skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to wonder that the insistence of boosting so often might lead to the inverse effect desensitising the body to the proteins just like what happens when you vaccinate against allergies, possibly leading to worse illness than if you did not boost.

The weird insistence on anti-body levels is another weird thing, just plainly ignoring immune memory.

I suspect that we are not seeing grave illness anymore in most of the population due to the immune naive population being very low and the few people dying now are in the traditional old age and immune compromised categories that also die by other respiratory viruses under similar circumstances.

Reading the science so much is fumbling in the blind (over 2 years into this). They are still pushing for under 5s to be vaccinated in some countries even though at the efficacy of the vaccine is less than 40% something that would be considered a failure in any other vaccine development and knowing the groups it he lowest risk group there is.

And before you call me anti-vaxer I had two doses of Pfizer and have had covid 3 times.
You can get a lot more mileage out of stuff you put into coffee than the coffee, flavored creamers and the like. I like Vietnamese style coffee with condensed milk myself, also a type of pour over coffee
The old quip here:

Doctor: "if you multiply the cost of your cigarettes by your consumption, you'd have enough money to buy a Ferrari."

Smoker: "do you smoke?"

Doctor: "No."

Smoker: "Then where's your Ferrari?"
I'm a little ashamed to admit this, but I've never had a cup of coffee I didn't like. There have been some pretty terrible tasting ones. I drank them anyway. All in all, pretty good beverage.
This being HN, I really expected more how to by Randall Munroe sorts of answers.

(BTW, you forgot the railgun, nano-sized black hole, antimatter beam, and trained termite "drill squad".)
I personally like the Polars docs because they have a detailed user guide that makes it so easy to get started with the project: https://pola-rs.github.io/polars-book/user-guide/
Trademark law is set up so that people do get a Mcdonalds burger when it says Mcdonalds on the package. Similarly, people expect to get the Rust compiler when the "rustc" package says "Rust systems programming language". The name is not used in a descriptive sense. The package promises to deliver the goods, but they are (slightly) modified goods.

I'm optimistic that a solution will be found. But brushing this aside with "it's descriptive" is not helpful.
I’ve been saying this forever. I’ve tried the coffee at all the cafes in my hipster neighborhood, and I still prefer gas station coffee. There’s something really acidic about fancy coffee that I just can’t enjoy.
Most home owners with any DIY interest should purchase an electric drill, because what they'll be purchasing is almost certainly a cordless model with a torque limiter.

Those are useful for everything from assembling IKEA furniture to taking apart a car. The drilling function is secondary or tertiary.

But sure, if you mean a giant corded impact drill used to drill into concrete almost nobody needs that.
How do you take notes or otherwise record key points or concerns when you’re walking? Or are you physically close to your computer?

I’ve had managers who would do stuff like this, not in front of a computer. As you might imagine the experience working with them was not great and led me to change managers because they’d never recall what we talked about because they were distracted.
> there's no type checking, which i'd say is a fairly integral part of a compiler...

There are compilers for dynamically typed languages.
It transcends but some is lost in translation. There are youtube videos of people showing Mr Bean to tribs in middle east and they struggle to grasp some ideas due to different social norms.
1. That was only true before Delta. When Delta came, the viral load became the same between vaxxed and unvaxxed folks and combined with waning immunity of 3-6 months, most people were basically "unvaxxed" with respect to transmission by fall. Omicron took it even further where since December, in Ontario, boosted and vaxxed folks have had higher rate per 100k of covid infections.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

3. It is true and the government admits that boosted and vaxxed have higher rates. Ontario source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220228051509/http://covid-19.o...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220331081902/http://covid-19.o...

Here's how it looks:

https://imgur.com/a/H4ErmyC
But they didn't make Mr Bean, which came from ITV
I should be dead by now. (I'm not dead yet!)
> literally 0 functional difference. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government sponsored entities

Fed means Federal Reserve. Not the federal government. The Fed and federal government are meaningfully different.
I feel this article misses a lot of the historical context when RoboCop was created, it's themes and why it fit this time. I don't see how you can talk about RoboCop without mentioning the cultural climate at the time.

