skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been only 3 years and basically everyone I know has had COVID, some more than once. I don't think it's significantly less than 1.
> Off topic, but my new found love for Python comes from realizing that many programming tasks can be done so much faster in Python.

There's a "freedom of expression" that python has that other languages such as Java/Go lacks. C++ can have similar expressive power by overloading operators, then this was of course eschewed by Java and Go. Go and Java provide a framework for writing code their way. Python doesn't insist you use OOP methodologies, if you don't want (e.g.)

I built a data conversion system in python using the ">>" operator to simplify translation of data.

temp_f = json_data["temp_c"] >> if_none(use=0) >> to_decimal() >> round(places=4) >> convert_to_f()

For large data structures this becomes tedious with if/elif/else statements and null checking for a small piece of data. Particularly if you're going to translate one large data structure to another.
> Second-wave feminism on trans issues was largely incorrect and harmful, but that is mostly a contingent fact rather than a necessary one.

Not sure I understand what that means.

Just to clarify: I don't have the research in front of me, but I'd be willing to bet that by 1977 there were at least two or three decades of research on trans issues relevant to Steinem's words about trans people. E.g., more than enough to persuade any good faith writer on the topic (or even a writer who knew and talked to a friend in that field of research) that the "shoe doesn't fit" quote is at best wildly misleading.

In other words, I'm claiming Steinem was wrong by 2022 standards, wrong by 1977 standards, and non-apologetic by any standard.

> Of course, anyone spreading the same propaganda now will not be part of the global struggle against fascism, as Judith Butler put it.

I agree.

For some reason, Steinem's words on this topic irk me, it's my day off, and I want to keep writing this post. :)

I get that Steinem was writing a political essay. And I can even imagine a line of thinking that says, hey, good for trans people, but that's a medical intervention for a specific condition (that turns out to apply to both sexes, btw), and I think it's a distraction from the specific feminist battle against oppression I'm trying to describe.

Then all she would have had to do in 2014 is say, "Sorry trans people, your battle should have been part of my battle all along. Accept my apology, and let's work together!"

But nooooo, she had to concoct her own artisanal justification to exclude trans people, using only wit and first principles, and add a little zinger for book sales. Then, when called out, shift the conversation away from her previous lack of knowledge, and claim a lack of understanding on the part of her opposition.

She's like the original HN troll account.
I really do believe myocarditis is an issue with the mRNA vaccines, but how can you claim both "Many died" and "First we need an accurate death count"? How do you know many died if there is not an accurate count?
have done (doing?) both, music theory is several times harder at least
Texas AG Paxton Wants to Build a Registry of Trans People, but He Won't Say Why
Sen. Wyden Requests Probe into Sale of DNS Query Data [pdf]
They aren't independent, the city will tend to build up along the transit lines due to the easy access to transit. E.g., the NYC outer boroughs and the DC metro area.
I know my desktop is a mess but I usually have one window with many terminals open.

So if I want to start a program without going through the menu
Alt Tab to the terminal window, then I start it from the commandline (gimp, code, blender, godot, etc.)
Ask HN: I'm desperate. How can I overcome anxiety in interview situations?
Apologies for the ramble, I feel like context is useful here.

I've had a decade long career, with the latter half at some decently big name tech companies. I code, I ship, the features I've worked on and led development on are now in the hands of millions of users. Unfortunately I was recently laid off, not due to performance issues. My whole team was deleted, and I understand the motivations for it, it is what it is.

Over the years, I've had an uncomfortably high interview failure rate despite my successes. I've only had success because my resume looks great; when I ship I do it well.

But I succeeded in getting my last job because I passed one out of 7 interviews. The more I talk to my peers as I've moved up in the tech world I've learned they do not have similarly high failure rates. They often have competing offers.

I am comfortable when secure in my job. Comfortable timing myself in Leetcode. My brain connects the dots. I take steps and decide which steps to take from there. Easy, because I can build the model/graph in my head, I am maintaining useful state.

But when I have to be face-to-face with someone who is judging me, who is determining my salary, etc, and I fall apart. I can barely contain my physical discomfort. Super obvious basic problems become complete mysteries, as my brain empties out all useful state, and I'm therefore unable to make connections without repeating the problem or concern multiple times. And because of this I'm very very slow. So slow that it is common feedback from interviewers, something that indicates to them I'm not senior enough.

The only common detail about all my successful interviews that was that the interviewer was super kind and I was able to maintain some confidence in my actions.

I also end up making the most absurd mistakes. Typing-variable-declarations-wrong level problems, and I'm utterly confused when they happen. It's as if I'm in fight-or-flight mode and I'm just making decisions, to make any progress at all, to get to the end of the stressful interview, but I make those decisions before I'm conscious of them, so it's a self-defeating loop.

I've watched my laid off teammates get positions at Google/Meta/etc, and I know I can't pass those interviews (I bombed the Meta coding sessions a few years ago). My anxiety is worse than ever now, as I am solidly without a job. I feel confident I can go work for a bank and be anonymous, there's plenty of jobs out there. But I want to be at the Big Names, and part of that is passing these types of interviews.

How have others resolved the particular problem of performance anxiety, being graded, etc? What steps have you taken, where have you succeeded, etc.
> we should always be questioning what we put in our bodies

If we did a better job of that, health problems associated with obesity, smoking, drinking, etc... would be reduced and that would have a pretty big impact on cardiovascular health too.
I was about*
>the authors offer no real ideas about how the damage could have happened

They do, though. In fact that's the entirely novel value that this study brings. It's in the title: "histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination." That's a lot of words that means "we can now tell you exactly what microscopic tissue looks like following lethal jab-associated myocarditis.”

And the scientists discuss how it happens. For your benefit, I'll describe it here.

These mRNA-vaccinated patients suffered from heart damage because their hearts were attacked by their own immune cells. The mRNA is injected into your muscle cells, turning the cell into a factory producing COVID-19 spike proteins. As a result of the mRNA immunization, your body generates an immune response against COVID-19 spike proteins. Since your own muscle cells were used to make the COVID-19 spike proteins and may have them on the cell surface, your newly-weaponized immune cells targeting the spike protein may start attacking your own healthy muscle cells. This autoimmune attack on their own heart cells then leads to their damaged hearts beating so many times per second that, once the tachycardia unexpectedly started, they died in minutes.

This new German study shows photographic evidence that this happens and has killed people
I think it's a matter of effort. Many performance bottlenecks only really show up when you scale up to massive levels. While it's possible to replicate that on a test environment, it takes time and effort to set that up. While doing that is worth it for some applications, I can see why the Lichess developers didn't want to bother.
Everybody talks about this part with rose colored glasses and nostalgia, conveniently forgetting trying to put a group together for a dungeon and spending upwards of an hour before you even start, not even knowing if your team members are good enough.

I certainly don't have the time to spend on that sort of thing, so if it weren't for things like dungeon finder I wouldn't even play the game anymore. Same with other games, if there wasn't any matchmaking I probably just wouldn't play.
This is true, and a very good analogy, but I'm not sure it holds up when every form of productivity has shifted from fun+challenging+useful to just fun+challenging.

Maybe this is a mindset we'll get over. The degree to which many of us evaluate ourselves based on our own usefulness seems like it's a bit too much but it's a normal human desire to be useful.

I certainly believe we should work towards a post-scarcity world where no one depends on my coding skills any more than they do my rock climbing skills, but it would be a psychological adjustment if every way I can be useful were now just a fun hobby.
Art is now low value. It has no value addition. Technology in the palm of our hands and higher quality of life is also the reason.

Let’s not forget the very impressive population explosion in the past century. Every ‘job’ is a skill that has been out streamed so the needs of the population are satisfied by skills of the population so resources are distributed evenly.

Art is no longer a need and there are way too many artists simply proportional to the population.

Further, a lot of ‘art’ taught is technique. It’s not creativity. Can creativity be taught? I don’t think so.

Culture played a part in preserving artists and honoring their skills. But as ‘culture’ becomes global, mainstream is adopted more as it’s more accessible. And mainstream is subject to the vagaries of market as well as vulnerable to market manipulation.

Contrary to population notions, our world is very homogenous. Somehow the promotion of diversity has ended up with the tyranny of conformity. How did this happen? This is the biggest puzzle of this past few decades.
Mybad, I conflated non-profits and charities. All political thinkstanks seem to be non-profits.

Evidently I dont understand the mechanism, but apparently charities can be used for political purposes:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/two-anonymous-425-m...
For a long time this theory always made the most sense to me, and frankly I assume I must just be missing something since it’s so obviously criminal if there was a chance this was true that it wasn’t blasted from the rooftops from the CDC (for the public to help correct it when they got their vaccine.)
Why do people keep thinking young people have no risk of ending up in the hospital for Covid? So many people have, and so many have died?
>The reason RSS failed is because Google killed Reader so they could push content creators to Google+.

To make money from Ads. So parent is right, RSS was killed because of the Internet Ads.
That is a positive outcome. If this would be technically possible, we would collectively have to work insanely hard to steer the ship, because this is totally not where we are heading right now.

Today, low-skilled people have sometimes to work 3 jobs to pay their rent.

While we are dreaming about playing tennis, the US experienced an attempt to overthrow democracy not so long ago. For some people [1], "enough" does not exist. (We cannot put these things in context, because what those people are aiming for transcends our imagination. That is why there is almost no response.)

To be blunt: they won't share with you because you like playing tennis so much.

[1] I am talking about the money behind all of this
Tool that allows you to explore relational databases in a completely new way
The Fall of the App Store Wall
It's also important to note that although they looked at 35 autopsies for people who died in the period after vaccination, only 4 of them had signs of myocarditis. 10 of them had very clearly unrelated causes of death (e.g. pre-existing conditions, easily identifiable external causes). I don't think people realize just how frequent death, including unexplained death, can be when you're looking at population-level sample sizes:

> In four patients who received a mRNA vaccination, we identified acute (epi-)myocarditis without detection of another significant disease or health constellation that may have caused an unexpected death.

They found some interesting clues that suggest it might be related to accidental intravascular injection:

> Interestingly, we recorded inflammatory foci predominantly in the right heart, which may suggest a gradual blood-stream derived dilution effect and based on this finding it is at least tempting to speculate that inadvertent intravascular vaccine injection may be contributive.
Had never heard of it until it was mentioned here. Do you have any personal or even third-hand experiences with it?
Haters will say it’s GPT-3ed.
I don't believe it passed legally but anyone can send an email saying "my amendment passes", which is what happened. He's betting that we won't challenge.
It begins as a very interesting book (especially the forest management example) but boy is it slow. The author tends to repeat his point ad nauseam.
The choices are acceptable, not reasonable. At least by the strict definition of reasonable -- we seem to be changing that definition similar to the world
"literally."

> The value of individual freedom of choice is inherent unless there's an overwhelming and compelling reason to violate it.

This is a slippery slope easily. People should be given the choice.

And as people we have also the choice to judge people on their choice's results.

Especially if it causes other people to die. Right now we have failed as humanity at least 6,637,512 people and counting.
Twitter: explaining through power of free speech why climate change is a fraud.
For those short on time: "It doesn't go as planned" is explained in the middle of the article:

> When everything compiled, I shipped it. And to everyone's surprise, apart from a few bugs I had created while rewriting thousands of lines of code... it worked. It just did. No explosions, no obscure bugs, no memory leak, no performance degradation. That was rather unexpected.

...followed by

> Then we saw the JVM CPU usage rise to alarming heights, with unusual patterns. And no obvious culprit in the thread dumps...

> it was just the JVM that needed some tuning.

Details: https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess-on-scala3-help-n...
> In general, a causal link between myocarditis and anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is supported by several considerations: (A) a close temporal relation to vaccination; all cases were found dead within one week after vaccination...

> Standardized autopsies were performed on 25 persons who had died unexpectedly and within 20 days after anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

This is a weird way of demonstrating a link. They picked them specifically for that, it can't be evidence of something. If they selected 25 people who died of myocarditis regardless of vaccination status or recency, and all 25 turned out to have been recently vaccinated, that would be scary data.
Video Footage of Attack on Paul Pelosi Shown at San Francisco Hearing
Huh? There are only ugly maps in that article
Turning Your Watch Later Playlist into an Excel File
Using the power of Notepad++ macros
SHA-256 is not truncated. "SHA-512/256" is truncated. It means you do SHA-512 (with a different starting state) and then throw out half.
That may be true for immovable train lines, but vehicle transit such as buses have routes which are subject to change, and therefore developers cannot depend on the transit lines being there in 10-20 years.

Bus lines instead tend to follow where the traffic wants to go. Around here, many shopping malls double as bus stations because the primary aim of transit seems to be circulating consumers around places they will spend money.
https://archive.vn/R0e2F
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Depends on who and when. The idea of vaccinating my young kids in late 2022 is an absurd proposition to me personally - and if the state mandated it, we would leave. This will change once we understand what is happening with these fatalities and correct it.
Everything you need and highlight here can be done on a basic Shopify plan and via the liquid templating engine. It would run super fast, edge deployed globally.

The problem is that no one wants this, so we don't even have templates like this anymore. We used to ~10-15y ago and those would still work perfectly.
In addition, ask any young person involved in sports how catching COVID has affected their training and performance. For mostly sedentary people it might feel like catching a bad cold and then recovering. If you're actually consistently pushing your lungs to their max there's definitely long-lasting (maybe not long-term) damage there.
Are the stilts connected to thermosiphons? That is a cool technology and application I learned about when reading about building larger structures in the far north.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072021/thawing-permafro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosiphon
https://dot.alaska.gov/stwddes/research/assets/pdf/erdc-crre...
According to my governments stats, the COVID-19 hospitalization rate for my age + health cohort, when modestly adjusted for their known undercount of cases, is less than 1 in 3000.

Also by their stats, more than 1 in 2000 4-dose mRNA vaccine series have resulted in a serious adverse event reported by a health professional.

Then, factoring in the additional risk of acquiescing bodily autonomy to an opaque bureaucracy — considering what herding behaviors have been blatantly manufactured over the last few years, and the conflicting interests involved.

I think declining is a very reasonable choice.
Static typing in .NET saves developer time on a massive scale. Sure, the compile times and startup times may be longer (and tests may take longer to run for that reason), but the languages also allow for editor/IDE tooling that boosts developer productivity massively. Visual Studio with Resharper or Rider may seem expensive, but if you work with these tools full time, they pay for their cost multiple times over in almost no time.
Mathematical Biology/Bioinformatics. We have to think very carefully about every step in the process of extracting information from large, diverse datasets--often writing things from scratch, combining/transforming things in novel ways, and implementing new mathematical ideas efficiently enough to be computable on large datasets.
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There's a few things out there, several game focused backend as a service. Most of them are focused on mobile games because that's where the easy money is.

Funny enough, there's a Google for Games github org that has some good open source projects for things like matchmaking, cloud saves, etc https://github.com/googleforgames
Dworkin had to prostitute herself in order to survive in the 1970s. I think you're barking up the wrong tree. If anyone was sympathetic to the struggle, it was Dworkin. She just acknowledged that it was also harmful and contributing to oppression.
My mistake; I misread something somewhere, and thought that the population was 30-and-younger men.
In life, the existential personal questions are, roughly, "what matters (to me)?" and "what should I do about it?".

Our society currently affords ample opportunity to "productively" avoid those questions. You can pour everything into work, watch TV, numb your brain with drugs, or whatever.

Automation does not remove the existential questions, it just removes some of the noise that allows us to ignore them, and elevates them to the forefront.

Some people already have answers to those questions, and stand to gain from that toil being removed. Others have been avoiding the question their entire life, and removing the toil that excuses their avoidance is removing a cornerstone of their identity.

To that extent, I agree that automation is a disintegrative force, because so many people have yet to integrate a personality and identity around answering these foundational questions.

Still, it's long-term-better for our society if automation allows people to access higher forms of self-actualization. In the medium-term, a depressing number of people are content with passing time in their current rung on that ladder, and will be upset with the change.
statistically, it is extremely unlikely[0] for an otherwise healthy young person to end up in the hospital for covid, much like myocarditis -- i am simply interested in which is more likely for specific population subsets

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/figures/mm6915e3-F1.g... -- from https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm
Yep, this has been his line. To him, he's been running "what should have been a nonprofit anyway"..."basically on his own for several years"..."what right does anyone else have to my company?"

Except it's not a nonprofit, and he is paid to do a job. :D
I really don't see how he has a valid case against them as ADS-B data have been public for a long time. An expensive case with very slim chances of winning. Elon is literally scope creep personified. Several of his companies are at crucial stages of management yet this is what he chooses to spend time and energy on (or perhaps that's intentional?),.
> it’s not unreasonable to think we killed tens of thousands of people with them.

It's not unreasonable to think otherwise as well given that it was a rare occurrence and typically mild. Also, there were no young men in this study. "Median age at death was 58 years (range 46–75 years)", so you're drawing your own conclusions without data here.
OMG that is amazing!

Did they mention that in the documentary? If so, I can't believe I missed it.
But the ML itself doesn't have intention. The author of the ML does, and that i would think is no different than an artist that purposefully makes copied/derived work.

TBH given how derivative humans tend to be, with such a deeper "Human Learning" model and years and years of experiences.. i'm kinda shocked ML is even capable of even appearing non-derivative. Throw a child in a room, starve it of any interaction and somehow (lol) only feed it select images and then ask it to draw something.. i'd expect it to perform similarly. A contrived example, but i'm illustrating the depth of our experiences when compared to ML.

I half expect that the "next generation" of ML is fed by a larger dataset by many orders of magnitude more similarly matching our own. A video feed of years worth of data, simulating the complex inputs that Human Learning gets to benefit from. If/when that day comes i can't imagine we will seem that much more unique than ML.

I should be clear though; i am in no way defending how companies are using these products. I just don't agree that we're so unique in how we think, how we create, and if we're truly unique in any way shape or fashion. (Code, Input) => Output is all i think we are, i guess.