skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unfortunately legit, one of the many stories that should be highly important but gets buried because it doesn't line up with the nice optimistic story about human ingenuity and success we'd all like to believe.

The problem is that COVID vaccine effectiveness started dropping almost immediately after the rollout began and never stopped falling. It dropped below zero quite some time ago, according to UK data. That is, vaccinated people get COVID at higher rates than the unvaccinated do. And this is not a tiny effect but a massive one - by the time they stopped publishing the data the UK rates were something like COVID being 4x-5x more frequent in the vaccinated population (per 100k). This also shows up in data from New Zealand, Denmark, it was showing up in Scottish data until that was hidden and a few other places iirc.

If effectiveness is below zero, then give that vaccines have side effects which are sometimes deadly, it's impossible for vaccines to save more than they kill. Even if they did so originally, with time that will be cancelled out unless the fall in effectiveness goes into reverse.

This is obviously very difficult to believe. I was astonished when I first learned about this. Some countries report very different statistics so the obvious question is why do e.g. US authorities report great effectiveness when other places report negative effectiveness. A word of advice: only investigate this question if you're ready to have your confidence in public health and government destroyed. The amount of mendacious statistical game playing that goes on around vaccine effectiveness is appalling. The average public health agency won't even think twice before redefining basic terms to ensure the outcomes they want. It seems to be a basic structural issue with public health because the same agencies that are tasked with collecting and reporting effectiveness data are also tasked with getting everyone to take vaccines. They see data as a way to create compliance, not objectively reflect reality.

The underlying biological problem appears to be a form of immune system over-fitting. It learns to respond to the spike protein it was trained with via the vaccine, which is the long since extinct 2019 Wuhan strain. Then it misfires when challenged with the real virus because it can't tell the difference, so you make antibodies designed to dock with the extinct strain and the newer virus isn't stopped by it. People who aren't vaccinated have fresh immune systems that haven't been over-trained and generate more accurate antibodies, so the infection is stopped quicker and they don't get sick as much.

The existence of this effect (with the odd name of OAS) has now been proven in various scientific studies. In particular, it's been proven in studies of new mRNA vaccines targeting the Omicron spike. One reason we don't have new vaccines for Omicron is that they don't work. People who were already vaccinated with the original vaccine just produce antibodies for the old antigens in response to the new vaccine. The ability to differentiate is somehow lost.
The OP misses the fact that if you go anywhere in Japan right now and:

* order food

* shop in a store

* stay in a hotel

* consume healthcare (particularly old-age healthcare)

The likelihood that you're using immigrant labor is 100%. Japan is hugely dependent on immigrants -- particularly those from SE asian countries (e.g. Vietnam), who provide the bulk of the low-wage, low-skill labor.

Visit any hotel in Japan, for example, and the cleaning staff will be almost exclusively non-Japanese. Even the "traditional" inns in the smallest towns usually have "trainee" labor from foreign countries.
No plastic waste is the biggest one for me when it comes to safety/straight razors.
Yup. The reality is that programmer time is far far more expensive than compute time. And as long as that's the case, increasing levels of abstraction are our only hope at building complex software.
> In a distributed parallel computing scenario, dumping stacks from 64 processes via a signal handler would have created 64 different files scattered in 64 different remote filesystems.

I was working on a cluster and often needed to do the same thing on all the nodes, run some database query or os command, and gather and integrate the results. I wrote yet another Python stream-objects-instead-of-strings shell (https://geophile.com/osh), which included features for distribution: Run the same command on all nodes, bring back the results, merge streams, gather files, distribute files, etc.

That was several years ago, and it wasn't a full shell. Since then, I've done an improved system that actually is a shell (https://marceltheshell.org, https://geophile.com/marcel).
Ask HN: Anyone getting frequent Google I am not a robot captchas?
Today every time I search for something I get the I am not a robot captcha from Google, on Firefox developer.
For real. Amazon's retail side is nothing but bad pr and other messy human entanglements. AWS is clean, profitable, and nearly ubiquitous. I definitely know which business I would rather be in
The other thing I've noticed, is that you can't casually watch something in the company of some visitors, it's going full movie night or nothing. That's a real use case I'm missing with a TV.

And you can't even make the picture on the wall smaller if you want, it always dominates completely.

When my mother is visiting we just want to half watch some game show and chit chat, we don't want to have a movie night, and we don't want to focus entirely on each other/conversation for a whole evening either, it's kind of exhausting.
The ICE train going south towards Basel stops at the Frankfurt airport. The minus is that there is probably no train connecting directly to Strasbourg, but it's also not far away - take the stop at Offenburg and a train or shuttle bus to Strasbourg would do it.
A pan would conceivably be used thousands of times over its lifetime, so I still see these amounts as pertinent
> I've lived long enough and seen enough synchronicities to know that reality is far more entangled than a cause and effect standpoint would have you believe.

