skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. The article is by John Ioannadis who has a history of publishing studies/analysis arguing for a lower COVID-19 IFR than other scientists.

Starting off with an ad hominem almost made me completely dismiss the rest of your post, assuming you started with your best point. If Hitler himself recommended that we should eat more vegetables, I wouldn't assume he's lying just because, well, you know.

> 2. Most arguments for “mandates” aren’t made in reference to numbers anyway, or reference long COVID, MIS-C, etc rather than fatality rate.

The only argument for mandates was that we should "do it for grandma" or some other completely senseless claim considering I don't know anybody who was vaccinated that still didn't get and spread Covid (multiple times in most cases).

> 3. This article is for pre-vaccine IFR (i.e. 2020 COVID, the extinct Wuhan strain) and most current arguments reference newer variants which are alleged to be more dangerous. Delta actually was significantly more dangerous although omicron variants are probably back to the original 2020 IFR in the unvaccinated.

I would probably take your word on this if not for the previous 2 points. I haven't seen any data indicating newer variants in circulation are more dangerous. I wouldn't mind seeing the data though if you have it handy.
Thank you--super helpful.
The Kobo is one of my favourite ereaders. I have half a dozen of them now and pick them up from FB Marketplace for $10-20 whenever I see them.

You can flash new firmwares by simply dropping a zip file on the SD card, and most models have support for a full Linux GUI (X11) environment. Even if you don’t want to go that far, there are simpler hacks to install some third party apps, and they all have native web browsers if you just want to serve a simple HTML page.

They make fantastic little dashboards for monitoring your home, weather, or other data. It’s really a no brainer considering the cost of a standalone eink screen.
I think the best middle ground is a privacy-focused android ROM like CalyxOS or GrapheneOS with a pixel.

You get usability with privacy.
The author doesn't even have Ventura installed, he's just commenting on another blog. He hasn't used a new version since High Sierra:

"I probably mentioned this a few times on social media, but the simple answer is that, apart from my 2017 iMac, none of my current main machines is supported by Ventura. And that iMac is my High Sierra machine, which I’m not going to update to run experiments or to study Ventura’s UI. What I’ve seen on other people’s Macs or borrowed Macs has been enough to make me say, No thanks."

Thats fine but, what is the point? It's basically speculation. He doesn't know first hand if theres any issues he'd personally experience in the FIVE releases since then. He's basically just reading other blogs and saying 'yes it is bad'

It's like someone who hasn't used Windows since 8 saying it still sucks.
Recent and related:

Ventura Issues - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34155875 - Dec 2022 (128 comments)
So just normal police work.
Wind-pellet shear sailing to reach 5-20% light-speed for interstellar travel
Plasma magnets can be used to accelerate a spacecraft up to 2% speed of light by dynamic soaring.
This next idea is to combine dynamic soaring with nuclear fusion pellets to reach up to 20% light speed. I believe it's the only engine (except for antimatter) that could feasibly be used for human interstellar travel.
> every way of doing concurrency other than kernel threads has come and gone out of fashion (think Scala actors and Goroutines, two very admirable features).

I'd say the fact that these examples are around show that NxM, green-over-kernel threading works and works well. It made it through the crucible of fashion and is now a "good" way. Much like GC did. So I'd say your claim that kernel threads are it is misplaced... unless you just consider NxM threads to be kernel threads w/ some sugar?
OP is actually using it, see: https://blog.jez.io/atom.xml
Thank you--yes, that makes sense.
No, not necessarily. They may be so bland as to please nobody. (This was the case for an old rural progressive party in my country for many years). Or, they may be neutral by default on most left-right issues because they really care about something mostly orthogonal to it. This has been the case for the Christian Democrats and to a lesser degree the Farmer's party in my country.

The paradox is that they get a good deal of power being pivotal, but only on issues they don't really care so much about.
Looks like you didn't have to wait at Karavanke tunnel between Slovenia and Austria yet. Selective checks by Austrian police are practically hourly and they cause traffic jams up to Jesenice (10-15km) on regular basic during vacation season.
crypto without the investment angle sounds great

I’d love to have electronically anonymous cash on my person that I could spend at will at any establishment, and transport across state boundaries

Unfortunately you need verifiable artificial scarcity which creates a bubble

And to protect said electronic cash which has a barrier to entry
We waited for 8mos last year for my wife’s sprinter to show up. I realize that was 2021/parts shortage/etc. but it wasn’t converted, just a 170” 4x4 cargo 2500.

But yeah, this article is just shit. Yes, Yosemite can be crowded, but good lord, get out of the valley.

I couldn’t finish after that.

I’m probably going to pick up a startlink rv setup, so that next year we can toss the kayaks, the kids that are still home, and a couple of dogs in the sprinter and go spend a week in the mountains.

And I’ll be able to do
It without burning vacation. Just have to make sure I’m not on call as the phone ain’t gonna work there
Related: 2% of people respond to oxytocin differently and are just "bastards" no matter what.

https://www.hugthemonkey.com/2007/03/paul_zak_oxytoc.html
Can confirm; couldn’t have said it better myself!
I guess you're trying to make a point. If my point was not clear enough: if the US was an empire, all these territories would continue to be under US occupation. Also Japan. West Germany too.

Now, here's the funny thing. Lots of people who hold the view that the US imperialistic, find various excuses for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Some even go as far as claiming that the US aid to Ukraine is nothing but some further proof of the US imperialism.

I'd be very curious to hear where you are on that.
>It’s one thing when magazines like Scientific American go all catawampus on science, but another entirely when a good scientific journal itself succumbs to wokeness.
>The article below, from July’s American Naturalist [...] shows two things. First, it’s one of the more ludicrous examples of science policing I’ve seen. Second, it shows how the American Society of Naturalists [...] has gone down the same woke road as the other ecology and evolution societies.

As someone once said, "everything woke goes to shit". There are few ideologies as pervarsive and corrodive as Wokeness. At the end of the day, it's ultimately about power and ruling over people's thought process.

>The piece’s hectoring tone, which tells us what we MUST do, pervades the entire paper, especially the final section, “A path forward.” Oh, and here’s part of the acknowledgments—the obligatory self castigation

That's par for the course:

1. Point out a non-existent problem (or amplify it to gigantic proportions if it does).

2. Pontificate how it affects some marginalized group(s) and how the problem's day-to-day existence mortally affect the livelihood of said group(s). It's important you're talking on behalf of the group(s) and that you don't provide any evidence.

3. Try to introduce some methodology and/or framework to solve the problem. It's important this new framework be the only "path forward", and morally justified to bully others to accept it even if it has no merits.

>(I have yet to understand what unlived experience is! And what do white settlers have to do with ableism?)

Neither do I!

>The paper, as you’ll see, is really an indictment of biology and undergraduate genetics for not using sufficiently woke language.

It seems that ship unfortunately sailed a long time ago. Nowadays it's about denying reality, and being forced to participate in some individuals' theatrics and self-image or else you'll be labeled a -phobic or -ist.

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On a different note, give Coyne's books (Faith vs Fact and Why Evolution Is True) a read. Highly recommended.
What if there was an organization that served the same purpose as Tether, but was overseen by a well-regarded US regulator that also regulates depository banks? Would that make any difference to the analysis here?
Time Machine backups to a NAS with (2) 4TB WD Reds. One disk is exposed as a local Samba share while the other disk is set up as a duplicate using a nightly rsync cron job.
For someone mainly into turn based RPGs, here's an unordered list:

Pathfinder: Kingmaker & Wrath of the Righteous (my favorite games of all time)

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader (same devs as the preceding games, currently in Alpha but looking great)

Vagrus: Text heavy (extremely) grimdark trading sim / RPG

Age of Decadence: The apocalypse was 1000s of years on our future, but far in the past of the game, I call this post-post-apocalyptic and love the genre. Pretty hard as you are not a hero, for once.

Fallout: New Vegas. The last fallout that felt like it was more on the RPG side than shooter, with the great VATS system that optionally makes an action game feel almost turn based.

Solasta: Crown of the Magister. Light in story, but an extremely faithful D&D5 adaption and includes a dungeon builder and there are already cool custom campaigns.

Deus Ex, from the original with all the options (make sure to get the mods) to the newer games that are more stealth shooters.

The Shadowrun trilogy. All of them are great, but for the first I'd play the vox Populi mod that recreated the original campaign in the later games.
The most interesting data is usually about people. This data usually shouldn’t be shared for obvious privacy reasons.

And anonymising data sources is a notoriously fraught task.
I read about 'Population Y' in David Reichs book "Who We Are and How We Got Here" (which is a good read but was a bit too in depth for me).

One interesting thing in the book was how humans kept repeating this cycle: societies migrate outward and form new societies. Then one of the societies would eradicate/consume a bunch of nearby ones, form a gigantic society, and the process would begin anew. On a human timescale it is horrific and brutal but over a 50,000 year period it is interesting how we spread out but always eventually reunite with the group we split from, unfortunately in a brutal way :(.
Is the moral of CPU branch prediction that generating dynamically branch-free code is preferable to generating statically branch-free?
What's weird about daily life?

100 - ɛ percent of the population have to lock their cars and homes so that the ɛ percent of people won't steal or vandalize their property. The ɛ may be small, but while ɛ > 0, they can deal disproportionate damage unless everyone implements restrictions.
Appreciated!

