skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sure George Floyd would have lived a little longer if he wasn’t Covid positive when he died.

It doesn’t matter anyway. The data required to support our mitigations stopped mattering a long long time ago. ..Sometime back when the “4% kill rate” predicted by the imperial college paper turned out to be very very wrong and when all those temporary military hospital things got closed because they weren’t being used. That might have been a good time to reevaluate what the fuck we were doing but instead of celebrating the fact that Covid wasn’t nearly as bad as predicted we just doubled down for a year and a half more instead.

Honestly it’s best to just take the numbers at face value and assume any overcount is balanced by undercounts.
"Use" is pretty vague. Can run the process and make a small fix should be easy. Writing idiomatic code in a new language takes months.
Could be, but I'd like to see some data behind that.
c88990d0_c47e_4d8a_aa96_680d8b58192d_Service aka OrderService
ca7f6516_337c_11ed_a261_0242ac120002_Service aka PaymentService

I don't see that working out in the long run...
If you do a Google Scholar search for COVID vaccines and all-cause mortality, you'll see that in most studies, people who got vaccinated die less in general (i.e. counting deaths from all causes).

Population level or absolute increases in deaths do not tell you the marginal impact of getting vaccinated. For example, there's no contradiction between both vaccinated and unvaccinated dying more and vaccines being protective.
Ask HN: Except email, which site is always open in your browser?
My friends who won't step 2 mostly because they are limited by their circle's culture. There is this large enterprise corp network that can keep you stable forever, these guys never see outside world so global maxima is not a thing.
Shopify prototypes AI product creator with Stable Diffusion and AR
> For overall mortality, with 74,193 participants and 61 deaths (mRNA:31; placebo:30)

31 deaths with mRNA and 30 deaths with placebo with over 74K people in the trial to me means that mRNA carries zero risk. In a sample size that large, 1 additional death means essentially zero correlation.

> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/18/silent-crisis-so...

Article is subscribe-walled. Not subbing.

> Dailysceptic

I'm not going to accept "Daily Sceptic" as a source.

> PowerBI

I don't find the data in this dashboard to be very incriminating. Excess deaths are still highly attributed to COVID.

> https://bartram.substack.com/p/deaths-by-vaccination-status-...

This article is very painfully committing the Base Rate Fallacy.

See https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/154723580144821043... for a good explanation on that.
"He had spent the 20 years copying the same html file and changing the text for whatever was needed."

Dream job right there.
I don’t think it’s overly pedantic to sat that you’re comparing your product, your work, to others.

That’s different (and probably healthier) than comparing your self
Yes, I know someone who got the shots and boosted and got Covid twice.
Did the government grant Google a monopoly?

This is a market outcome. Perfect competition is not the natural state of the market, even though free marketers prefer to hand wave it into existence.
That's just not true. Chicago gets a week straight of 0F every single year. Sometimes close to a month straight.
What kind of work are you doing now?
Winter is when their wind turbines will be producing hardest.

Periods with low wind and low sun do happen but theyre rarer and shorter than people think. It's much more common that availability of wind and sun anticorrelate (even in winter), which is why the storage needed to get to 99% is normally measured in hours rather than days.
Yeah, they cover performance too, but sounds like we will definitely see impact with mega bases:

One of the first questions you might ask is how does the game perform. We worked on many optimizations to make sure the game performs as well as possible. You should expect 30-60 FPS (both in TV mode and handheld mode). As for UPS, the average player should be able to go through all of the content and launch a rocket, while staying at 60 UPS. But don't expect to be able to build mega-bases without UPS starting to drop, sometimes significantly.
Were some of them also, hrm, explicit in nature?
> his main point was that isolation should have been targeted at the most vulnerable rather than applied nationwide.

And you do not notice what the problems are with that solution compared to using lockdowns to keep spread under control until countermeasures (vaccines) are available?
That's a wonderful gift.
The people who want an open-source open-hardware tractor continue to run their older tractors forever; you can get parts for nearly anything and the oldest tractors can be fixed with a welding torch and a supply of steel.