I've no idea what you mean by that.

> This video is the world we live in.

Reality includes komodo dragons, just as it does kindness. You say nature isn't "humanoid" and then ascribe to it qualities like ruthlessness. You're just as biased and delusional as whoever you're criticizing.
+1 for the helpful comparisons! I’ll definitely be checking out New Relic on Monday, sounds exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Things I wish someone told me about microscopy (2020)
How is it a misconception? My overall point was that shell oneliners are often much faster to quickly bang out for a one-off use case than writing a full program from the ground up to accomplish the same thing. This is demonstrated to a very exaggerated degree in the Knuth vs. McIlroy example, but it also holds true for non-exaggerated real-world use cases. (I had a coworker who was totally shell illiterate and would write a Python script every time they had to do a simple task like count the number of unique words in a file. This took at least 10 times longer than someone proficient at the shell, which one could argue is itself a highly optimized domain-specific language for text processing.)

If your point is that the shell script isn't really the same thing as Knuth's program: sure, the approaches weren't algorithmically identical (assuming constant time insertions on average, Knuth's custom trie yields an O(N) solution, which is faster than McIlroy's O(N*log N) sort, though this point is moot if you use awk's hashtables to tally words rather than `sort | uniq -c`), but both approaches accomplish the exact same end result, and both fail to handle the exact same edge cases (e.g. accent marks).
Oslo (that is Norway) cannot fight climate change. Not on its own.

The whole world as one maybe can.
Had some fun with the ai. That flag has a lot of hp and was tough

https://i.imgur.com/5AcAD66.jpg
How to learn to enjoy running (and survive a half-marathon) (2021)
So while this flight sounds a bit ridiculous it's not really. It takes of in Frankfurt and which is a big hub. You can buy a ticket VIE->FRA->SXB for 1000 EUR in Business class. It takes you three hours to get there. The cheapest ticket not involving a train in business class is 850 EUR so barely cheaper and takes 5.5 hours.

As to why the plane does not take passengers on the return flight: it's a 30 minute flight and it's probably more efficient for the airline to send the plane in that configuration back to Frankfurt as there is no demand for a business class only flight on that day out of Strasbourg. A plane that does not fly is losing money.
As remote work oppurtunities increase and the younger generation begins to settle down, there will be a natural return to small towns on the outskirts where they can offer their families more for less. Japan does a good job of making their cities liveable for anyone, and commuting in/out is unparalleled.

>Not really sure how or why food would get cheaper with less people. If anything the opposite as it's more expensive to make it locally with less workers available.
Automation in agriculture continues to expand. And in my experience most Japanese tend to prefer locally made products despite the higher prices. This was most obvious when I saw the pile of australian steaks sitting next to a much smaller cut of domestic steak that were nearly sold out at the supermarket. Or consider that Seiko make identical watches domestically, and in SEA, but the "Made in Japan" models are only sold in Japan.

There are still ~1MM babies born in Japan every year. They will be fine with a reduction in population. They don't seem keen on expanding immigration anyway, or a demographic shift, so I don't understand the desire to push mass immigration on every nation with a declining birth rate. They're not bothering anyone by wanting to keep Japan, Japanese.
DDR5 also halved channel width.
Sorry that people downvoted you - you shared a nuanced opinion based on your experiences, and your comment did not deserve that just because it went against how people feel about the issue. I might not fully agree with the conclusions but that is no reason for the downvotes.

I think where we differ in conclusions is whether or not we think a change in regulations means more regulations. It more likely is fewer but more restrictive regulations instead. This is a bit of a semantic argument however, I admit, but on top of that I happen to mostly agree with the more restrictive regulation in most cases.

Again, thank you for your thoughtful counter-opinion
After such article (possibly mildly infuriating in innocently suggesting building mannequins with soft artificial skin and realistic makeup, there where a non-marionette was sought),

oblivious of symbolic definition and reasoning,

one is reminded that Paul Graham, our kind host "pg", is a Lisp specialist,

and has written a manual, "On Lisp", which is also provided free of charge at

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

...It could probably be a therapy for those who, drunk over function approximation, have forgotten reasoning and ontology?
I’ve read some chapters from the linked book to complement “How Linux Works” from No Starch Press and while the information was useful and seemed correct, in the end I decided to stick with HLW, since it was both broader and deeper at ~460 vs 250 pages.
I thoroughly enjoyed this post. The history of software is interesting... the process is so iterative. Often, I take for granted the current state of software I use. The refinements came through many years, many engineers, and many decisions.