Rewinding to the 1980s.

Reagan was president for two terms, Giuliani was cleaning up the mob using RICO during these time periods. The War on Drugs was raging. Communism was still enemy #1 (See: Rocky IV). It was truly a very right-wing time. For whatever, themes around individuals taking power into their own hands to "Reform" corrupt systems (cities). Like Frank Miller's Sin City, these are absolutely right-wing themes. "Cleaning Corruption" is one of the most conservative motivations from a psychological standpoint.

Others here have mentioned the slate of 80's action movies but it felt like 100% of the culture was heading this direction. Frank Miller's Batman approaches at the time, for example, were strongly echoing similar themes: Vigilante justice in the backdrop of political deterioration. Rambo, Predator, Commando, Total Recall, Scarface.

I think it all started with movies like Dirty Harry and Serpico and then just got more and more extreme leading into the 1980s.

You also cannot leave out Judge Dredd comics. There are similarities between Judge Dredd and RoboCop, I have a hard time believing there was no influence. Judge Dredd also had this magic gun that could do different tricks like shoot through walls etc, lived in a corrupt mega city of the future.

I feel in some ways RoboCop was almost like "Serpico + Dirty Harry if you turn everything up to 1,000." Serpico also had this theme of the good cop who is nearly killed and sent to the hospital due to corrupt system etc.
I don’t see how, I would only count the input lines to the parser generator.
I use it in the software I write. I should do a presentation sometime about how the aviation industry should be influencing software development.
Big coffee guy, not really a fan of sbucks, but their "via" blonde roast is the best instant coffee I've had, ideal for camping coffee. Unfortunately the stuff I've had from smaller roasters (eg Verve) isn't that great.
This Buick Touchscreen Display Was Decades Ahead of Its Time
I second everyone that suggested finding a tech meetup. Join a couple of them in your location and stick with the best one.

Make friends with a couple of locals who've already "done it". And maybe switch out some of the business books for podcasts that are of immediate relevance to your chosen field.
I forgot where I read this, but I read somewhere that procrastination is sometimes a semi-subconscious protection method in order to protect one's self from exerting effort for a task in which one's effort will not be adequately rewarded.

In other words, one might be procrastinating because the juice ain't worth the squeeze. I believe there might be something to this too -- maybe what we are struggling to do might not be worth doing in the first place? Obviously, I would not attribute this to all or a majority of instances of procrastination, in my experience. But sometimes? Absolutely.

Perhaps in times of resource scarcity, this could be beneficial to certain creatures? I have no idea, but that is my wanna-be hypothesis.
Read that recently. I'd advice anyone who reads it and isn't familiar with the time period to at least get an overview of the factions involved. Worst part of the book IMHO (though it wouldn't be fair to blame Orwell for that).
This is a solid advice, listen to it.
I don't think anything you've said is related to what I've said. You dislike 'burnt' tasting coffee, but there are plenty of instant coffees that don't taste like that. I've never had a coffee at starbucks that tasted watery in any way, nor are the customers getting regular coffee there the same customers getting fancy drinks.

I think you seem to have an obsession with imaginary american stuff rather than a discussion of what preferences you have. What about a good coffee do you think makes it good? What makes it taste bad? What do you mean by burned - do you dislike dark roasts? How do you feel about sour notes, or acidic notes, or fruity notes, etc etc.

That's the real question, not whether its american or not. I have a tough time drinking african coffees because most are too sour tasting for me. Meanwhile I poured a friend a very expensive cup of jamaican blue mountain and they said it tasted 'too plain' for them.

It's all about preferences, not snobbery about american this or american that. I don't like espresso, and never have. I don't care at all what the rest of the world enjoys, nor can I summarize 'this espresso tastes like what the rest of the world enjoys' because there are many many coffees and all of them are different enough that not everyone enjoys them all, and even if the whole world enjoyed something else that doesn't define what I enjoy nor will it ever do that.
The killer features is the developer tools panel. It's so packed with features it might as well be an IDE. I use Firefox on all my devices for personal browsing, but I still use Chrome for webdev works.
I find his Smut routine hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyoyLl0_a2M

I really like the idea that he's just sitting on stage saying rude words - it's quit a silly concept, but elevated by the execution.
> and making sure that there was big jump in perf moving to the latest card

as in my linked examples Nvidia already does that by paying dev houses to slow down games on older/competitor hardware.
I live in Canada. Here, unvaxxed weren't even allowed to air travel domestically. Nor did they recognize a negative PCR test or past infection natural immunity.

Compassionate grounds such as taking care of sick family member, funeral etc were also not exempted.

Everyone who were COVID+ despite being vaxxed were allowed to fly, go to gym, restaurant etc. Meanwhile, an unvaxxed person wasn't allowed to do the same even if they could show a negative PCR test.
I said nothing none way or the other about what we should do. Simply pointed out a reality around what is causing issues.
I'd accept the male bias approach for almost anything except the Covid vax.

There was a huge segment of society angrily screaming at everyone that everything was perfectly safe, if you didn't take it you were anti-vax and wanted to kill grandma. It was absolutely insanity on every social media channel. I'm sure some nuanced bits were lost in the noise, but it was virtually impossible to openly discuss even hesitation to vaccinate, much less complications.

We've heard from 2 local people in our small community who had family members die within 24 hours of vaccination. They were afraid to talk about it because of the blow back that came from anyone mentioning complications. A scary side of a lot of people came out and it's permanently affected my perception of a great many.

Maybe there was a male bias in the clinical trials, but I have a hard time believing any information about complications would have been released or accepted at that time.
Gerry McGovern's "World Wide Waste" (podcast, book and site) is a
great place to start learning about the real impact of our electronic
world on our environment.
I built a USB power back using these cells a couple months ago after finding out that disposable vapes have rechargeable batteries. A friend had already taken the cells out of several of his own vapes; I don't know how I'd feel about taking apart ones that I found on the street.

http://robruark.com/projects/power_bank/power_bank.html
The problem now is that so many people, in so many fields, relayed that "everything's safe, if you disagree or dare casting doubts you're an a ti-science sociopath", that it's going to be super super hard for them to admit they were wrong.
> For example, I think this gives us clues about Russian communism's decline (also in the West, ideologically) after Stalin.

The decline only started well after that, even after the 1968 Prague Spring debacle. Only a few of the faithful in the west were put off by it.

I'd put it at late 1970s, maybe really sinking in with Poland's Solidarnosc turmoil around 1980.
This has been true of OSX, especially since around 10.15. The performance degradation of the upgrade to 10.15 from 10.14 was so immediate and severe that I reverted it.
Comparing stand-up to a sitcom is a little bit of an apples/oranges comparison. There’s plenty of talented standup comics from Britain, though. I’m normally not a huge fan of standup generally but I do really like Stewart Lee for example.

To be honest I think it’s silly to get all nationalist about something as subjective as comedy, and trying to compare one to another and deciding who is better accomplishes absolutely nothing
I thought 1Password was too expensive, and the interface doesn't always work perfectly. So I canceled the subscription and went to a home-rolled solution of spreadsheets and Apple's built-in manager.

My home-rolled solution worked OK on desktops but using it on tablets and phones was no fun at all. After several months I went back to 1Password and am now happy to pay for it.
The CEO only needs to do this for a year or two to have enough resources to become financially independent, that's the difference with the other characters in this story. Everyone else is working as part of lifestyle. And that's what's troubling so many people, the lifestyle around obligation blows.
The deposit can fund the materials recycling and encourage a take back program.
Admittedly this is tough for me to read, as there is nothing I can do to change my height.

Of course they are trying to answer the entropy question. I find page 264 particularly interesting [1].

So basically, breast cancer isn't caused by obesity per se. But just having more breast cells. Or atleast that's my interpretation.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2393304/?page=6
Edge actully does clone it.
Which makes Edge quite usable for some things.
> 1. That was only true before Delta.

Posting a disputed study that I criticized to try and refute me, when I posted important 2022 followup data to viral shedding based on actual infectivity rather than just RNA copies indicates you either didn't read my comment or didn't understand it.

> 3. It is true and the government admits that boosted and vaxxed have higher rates. Ontario source:

I just knew you were going to point to the Ontario data from Mar-Apr. This is why I said in a couple places they popped above for a couple data points. Are you deliberately being obtuse?

Compare to basically any other data series from any other time; e.g. my locale:

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-case-rates-vaccination-...
I don't understand those dreams about Mars, Musk failed even with a simple thing like the boring company and settling Mars is so much more complicated than that. Musk succeeded in places where the technology was there and all was needed was to refine and market it, spaceX, Tesla and even paypal are all good examples. But digging tunnels, let alone building on Mars, are two problems that don't have any known solutions at the current moment and will not improve dramatically in the near future.
More like, "I'll call you on the phone once a week to catch up"
I kind of don’t understand all the crazy concern around kids and tech. Was like every current parent negatively impacted by their computer and internet use when they were younger?

Is this simply a concern around social media usage which has ballooned in the past 10 years?

I sometimes feel like I’m in the minority here when I’m going to give me children wide latitude in their tech/internet usage. And only intervene if I see detrimental behavior as a result.
> If you do not agree, just stop using the product. What’s so hard to understand?

I agree with you, and this is exactly what I’ve done. There are a number of businesses and clubs that are interesting to me, but they’re exclusively on Facebook so they’re out of reach for me.

I have my ethics. I’m also the biggest loser in this story. The businesses and orgs have enough other participation that losing me has made no material impact to them.

Now what? Should I continue to be a loser? Thats the choice I’ve made for the last year. I’m starting to wonder if it’s the right one.

Meanwhile, I have to burn effort on making sure FB cant track me all over the internet. So I have my ethics while they demonstrate they have none.
Electrical discharge milling is so cool, but expensive (tens of thousands of dollars for a machine). It's got to be the most overkill and surgical way to drill out stripped screws though.
> movie Pretty Woman.

You mean Pygmalion?
> ...I've never had a cup of coffee I didn't like. There have been some pretty terrible tasting ones.

I don't understand. How are these not directly conflicting statements?
With billions of cases around the world there will always be some outliers, but those are irrelevant for decision making. What does the data show?
I’m not a fan of mr bean. I don’t get it, it vaguely seems like laughing at someone with learning disabilities to me. But there’s definitely skill and talent in creating the character without words.

It’s also clever - the lack of language makes it universal. Most of the people I’ve met who profess their love for the character are not native English speakers.

There’s a culture-spanning appeal there, and fame, that Eddie Murphy (with all his undeniable standup skill and wit) will never, ever achieve.

To say crafting that lacks talent does Rowan Atkinson a big disservice.
Someone once told me - "British comedy is about making fun of yourself, whereas American comedy is about making fun of other people", and I have found it to be true in a lot of shows I've witnessed. Probably why I personally tend to prefer British comedies over American ones. I have a thing against people having a laugh at the expense of others.
I can’t take detailed notes but will punch key ideas and follow ups into my phone.
In my social circle it was women that were the most vocal on both sides of the issue. The men were mostly quiet and going along with whatever the wife or whoever wanted.
I’m not the creator, so maybe this response was on the wrong comment?

(I don’t think key creation throws off adoption by developers, who are clearly the target audience. I just didn’t understand which subset of developers was being targeted.)
I experienced a very similar thing. With the pandemic I've been splurging on coffees, exploring different types, finding ones I really enjoy. Then I went out into the world and had a coffee from a regular ol' sandwich shop style cafe. Boy was it not what I was hoping for.

It turns out that over the course of the pandemic I've really refined what I actually like in coffee (for myself, not trying to say it's generally better) and basically nowhere serves it. Now I'm in a pickle - I absolutely love love love the coffee I get to have every morning when I wake up, and I don't generally enjoy the bulk of the coffee that's available in the world at large.

Before I enjoyed coffee so much I was able to enjoy coffee much more broadly.
As long as the contents don't mind being in vacuum, a mylar bag will last a long time just sitting in a field on Mars. No not much 02 to oxidize things, not even enough air for wind to cause dust abrasion. As much as I love "The Martian", once you get there and pay the prices of setting up shop it is likely to be very stable. Daily and seasonal thermal shock will be the primary force of erosion.

Dead planets are nice that way.
"The West Wing"
Not worded in the friendliest way, but given OP is a direct person, perhaps this is the right medicine. Because there's a lot of wisdom here. I don't see any grinding in the original post, just coasting. Welcome to adult life, I guess. And finding others with the exact same set of passions and aspirations is not likely to result in any success - that should have become apparent after multiple attempts. It's totally OK to have friends with no overlapping interests and interests with no friends to share them.
I still remember watching the final episode at school, in the early 90s, as part of a history lesson on the First World War. The way it turns from a comedy into something that couldn't be more serious! - except, that seriousness was always there. The tone doesn't so much change as reveal itself. Unforgettable.
You can hate something and still enjoy doing it.

Smoking, a bad partner, bitter coffee.
In this study in particular, the fact that there was breakthrough menstrual bleeding for trans men and others who have been hormonally preventing their periods for years was one of the particularly interesting findings, imo.
The current release is 102.0.1, 104 is Beta: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
Tasks specific books age very quickly, and are easily replaced by googling.

Books about learning programming for beginners or just about a language have a longer shelf life. Some people like to work through them chapter by chapter as a course, and they can be particularly useful to kids in smartphone only houses who don't have day to day access to a PC.

There are, as others mentioned, lots of "theory" books that are ageless. How To Solve It: Modern Heuristics for example. But these are most useful to professionals and university students honestly. There are also pop-science type books like Algorithms To Live By or Invisible Women that are interesting to a wider audience but don't directly teach skills.

The problem with throwing all the task specific books in the trash is that they do provide some kind of a bridge between the very basics and actually doing something useful. Users don't want to learn python, they want to Automate The Boring Stuff or do machine learning or whatever. I think pointing them at the latest ebooks for that stuff might be best. If my local library let me e-borrow the latest packtpub and oriely books that would be awesome.

One thing I find wierd as I get into harder, more architectural problems, is that as an industry we spent decades thinking about stuff, creating standards, and writing books about stuff, and no one reads them. We prefer to invent wheels again because it feels more like progress than reading books.
The murders that justified the universal collection and permanent storage and indexing of the DNA of anyone arrested or suspected of a crime were committed by a cop who was never forced to give up his DNA, and who was discovered through the search of DNA collected by a private company that uses it to sell novelty racial classifications.

In the future, the cops could bust an "illicit" gay club, and sample the place for DNA to find likely homosexuals to round up. They wouldn't need any better data than they currently have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo

The Killer Inside Us: Law, Ethics, and the Forensic Use of Family Genetics

https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1136717
Costco Colombian, about $5-6 per pound.
It's the anglo-sphere they've lost the plot. It's hard to take a study that splits data into white and the rest seriously as a scientific study. I was unaware that africans, South Americans and Asians were significantly different to "white" people to make a difference needed to be pointed out.

What exactly are they suggesting. That the vaccine was engineered to have a more negative effect on non-white women?