skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few people in the West like to hear this, but by almost every measure, the zero-CoVID approach followed in mainland China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere was superior to the let-it-rip approach followed by most Western countries.

Just to take mainland China as an example:

1. Economically, China has outperformed almost every country during the pandemic. It was the only major economy to grow in 2020, and it had solid growth in 2021.

2. We always hear about lockdowns in China, but most of China hasn't experienced a serious lockdown since early 2020. Shanghai went from April 2020 to April 2022 without a lockdown. Then it had one severe lockdown (ironically, triggered by a failed attempt to follow a "living with the virus" approach). Most cities have not had the type of lockdown that Shanghai had. Schools, restaurants, bars, etc. have been open throughout the vast majority of China for most of the pandemic.

There are three approaches to dealing with the virus:

1. Do nothing: 0.5% of your population dies.

2. Mitigation: social distancing, closures or restrictions for certain businesses, mask-wearing. Lots of people die, but hopefully a vaccine comes out before most people are infected. Most rich countries did some variant of this. Notably, after the first wave, the US was much closer to the "do nothing" approach, and lost 0.3% of its population.

3. Zero-CoVID: maximum effort to eliminate the virus, followed by much lower-intensity measures to prevent the virus from regaining a foothold. Long-term, this requires border quarantine for people coming in from abroad, regular testing to catch new outbreaks quickly, and extremely good contact tracing and localized lockdowns to nip new outbreaks in the bud. This policy has to be continued at least until there are vaccines or effective therapeutics.

> A properly functioning society does not sacrifice the future of its young to protect the old.

From an East Asian perspective, this is an incredibly immoral thing to say. Old people built the world that young people live in, and they deserve respect and care. That might be why most of East Asia followed either a zero-CoVID policy or a much more rigorous mitigation policy than the West.
I don't know what tradition you're referring to - I don't see many depictions of old men going and fighting wars.
If you only write to the lower 32-bit of the v0 register, which could be 1024 bit wide, that claims that the hardware somehow has to allocate a 1024-bit wide register to back those up, and then makes some "locality" arguments.

The hardware can back up the 1024-bit register with a pool of 32-bit registers, and if you only wrote to the first 32-bits, and all others are zero, it can use a single 32-bit register to back it up, making this "as good" as the single mask register solution, which the author thinks is good.
I think the very simplified idea is that inertia slows down how rapidly the generators slow down respectively speed up in response to load changes, thereby giving you a better chance of adjusting power generation to match the new load.

If your ratio of inertia to power demand variability is too low, then any sudden change in power demand will lead to your generator rapidly spinning up/slowing down before (in the case of your imagined dam) you have any chance of de-/increasing the water supply to the turbines as required. If it slows down or speeds up too much, then whoops you're hitting the grid frequency limits, power trips, and you've got a blackout.

If it spins up too much and too rapidly it might even exceed the mechanical limits of the generator, though normally real-life systems should of course always be designed to be capable of safely handling even a complete load trip, because there's always the possibility of a tree suddenly falling onto a power line or whatnot…

With sufficient inertia on the other hand, any mismatch between power generation and power demand now only manifests itself as your generators gradually starting to spin faster/slower, giving you enough time to adjust the water supply valves as required.
Just FYI, I live in the humid mid-Atlantic region of the US. My 2500sqft house has a 2-ton conventional AC system that draws about 1.5-1.7kW at full power. My Model 3 long range draws about 11kW while charging off of the Tesla Wall Connector (48A 240V, 60A breaker).
I’m arguing that this premise is false:

>> Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40

Which as a editorial on this comment from the commenter above them:

>>> A properly functioning society does not sacrifice the future of its young to protect the old.

If you don’t like how I framed the question, perhaps do this instead—provide the statistics that tell us where Covid sits on the danger and mortality scale for healthy people under 40. Then tell us why you think that rate of danger warrant those “protective” measures that adversely affected the young.

I don’t think Covid was a threat that warranted the sacrifice of the young to protect the old and I think the stats prove that out.
Fauna has an interesting approach to null that I've grown to like:

Null is a real value that can be compared intuitively like any other value (`Equals(null, null)` returns true). [1]

However, in indexes, any term that evaluates to null is simply not stored in the index. So we can create a unique index with multiple null values because they simply won't exist in the index, so won't violate the unique constraint.

