instances.
I've worked on about 10 different teams using some variant of Agile, and I only recall one which was able to achieve accurate estimates for a complex software product... What's the secret?

Story points are only the beginning. They are an estimate which must be updated during the planning meeting. Our planning meetings for a team of fewer than 10 people took the better part of an entire workday -- 8 hours.

What we did during those meetings was pick apart the user stories into small developer tasks until there was no task larger than 3 story points on the board, ideally all of them one-pointers, with one point being an estimated 1 hour of work.

We also spent most of an entire day for each retro meeting.

Edit: Our definition of done was signed off by the QA Engineer.
> Look at how big, and how small dogs can be. Why not humans, too?

Search for photos of the shortest humans, they are proportionally as small as small vs big dogs.
Conformance Should Mean Something – fputc, and Freestanding
- Doesn't require an internet connection.

- Online services are unreliable: They can go offline at any minute, go out of business, ban your for any reason (including from automated ban systems tagging you for "suspicious activity" if you login from different counties, use vpns, etc).

- Costs money forever (or need to listen to ads).

- Their catalog of music can change: Songs can be deleted at any time.

- Better performance: searching local storage is faster, skipping around is faster, better battery life by not needing to power up the 4G radio/wifi.
They are the final court of appeal, but they can't strike down primary legislation because Parliament is sovereign. They can strike down secondary legislation and legislation that may be contrary to the Human Rights Act (with the agreement of parliament in many cases). They can make life difficult for the Government, but Parliament can always make new laws. I think the UK system is more democratic because it does not give the judiciary primacy over elected representatives.
You mean a smear campaign like the blood libel?
https://gizmodo.com/fnord-1830758394 might be what you want.
> > DJ's should be paying for the music they're playing.

They are, separately from obtaining the material. Look up "performing rights" (which is specifically for songs; it's analogous for recordings, can't remember the exact name now).

> Also, using .mp3 as DJ is unwritten crime.

I would like to meet the person who can hear problems with well-encoded 320kbps mp3 when played in a crowded and noisy club.
Wow, this is an eye-opener. Thank you so much!
> Whisky is distilled to around 70% alcohol by volume (vol-%) then diluted to about 40 vol-%

Might be true for the vast majority of whisky, but once you start to hit enthusiast territory, there's whisky from 40% to above 60% ABV. Some of those (including but not limited to "cask strength" bottlings) are certainly made for diluting further. Or rather, to give the customer the option to dilute to taste.

> Before bottling, the whisky is diluted to around 40 vol-% by the addition of water, which changes the taste significantly. Whisky enthusiasts often also add a few drops of water to the spirit before drinking in order to further enhance the taste.

I'd say that's simply not true, at least for my "enthusiast" circles. 40% whiskies are becoming increasingly rare in those groups.
The Flight of Dragons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book)
You can't use that card for everything. There are well established geopolitical red lines in the sand where the nukes would be launched, have been for a long while, even during the cold war. Some poking and prodding is generally accepted, and while it will lead to escalations, it'll not lead to war. Only differing leverages politically. If on the other hand, you start waving your red nuke card for every issue you want your opinion to be accepted, then it becomes worthless. Just like in the boy who cried wolf.

Where is the line in the sand for the baltic and scandinavian states wanting to join NATO?

"If you join NATO, we nuke you"

"If you stop trading with us, we nuke you"

"If you don't stop trading with the US, we nuke you"

"If you don't join the Russian Empire, we nuke you"

Sure, russia can bring all those, but I doubt anything but the first one is even considerable for a state. And even then the more you wave the card the more attractive the first option of joining NATO becomes, because once you're in, Russia can't nuke you.
uBlock already has blocklists for this.
> Spotify has to do something against things like this, or else they risk losing their music suppliers.

Why should the music industry care? Their utter majority of non-live gig income is the streaming services [1], and cutting off the biggest player would be a completely dumb move. Piracy of music is all but gone anyway since Spotify, Apple Music and others made music extremely affordable for large parts of the Western populations - one might argue that Spotify and the few pirates that remain are both needed as funnels towards live gigs. One can say, the music industry, the fans and pirates are in sort of an equilibrium.

