skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who are dying and at what rate?

Mostly the very old, at this point; though I'm in my 40s where the rate starts to tick up. But beyond that, there's the risk of long term morbidity. My niece was early 20's, active, in good health, with no comorbidities and is now pseudo-disabled. The vaccine only removes about 30% of the risk of this type of outcome, but still that alone is worth it.

> What is the vax status of those that are dying, presumably many have taken the vaccine anyways yes?

Looks like people who have taken the vaccine have about 6-10% of the risk of death of those who haven't, controlling for comorbidities.

> Are you going to take covid boosters for the rest of your life?

A lot of us might-- though I've got a fair bit of hope that we come up with something better in the next couple of years. I will do my best to avoid infection in the meantime.

> The disease is going to be continually weakened and become just another coronavirus.

Viral selection is complicated. Yes, in the very long term, many viruses end up becoming less virulent, but others go in the other direction.

> Can you say the same about the long term prospects of endless boosters on your body? I sure couldn't.

I'm pretty dang confident that I can bound the risk from the vaccine to be much lower than the risk from COVID infection.
Any modern conversation of workplace ergonomics is incomplete without mention of biomechanist Katy Bowman, whose "Move Your DNA"[0] is an indispensable read for anyone maintaining a physical body.

As best I can interpret it, her ultimate conclusion is to hold no position for too long, and introduce novel movement into every activity (rather than, specifically, relegating "healthy" movement to an "exercise" period, while otherwise indulging in "unhealthy" movement for large blocks of time).

Combined with further research elsewhere — such as studies cited in Annie Murphy Paul's "Extended Mind"[1] and those on alleviating ADHD symptoms through movement[2] — it's possible that the ideal workplace is an unrecognizably dynamic one where even the most cerebral workers spring from treadmill to trampoline, to napping cot, to promenade. For just a taste of such dynamicity, here's a fast-forwarded hour of Katy Bowman fidgeting her way through the workday.[3]

Edit: I want to address something specific in the linked article. The claim that "Standing puts greater strain on the circulatory system and on the legs and feet."

I am absolutely certain that this is true, but it doesn't diminish the value of a standing desk. One principle I've absorbed from Bowman's writing is that all rest is strain, which is to say that to rest one limb one must rest on another, straining it. (Who hasn't woken up with a "crick in the neck" or another sign of slept-on strain?) The trick, then, is to rotate strain throughout all the various limbs of the body. Not only have all our limbs have evolved to handle certain loads, they've evolved to expect and dare-I-say crave certain loads in order to keep functioning. So, yes, "standing puts greater strain on the circulatory system and on the legs and feet," but a degree of strain is essentially therapeutic.

0. https://www.nutritiousmovement.com/product/move-your-dna-res...

1. https://anniemurphypaul.com/books/the-extended-mind/

2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEpEAdCWnw8
There are times when I've noticed Teams to fail if I try to open it from one of my Container tabs. It complains about supported browser and stuff. But it opens perfectly on the default tab always.
There's a difference between living in fear versus taking prudent precautions. I've never had a fire in my house and I'm not particularly afraid of fires, but I keep fire extinguishers on hand. I do a lot of running and cycling, and I've had to use my cell phone to call emergency services several times to assist others.
> But you do you, is the point

I've never understood this type of selfishness. If you get sick you will, on average, infect another 2-3 people. It's not just about you.
And for those that weren't aware, the entire Marathon trilogy is free to download:

https://alephone.lhowon.org/
Tab search in FF: Type a percent sign and a space in the address bar, your search is now on tabs.

% - Tab search

^ - History search

* - Bookmark search
While I sorta tend to agree with you, this is a _RESULT_ of people refusing to take the vaccines (or do full lockdowns/wear masks/etc). Like the original SARs strains it should have been possible to eradicate through strong public health measures, one of which was vaccination.

So, we can shrug this one off, because in the end it _only_ kills a percent or so of people, overwhelmingly already infirm or elderly.

We may not be so lucky the next time, and this attitude _will_ get us in trouble when that happens.
Yeah stealing stuff is a pretty good way to keep your spending down.
So?

You say it like it’s a bad thing to use rhetoric. But even pg has his own sharp set of rhetorical tools.
Ask HN: What open source projects have great documentation?
There was a great thread a couple of weeks ago on with tips on writing documentation that devs love: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31945863

A lot of commenters on that thread mentioned DigitalOcean as an example of great docs for a product.

Does anyone have examples of great docs / user guides for open source projects? I'd like to study well done open source docs and learn more about what can be added to the docs to make them more useful for devs.
Quantum computing is not pseudoscience, it has just proved difficult to make practical (so far). The principles are sound.

Machine learning,,, I don't even know what to say about this
I love good coffee but it’s only worth so much money. Oak Cliff Roasters here in Dallas is, by far, my favorite coffee but it’s just gotten so expensive (about $20 for 3/4 lb). I don’t care how good something tastes once it crosses a value threshold in my head i can’t bring myself to buy it. So I just stick to what I find at the grocery store at 1/2 the price. It’s good enough and I don’t feel like a fool buying it.
And with `cargo init --lib` you even get a green unit test!
If you find it difficult to stand for long period of time (as I did, after purchasing a standing desk) then I implore you to consider getting an under desk treadmill. I went from spending 15-30 minutes a DAY standing, to 4+ hours walking.

Doesn't that make it hard to type, you ask? Well, the posted article does mention this:

> Treadmill, bicycle and elliptical workstations have been tested and typically shown to decrease computer work performance (typing and mousing slows down and significantly more mistakes are made).

But personally, I got used to it quickly and found that my performance on the computer did not decrease at all for programming related tasks, where ultra fine mouse movements are not necessary. If I were trying to play Call of Duty or something, then surely I would not walk.

The one time where I do find sitting to be ideal is when I really need to focus very intently on a task. For example, if it's an entirely new problem domain where I need to read a lot and focus at my maximum attention, then I need to be seated quietly, in a dim room, for a long period of time.
I pay for my VPN, one health app and one productivity app. I've left a ton of software behind. I moved to self hosting, piracy, and free software alternatives that are good enough.
Nothing as polluting as rockets
(If people make it personal you know you struck a nerve)
Cigarettes are heavily taxed and very expensive, so these disposable e-cig is already profitable when sold at 50% cigarettes price.
... so which one is it, if not Lynx?

Links, elinks, links2, netrik, w3m, ..?
Been using Trilium to store all my notes for the past few years. Been exceptional. Easily scales to a tremendous number of notes and allows fast searching and creation of notes.

The built-in plugin system allows me to automate tasks that would be impossible in other note taking applications. I'd likely only recommend Trilium for super-users intending to extend it with their own functions. For simple note taking, other apps are more polished. None are more powerful though, I feel!
You sure can hear the shape an orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiAj9WW1OfQ&t=384s
in my experience bad hotel coffee is worse than instant coffee.
Correct.

Mostly I wanted to indicate you don't have to have extraordinary needs to accumulate subs.

We've gone from cable model to Netflix monopoly (how I miss it) back to myriad subs to get content for broad family.

similarly for software, if you like to fool around with utilities computers, it's not hard to rack up the subs. A file comparison utility wants me to pay yearly fee. Image browsing program wants to be a subscription. Everything wants me to keep paying.
Every once in a while I'll get a customer who is using older versions of a language. I keep my old books for these guys, especially after having to repurchase a few books used on amz.
All coffee is good. It just shouldn't ever cost more than $2. Coffee is not a luxury. It's bread and butter
Removing any and all gains from “real estate investment” would heavily bring down pricing.

Housing can not be seen as an investment. We can not have it be an investment, and a necessity, at the same time.

Housing can not, and should not ever produce more returns than the most basic index fund. If it does, no matter how many you build it will still be inaccessible to many.

You may argue that well, if there is more housing then there will be less money to make from investing in it. But here’s the kicker: what do top share holders do if they suspect the operations of the company they have shares in is going to make their shares worth less? They work as hard as they can to change the operations and minimize what they can do.

The same is true when housing is an investment. A property owner will act in their own best interest to reduce the ability for their investment to become worth less money.

This could mean toxic environmentalism, where you don’t actually care about the environment, but you’re using it as an argument against building houses. It could mean actively not giving permits to new constructions. It could mean actively lobbying the government to prevent certain classes of homes being built. Heck it goes all the way to actively reducing side walks, public transportation, etc.

And this is why we can’t just say “uh build more”. The “lack of supply” is a symptom. Not a cause.

The cause is simply that we accept that real estate can be an investment vehicle.
A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved (2016)
The bbc costs everybody money. Asking for it to disappear is reasonable.
I do a lot of BI and am a coder. I find these tools (Tableau) super frustrating. So much point and click. Such poor abstractions. Not at all DRY. I like the end product just not the process. Lacks a good API for doing it programmatically - which makes sense as they make money selling desktops.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Given that the vaccine itself is out of your system within a few days, and if effective begin triggering an immune response, I don’t think there’s not much reason to monitor for safety beyond that point.
1. Covid shots do not prevent infection or transmission.

2. Since Delta, both vaxxed and unvaxxed cases have the same viral load.

3. Since December at least, boosted and vaxxed have higher RATE per 100k of covid infections.

So whatever benefit one gets is individual benefit only and not getting others sick in any different way as the vaxxed folks do.
> Aside stopping the use of Facebook, which of course is the best solution but not doable for many

But quite doable for a content provider like Ghacks. Users should be able to share links to web content in a way that does not create privacy risks, and this whole URI encryption business makes that quite a bit harder.
That is an assumption.

It did not happen in Africa.

In North America, megafauna (dire wolf, saber-tooth cat, cheetah, horse, camel, mammoth, mastodon, giant sloth, 30+ genera) were killed off not by human activity but by a comet strike c.10818 BCE. It did in the Clovis culture, too. There were simultaneous extinctions in South America and Africa.
I went into the Subscriptions page and found a few subscriptions to cancel.

Thank you Apple for making this easy to do, but they're the ones who pushed everyone into a subscription model to begin with - by staying stubbornly at 30% for purchases, but 15% for subscriptions.
> And the saying “Good times create weak men”.

Ah yes, the the folks partying around in the 1920s were sure weak and certainly had no other events to deal within their lifetime.
Thank you! I was surprised to hear that Hitler coined such a phrase, so it’s great to see it attributed properly.
I agree. This is something that needs discussion.
Quick Googling shows that the cold and flu can impact ovulation. So it is not a surprise that Covid or its vaccines can as well, since it often presents as more severe.

It was still the correct choice of action for you to get the vaccine and potentially delay conception. It is safer for you and the baby if you are vaccinated.

This study is just providing confirmation to something that all medical professionals likely assumed is true, based on the common knowledge that the flu and cold and other illnesses can also affect fertility.
ZMQ: it's almost worth using the library for the documentation alone, fabulous.

https://zeromq.org/get-started/
My under 40 triathlete friend with no comorbidities who wound up in the ICU for a month and needed two surgeries to drain his lungs would beg to differ. Or my buddy down the block under 40 with no cormorbities who is now on beta blockers for long term Covid. As would folks like my Dad who the vaccine and first booster didn't work on due to his suppressed immune system from receiving my kidney.
Rowan Atkinson demonstrating how funny "Bob" can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOdfNwD9cEA
That's literally true but that's inefficient. The question is whether it's more inefficient than whatever you try to do to solve it and the risk it does more harm than good.
Sure, enjoyment is valuable. And if someone enjoys my terrible song, that's their prerogative. The same for these services. I'm not trying to tell anyone they can't use them if they like them -- I'm just expressing disgust with their subscription pricing models, which I think are outrageous for what limited value they add compared to perpetually licensed software.
See also Rowan Atkinson’s standup routine from the early 90s: https://youtu.be/uw8dW9Hyno0
In some European countries this type of deposit is normal for plastic and glass bottles and other drinks containers, though the deposit is usually much lower (25 to 50 cents).

The impact is significant, even if it's such a low amount of money. A €25 deposit would definitely keep people from throwing out these things en masse. There will always be people who will act selfishly and against their self interest, but you've got to be pretty damn rich to throw out €25 like it's nothing.
I appear to have lost my bookmark, it was about 30 minutes in to an episode of the podcast The Energy Gang, or their sister podcast, during an interview with a CEO that has raised nearly a billion dollars over the years for battery related businesses.

This is vague enough that perhaps you shouldn't take my word, but I unfortunately don't have the 15 minutes this weekend to track it down... if I find it again I will try to email you.
> If you could have an extra $1500/year after-tax, would that motivate you to do some lifestyle changes?

When I was younger and poorer, maybe.

Now, not really. $1500/year for things I actually use on a 50k post tax income is nothing for peace of mind and convenience and saved time. Compare it to things like health insurance that you pay $3000-4000 a year for and maybe end up not using at all if you're healthy.

The problem for me, personally, is that I would be very hard pressed to find enough SAAS services I find useful to get to the $1500 number, if we exclude must-haves like utilities + internet subscription.

I pay ~$60/yr for a VPS and ~$35/yr for an email provider, and that's about it.
But we like to claim that Yes, Minister isn't a comedy at all, it's a documentary. ;-)
I would add another way that Cloud providers are useful in making security and compliance less laborious, they are useful in navigating the continually shifting needs and standards of security compliance
Sure. I have a book about Basic from the 1980s. Obviously when I got it, the book was way outdated, but served as a nice introduction to programming in general and what to expect. (I was six at the time. Didn't realize the full extent of the book.)
Not surprised. Do they not realize that some of us deal with more than one account?
You must be a fan of American comedy then.

Stephen Fry explains the difference here: https://youtu.be/8k2AbqTBxao

Actually very insightful, and explains why I have never been fond of the cool guy that gets all the girls US comedy loves to represent.
This might interest you as well:

https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze
In a similar case, I'd ignore the first and mark the the second one as spam without any ethical concerns.
The problem is that most vaccines affect menstruation; for obvious reasons the uterus is a hotbed of immune activity in the human body.
1. Covid vax does not prevent long covid:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/25/long-covid-...

2. Healthy young people under 50 or even 60 were not dying or getting hospitalized. Whatever risk they want to take, they should be able to take it without mandates. Since the vax does not prevent infection or transmission, one is only taking individual risk and not affecting others.
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It's ok for a culture to suck at something. British bands are amazing. Italian food is amazing. German cars are amazing. American comedy is amazing. British comedy and French cars are terrible. That is ok.
Not necessarily. You can pass a bitmask of an arbitrary length using char*.
That's because Webpack includes a minifier (Terser) by default when running in production mode (I think since version 5, which went a lot in the direction of convention-over-configuration). It is easy to disable if you want to.

Terser transforms non-global identifiers lexically and does some simple substitutions.

Normally you want to bundle modules with their dependencies anyway, maybe transpile code...
Then why not minify?

Et voila, some completely unreadable shit.
Amazon Recycling Program
> would have completely saturated a 20Mbps connection

The GP was talking about a 50Mbps connection.

Also, I pay the same for a 150Mbps symmetric FTTP (well its fibre to the building and copper Ethernet to the demarc in my flat), with the option to upgrade to 1Gbps symmetric for £43pm. I dont use my home as a backup or major content creation store so for me its not worth the extra.

Either way, it sounds like Canada doesn’t suffer from the same problems as the USA as far as broadband goes.
Which apps are those?
> most of the people here can’t even get a basic school degree

You're in your 20s, live with mommy and want to start a company in a field you have no skills, education, ability or training in. Sit down.

Get a job and move out.

If you can't find a job, you're not looking hard enough.

Your 'grinding' is just life. Going to the gym and reading is the absolute bare minimum baseline.

It also shows you have nothing else going on otherwise you wouldn't put such emphasis on nothing. It's like saying you get dressed every day, ok and?

Quit with your 'circle' bullshit, you're trying to focus on other people instead of yourself. It dilutes what little effort you're making (and is literal textbook projection, your friends are doing just fine, you project onto them).

You have zero social skills, 'small talk' (human interaction) is stupidly important.

Find a tech meetup (or any subject you're actually passionate about, don't chase the money) It's trite, but do what you love and the money finds you, meet a girl, make friends.

Maybe most importantly, dump your lists and your 20/80 shit. Just live your life. Everything happens if you let it.
Modern commercialism is the art of convincing everyone they should pay 50% more for a staple in order to be cool.

Starbuck's prices are insane, and most of what they push isn't even coffee.
I mostly agree, but I think there's a reason behind the madness. Back in the early 00s to early 10s they really were more productive, "secret alien technology"-type tools.

But these days obviously ten lines of python (or whatever else) calling the database do exactly the same thing, except you actually have git, debuggers, ides, etc.

Many BI departments still cling to them because they're comparing 2020s no-code tools to early 2000s programming languages.
I like that it's extensive, but a bit too extensive to answer the original question: what is the replacement for an electric drill?

The standard crank drill is clearly the alternative [1]. Most home users should not purchase an electric drill IMO. They dont need it. It will likely never drill more than a few dozen holes.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Frylr-Speedy-Powerful-Manual-1-5MM-10...
The BBC does a lot of things that aren't just comedy. If you think that everything the BBC does is useless, or that it should be paid for with a better model, or that it should spend less money on comedy, then that is absolutely a fair criticism. Asking for it to disappear just because you don't like one particular brand of comedy is not.
The router instructions make no sense to me.

Why plunge a router and then switch to a jigsaw to make a large circular hole in a sheet of plywood? Just move the router around instead.

You can use a bit that can follow a template to make this as accurate as you'd like, but freehand is usually sufficient.

Also: A notable omission in the "other powertools" section is the angle grinder. Both to "saw" a hole, and by attaching a drill chuck to the grinder. At that point it's basically an electric drill with another form factor.
If I have a website that has a terms of service that says anybody who visits my website must give me all their money are you obligated to give me all your money if you go to it?
i took all three shots and got covid about two weeks ago. it was HARSH. no sense of smell, no sense of taste, 3 days with high-ish fever (39C), the body ache was crazy bad and worse of all: brain fog. i managed to avoid going to the hospital, but barely.

and that's with 3 shots. i'm almost sure i would be in an ICU if i didn't get any shots.
What Keurig did you end up buying?
Are you sure about that? Nobody actually built a quantum computer. That means it could all be some kind of intellectual pipe-dream that comes crashing down when someone physically builds one, or maybe a quantum computer is an inherently impossible device that just LOOKS LIKE it might be possible and these assholes are just naval-gazing at an Escher painting.
Here are some "animated" loss landscapes I made quite a long time ago:

http://evolvingstuff.blogspot.com/2011/02/animated-fractal-f...

These are related to recurrent neural networks evolved to maximize fitness whilst wandering through a randomly generated maze and picking up food pellets (the advantage being to remember not to revisit where you have already been.)
> Secondly, it strikes me as "out there in the world" that this is the biggest issue. To me, as a 50 year old man, it's bloody weird anyone spending this much time online, but to be outdoors, or at a bar, or a restaurant with your partner, or looking after your kids, or looking at a sunset, or on the beach - and be constantly in your phone - this is insane.

This is one of the few things I’m confident I’m doing well as a dad and husband. We don’t use our phones when out to dinner or doing family activities. I don’t set “rules” about it; we just have a shared understanding as a family that these times should be spent together, not off in the clouds.