If we do care about null values in a particular index, we can handle that by mapping the null value into another value that will get stored in indexes using a "binding", and then use that index to query for or constrain uniqueness by that mapped value [2].

This is not the most convenient thing in the world, but at the end of the day, it feels like an edge case, so I'm happy with having to jump through some hoops to handle it in exchange for making the much more common cases (null comparisons and unique indexes with nullable values) more intuitive and less error prone.

[1] https://fauna.com/blog/understanding-nothing-or-null-in-faun...

[2] https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/learn/cookbook/fql/sear...
If we take the Quality-Adjusted Life Years model to be relatively neutral, then lockdowns and other Pandemic Restrictions were a vastly disproportionate expenditure of wealth for the purposes of extending the lives of the elderly. Neonatal intensive care doesn't even come close as an example of ways that society prioritizes the health of the young in terms of QALYs.
Another important benefit of taking an Uber is that the price is clear.
Don't Just “Write Documentation”
Do we even know the battery pack replacement cost ? Has any customer paid for it yet or are we still in the honeymoon phase where the manufacturer covers the cost to lure more customers?
Per capita budgets don't make much sense to think about that literally I don't feel. We could all be good little beans and meet our individual climate targets and still get fucked by the industrial practices of the bare necessities. We need to materialize the cost of carbon, so that it's felt by industry. We also need to get a wriggle on with research of remediation. I am optimistic that we will pull through, but I don't think it will be because we met our prevention targets.
Trilogy? I have four Brian Bagnall books so far...

People decided which hardware to buy based on what software they want to run and their budget. If they wanted business software before the IBM PC came out, they chose CP/M, Tandy's TRS-80, or perhaps the Apple II with VisiCalc, or sometimes with Microsoft's Z-80 card to run CP/M.

If they wanted education for their children, they'd often buy what their children's school had, if they could afford it. In the US this was usually an Apple II, Atari 800 or Commodore 64. In Canada it was usually the Commodore 64. In the UK it was the BBC Micro. In France, it was the Thomson.

In North America, if they wanted the best games, they bought an Apple II, until the Atari 800 came out, and only until the Commodore 64 came out. In the UK it was the BBC Micro if you had money and wanted more than just games, and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum if you didn't have money or wanted more games. The Commodore 64 was also a popular option there, once it was released.

If people couldn't afford those options, they bought a Commodore VIC-20 or 64, or the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the UK. Another lower cost option was the Tandy Color Computers.
This is a perfect example of why we need ranked choice voting. I think #BD60E2 is best, but due to its unpopularity I'm forced to vote #BD60E1 if I want my vote to matter.
Honest question; how do you force yourself to get through a book like Anna Karenina? I have sincerely tried multiple times to get into it, and haven't been able to make it more than 30 or so pages.

I'm generally a fairly well-read guy, so I would like to knock this classic out, but I am not sure how.
> who are measured only on their output.

How else would you measure an engineer?
Because the exchange business is winner-take-all, roughly, due to the beneficial nature of greater liquidity. This means if any competitor is shady, a race to the bottom begins. And crypto has many competitors who are willing to be shady. If you demand a passport scan from every new registered user, another exchange will grow faster and enjoy deeper liquidity. And this is essentially how Binance won the great exchange war, by turning a blind eye and having balls of steel. US-domiciled exchanges never had a chance (the fiat gateway market is a different niche).
Piltdown Man
Education is everywhere and essentially free today. There’s tons of content, some even from universities, on the internet and plenty of forums stocked with experts on subjects.

It’s the credential that’s expensive. It’s the gate you must pass through.

It would be nice if there were ways to determine someone’s level of expertise in a subject that didn’t directly involve the university system.
Experian won’t explain anything to us, because we are not their customers. They talk to us only because laws make them talk to us.

They have never shown interest in anything outside their B2B relationships with creditors and employers (remember, they track your employment history plus salaries for future employers’ use).
And how the spacebar becomes obsolete.
That's my point - that that's a client side decision. u801e was either unaware of that, or advocating for the removal of images from the protocol.
Europe pays billions for gas daily basically sponsoring invasion.