The cross-section of "willing to pay full price for a brand new farm implement" and "cares enough to get a slower/less featureful device for open-source" is very small. If the open tractor was better and cheaper than the Deere, it'd win even without being open, and if it is not then it has a hard row to hoe.

Construction equipment went down this path long ago, I've heard that Cat will basically give you machines for free as long as you sign up for the service/maintenance contract ...
I have a similar story. I had an itch about improving my communications and scratched it. My biggest issue was the App Store itself and I documented my start at https://medium.com/@mtc.dev/my-first-android-app-story-331c9....
I volunteer as a CERT (community emergency responder, green helmets) and this is how we're trained to relay information to the incident commander. It's been eye opening to see how much you can do with just a weekend of training. And how it fits into everyday life.
Please no. Someone tell me it's just an unconfirmed rumor. Why would they do such a thing?

I am at very high risk for Factorio addiction, and the only reason I haven't played it yet is because I don't play PC games anymore. But I do have a Switch, and having Civ VI on there was enough of a problem, thank you very much.

Goodbye everyone!
If they aren't better, why would a farmer care if they're for sale? They could just use the older varieties and not suffer any penalty.

No, the whining about patented plants is because they would be superior, and farmers who spurned them would be at a competitive disadvantage.

You can't have it both ways.

Oh, and why are terminator seeds (which Monsanto never sold) any worse than hybrid seeds, which don't breed true and effectively can't be replanted?
"The first—and most important—thing is to stop comparing yourself with others. Ensure that you are fulfilling the expectations of your manager and team for your development contributions."

I have yet to see a manager or organization that doesn't compare on some level, even if it's just implicit biases.
I heard about it. I saw it advertised at the time. The ads made it sound awesome. Glad I didn't beg and cajole my parents to get it for me in retrospect, though.
Aren't free apps a conflict of interest then?

I can imagine that a good platform for making "home-cooked apps" would be beneficial both to Apple and to buyers of their products.

I believe Shortcuts was a move in the right direction.
Thanks for the recommendations, here are the three first links that come up for the "statistical proof" of the gas equations: https://www.one-tab.com/page/UhuMmBwCTma12IwYdMb54Q

Bookmarked to use as my just-in-time curriculum for the afternoon coffee break...
I like her piece much more than the commentary from that twitter account. I’m not sure they understand what it was like that day. Most of us were helpless, regardless of proximity, and just got on with our pre-siting assignment if we weren’t able to or allowed to fixate on the TV or hold a vigil yet. It happens that she was able to document her helplessness—so what?
> The U.S. Election Assistance Commission says voting machines should be meticulously inventoried and kept under lock and key "in a tamper-proof location, preferably within the election office."

A tacit admission that election machines, after coming into contact with the wrong person, are no longer trustworthy. Meaning they were never trustworthy. But they keep being used for the massive advantages they provide over paper ballots and manual counting that make the trade-off worth it. Those advantages being...
I know next to nothing about Nix at Fly except there's a few folks who are looking at it at Fly. The repo at https://github.com/fly-apps/nix-base shows how its working for a Rails app. Is that enough to get you running with Nix flakes?

Beyond that https://community.fly.io is the best place to get help with Nix on Fly since my abilities are exceeded. There's a Rust thread at https://community.fly.io/t/running-reproducible-rust-a-fly-a... that touches on nix flakes.
> pull in OSS and hide it behind a SaaS implementation (thereby complying with licenses)

sorry, but you can do that shit anymore:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_License#Network_dep...
What's a "half stray"?
We had a U-Force in our household.

My memory of it is it was designed/compatible with exactly one game (Punch-Out!), and it never worked. Whether your arm motion in front of the panel actually caused Little Mac to punch felt entirely coincidental.
I'm interested, but confused. I feel like I need either a more complete example of the workflow (writing code -> reviewing -> rewriting my history -> merging) or a deeper dive into how this works.

Will the same commit ever appear in two pull requests managed by Revup?

Does this take every commit in a "topic", cherry-pick it to a Revup-managed branch under the hood, and create a pull request for that topic?

If so, how can you safely merge these branches if they differ significantly from the one that the developer is testing on? or do you just rely on continuous integration? or do you wait until all topics that share a history have passed review?

Do you run into problems where PR comments get deleted after amending the history and re-pushing?
I had one, but I couldn't get it to work reliably. That's the real reason no one heard about it.
I think you can be senior without experience. To me, senior means "can handle ambiguous/incorrect/incomplete problem definitions."
Users of a site run by a startup accelerator might be prone to lean towards a certain one of these answers.
I don’t know but I’d probably reach out to other co-ops to see how they solve the freeloader problem.

Co-ops exist in industries that require more management than SWE, no reason it couldn’t work for devs too.

Plus, if your first and primary concern is the hard problem of who does more than whom, maybe you just aren’t temperamentally suited for a coop.
At meaning at the time and location of, or at meaning towards/against?

The proclamation was on Saturday, so he wasn't at it in terms of time and location.

Protesting against the proclamation is fine, of course. I'd question the judgement of someone doing so at the time and location of an ongoing funeral of that person's mother.
UPI is not a money holding account by itself. It’s an identifier for your bank account. You can have multiple identifiers for the same bank account (like email aliases pointing to one mailbox).

UPI is primarily available on smartphones through an app. The setup process involves the UPI app (could be bank’s app or a third party app like Google Pay) sending an SMS with a specific code to NPCI (the private consortium operating the UPI service).

If you lose your device or uninstall the app or the UPI account is deactivated due to inactivity, you just fire up the app and get it to send the SMS again for authorization.
He was proven wrong. He assumed that the elderly and those with weak immune systems could be isolated from society by pretending that they all lived in nursing homes. Upon being told that almost all of them either work or live with people who do work, he simply ignored it. Many of those people would have died under his plan instead of surviving until vaccine availability, at which time, society could safely fully reopen, as the Dutch first demonstrated.
It's not indistinguishable, it's just overwhelmed by volume.

This is like giving someone the needle-in-a-haystack problem and asking "Why do you need the needle when it's indistinguishable from this easily-findable piece of hay?" The hay isn't useful to me, but now you've given me all this hay to sift through before I can find my needle.
Wikipedia is an amazing resource, but we should be careful to realize where the bulk of its funding comes from.

Wikipedia is mostly funded through the Wikimedia Endowment. From their footer: "The Endowment has been established, with an initial contribution by Wikimedia Foundation, as a Collective Action Fund at Tides Foundation (Tax ID# 51-0198509)" [0][1]

The Tides Foundation is a "Donor Advised Fund", which effectively acts as a dark money PAC that funnels money from other non-profits and individual donors to progressive causes.[2]

From the Wikipedia entry itself: "Tides Foundation is an American public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive causes and policy initiatives in areas such as the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights and human rights. It was founded in San Francisco in 1976. Through donor advised funds, Tides distributes money from anonymous donors to other organizations, which are often politically liberal."[3]

Also, the General Counsel of Wikimedia Foundation is Amanda Keton, who came over from Tides. "Prior to joining Wikimedia, Amanda was General Counsel of Tides Network, a national public foundation deploying donor-advised grants and investments to build a world of shared prosperity and social justice. While in that role, she worked with the Wikimedia Foundation to establish the Wikimedia Endowment, a permanent source of funding to support the Wikimedia projects and mission in perpetuity. She also served as Head of Tides Foundation and People Operations and the CEO of Tides Advocacy, the policy affiliate in the Tides family of organizations."[4]

One would hope all of this would not lead to a strong bias in the way Wikipedia is edited & managed, but it's important that everyone understands the quite strong bias behind the organization itself.

[0] - https://wikimediaendowment.org/
[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/wikipedia...
[2] - https://capitalresearch.org/article/tides-legal-laundering-a...
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation
[4] - https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/amanda-keton/
There is not only death, there is “severe illness”.
> Lisps seem to settle into amazingly stable language

Lisps are built around being a simple base supporting in-language extensibility (it's the killer feature that has kept it alive as a language family, and there is lots of experience with how to do it in Lisp which means new Lisps tend to get it right from the start), which means that there is relatively little reason to break it to add features, you just build on top.

Of course, the downside of that is that it is very common for projects to have lots of code in what amounts to a project-specific DSL that is both close enough to be confused with and different enough for that confusion to be dangerous compared to how any other project does many of the same things.
I'd give them 1 week. And measure again at starting of week 3, if they are still struggle, that's very likely they suck at learning.
Very happy to have not had to deal with a floppy that was done being able to be read in a very long time. I used to work at a campus computer lab and we would experience failures commonly while imaging machines. I do miss floppys but I am happy to see the extent that they are no longer critical.
> woke cult doesn’t allow any disagreement with any piece of the transgender narrative.

sigh please don't use terms of abuse such as "woke cult" on HN.

And yes, people are being incredibly defensive because there are a number of misinformation campaigns circulating trying to get trans healthcare banned for everyone. The war on drugs, for testosterone and estrogen.
IIRC Mark Cuban heard of it and said he wouldn't join the show unless they dropped that.
Angry Video Game Nerd covered it long, long ago in a video about weird NES accessories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kBMscW_dVg

NSFW I guess. He does like to swear.
I'm sure the Army would love to have the draft and would make it their life's work to get every American to be all they can be. Every American has to sleuth their way through the rat race or you will be taken for a sucker.
This is like asking, "should I cook for myself or go out to eat?" I don't mean to be that guy, but your initial opening "I know it will depend on the person" says it all. I don't really understand why one take a poll about this except, possibly for academic reasons.

Understand that, even if the poll results are heavily skewed towards one side, it says very little about reality. Both the audience and respondents are self-selecting. And the answers more reflective of what the respondents want to believe (or want others to believe) than what actually is.

Instead, perhaps you should think about why you feel the need to ask in the first place? Is it self-doubt? Perhaps a desire to fit in? Do you feel as if you don't control your own life? Are you seeking affirmation for a choice you already made? Are you seeking "evidence" to support an argument? Once you know yourself, you will be able to answer this question and many others much more easily.

IMO, a good understanding of one's self cannot happen without brutal honesty. Which requires stepping back and making hard observations without the interference of one's ego. This is quite difficult, but is certainly do-able. Best of luck.
Scaling Git’s garbage collection
I'm surprised. I was under the impression that Factorio was CPU-bound. The Switch isn't exactly a powerhouse. For comparison, Civilization VI on the Switch was underwhelming. Playable, but taking a turn late game often meant over a minute on the CPU taking their turns.
> If you care what people think about you or your status because you arrive on a bicycle that’s on you,

No, that's on evolution. We all have a desire to fit in, ascend, procreate.

I'll give you a chance to guess which is more likely to attract a mate.

A guy who says "We're going out to dinner tonight... I hope you brought your bicycle and deodorant" vs "We're going out to dinner tonight, I'll pick you up in my Tesla"
Also, there's "different" vs. "diferent" in the examples:

source:2:2: error: _Static_assert failed "types are diferent"

2 |static_assert(typeid(a) == typeid(double [10]), "types are diferent");
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Not an engineer, but I find this translates well over to design.

Seniority in a lot of ways feels like the acknowledgement of being able to utilize people/soft skills in order to build things. I find at least 1/3 to 1/2 of my time, a roadblock in the project is caused by accidental miscommunication from top down, and the faster you can debug those, the happier everyone will be.

Personally I rather enjoy that hybrid of people and "hard" design, but it's definitely not for everyone.
I think Russia actually does care - Putin recently said that closing the natural gas supply was in retaliation to EU's economic sanctions.

Are you suggesting the West should deliberately keep countries poorer, in the fear of them becoming (more) authoritarian? I think that would be wrong (and also counterproductive) thing to do.
One of the reasons is, everything must be extremely safe. Once some guy tried to take a bomb in a shoe on an airplane. Thanks to him airports security theater added new requirement, take shoes off before boarding.
I'm not waiting 50-100 yrs to change the cultural zeitgeist before I start dating. Thanks.
There were plenty of Macintosh viruses that spread this way, such as the WDEF/MDEF/CDEF families.

> Infects the Desktop file used by the Finder. … Spread through sharing disks, as every Mac disk includes a Desktop file. It is not necessary to run a program to spread this virus; simply mounting the disk is enough for it to infect the Desktop file of every disk mounted on the Mac.

https://lowendmac.com/2015/classic-mac-os-viruses/
“If I Am a Techie, How Can I Help Solve Climate Change?”
If the author is here: The illustration in "How does Horizontal Pod Autoscaler work?" section has incorrect before/after CPU utilization % based on the text/logic.
A Whole Website in a Single JavaScript File, Cont'd
The Undocumented RaspberryPi
I see, even if clear unambiguous lines by themselves are a good thing, there might be plenty of reasons to stay away from a COBOL system in particular.
Not all success has deterministic causes.
I can figure out its internal AST once I stare at the lang's codes. \s
It's just to see what people's opinions are. Every opinion poll has the same limitations - doesn't mean it's futile, IMO.
haha fair, maybe I could do even down to 5C ... But I was being conservative in my estimates of what I think >50% of commuters would tolerate.
What coincidence, I just found some old floppy disks of mine, and bought a vintage HP drive as per this guide to connect to my modern machines. Hopefully it works:

https://www.howtogeek.com/669331/how-to-read-a-floppy-disk-o...
> At 0C with decent gloves, you're fine.

I agree. Most Americans don't. You telling them it's not a big deal isn't convincing them. They want to be warm, not fine.
Somewhat related but I got a steam deck and decided against getting this game because from some discussions I read it’s too hard to play without a mouse and keyboard. Anybody has tried though?
All good except that Grafana Cloud is super expensive when you consider it per metric. This probably is the most expensive service per bit of data!
Yes, good point, OPTIONS would probably cover this use case. Anybody know of a framework (such as rails, phoenix, laravel, etc) that offers that? would be super interesting
Really? Care to explain more? To me he is basically a critic of commodity fetishism while acknowledging the reality of it.
The costs of insurance should be built into your service pricing, just as a traditional employer builds their own employee costs into their pricing.
Will absolutely look into the Staff Engineer book; personally prefer dead tree books to anything digital if there's the option. Thank you sincerely for giving me the heads up!
I would say not likely. As industries mature, incumbents acquire enough of an advantage that they don't get outcompeted, you just want until the market for their product disappears.

It's like asking if Coca-Cola, Nabisco, or Unilever are going to get "taken down a notch". No, not really. Also "take down a notch" is some pretty judgmental phrasing, as if it implies they're bigger than they deserve to be, as if they're doing something wrong.

Google owns search, Amazon owns retailing, Microsoft owns enterprise, and Apple owns hardware. Every market has a runner-up as well in terms of profitability (arguably Bing, Wal-Mart, Google Cloud, Dell respectively), but that's in the same way Pepsi is the eternal runner-up to Coca-Cola.

These markets are pretty mature now, in ways that they weren't in the days of Yahoo and AOL. In contrast, IBM was dominant for decades and only declined as eventually consumer PC's disrupted mainframes. So really you'd have to ask, what could ever fundamentally disrupt/replace search, online shopping, office software suites, or phones/laptops? It's pretty hard to imagine until something like generalized artificial intelligence comes along.
RIP in peace lake_vincent

How many people must we lose before the government does something??
> "Midnight Cowboy" (1970 Oscars for Best Picture + Director + Screenplay)

That was the first time people in Hollywood truly saw themselves represented on screen.
Between GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion, I imagine we're not that far off from dynamically generated choose your own adventure stories, complete with stunning images.

And from there not that far a leap to A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from Diamond Age.