In contrast, the movie industry is in a different bind... many people who watch a pirated movie won't go to a cinema (the closest equivalent of a "live gig"), so every case of movie piracy is a direct hit towards their profits - and the movie industry largely can't make these losses up by selling merch instead, and unlike the music industry which has a lot of dedicated whale fans going to all gigs on a band's tour the movie industry can't even have that unless the movie is really good (Avatar) or culturally significant (Avengers Endgame).

[1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-15bn-revenue-202...
I suspect some of these products have a funny price curve.

If Fluorinert costs $300/litre today and you cut the price to $100/litre - that's still far too expensive to become a mainstream PC coolant. It's not like there's a proven market for mineral oil PC cooling.

Could be, if you cut the price of Fluorinert by 2/3rds, you'd just be giving a discount to your existing customers, for whom price is no object anyway.
it looks really good, the sort of trully new generation of programming languages we need, bringing new constructs and solutions for the new world challenges and solutions as the previous abstractions are already falling short.

I wish it would be clear on which platforms does it run, because for its description I can only read about python's integration, which is great, but not sure whether I could run a "client" on javascript devices or C embedded and communicate to a Scallop backend that speaks python.

I hope to read more about it the following months

edit: typo
you are right however one could argue that historically ukraine is more russian then chechnia. also i think that plenty of russians see this war as defending against nato advancements. in eastern europe there is a popular social media joke going on that america and england will support ukraine to the very last ukranian
Just say that then
They don’t download every time you play them. They are cached. You can also download them in the app so they stay local and never redownload. You just can’t get them out of the app.
I'd say it highly depends on what you're starting with. There's a huge difference between a basic 40% entry level malt/blend and a 60% cask strength bottling. I usually try without water first, and then fine tune if I find that particular whisky too harsh.
>We are last in the sense that we are leaf nodes on the tree of life (at least for the moment

Who said that? There are tons of newer than us leafs (organisms that evolved after we did).

If you mean "but there are no futher evolved human ancestors", that's not an exception: that's the same case with almost all current animals.
where the wheelbarrow is concerned the question then arises, is the wheelbarrow a primary wheeled invention of a secondary one, that is to say do people invent stuff like carts because they are really necessary for moving things around in their area and then afterwards think hey what if we had a smaller cart for moving things in smaller areas?

I think it's a secondary invention, and then if you are in an area where the primary invention just doesn't make much sense neither one gets invented.
Spotify on my machine has a 1GB+ cache. If you listen to the same song more than once, it will be most likely cached already.
Denisovans too.
Ultrasound partially destroys tumors, calls in immune cells to finish job
Was it because of the principals of your school?
>If becomming conscious is what separates us, how do we know other creatures are unconscious?

Well, they don't seen to have that great of a civilization
I like it. Think of it in inverse: no contact can send you more than one a week. You can safely add people you dint know well and not worry about them filling up your feed with shit. Also once a week is like blogging - you will get more thoughtful content.
I was on PAYE all my life in NZ, now I'm PAYE in the UK. So easy. Even a brief spurt of contracting here taxes were super easy (altho an accountant is still useful).
Not super human. Just placebo. Unless it’s using a weird Bluetooth mode like HSP but that’s unlikely because it would be horribly compressed.

It’s hard to tell if it’s just HN imaginary “horrible sounding” or if the mic is on for some reason which makes it actually sound that bad.
I use Simplenote. It is quite minimal and if all you require is to store some notes, then it will work great else you might be better off with some more feature rich product.
It is owned by Automatic (owners of wordpress) so I have hope that they'll keep it working without much drastic changes or need to monetize it.
So it takes the same space, without being equally useful?

These streaming services are even worse than I thought they'd be.

No way I'm ever giving up my local lossless audio collection.
There is always the analogue hole. Music piracy is a battle that has long been lost.
Useful suggestion, thank you.
I just installed it and it works. Got microG to thank for that i guess.
My outrage against dragnet was never about me, personally. I know I am way too unimportant to surveil. It has always been about the next thought leader, who could come from any background, from being nipped in the bud. I'm sure "they" would have loved being able to contain MLK Jr before he even had a chance to have any following

» Why should I be enraged if government officials were put under surveillance?