It’s enough for Russian elite to flourish and pay people and companies reliant on state (most of Russia).

Putin’s bet is that sanctions will be lifted before tech embargo hits anyway.

Western politicians already drag their feet on arming Ukraine. Just mentioning unrest and refugee influx from North Africa due to hunger is enough. They will pressure Ukraine to surrender and gradually lift sanctions.
Ironically, it's the Iranian people, not the Iranian government, who need crypto the most.
If we could finally semantically split the signals as those which can be asynchronoulsy delivered and those which sort of cannot (segfault)... that without extra and bonus kludge.
>best bet for your future

The best bet for the future is to pick a career path that is not massively over supplied with candidates. Once you get to that situation there's no system that will not cause most everyone to be unhappy.
I guess it depends very much if it stays a local conflict like Ukraine so far. Or not...
Don't downvote this one! There's a bunch of issues on this that are hard to judge. The obvious one is power availability. Likely solveable, but not trivial. The non obvious one is the grid itself. A lot of grid systems are overloaded already. And this is fine. They run hot during the day, they cool off at night, and by morning they're good to go. Electric vehicles demand a lot of power. Even if you're doing it at night, it's going to add a lot of heat to the system. It's going to be an expensive and difficult thing to solve if transformers start dropping like flies during a heatwave.
Yet high speed rail networks are practically useless for transportation within one's community (or even within most cities). In those cases, modes of transportation such as walking, skateboarding, cycling, driving are more effective.

Using a C64 or C128 today would be kinda silly, but that wasn't the case in the late 1980's through mid-1990's. They were fine for many smaller tasks, and a great deal better than the alternatives if you could not afford a "real computer". Even as a glorified typewriter, a C64 was orders of magnitude better than an actual typewriter. Even as a calculator, a C64 was order of magnitude better than an actual calculator.

Of course cost is the deciding factor here because computers aren't the same as transportation networks. Aside from cost high end computer is going to be better than a high end one in every case. It has physics working for it, rather than against it. Yet cost of replacement is still a factor.
The only distinction that matters is: Do you have a good home office?

Many do not.
Does anyone actually use LDAP as a user store these days anymore?
As another commenter said, you put the bar arbitrarily high by requiring it to be "more of a risk of death than any other possible event or disease that can happen to healthy people in that age group", because of course, once one is "unhealthy" (whatever that means, as healthy and unhealthy is not binary but a spectrum), then their death doesn't count for data. But here is an article with sources saying it was the number four cause of death for those aged 25-34 in 2021 [0].

[0] "And for those ages 15 to 24 and 25 to 34, COVID-19 wasn't in the top five in 2020 but ranked as the fourth leading cause of death in both age groups in 2021." - https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/covid-was-the-leadin...
Check here : https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1&keywords=AS13335...
I am not really sure if there is some hidden agenda in your logics but I think there is.

I thought it started to show when you mentioned that Russia being interested in borders of USSR. But then you backtracked from it.

> If you join a war against somebody that never attacked you in the first place, you are an aggressor, regardless of what they did to others.

That would be crazy, wouldn't it? Any bigger country could just attack any neighbor and all other would just continue as if nothing happened? In your mind Russia can just attack e.g. Estonia and everybody should just ignore it? Basically you are not agreeing to it but it is a thing between Estonia and Russia only.

You are either Russian troll or just consumed too much Russian propaganda. Just listen to yourself.

Everybody should just continue trading with Russia because it is the best for their citizens.

Russia invading other countries is just between Russia and victim country.

If any other country is against aggressor they are "involving citizens into war". They should vote if they want to involve into war.

Geography is not important for you. You are ignoring anything I say about Russian rhetoric.

Classic whataboutism "look at Iraq". As if somehow Iraq justifies Russian aggression.

I don't think you are "let's just trade with Russia because it is the best for us". You are just pro-Russia and that's it.
I'm not holding my breath that the kind of businesses registered on the cayman islands will close down in ethical protest. More likely they ll lobby americans to look away
Molly White, the Mass. software engineer going after the crypto industry
> rid themselves of Russian energy dependency

In favour of what? Dependency on the US gas at x2 the price? How's EU industry supposed to remain competitive at this energy prices?
I listened to it as an audiobook over the course of a week or two, and it was pretty bearable. I know there is some debate about whether that counts as "reading" the book, but on something like this I consider it close enough.
Does that apply to a filmed version though?
Most often it isn't the authors of that make the outrageous claims themselves, it is the selective interpretation of some of the readers. You could argue that they are begging the question but I don't think this is true either in modern academic settings.

Agreed that academia should have had some integrity and deny the first demands of studies getting removed. Even the bad ones that at least can serve as negative example if nothing else.
It's a great read that sucks you in. I couldn't put it down and finished it over a vacation.
Catch up to what? Everyone always says "catch up" or "they are behind" and I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about (I don't think they do either). You are either getting an education or you are not.
Looks cool, but the wiki calls out that it can't sync reading progress between devices. Which, I understand--how Kobo does it is probably not well-documented. But without that, the solution doesn't seem any better than the Dropbox support with certain Kobo models. It would only be of interest to me if I could sync e.g. my Sage before putting it down and pick up my Clara somewhere else and be able to find my place in the books I'm currently reading.

Not even the Dropbox integration does this yet with sideloaded books, though. I think KOReader might be the only one that has pulled it off so far.
There's a nice sketch on this point by Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

David Mitchell discusses it further here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/25/identi...
An extremely common association that forms in the mind when a mind is exposed to the idea of religion.

But regardless: do any conclusions derive from your observation?

My point was: it is an interesting phenomenon whereby people who claim that certain things do not exist seem to have a deep interest in discussing them.

Another interesting phenomenon: there are certain ideas that cause the unforced errors in cognition to spike, and religion and spirituality is one of the more potent ones - it can cause people who are otherwise exceptional at logic to suddenly lose access to those abilities. If you ask me, science should be studying this phenomenon with greater vigour due to its (plausible) causal importance.
And Cuba, and Russia and Venezuela. Sanctions punish the wrong set of people. But for some reason the US loves them.
Forgot to say: Maybe listen to a couple of conference presentations about vlc before your trip to get started with the French accent ;)
Not anymore:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vevb/us-life-expectancy-fa...
> And the one thing that I want it to do, it doesn't. Not reliable or not at all.
> I want it to give me access to the ebooks I buy online.

There are perfectly good Calibre extensions that do this. Given the legalities, it is not at all surprising that those extensions are not written or maintained by the main Calibre developer, and not included with Calibre. But they are easy to find and install.
A lot of people I know in the tech space seem to love Costco. I've been. It's fine -- compared to a lot of other dingy, sad, depressing grocery stores, it is absolute MILES better. So I understand the fondness.

But for me, it can never compare to Wegmans. At Wegmans, the store brand is always a sensible default purchase in a category, and often the best option in a category. The employees all seem happy because Wegmans has been one of the best blue collar employers in the country for a couple of decades now. The hot bar, burger shop, and sub shop are all fantastic: relatively cheap, and often better than any fast/casual alternatives in the area. They have a great beer selection, if you live in a state that allows beer sales in grocery stores.

Caveat: if you've only ever visited the Brooklyn Wegmans, or honestly any Wegmans outside of the core central-western NY zone, you're missing out on the best qualities of Wegmans. For whatever reason, the stores they've started in new regions in the past few years just don't capture the same Wegmans spirit. The creme de la creme Platonic form Wegmans will forever be Rochester's Pittsford Plaza location. If you're ever in Rochester, it's worth the visit.
Of course the prices are available, for every car model. It's not US healthcare :D

There's also long-term battery health data available now from Teslas and Leaf. Tesla batteries degrade 1%-2% per year on average.

Here are UK battery prices (this is the priciest component of an EV, the upside is that motors and transmission may last car's lifetime):

Audi e-tron - £6,194.40 (71.2)
Audi e-tron GT - £8,125.80 (93.4)
Audi e-tron Sportback - £6,177 (71)
Audi Q4 e-tron - £4,524 (55)
BMW i3 - £3,297.30 (37.9)
BMW i4 - £7,020.90 (80.7)
BMW iX3 - £6,423.21 (73.83)
BMW iX - £6,177 (71)
Citroën ë-Berlingo - £4,350 (50)
Citroën ë-C4 - £4,350 (50)
Citroën ë-Spacetourer - £4,350 (50)
Cupra e-Born - £5,394 (62)
DS 3 Crossback E-Tense - £4,350 (50)
Fiat 500e - £2,088 (24)
Ford Mustang Mach-E - £6,585.90 (75.7)
Honda e - £3,088.50 (35.5)
Hyundai Ioniq 5 - £5,063.40 (58.2)
Hyundai Ioniq Electric - £3,332.10 (38.3)
Hyundai Kona Electric - £3,410.40 (39.2)
Jaguar I-Pace - £7,830 (90)
Kia EV6 - £6,733.80 (77.4)
Kia e-Niro - £5,568 (64)
Kia Soul EV - £5,568 (64)
Lexus UX300e - £4,724.10 (54.3)
Mazda MX-30 - £3,088.50 (35.5)
Mercedes-Benz EQA - £5,785.50 (66.5)
Mercedes-Benz EQB - £5,785.50 (66.5)
Mercedes-Benz EQC - £6,960 (80)
Mercedes-Benz EQE - £7,830 (90)
Mercedes-Benz EQS - £9,378.60 (107.8)
Mercedes-Benz EQV - £8,700 (100 kWh)
MG5 EV - £5,315.70 (61.1 kWh)
MG ZS EV - £4,445.70 (51.1)
MINI Electric - £2,836.20 (32.6)
Nissan E-NV200 COMBI - £3,480 (40)
Nissan Leaf - £3,393 (39)
Peugeot e-208 - £4,350 (50)
Peugeot e-2008 - £4,350 (50)
Peugeot e-Rifter - £4,350 (50)
Peugeot e-Traveller - £4,350 (50)
Polestar 2 - £6,003 (69)
Porsche Taycan - £6,890.40 (79.2)
Renault Zoe - £4,524 (52)
Škoda ENYAQ iV - £6,699 (77)
Škoda ENYAQ Coupe - £6,699 (77)
Smart fortwo EQ - £1,531.20 (17.6)
Tesla Model 3 - £5,420.10 (62.3)
Tesla Model S - £8,700 (100)
Tesla Model X - £8,700 (100)
Tesla Model Y - £6,525 (75)
Vauxhall Combo-e Life - £4,350 (50)
Vauxhall Corsa-e - £4,350 (50)
Vauxhall Mokka-e - £4,350 (50)
Vauxhall Vivaro-e Life - £4,350 (50)
Volkswagen ID.3 - £5,046 (58)
Volkswagen ID.4 - £4,524 (52)
Volkswagen ID.5 - £6,699 (77)
Volvo C40 Recharge - £6,787 (78)
Volvo XC40 Recharge - £6,787 (78)
I thought I could live in Germany and work remotely for an US company

But that did not work out.
> Even if we did see then (and we mostly didn’t) that small, frequent releases were better in a whole bunch of ways, we couldn’t really do it. It was expensive to ship on physical media, and disruptive to our customers to have to do frequent installs.

It's still disruptive to customers. As a software engineer I love CD/CI. It makes the entire process much smoother and more efficient.

As a customer / end-user, though? Nope. I absolutely hate it. Maybe I'm just getting old but I'm extremely nostalgic for the days where I got to decide if I the upgrade was worth it to me or not. These days things will change and move you on without any notice or opt-in what-so-ever.
Tangential, but there are almost certainly more SQLite databases in existence than every other RDBMS put together, probably by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude.

It doesn’t support column reordering either.
Mittens dated as 1100 years old
> What I saw at Mozilla with a remote-heavy workforce is that declining office attendance is a vicious cycle.

Just curious, are you implying that you think declining office attendance is a bad thing, or just writing from the point of view of someone who does?
Baldwin in Brahman
Iosevka: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
> bringing nations closer together

People are asked to bear sacrifices to hurt the Russian nation through all out sanctions, and you are also asking them to have empathy and identify with Russian characters through their Russian life.

Some people compartmentalize enough to be able to do both, but that's a tall order.
This is cool, but wouldn't creating a constraint using a nullable column be considered a poor design decision? In which scenarios would this be a good idea?