skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> higher than the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group (6.4 per 10,000 participants).

This is a deceptive statistic.

They're only reporting adverse events due to COVID-19 hospitalization in the window of the study.

This will miss adverse events due to undiagnosed COVID-19 and it should be using the participants who contracted COVID-19 as a denominator, since essentially everyone will be infected by the virus eventually and the lifetime-horizon risk in the placebo group is much longer than the window of the study, while the vaccination risk obviously starts with the introduction of the antigen and then drops off rapidly after 3-6 months.

To make it more accurate the placebo groups should have been followed longitudinally for 5-10 years until nearly everyone had seroconverted or tested positive, and compare that against the vaccine group, and compare all outcomes and not apply the diagnosed COVID-19 hospitalization filter to only one arm.

Really bad "study" that is just some bad undergrad-level number crunching and misapplication of statistics to the vaccine trial numbers.
> BEV vehicles are 5x more efficient than ICE vehicles.

I've seen this figure before. It ignores the efficiency of the generation of electric power to charge the EV.

A much more realistic figure is 2x.
Actually, no. The US gallon (3.785L) is not the same as the imperial gallon (4.546L), a point which made me see red when Canadian opponents to metrication argued that we must keep the gallon because the US is our biggest trading partner.
According to this, there is always a max:

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...

"For the 2022 plan year: The out-of-pocket limit for a Marketplace plan can’t be more than $8,700 for an individual and $17,400 for a family."

However, above that it also says:

"The out-of-pocket limit doesn't include:

Costs above the allowed amount for a service that a provider may charge"

The way this has always worked for me is that if the billed amount is $1000 and the max allowed amount is $600, then $600 is what is owed and the rest is "written off" by the provider. If I haven't met the max out-of-pocket yet, I pay first. Then insurance pays $600 - what I paid.

But the way it is worded on the ACA page, it sounds like the provider can bill me directly for the $400 that was disallowed. That has never happened to me (Ambetter/MHS insurance in Indiana), and seems bizarre to have a max out-of-pocket that is not actually enforced.
Fibers were released in 8.1 but are there improvements in 8.2?

I'm curious to see how useful it is until a lot of core libraries (curl, redis, mysqlnd, etc) can be called non-blocking and/or trigger a fiber yield during a block? My understanding is swoole does a whole lot of work to enable hooking into those to allow coroutines, which won't implicitly exist with fibers?
All the ones you listed have an incomplete amino acid profile, and are not sufficient for optimal long term health.
I don’t think 4chan is next. I believe the site has staying power because its users are anonymous. Anonymity means it’s very difficult for leaders to emerge which means it’s difficult to rally behind a particular cause. This means it’s difficult for 4chan to grow in influence as an organized force. It’s just a steady state of low-level chaos, which is good for containment. I’m also quite confident that the FBI monitors the site and I don’t think they want to see all those borderline people scurry off into different corners of the internet should the site go offline.
The energy must be spent within the region to count. Those countries export it.
My understanding is that the source is open for anybody to see and do whatever, but closed to contributions.

Also, they have some big names who have paid them a lot of money to keep the project alive for the next few decades. Airbus the plane manufacturer is one example.

There are these two podcast episodes [1] featuring sqlite founder Richard Hipp which I encourage you to listen. He is a thoroughbred.

[1] https://changelog.com/person/drh/podcasts#feed
I learnt about delv for the first time reading your comment and struggled [1] to get the commands you used here to work on my Mac.

Turns out that I have to treat Apple-included binaries of OSS utilities with suspicion and instead use the version maintained by the Homebrew guys.

1: If anyone else is interested, I wrote a short article about it https://ayewo.com/how-to-get-delv-working-on-macos/
An “effective environmentalism” might be a good meme to attempt a rebrand of nuclear, microwaves, and factory farming. But there’s nothing about how to prevent effective environmentalism from becoming performative just like how the author notes environmentalism has.
btw - drop me a msg on twitter (throwaway is fine), @aehlke if you'd like to connect on resources for going independent with dev work, I'm starting a full stack resource for this soon and would be happy to share. good luck
Nuclear Winter can stop Global Warming with room to spare, so, maybe, Russians do the right thing when they are shelling Ukrainian nuclear power plant. Maybe, Ukrainian just need to return the fire.
It has everything to do with tax - specifically prop 13 which DEtaxed land and led to California's ridiculously inefficient land use.

Those property owners with $3 million houses will do everything in their power to prop their value up. That means inhibiting high density development. That means pretending a laundromat is "historic".

With a 100% LVT their houses arent worth $3 million theyre worth exactly as much as an equivalent house in Omaha.

There is no point in NIMBYing to inhibit housing with stupid shit like pretending a laundromat is a historic building. Inhibiting development wont drive up property prices. Change those laws and others will be abused.

But those people with $3 million houses will do ANYTHING to prevent an LVT.
> it uses scihub which doesn't have the best servers

you could always download the scihub backup torrents from libgen and host them yourself somewhere. its probably like 100TB of data by now though so this isn't really a cheap approach.
...is not a political agenda.
Motion smoothing is the worst thing in modern TVs. Every house that I visited has new TVs with motion smoothing and they are not at all bothered about this.
Systems and Cost Analysis for Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling Machine (1973) [pdf]
Interesting related presentation on what is energy and how it relates to the economy from a physical point of view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s254IPHXgVA&t=3367

Note: presented in a controversial way, that's the style of this speaker
I know, I'm used to it ;).
As another person from outside the US, I have one question:

1) Given the size of these amounts, why aren't you all marching on Washington with pitchforks? Your healthcare system is INSANE.
For the IRS, you only need to keep documents seven years back. Anything older than seven years can be shredded.
For a 2.5 kW solar system would cost somewhere around $2-5K USD and the 5kWH battery would also cost $2-5K USD. I don’t think the average Rwanda citizen has $5-10K available to install just enough power to run their fridge.
Well, let's remove taxes on oil, etc! Let's stop putting governmental barriers in place such as when recently Canada refused permission to build natural gas plants. Governance needs to step out of the way, and let the free market do what it needs to!

(for the avoidance of doubt, not being sarcastic)
This is an interesting post, thank you for writing it.

There's some things that just last, such as BSD sockets which I've mentioned a number of times on my journal and Unix POSIX APIs and Win32 APIs as mentioned by someone on this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32725209

Some of my ruby, nodejs and python projects no longer run due to dependencies not being pinned at creation time. My living systems document editor is written in AngularJs 1 and I eventually got it running at one point on my new laptop (it was built on a mac) but unfortunately I've not reproduced the setup due to problems with Ruby, nodejs and python dependencies.

My JSBin (an editor for HTML, CSS and Javascript) installation has moved machines and I never set it up a third time, so my data is effectively lost without randomly trying different versions to see if it works. And trying to avoid having to run migration scripts for the data. In theory the CSS, javascript and HTML are all available in the SQLite database, so I could write a script to extract them all. But some of the jsbins had server side components.

I want software to just work and last for a long time. This requires thinking. Most software is written in an ad hoc or agile or waterfall approach. Unless long term compatibility is seen as a requirement, then the software shall not be runnable for a long period of time.

When I go to use some software it takes an inordinate amount of time to set things up. Nowadays we have Docker, but that didn't always exist.
It's probably related to licensing, either because it makes it too easy to embed songs where you'd ordinarily need a separate license or because it makes it too easy to rip to the stream.
Don‘t think about microwave vs. stove. Instead, do the following:

1. stop buying meat

2. stop eating meat

3. stop buying dairy-based products

4. stop eating dairy-based products

5. stop eating eggs, honey, fish

6. use public transport, if possible

7. don‘t fly, if possible

Congrats, you now are an environmentalist.
China approves the first inhaled Covid-19 vaccine
Why are you posting that in a comment? Submit it and the karma is yours!
I remember when the public image of Mumsnet was all warm and friendly and Mums looking out for each other and all of a sudden every time I hear about them it's because they've gone on a rager againist some poor person whose greatest crime is that they decided they wanted a sex change.
one way is to be good at integrating some common but specialized open source, for example helping companies who've adopted prosemirror (for features but maybe not their whole platform justifying an internal team)
Why look at the very bottom of mortality list? (llᴉɥs ɐ sᴉ sᴉɥʇ ǝsnɐɔǝq)

Second-hand smoke kills almost 100 times more Americans.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...
The observation that important technologies required a long time from inception to practical use is common here. That is true but ignores the fact that there were a tremendous number of possible technologies available that could of eventually worked out. Only a very small number ever did.
This is what happens when you optimize for only a single variable.

And the end result won't be what you want it to be. It doesn't do us any good to stop climate change if the ecosystem still collapses out from under us.

Creating a sustainable environment is a systems problem and carbon is just one of many variables in that system. Yes, it's a really important one and in many ways it is the most pressing. But biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services are close seconds, and if you optimize your eating for carbon in the way the author is describing you inevitably end up doing more net harm by undercutting those other two.

Further, a lot of the "data" she's linking is completely with out method or context. And method and context can make a huge difference in these sorts of lifecycle analyses. They are fraught with pitfalls. It's one of the reasons it's been so fucking hard to pin down exactly what the most environmental behavior is.

And this whole mess is one of the prime motivators behind my current effort to write an open academic publishing platform [1] that would allow review to be crowdsourced so that we can open and centralize the whole literature. Because then we actually could get a complete picture of what the best current answer to these questions is with out having to go through secondary sources like this which inevitably cherry pick studies, data, and lack context.

[1] https://blog.peer-review.io/we-might-have-a-way-to-fix-scien...
you make absolutely no sense. the so-called power the NIMBYs have was given to them by the government.

> With a 100% LVT their houses arent worth $3 million theyre worth exactly as much as an equivalent house in Omaha.

and this is just wrong.
Since the median age of death is 82 (78 if free), riddled with an entire pharmacy of modern medicine i suspect that's a very, very unhealthy proposition.

May as well eat roadkill.
Did Drexler predict that we would have swarms of self-repairing micro-robots by 2022? I don't know the answer to that, I'm genuinely asking the question.

Like what's the timeline for nano-technology as predicted all those years ago and are we on that timeline?
You need at least two points to determine the slope of the thermometer, 0 and 100 as freezing and boiling point of water makes that reproducible.
As it stands, we do not have the ability to both raise living standards and solve climate change. We just are using too many resources for it to be sustainable. Having all of India's population reaching a European level of CO2 expenditure (about 4 tons / person / year) kills us. And renewables would only account for a very small reduction of that.
This is more that a flawed study, but a serious failing of comprehension. The assertion in more detail is that IGF-1 in meat causes illness at a predictable rate, but exercise causes large spikes in IGF-1 while being associated with a drop in cancer risk. Clearly the correlation between IGF-1 is not as simple as this study asserts.
Going vegan and eating different types of eat are not the only options, many people these days choose to eat less meat for health reasons.
I'd say more human rights than civil rights. Human rights are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You know very well that healthy people live differently and end up subsidising the habits of others.

Don’t be so lazy as to argue that a marathon runner makes comparable choices to an overweight layabout. It’s just not true that people’s lifestyles are in aggregate equal. Health insurance companies know this and are legally forbidden to charge obese people more under the ACA. It’s cold hard actuarial fact.

Rather than trying to falsify reality to fit your moral viewpoint, try to argue why he should subsidise.
SLIME is a third–party tool that integrates with Common Lisp; it isn’t part of the language. With most Common Lisp implementations you can just use the repl to call (inspect foo) to see what slots foo has and their values. It will probably be a little clunky since drilling down into the details might require you to type numbers at a prompt. Meanwhile SLIME presents the same information in a UI, so you can click on things (or type the numbers if you prefer).

It just happens that SLIME is a pretty well designed UI (the acronym stands for Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, so I guess that was the goal). It’s miles ahead of what you get from most other languages, even C++, but most of what makes it so great comes from features that were already present in the language implementations. It also combines very well with other advanced Emacs packages such as Paredit.

Interestingly, SLIME is implemented as a network protocol to allow for remote debugging, so you can implement a new UI for it any way you want. I’ve never used it, but you might check out SLIMV instead. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531
This has been discussed before on HN. Quoting an actual engineer from faulty memory: Boring a tunnel through the mountains is well beyond what's currently doable. Doing it on the surface would require lifting the water a few km up in order to let it flow down on the other side, and would be the largest engineering project ever, expensive to build and equally expensive to operate. Total water use (including farming and industry) may well be well over 1000kg per person and day even if it's restricted because the water is expensive, lifting that weight several km requires a lot of energy and expense.

Sorry about the word effective, it should have been efficient. I used the word because the pumps may be compared to other means of transport in terms of water moved per joule spent.
A little, less-known hack is to be hired as a freelancer/contractor, from there you just prove your worth and ask for a long time position.
It allows you to bypass the multi-round interviews, have a greater negotiation power (cause they know what you're worth) and just stop loosing crap on bs tests for X and Y.

This is what I did and it worked well for me. Before doing that I never went through interviews that had more than 3 rounds.
You sure about that?

You can't replace base load with intermittent generation sources and expect fewer price spikes.

Ya'll better get busy building those nuke plants like NOW.
You would basically need to appeal to your state health regulator if the insurer tries to pull stuff like that with you (they will). I had one insurer kick me off in violation of ACA policies and I had to appeal to California's regulator.
That is what is in the docs, essentially (have you read them? They are full of interesting little details).
> it’s much easier to warm up in cold weather than it is to cool down in hot weather

May be true for the human body, but when you're talking about heating a living space to a comfortable temperature versus cooling the same, in the majority of places (at least in the US) it takes way less energy to accomplish the latter.

Even in a hot place like Dallas, TX with an average daytime high of 97 degrees Fahrenheit in the hottest month, it's only a 20-degree differential to bring it to 77 degrees indoors, vs. an average overnight low of 38 degrees in the coldest month, where you would need to bring it up 30 degrees and might still feel cold inside.

This is not to mention how much more energy-efficient air conditioning (which just moves heat around) is compared to furnaces (which generate heat from fuel).
You can't. If you could bypass/disable it, the core value of this service would be worthless.
Unassisted bicycles that are ridden faster than that certainly are bicycles. Which points out a huge problem with certain approaches to bike infrastructure: if you force everybody down to the speed of the slowest ones (usually small children) because there are no opportunities for safe passing, then bikes can't compete with cars for any distance beyond walking. having to go 12 km/h when you would do 30 is worse for your commute duration than having to go 25 when you would go 50.
Another way to fix the problem would be to help Ukraine a bit more and forcibly take the gas from Russia as reparations. At this point it’s obvious their military was all bluff.

This doesn’t even change the final outcome, it just speeds it up - USA won’t allow Russia to become China’s asset, and there aren’t that many options to guarantee that.
I didn't say that it didn't reduce the probability of transmission ("marginally prevented its spread"). But it certainly didn't push the R value low enough to control its spread (and wouldn't have even if everyone were vaxxed). I was a no-covid-er for a long time; I really held out hope for eradication, quite a bit longer than most. But its not realistic anymore, at least with current vaccines. Meanwhile, it seems to be a lot less deadly now, possibly because it is more of an upper-respiratory illness than a lower one, which I guess also makes it more transmissible, and possibly because a lot of people already had acquired some kind of immunity (mild cases, vaccination, etc.).
I would think think this is rather common for people with a strong spatial intuition. When planning a task in steps I mentally see where the hands on the clock will be at the start of each task.

I also have an image for the year in my head when long term planning. It is dynamic and I see it from “today” wherever that is, and I approach upcoming events. It is cyclic in years but there is a difference between looking back on January which was and looking forward to the next January.
The very concept of "fairness" won't help you and will likely hurt your efforts to succeed in life. Besides being somewhat subjective, a business must prioritize profit over fairness in order to survive in a competitive environment.
Your employer will pay you what they believe (possibly erroneously) is their optimal for profit, modulo the legal environment and company politics.
It went offline earlier this year, but <https://web.archive.org/web/20220330034214/http://www.databa...> is something similar too. Diagrams not copy-pastable DDL, but at least for me the value is in seeing how other people have approached similar modeling problems, not in copying down their solutions -- so diagrams are perfect.
> who cares about "reality" any more

People who realize that Reality is where you can lose Wi-Fi reception, stop receiving nutrient liquid, and otherwise be enslaved and/or killed.

Seriously, your future is a nightmare.

If you want a perfectly clean, warm, automated existence, work on robots and O'Neill colonies, not the Matrix.
To rephrase te question: why would somebody be annoyed with the fractional metric size of A-n sizes ?
There is about no way what you wrote can possibly be true; with 5x efficiency gain we wouldn't need a mountain of EV subsidies to get companies to manufacture them and people to buy them.

If there was a net energy gain going to EV, the adoption rates would be through the roof rather than ~1% we are seeing currently.
Have you read The Dawn of Everything?
Why would stop buying honey from beekeepers?
> That said, the "cars make noise go vroom" argument hasn't really worked for decades now.

Tires often make more noise than car engines nowadays. I live along a busy street and often I can't audibly distinct a Tesla from an ICE except for a faint hum. They are both as loud when passing by.
Don't even need those things. They won't work if they used DHTML, or IE specific JavaScript, or (I think?) framesets.
At CERN, I usually find people using this word more to describe q situation when something is not fully clear more than polite way to say wrong. Usually within the frame of particle physics where heavy statistical analysis is being used.
Coroutines have been available via many packages for a while; (Open)Swoole and Amp come to mind, but there are probably others. Laravel has supported using (Open)Swoole via Octane for over a year. Why would having coroutines as fibers in the core be a gamechanger?
A few extra:

Get your house insulated. Helps with both heating and cooling.

Use a fan rather than AC if you can.

Do not buy unneeded stuff, buy durable, sell or repair rather than junk.
Similarly, a lot of people think it's inherently wasteful (at least in terms of climate change-related sensitivities) to live in the southern US where it's commonly accepted to run air conditioning for many months of the year, whereas nobody blinks twice at the number of oil-fired furnaces in New England.
If you do not extend compassion, then don't expect any.
Question: I have ~10,000 128 element query vectors, and want to find the nearest neighbor (cosine similarity) for each of them in a dataset of ~1,000,000 target vectors. I can do this using brute force search on a GPU in a few minutes, which is fast but still a serious bottleneck for me. Is this an appropriate size of dataset and task for acceleration with some sort of vector database or algorithm more intelligent than brute force search?
My father grew up in a small village in western Africa. Visiting there as a child, with no running water or electricity, was such an impactful experience for me. It is very hard to imagine if you haven't experienced it, but it is certainly possible.
Thanks for the sanity. The key word in your post being reliable.

There are 1001 ways to generate electricity but with no good storage options we need to prize reliability over all other attributes when considering what we invest in.
From driving quite a bit on ice tracks here in Norway, tesla is by far the best there is when it comes to safety on snow/ice.

Not the most fun though unless you enable track mode or disconnect the traction control sensors.