I am not worried about the officials themselves but the people who talk to them. Once again, the next thought leader, who could be but will never be because of the surveillance and subsequent actions.
The phoenix project is going entirely according to plan, from the point of view of IBM/PeopleSoft.
Worth mentioning is SpotiFlyer. You can download Playlist, Albums & Tracks in high quality without logging in also from other platforms.

https://github.com/Shabinder/SpotiFlyer
Opus can save you a bit of bandwidth for the same sound quality, but if the bit rate is high enough, every codecs sound the same/transparent.
Is it just recording the data to an MP3 file? If so, doesn't that mean that there's a loss in quality?
>Face it, Corbyn and the Labour Party do have a massive issue with antisemitism

Only if we define it as criticism of Israeli policy.

Otherwise, that's a smear, substituting criticism with antisemitism.

>A smear campaign can only be really effective if there is a solid truth behind it.

Nope, it can be very effective without any truth. Try smearing someone as a pedophile - you think they'll be able to wash it off? Goebbels, for one, advised for complete lies, repeated often.

In fact, a complete huge lie can be even more believable, as people go "would they said something that great, if it wasn't at least a bit true?".
All of this touches on maybe 1% of the potential of geometric algebra: https://bivector.net

I would strongly suggest watching some talks about it: https://bivector.net/doc.html

For example a rigid body simulator in n-D in ~40 LOC, 20 of which are boilerplate defining the points of a cube: https://youtu.be/5R2sv9GCwz0?t=371 (in an environment that defines the geometric algebra for you - but only that, it's no different than using a library that provides quaternions for you, for example). This is possible because geometric algebra is powerful enough to unify and interpolate not just rotations as one object, but generalize rotations, reflections and translations (and more) as one object (a motor), embedded in an algebra unifying position, velocity, (angular) momentum, torque and force. If it doesn't make sense how that works, watch the earlier talks in the series.

And it gets more general, the above talk is about PGA which embodies flat (object) Euclidean geometry, but CGA also embeds spheres and circles in the algebra, allowing any conformal transformation to be represented natively in the algebra. This is very powerful for (inverse) kinematics in robots with fixed rotating arms, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2x_TG8E3_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUJCWRFjig
> I'd say that's simply not true, at least for my "enthusiast" circles. 40% whiskies are becoming increasingly rare in those groups.

40% is still a thing in my group, but it’s rare that water gets added, that’s only done with higher strengths.
I've failed enough interviews to know that failing a question is almost always a failing interview. There are enough candidates that will get the question right and one of them will be hired, not me. Honesty aside.To be clear I am talking about FAANGs or famous startups that get hundreds of candidates per position.
My niece is one year old and has a simple speaker with hard drive full of baby music, a straightforward device she can use even by herself. Music helps her calm down whenever anything mildly upsetting happens and is frankly a lifesaver whenever I babysit (absence of parents is highly upsetting). Before buying this device and filling it with baby music MP3s, my sibling used a simple Bluetooth speaker and Spotify phone app with disastrous results.
I don’t even know where the DVDs I had 10 years ago are. Lost in moving I guess. And I don’t have any devices to play them on. While my data online accounts are almost all still intact with all the data I left on them.
I gave up on Evernote when I started getting seemingly endless popups with discounts and deals to try to get me to sign up for a paid version. Overall, it seemed to become ad-ridden and bloated for me, and I didn't really need the vast majority of its features anymore.

Right now I use Workflowy for most of my note-taking. For more long-form Markdown formatted notes I use Obsidian.
Debian is the only Linux distro with a sane release cycle left. Every other Linux distribution feels like alpha or beta software.
I worked with games development most of my life and then went to web development in this change, for some reason I ended up in position a bit more senior than what I was prepared for in this domain. I thought the job would be fine, specially being my second successful interview with the company, I thought their processes meant that I was good enough for the job they offered me.
For anyone interested in the topic of Pegasus and NSO, there is a great New Yorker piece about them from yesterday.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracie...