skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine, here are sources.

The devil is in the details. That's a graph of deaths that are COVID positive at or shortly before death. I said "fatality rates" without that qualification. Hopefully we both agree that vaccines are useless if they just change cause of death without reducing actual mortality rates.

It's usually better to use UK data than US. US/CDC data is rather useless and corrupted (e.g. they like to classify someone as unvaccinated if the hospital couldn't quickly find proof they are vaccinated, which isn't at all the same thing). No country has quality data and the UK's has its own problems, but in general the UK statistical releases provide more data and more accurate data. Same biology everywhere so that shouldn't be an issue.

https://bartram.substack.com/p/update-on-the-failure-of-the-...

"It appears that things have got somewhat worse since last week’s report, with the hospitalisation and death rates in the double vaccinated (not boosted) exceeding that seen in the unvaccinated for all aged over 70, and with a higher death rate in those aged over 60 as well. What’s more, there now appears to be practically no benefit of vaccination with two doses of vaccine for those aged under 60, in terms of the remaining protection against hospitalisation and death."

Another analysis on the UK data (lots of graphs etc)

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/all-cause-deaths-and-vacc...

Analyzing US data is harder. But you can see an attempt to control for various factors and get to the root of it here:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/lying-with-statistics-us-...

Equality of outcome should not be a surprise because this is what happened in the Pfizer trial as well. Actually slightly more deaths in the vaccine arm than the placebo arm, in the end, so this should be our prior expectation. They argued this was not a problem because it was not statistically significant, which is not a logical way to use statistical significance.

W.R.T. infections, again US official data is released in corrupted/useless ways but there is some useful data from the private sector. It shows what I'm talking about:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/us-covid-test-positivity-...

Same was seen in the UK. Negative 300% effectiveness in some age groups, at the point where the HSA stopped publishing data:

https://dailysceptic.org/archive/vaccine-effectiveness-hits-...
It's a patch release, not even minor (100% serious).
> Google did not really do anything THAT different than Alta Vista

> The results were better, they obviously had a better algo

i'm with walter, i remember using altavista. google was _shockingly_ better. nobody tried google and said "bah i'm sticking with altavista".

> Unfortunately now this has trended toward the opposite as they destroyed all their competition

i certainly agree that they've deteriorated.
It looks like they still sell about 60MM per year, so not much has changed
To clarify, it joined as a very obvious user. It was not without people noticing, they didn't really seem to care but I did. I was not the meeting organizer so I could not kick it and didn't want to derail the discussion with explaining how I couldn't control my own computer (great look in front of clients), so we just proceeded with it recording.

The automatically emailed outline afterwards was the cherry on top, though, as it was filled with AI generated questions that I absolutely did not need answered. I got one response from someone that patiently explained some of the answers to the (idiotic) questions - how embarrassing.
For anyone who runs with AirPod Pros I recommend "AirPod Pro Ear Hooks" that you can get on Amazon for like £10. They keep them in your ear really well.

Edit:

The ones I have https://amzn.eu/d/3ihERHb
> And, finally: SQLite wants a single writer per database. But there's no rule that says your entire app has to land in a single .db file.

I like finding hints of our architecture scattered across these SQLite threads :D

It's very sketchy trying to slam all users into a single physical database. If you can slice up the users along unit of work, session, customer, account, etc., you can go horizontal very quickly.
Because often devices have their metal shell grounded, especially older lamps and radios, but also toasters and the like. Plug it in the wrong way and the metal shell is hot.

Nowadays a lot of devices are made of plastic and / or are DC powered so it doesn’t matter as much.
> Ok, that’s how the world works, do we stick our fingers in our ears and pretend we can ignore it? Or do we embrace it and accept the rules of the game?

Imagine having this attitude about literally any other widespread problem.

"Ok, everyone is spewing methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Do we close our eyes and ignore it, or do we join them and roll coal? LET'S BURN SOME FUEL BOYS"

"Ok, everyone is dumping toxic waste into the river. Do we just ignore it and keep drinking, or do we embrace it and just chuck our own toxic waste in there?"

"Ok, everyone is eating each other in Satanic canniablistic rituals. Do we just pretend it's not happening and go about our day, waiting to be eaten? Or do we fire up the grill and go on a hunt!?"

Um, how about a third option: we be vocal about how the problem is an actual problem and work together toward fixing it?
There was a time when ground pins were not common, and "double insulated" devices were not as common as today. Some of those devices grounded the chassis to the neutral in the receptacle. The only device I know that I've encountered which fit this was the oscilloscope in my high school physics lab. If you plugged it in the wrong way (which could happen but I don't recall how that was possible), and you touched the metal body of the scope, you'd get a little zap out of it.
And if you believe you're best represented as a bullet list of educational and professional accomplishments, I assure you that the feeling is mutual.
I've come to prefer Apple Maps. I like that it tells me "skip the next light" or "at the next light/stop sign, turn" rather than just the street name.
What % chance do we feel that we will have fusion power within the next 50 years?
Honestly, yes. I'm from Kentucky, and if I go back home, there's very little cell coverage. Too mountainous, too few people. You can usually get signal if you climb the biggest hill, or go into town, but if you've injured yourself and need to call 911, those aren't ideal requirements.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of midwest areas that have a similar problem.
Yet that is precisely how our system works vis-a-vis resident aliens ("green card holders"). They have all the responsibilities of citizens but no right to vote.
The opposite of a supine attitude is, apparently, justifying any kind of aggression with "he started it" or "but someone else is doing it too!"
I’m guessing the “plastic underneath” is referring to a skid plate, but could be wrong.

Presumably you’d tow it with a rollback wrecker, though.
> In the same way that people use Stalin's policies to discredit Marx

No, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx are not remotely comparable.

Not until you can point to dozens of countries that tried to put Rand's principles into action, and show how they failed. Can you?

Saying "true communism has never been tried" is to ignore what happened each time. "We'll do better next time" doesn't persuade unless you have a detailed understanding of how someone like Stalin or Pol Pot comes to power, and some plan more detailed than "we won't do it that way."
Yes. But if you make a mistake and don't report something the IRS already knows about rhen you lose, and there's a penalty on top of that.

It shouldn't have to be a game. There shouldn't be fear and antagonism. The current system favors the IRS. It favors other third-parties. And it's devoid of any favor for the taxpayers.
This is my problem with wireless headphones. They’re cool but basically disposable when the battery degrades, which happens fast because of the usage pattern. Seems like an awful waste, I’ve gone back to wired. They will last me decades.
The stock price of Intuit dropped by like 10,000% with the sheer insinuation of such a thing occurring.
That means every limb operation should be done modulo 10^k, which would be pretty expensive and only makes sense if you don't do much computation with them so the base conversion will dominate the computation.
I got so entranced by this site for some reason that by the time I snapped out of it I thought "I bet HN would like this"... only to remember that this is where I'd clicked from to get to it.
I was more expecting '1111' / 4 = '1'. This would be the inverse operation. However, it opens up even more questions like what to do if your string has mixed values etc
> even if its pretty clear at this point some of his scores are dodgy.

"dodgy"? Quite the understatement there. This man has made fraudulent claims, has held fraudulent records and, most importantly, has sued people who told the truth.

Defending this person by downplaying their scores as "dodgy" is ludicrous.
Just goes to show the fatal flaw of POW for anything except Bitcoin and Ethereum. Interestingly, it costs more to 51% attack Eth at the moment.
Interestingly, this is what Congress legislated in 1998 only to be beaten back by lobbying from the tax preparation industry:

The Free File Alliance came to be because Congress originally mandated the IRS to do away with tax returns altogether in a law called the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. After a major lobbying push by the tax preparation industry, the Free File Alliance was introduced as a way to let low-income Americans file their taxes for free without getting rid of tax returns. The Alliance drew institutional momentum away from the change to return-free filing, which likely would have rendered large segments of the tax prep industry totally useless.

https://thehill.com/homenews/3607174-the-irs-could-be-on-the...
Similar to how energy is extracted from fission reactors currently: the heat is used to boil water which makes large turbines spin and produce energy. It's dumb engineering. (I don't mean that in a bad way.)
I am not sure why that has turned into a truism.

Really good code in the standard library should reach a level of near perfection, then eventually transition into hopeful speed gains, after which you're really only changing that code because the language has changed or the specification has updated.
I can't see this "withdraw and completely refuse to engage" thing. They're not organized enough to employ any kind of Sun Tzu thing. The "strategy" is chosen by default because they aren't allowed to engage, in most places. Even if you try to just report what they are saying, not even endorsing it, you get removed in most places.
With that setup you have essentially lost any benefits that SQLite provides, specifically any performance benefits by making a DB read/write a network call instead of a local call in the same process that manipulates some file on the same machine. You are closer to a postgres/mysql patterne except now your writes don't scale as well. What are we actually gaining with this setup other than perhaps easier administration of the "db service" compared to a mysql/postgres deployment?
Apple's products are closer to a personal computer than most PCs ever were ...
I think that was an issue on the earlier airpod pros and they had/have a replacement program for that issue: https://support.apple.com/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-...
The Aperture and Gain section of that article says that gain refers to the directivity of an antenna

> antennas with large effective apertures are considered high-gain antennas (or beam antennas), which have relatively small angular beam widths.
But deleting code (a red diff) is the most positive code change anyone can make
> basic emergency services

If it was a basic emergency service, it would probably be accessible without a brand new $800 or more phone.
Been on the β for a while; it’s a good OS. Particularly like the ability to use the iPhone as a Zoom cam. 3D printed a phone mount and everything works pretty seamlessly. Lock Screen widgets are nice too.

Stage manager on iPadOS doesn’t do it for me though.
Yes, it's starting to get bad. As a example a huge producer of automotive parts in Germany went bankrupt today. 4000+ people lost their jobs instantly.

Nord Stream 1 has been shut down indefinitely and Germany requires it to keep their economy, heat and power supply going so lots more companies will follow.

My family is going to stock up on firewood for our fireplace soon, so at least the house will not be cold come november-december when the Netherlands will run out of their gas supply in just about 2 weeks time tops.
I agree it would be cool and useful.

But it appears to be such a hard problem that modern packaging tools ignore it, preferring to take on other challenges instead.

My own attempts at extracting Python configuration information to generate a Makefile for personal use (because Makefile understand dependencies better than setup.py) is a mess caused by my failure to understand what all the configuration options do.

Given that's the case, when do you think we'll be able to "Remove setup.py files and mandate wheels"?

I'm curious on what evils you're thinking of? I assume the need to run arbitrary Python code just to find metadata is one of them. But can't that be resolved with a pyproject.toml which uses setuptools only for the build backend? So you don't need to remove setup.py, only restrict when it's used, yes?
100%. This is an a11y issue, not just about protecting privacy.
This makes sense, great comment.
I'm confident a flatbed tow truck could tow it. A tow truck with a wheel dolly could probably do it. If it were close to a coal mine, there were probably many, many vehicles that could have towed the car, but not a one of them could do it without tearing up plastic bits on the car.

I also wouldn't base my knowledge of a vehicle's towability on the words of a television reporter. Could just as easily been the case that it was easier to push the car the 25m than to wait for Joe to get his truck, find his tow strap in that black hole he calls a toolbox, find a place to hook it on the car...
> Are lobbyists in control of congress?

Effectively, Yes.

> Who passes bills?

Technically the elected officials, but the bills themselves are usually written by lobbyists.

Pressure from campaign donors, either directly or through lobbyists, or through "party" channels influence votes.
Let's say they manage to scale this up. What effect would it have on humanity? Climate change is solved. What else?
It depends on the state, but that's not really true in the US, either.
With most web based apps usually the user is pretty locked in. Anita tries to bridge the gap between installable and non-installable apps.
What's worse, is that if you make a mistake in the code leading up to it's completion (even one picked up by Intellisense), Copilot will now assume that you actually wanted the mistakes, and it's autocompletion will give you even more mistakes.
Check if you have rust in the case contacts. Happened to me and I had to clean them with vinegar.

Weird, because I don't use my airpods for sport and I have no idea why the contacts would be rusted.
Would you pit it against my non-ai solution for the same problem? As a baseline to measure against? It would seem prudent to compare against other tools trying to alleviate the same problem, rather than just humans writing the code by hand

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/demos/tree/main/full-stack-...

I've since shortened that demo to be even faster for a user to complete
Apple has covered these sound issues for me, every time they have apparently diagnosed that the issue matches my complaint. But I've had to make 5 warranty claims for this in just over 2 years of ownership! I have only made 8 warranty claims ever in my life, over 60% of my lifetime warranty claims have been for one airpods pro purchase!

Something is seriously up with the design of the original pros. I hope these issues have been resolved for 2nd gen.
You are looking for a PLB, a Personal Locator Beacon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...

https://oceansignal.com/products/plb1/

You buy it, you never pay anything else, it works all over the planet, in extreme conditions, you never need to charge its battery (good for 7+ years), and most importantly, it communicates with an exclusive satellite constellation dedicated to search and rescue, operated by national governments. Your emergency call is handled directly by local government agencies, the military in many parts of the world, who have a duty to respond to the emergency - in accordance with international treaties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_Pr...
There is no practical linear time algorithm for multiplication; should Python disable multiplication for numbers greater than 10^4301?

Even a naive divide and conquer decimal to binary algorithm is only logarithmically slower than multiplication.
If you really want to argue about this, binary makes no sense in this scenario. There's assembly which gets assembled into machine code. Machine code for all intents and purposes is the lowest level that you would consider a language, binary by itself accomplishes nothing.

Now you can go see all the arguments about RISC vs CISC, which is the same argument. Should I have a small instruction set that bloats the final program's instruction count? Or a complex set with slower instructions?
There is a real need for offline co-pilot alternative.

Privacy concerns due to copilot makes it unusable for companies with closed source code.

I’m hoping that eventually there will be a stable diffusion level solution in this field.
> you need to have connected Apple Watch (via the iPhone) to your Mac and you can build the game yourself.

This is the highest cost Quake 1 port till now.
Cover letters are one of those things that are only really useful for the first few jobs. Once you've started working you will get most of your future jobs via your network and cover letters are pointless from then on.
> Average mutable reference usage per repository: 1.94

> Repositories with no mutable reference usages: 7,245 (63%)

> Truly bananas. Clojure libraries really do have less state. It probably isn't surprising if you've been programming in clojure for any length of time, but it's pretty wild to see the data back this up. I don't think I would have believed this 10 years ago.

Truly interesting and impressive, although I'll note that there are plenty of ways (most of them via Java interop) to introduce mutability of some kind into a Clojure program besides the first-class reference types (atoms/refs/agents/volatiles.)

I'd be interested in an analysis in what percentage of Clojure functions are truly referentially transparent, but that's difficult (if not impossible) to determine statically.
There are much bigger problems currently. For example, if you receive RSUs and don't sell some manually at vesting, you might end up in debt by being forced to take loans to pay your taxes.
> There have been several proposed bills that would create a pre-filled tax form system, but they always get quietly sidelined by tax industry lobbyists.

Not just industry lobbyists. Another big part is Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform" and similar groups. They have a lot of influence with about half of Congress.

Here's a PowerPoint presentation [1] Norquist presented to the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform in 2005 explaining their opposition to free filing.

It's short so I'll paste the text from each slide here, with the slide titles marked with dashes, so people don't have to find a copy of PowerPoint (or LibreOffice or Keynote, which also can open it fine).

---- Implementing a “Return-Free” Tax Filing Scheme

Presentation to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

Grover Norquist

President

Americans for Tax Reform

May 17, 2005

---- The Current System

Tax filing is citizen-based – taxpayers tell the government what they earned and owe

---- Under Return-Free

Tax filing would be government-based – the burden would be on the taxpayer to challenge the government’s findings -- essentially an audit of every single American taxpayer

---- The Fox Would Guard the Henhouse

The same agency that collects taxes would be the tax preparer – the motivation to maximize revenue would dominate both ends of the process

---- Return-Free is a Tax Increase

The true goal is to increase revenue. The government knows few taxpayers will challenge its findings

---- Taxes Should be Visible

Doing taxes keeps citizens aware of the tax burden imposed upon them by the government. A Return-Free scheme would allow the government to raise revenues invisibly

---- The California Example

The State would not guarantee the accuracy of the returns it prepared – the taxpayer was removed from the process, but left with the responsibility

The pilot program achieved 50% less uptake than planned

Comments by CA officials tell us that the true aim was increased revenue

[1] http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/taxreformpanel/meetings/docs/...
Already preordered and am looking forward to using it for freediving. The UX on dive watches has long been a nightmare, they are expensive, and the replaceable batteries open them up to waterproofing issues. Most computers also treat freediving/spearfishing as an afterthought so I'll probably create my own software for it. Maybe a business opportunity here...
Related discussion (on Globalstar SEC filing, with some interesting insight into the state of the Globalstar constellation):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963
If the NDA was covering things beyond the legal requirements (you cannot tell about company secrets one tout leave, au least where I live) and you got extra money for that, why not?
Yes, in my case the CEO recommended we use Otter to keep all of the meetings on our dozens of projects straight.

It's not that we didn't want to use it sometimes, it's that I had no desire to use it for these times and it went completely rogue. That could happen with any software, even an OS itself.
Good article. Looking forward to the next part
AFAIK, China has record for temperature and duration however it is known as China heated up electron rather than heating up ion which is more proper.
> Dynamic Island looks neat (reminds me of webOS) BUT controls at the top of the screen still work poorly, especially on these bigger phones.

I'd expect Reachability will allow for one-handed operation: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/reachability-iph145eb...
Which backcountry camping features does the Garmin Descent Mk2 series lack? It does basically everything a Fenix 6X can do.
> Unlimited plans from all major carriers top off at $70-80/mo.

Until you add the $20-30 in taxes and fees they don’t show on their pricing page.

“Regulatory Charge”, “Admin & Telco Recovery Charge”, “Gross Receipts Surchg”, and “Fed Universal Service Charge”, and that doesn’t even include the state/local ones; they’re just Verizon’s set.

https://www.verizon.com/support/surcharges/
Yes, gdb. I don't particularly like gdb, though.

> hoping that you forget to remove the assert

I routinely add a lot of instrumentation when developing code. I use `git diff` to remove it before committing.

The compiler builds itself fast enough that this is not a problem. I have one window on the source, the other on the build.
The picture showing an explorer dominating a snowy mountain is hilarious, I hope he brought several battery packs to charge the watch.
That makes sense to me, states are basically tiny countries. You should pay taxes to the body that has your best interest, and that body is probably your city. Who has the city's best interest at heart? The state. And so on.
I think some pre-configured "example projects" could make me more interested. Demo seems mundane, I get the idea but all the required fields are just annoying to get through.