I wonder where I can find more posts / articles like this. short, punchy, well written histories of software I use.
It boggles the mind how many people are opposed to collective bargaining, of all things. Give the least powerful in society a fraction of an ounce of power and it makes some people completely irrational.
Related: "speaking clock" from the 1970s using a similar principle but a magnetic, floppy-like disk instead of a record: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=etl_bSIy-p0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etl_bSIy-p0).
If they see their comment as a negative thing (which I think it’s clear that they do), then lack of blame is exactly what you don’t want to see. They need to be blaming themselves, not nobody.
Yarvin was talking about Google Search in 2010 as a mutated but recognizable version of PageRank. That's correct, I think, but it was already heading in a different direction. By the end of the year the NYT was reporting on malicious manipulation of search results for profit¹ and Google responded quickly by changing their algorithm². Then, as the "don't be evil" era draws to a close, Google gets more and more aggressive about extracting user value and the 'democratic' PageRank (which Yarvin was by no means alone in identifying as such³) is totally subverted. In 2016 Trump wins and 'fake news' – successively renamed to 'false news', 'misinformation', and now 'disinformation' – becomes the issue, and Google responds to that, too⁴. So post-2016 there really is a kind of sociological health and safety factor in the algorithm, and it's only then that Morozov's 'woke' becomes applicable to Google Search.

Now if anyone was going to guess that something like that would happen, it'd be Yarvin – but none of that is in that 2010 blog. When he said 'democratic' he meant exactly what Wired did in the article linked below – the action of masses of people. It's Morozov that makes the association between 'woke' (i.e. P.C.) and 'democratic', which has all sorts of implications. A woke-democratic Google Search isn't one that is powered by democracy, but one which protects democracy – meaning, protects the masses from manipulation by exposure to sociologically harmful 'content'. Sensu Yarvin, that is neither feudal nor democratic. It is in fact oligarchic.

The final irony is that when Morozov fudged the name Feudle, wittingly or no, and omitted a link to the blog in question, it was entirely in accord with the idea of exercising democratic power by not giving UR any link juice, but the result of that when posted to HN – a site not lacking in markers of community reputation – is that two people find the link (thanks again) and a small discussion ensues which otherwise would not have happened.

¹ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html, see also https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15thu3.html
² https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/dec/02/goog...
³ https://www.wired.com/2010/02/ff-google-algorithm/
⁴ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-...,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/technology/google-algorit...
Well, it's the type of autonomous vehicle that has _two_ crew, as opposed to the more normal one for buses...
Get a high paying job -> invest your savings well -> work on side projects if you feel like it.

"Passive income" as it's sold to people on social media frankly doesn't exist. You work hard, build something other people want, and people pay you for it.
I have always been a fan of markdown editors. A few years back I tried inkdrop and really enjoyed it. At the time it was a fair bit more expensive. Seems the developer listened to feedback and lowered the price. Kudos to them.

That being said, there are free alternatives like Obsidian that are really great. Sync with your favorite cloud provider you are already paying for. Sync with Git. Lots of plugins.
Punjab has an unemployment issue as well as they are obsessed with counties like Canada and Australia because they can have much better lifestyle and they can boast to everyone that they are NRI and own big cars
Fair enough. I cannot believe those related are not in tight conversation considering the AI element of FSD (or am I mistaken there?).

Either way, in summary, I cannot trust FSD until it is 100% reliable (impossible) and the temporary situation for some time to come (regulated/supervised FSD) drains all the life out of what I enjoy, actual engaged driving! ...

The bits we don't enjoy (stop-start traffic and some motorway driving) have already been taken care off more than a decade ago.

I'd love the option of FSD but ... either FSD will never fully be realised, or will be adopted widely and there'll be some hold outs like me who actually enjoy their driving.

We'll see
Not sure if this is the case, Celerons are just plain bad…

e.g. https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_celeron_n450...

Single thread performed is kind of close, 860 is faster though. And let’s not even look at the MT benchmarks. And generally it seems that most medium/high end chromebooks with ARM cpus are generally able to outperform x86 ones.
You say that a country such as Germany taking in skilled workers from European countries and other places in the world don’t make a big difference?
The largest customer of AWS is Amazon. AWS would not be profitable without Amazon.
I switched to a Feather razor as well. It’s expensive, $100 or so, but very nice. I have thick hair and soft skin and it works well.
Markets are not a magical oracle of true value though, especially in our current, deeply distorted economy which has the rich gobbling up assets and increasing prices well beyond any livable standard, which is the point of TFA.

Isolating price controls as some kind of glaring inefficiency in an otherwise rational system sounds like ideology, not reason.

It should be manifestly clear that an unregulated market has not served us well for the issue of housing, not just for the indigent but for all non-wealthy individuals and families who spend well over 50% of their income now on rent or mortgage payments.

Attacking rent control in isolation is irrational. Yes it can create a bad situation for landlords in the absence of any other policies designed to mitigate the disaster we are in. But saying that "market efficiency" is the answer is just sticking your head in the sand.
In Amazon's view, they woefully performed in their functions. They failed in a very high profile task. Their (in)actions are going to cost the company lots of money. Leaving aside the exact task, these sound like typical reasons for dismissal.
Or maybe as an example for other managers? Basically it's "no union" or your head...

Disgusting anyway.
Sorry, I forget this detail is not widely known. They were the first working on it from samples at ground zero, before it was a pandemic. Back when nobody knew anything.

https://www.science.org/content/article/chinese-researchers-...

The free and public release gave the world a head start on what was then a very localized thing with little if any spread. Remember: my comment was in response to an attempt to credit capitalism with the speedy development of a vaccine. Capitalism helped, but wasn't what did it.
Yep it's a lot more work. I think the "wait until it kinda looks like it might be ready before you press down" part is the most annoying step of the french press.
I've looked around a lot, but find traveling with safety razors to be surprisingly annoying. I cant really find anything that will clip or wrap around the top like I can for cartridge razors. The other problem is flying with them. Since they're large and metal they often get flagged. If I remember correctly, the advice was to put the blades in your checked bag, but I still get flagged because they see a big handle and I often travel without checking a bag.

I also switched away from a DE when I shave in the shower. I'm too afraid of dropping a heavier handle with a sharp blade attached.

I still much prefer DE/safety over cartridge.
I helped negotiate the $22B sale to Facebook, Today, I regret it
I have a job but not good salary and I can't change or ask for a raise right now because it is not possible. That's why I'm trying to find another source of income in addition to my current job. Thanks for taking the time to answer
Foot in the door to replace them.
It’s not a multi-billion industry on account of it not working.

This individualistic refrain doesn’t make sense in the context of a critique of the overall system. Maybe as advice on how to be a self-flagelating low-eco-impact consumer or how to better master your personal finances. But ultimately it’s just an excuse for corporations to do the usual thing because the buck stops with the consumer (and corporations can just claim that they are just fulfilling a need that someone else would fill in their stead; they only sell the proverbial guns, they don’t pull the trigger).
I am doing blockchain + frontend development right now and loving every minute of it. I am writing Rust smart contracts in Solana and been given leeway to use any React library I deem fit and to design the app as I wish. The money is also really good for a freelancer.
Western democracies are suboptimal.
I'm curious what kind of synchronicities you are referring to
Why do you then use a double-edged razor? something doesn't add up
I don't see any benefits for Amazon as a whole of doing so.
Thank you very much for your kind offer :) but I already made my choice and picked up Zig. It was exactly what I was looking for. A modern C. No hidden preprocessor, no macros, no hidden control flow, and most importantly, it has an active community.
Amazon's workforce has probably doubled twice in the last 6 years? So even without taking attrition into account (which is substantial in the warehouses), after 6 years you're in the 25% longest-tenured warehouse employees. With attrition I'd guess you're in the "top" 10%?
1. I seriously doubt that this is true

2. Amazon can be a customer of AWS's, even if the latter is spun out
We're about to have another week of people posting note taking apps. Always a fun exercise.
The paper you linked about inequality and discretionary bureaucracy seems very specific to the conditions of Indonesia: a highly bureaucratic non-democratic country transitioning to democracy but not “transform[ing] detrimental institutions nor replac[ing] the existing official position of the previous bureaucracy.” It’s making a claim that the “persistence of bureaucratic clientelism” needs to be understood better when studying democracies, but doesn’t seem to be making a claim that clientelism is a driving factor of inequality in all democracies — rather, it’s claiming that it perpetuates inequality in countries that already have clientelist institutions before they become democratic. (Also, “a hallmark of socialist and progressive governance” seems to be your editorializing; the paper suggests a correlation between poor institutional quality and income development, but makes no claim that socialists and progressives automatically make poor institutions. I would posit that “clientelistic political parties in democracies” will wear whatever fig leaf is most likely to get them into strategic political offices: if the country loves socialists, they’ll be socialist, but in a country that loves right-wing populism, they’ll be right-wing populists.)

At least going by the experience we’ve had in America and other Western countries, inequality seems to be an outcome of specifically deregulated capitalism. The whole push toward communism that we saw in the early 20th century was largely a reaction to the capitalism of The Jungle and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, and of course, the soaring inequality before the Great Depression. I think big business capitalists don’t give the New Deal the credit it deserves for cutting the American communist movement off at the pass -- changes in regulatory and tax policy shaped a highly-regulated market economy that at least partially flattened the inequality curve. Once we started deregulating all the things in the 1980s, inequality started growing again.