I think a narrow space exists in which one can raise one's voice but do it in a way that connects with the people one is talking to, rather than alienating them. It's not easy to find that narrow space, but that's what HN is trying to be about.
Mainly familiarity I'd say. Realise that as early as ENIAC we've used accumulator-based ALU architecture, whereas the first Forth chips started coming out in the eighties. It's hard to overcome such momentum, even if the alternatives have some advantages.

Vaguely related: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.htm...
It's not just single-use, an affine type is also single-use: colloquially, a single-use item is not a must-use item.
> How does that work?

Disclaimer: I'm not a Clickhouse user, but I have a bit of experience with Parquet.

It looks like the native format is (very briefly) described here: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/formats/#native

It looks similar at a high level to Parquet: binary, columnar and has metadata that permits requesting a subset of the data.

Looking at:

> Processed 4.60 thousand rows, 273.86 MB

I'd guess it's chunking the rows into groups of ~4,000.

The OP must have a nice connection if that completed in 0.5 seconds! (Or perhaps the 273.86MB is the uncompressed size after zstd compression, or perhaps there were other parts of the session that caused that chunk to get cached, and it was elided from what was pasted in to HN.)

EDIT: I was curious, so I ran the tool and watched bandwidth on iftop. It uses about ~50MB each time I run the query. From this, I conclude: it does not cache things, the 273.86MB is the uncompressed size, and OP has a much better internet connection than me. :)
Governments have very strong eminent domain powers. There’s a political cost but operationally it shouldn’t take long to acquire the land. Just expensive. But the cost will remain the same and acquiring it early is smarter.

But yes. Generally I listed those as secondary criticisms and they may not be shared by everyone.

The core problem though, and I hope we agree strongly here, is that they’ve spent a shit ton of money on the easiest parts of the project vs getting things operationally as fast as possible and also focusing on completing the most difficult parts first.
> Ownership to me is if I spend $300 on a lawn mower, it's mine forever with no future costs associated to it beyond repairs. I can do whatever I want with it, including modifying how it works or smashing it into a thousand pieces. Both of which are true if you buy a lawn mower today.

This in old, tired theoretical argument. Your lawnmower won't have much impact on your neighbor, but there are things you can't do with it: (e.g., modify it to emit poisonous gas, make painfully loud noises, or fling objects at high speed through your neighbor's window).

The answer is simply, you are subject to the law. If that makes you not free and oppressed, then you are not free and oppressed.
Nice try, IRS.
Many times you need the data/visuals to get funding to actually implement ideas.
None of the examples given in the article make me think it would consider screaming at a representative of a company that’s wrongfully cost you thousands of dollars after you’ve spent months trying to rectify it as part of the “5%”. That’s totally reasonable, even if it want directly the representative’s fault. Screaming at a service worker because of a hair in your food isn’t—that’s psychotic.
I also have similar site, with ~300 MMR. It seems like every second programmer is working on his own dividend tracker :D
Not really. I have a few thumbnail provider extensions installed but they shouldn't cause these issues.

I am pretty sure these things are 'normal' - they are reported around the internet. Just look at the article - bugs in Finder are hardly unprecedented.
I think this is true, but the way I would put it is:

While you have influence over 95% of what happens to you, you can only really survive the other 5%. Take solace in the fact that, sometimes, when it seems like there's nothing you can do - you are right! That said, often the path to self-improvement is in situations we've misunderstood as "we can't effect" and are actually caused by us.
I predict that within 7 years, the West's semiconductor manufacturing industries will have gone the same way as the West's steel manufacturing industries, textile manufacturing industries, building supplies manufacturing industries, electronics manufacturing industries, home appliance industries, etc, etc.

All out-competed and out-produced by the Chinese.

And to think the West's semiconductor manufacturers were the geese that laid the golden eggs when the Chinese were perfectly happy to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of pre-built US semiconductors every year. Except that the US politicians banned those sales, and forced the Chinese to start making their own and consequently they will soon be out-competing their previous suppliers. Dumb US short-term thinking.
My point was that some "bad guys" aren't using encrypted communication at any cost; they're using encrypted communication that's easy enough to use. If you made encryption a bit harder to use (say, by taking away Signal), some percentage of existing "bad guys" would no longer use it. (To be clear, I don't think this is a reasonable argument for banning Signal; I just wanted to make the point that laws do affect the prevalence of encrypted communication even among criminals.)
sure, in some peoples fascist phantasy world
This looks like a valiant attempt to build something that improves on everything that came before it, but I did find the documentation lacking in clarity enough to give up on it fairly early.

I'm experimenting with this package right now instead:

https://github.com/clemera/objed

and will wire up the keyboard shortcuts using RYO package to roll my own modal state.
'In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few'

It took me years to break out of rigid thought processes and patterns and get out of my comfort zone. If I feel like I'm leaning into rigid thinking, I deliberately break out of that.

That could be anything from learning a new programming language, or trying out a new Linux distro (I have learned a lot just by trying out different distros).

In terms of TODOs, I batch tasks into 'marathons' and 'sprints'. If something is going to need small iterative steps spanning a whole year, then I organize my TODO to suit that. If something needs speed and sprinting, again, I organize my life around that. Too many are doing sprints for what should be a marathon, and doing marathons for what should be sprints.
Oh, I’d also point out: we’re not living in this thing. It was purchased for my wife (dog breeder) as her “dog show van” so she can go places with the mutts and not need hotels.

We had an RV (38’ class A) that was totaled by an ice storm. The van is a MUCHA BETTER vehicle for this, as it has more storage for the stuff we need, and is useful for her normal uses, where the RV sat there except for a few times per year when we’d drive it. Otherwise it just wasted money
Speaking in colloquial English, basically 5% of time, you have to say : Enough is enough, I have had it with these MF snakes on this MF plane :)
Preventing mass shootings and stabilizing the North American psyche
There is zero risk to CI as long as you have a proper branching process.
To me it means I as a bad artist am just filling in colors likely with really bad color mixes on an image. It has a connotation of really low end art.
Take the ACX/SSC 2022 Survey
Technically, they didn't say OS X. They may be referring to Windows.
In 20 years of dealing with customers I've had to deal with maybe 3 people who were real jerks. Maybe my experience is unusual, but my customers come from all over the world. Rich countries, poor countries, non-profits, startups to fortune 500. Practically everybody is friendly and respectful.

Occasionally people are irritable or upset, but I don't take it at all personally. I just assume they're having a bad day or that they're angry for valid reasons I just don't know. When people figure out you actually want to help them the anger dissipates immediately.

Verizon treats their customers with contempt as a business practice, and when you call their support the phone operators are not authorized to actually resolve your issue anyway. So yeah, that makes people angry. They would leave if they could, but where would they go? AT&T? It's a racket.
Google Reader gives a good example of why one may want to host an RSS reader on their own.
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Sometimes, I have weeks that feel exactly like this.
Are you able to generate those characters on mobile, or were you on a laptop?
Any Turing-complete programming language can be reduced to any other Turing-complete programming language. A "reduction" is just an implementation. And we don't care about how efficient the reduction is, only that it exist. Efficiency enters afterwards as a separate concern.
So I'd like to think. In reality my skills don't exist on paper save for basic helldesk work, and even that's been a crapshoot. Loving the positivity, though.
Should probably throw more work into networking and portfolio pieces in between shifts.
I handle 100% of my indie app's email and telephone (yes, telephone!) support. My app is designing/printing labels. Printers in general, and label printers specifically are awful and inconsiderate robots, unable to perform the simplest printing job when you need it most.

Sure, 2-5% of my users are nasty/mean, but let me tell you a little secret: They are immensely frustrated with their life situation and they know how simple the solution should be. If you can show them the light, if you can "flip" these users, they will become your most loyal customers.

I start by telling them, "Hey, every month I get a call like yours where you are so frustrated you want to scream, and let me tell you a secret, if I got a call every day like this... I'd quit this business, but calls like yours are rare and I want to help you through this."

Boom. They're listening, and they're often listening to advice they don't want to hear. What kind of advice? Oh... like, "you will have to work through this and tweak the measurements until it works, because some printer drivers are mysterious and terrible. But once you get it, you'll be rewarded with it working for a long time until you have to buy a new printer."

Still, 50/1000 seems high to me, I like to think I earn the trust of 90% of my nasty/mean customers. Sometimes I'm lucky and I just paste a URL to a FAQ. After 4 years in business I had my first person hang up on me because they kept demanding a simple answer and I would say, "sorry, it's more complicated than that, I don't have a simple answer... I just have two complex answers that contradict each other until you can choose which one is the lesser of two evils."

It could be a book that no one would read: Zen and the Art of Label Printing

A quick video of my app Label LIVE, narrated by yours truly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnqUP1CZd24
In my bit of upstate NY Prime hasn’t been two day since 2001. It does make a difference compared to going out to the store. Every other online retailer, however, is trying to impress with shipping.
In the 30 years since I left college, I've seen two people from my old circle of friends turn into sex offenders.

One molested his stepdaughter (and had to endure prison during the worst of Covid).

The other (from my nerd/hacker peer group) got busted with several CD's containing hundreds of MB's of child porn. He got someting like 18 months in prison and was able to return to his job, which was a low-level programing job for state government.

I think it's imporant to not dehumanize the people who do this because of rather shocking frequency with which it happens.

So yes, I admire Dylan Baker for having the courage to play that character straight instead of some abstract, unreal monster. At the very least he deserved an Oscar nomination.