skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid infection outcomes exist on a continuum from death to harmless. There is also "long-flu", and I'm sure there are persistent responses to other respiratory viruses, so long covid isn't totally novel.

If you're scared for your health the best thing you can do is be healthy, eat right, exercise, don't smoke, etc.
Has anyone tried to make a browser using the MS Word engine? It would be horrible but also kinda neat.
“Good enough for government work”
Finally! Now Google's job interviews will get a jot closer to the 21st century!
Amarna Letters
> For starters, Bayshore is huge. Some family offices—like Musk’s Excession, which is managed by his fixer, Jared Birchall—are actually surprisingly small.

One thing I learned from this article is that Musk's habit of naming things after Culture novels is… excessive.

(Also, that book was okay but I prefer A Fire Upon The Deep, the other book about AIs and snotty Usenet posts in space.)
I was an early adopter of long COVID before it could be properly diagnosed, if I could ask for something, it would be to spread awareness for those who are still suffering.

The hardest part was, by far, feeling like I was making it all up, I felt a tremendous relief when I got diagnosed.

For me, it lasted almost a year, but I can say that I was lucky to fully recover.

There is a bit more info from my personal experience in this post: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/veteran-software-engineer-laun...
What letter is omitted from "ROTFLMAO"?
Gotcha; we never have either oddly enough. I would have assumed I had (military career) but I haven't.

That said I've been exposed to all kinds of crap in my career. Even money that any given military ship would be considered a moving cancer zone.
Yes! I always use the Joycons like this. Just rest them however I'm comfortable. Although the rectangular shape makes them uncomfortable to hold in the hand for too long which is a shame.
Agreed, thought there is no need to complicate it further by returning objects with status and value fields.

The requirements here seem a bit rare (ignore failures individually, machine gun requests, render incrementally), but the ideal solution is actually glossed over in the post, if you consider that you'll probably want to log those request errors in production:

async function showChapters(chapterURLs) {
const requests = chapterURLs.map(url => {
return fetch(url).then(r => r.json()).catch((err) => {
MyMonitoring.report(err)
})
})

for await (const data of requests) {
appendChapter(data);
}
}

In this scenario, and the post also fails to mention this, appendChapter() needs to deal with empty data as the .catch() handler is resolving to undefined.

This could be easily abstracted into a 'fetchAll' function.

There is absolutely nothing "blunt" or wrong about it. The engine warned us about unhandled promises, we handle them, everybody is happy!
It really depends what team you're on! My little corner of megacorp is fast, pretty lean, and I definitely feel like I am able to make an impact on our product (which is a smaller product in the company). I feel much better here than at some of the mid size companies where I felt there was a low ceiling on growth opportunities.
Ok, I wasn't sure if DB.exec_params handled that
They're pulling a Couchsurfing
Problem with this is false advertising. Often, you buy a tool because its website says can do A and B, and do does the sales rep. Then you deploy it and realize it really only does C, and if you squint at it hard enough you can kinda see A and B if you pay extra and spend months customizing it. Growth at all costs mindset makes companies lie do they don’t lose a single lead, then try to lock/beat them into submission and pretend this was always the agreement.
The general consenus I've seen is that 1) projects/code that enables MacOS to be emulated is legal, but 2) running MacOS VMs on non-Apple hardware is a violation of the EULA you agree to when installing MacOS.

So if it's on an Apple device (even one not running MacOS as the host) it's fine, otherwise it's a violation of the EULA, and something a business probably doesn't want to get tangled in.
This is something that I never thought about before, and is unfortunately glossed over too often. We’re exposed to things all the time, but only get sick when the exposure is large enough to sufficiently overwhelm our innate immune system. The degree to which it is overwhelmed correlates strongly the the severity of the subsequent illness. Reducing exposure time, or exposure volume via air dilution or filtration can make a massive difference.
I’m less concerned about the “class” of new apartments that are being built. In any market there are only so many people who can/will pay “luxury” prices. The wealthiest will always move on to the newest, shiniest thing, but as those apartments age they should become more affordable. Whether they do or not is an empirical question.

However, if excess supply is being bought up by wealthy landlords, this is a problem because they will be able to drive the price up.
"Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy"

He said it first, but I think your paraphrase is at least as good as the original formulation.
>All you need is to

You up for paying for all that (and I mean /all/ that) and putting in the manhours (and I mean /all/ the manhours)?

One of the chief reasons I roll my eyes at urban armchair environmentalists is because they have an understanding of the human world very far detached from reality.
No, you are correct, it should be some "fairly straightforward"* 2D linear algebra to check for intersection (knight might need a special case). You just iterate all pieces and check for king collision box overlap with certain lines extended from enemy pieces. But OP states they are an EE and aren't the best at version control, so they probably haven't worked through this yet.

* again, straightforward if you have experience with computer rendering, CV, or similar domains, but less so in other domains.
I think recognizing one’s privilege is uncoupled from how you choose to feel about it.
Down syndrome correlates to mother's age more; autism correlates more to father's age.
It works until it suddenly stops. Specifically, archive.ubuntu.com is terrible!
I don't even get the point of this list. It's going to do a credit check, if someone puts in William Cocksucker and he doesn't exist or have a credit history, he's not getting approved for the card
What are liver supper supplements? Is there any research on this?
> Additionally new research is uncovering serious and significant risks for the vaccine with fairly marginal protection benefits.

Could you provide a link to that research ?
NB: I am not a lawyer, and nothing that is said here can be construed as to be legal advice. If you're really concerned, you need to speak directly to a lawyer who is admitted and recognized by the appropriate bar association for the jurisdiction in question, etc....

That said, the company owns that Slack instance. They can do whatever they want with it.

Now, it might be unethical for someone else to post as another person, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be illegal.

Slack does make it difficult for anyone to remove a post made by someone else. That is intentional. But if you can log into their account as them, then I guess they can do whatever they want as the person in question.

Disclaimers: IANAL, YMMV, etc....
Same here... and I wouldn't call this a static page anymore if it runs JS on load, calls a HTTP endpoint which makes DB query which returns HTML that modifies the DOM.
You can't draw conclusions like this from one data point, because there's no baseline to compare it to. Not sure what kind of productive discussion you are expecting here.
Not in a sound implementation. E.g. in macOS/iOS’s libm, we replace the isnan() macro with a function call if you compile with fast-math precisely to prevent this.
This is really bad. Important points:

* About 10% of people getting COVID get some form of long COVID.

* There's long term damage. At least years. Maybe permanent in some cases.

* You can get COVID more than once.[1] Somewhere above 6-10% of infections are re-infections, and that number increases over time. Immunity seems to last 3-18 months.

What is this going to look like in 5 years? 30% - 40% of the population disabled?

[1] https://www.everydayhealth.com/coronavirus/what-if-you-get-c...
So, like all of the branches of govt are in control. Huh?
I think you're not addressing the original point again, at least as I understood it.

What you're saying is spot on of course, but they're not asking for the people in question to be put on trial. They just want the names of the people to be unsealed.
AdGuard on Home Assistant is another good solution, has some additional filtering options too like enforcing safe search on Google and YouTube https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/adguard/
Eric Topol (one of the authors) is another "must read" like Derek Lowe

https://erictopol.substack.com/archive
Presumably they are spending the money on R&D so they can ultimately learn to make more efficient plants. An analysis of "if you could spend .78 Bn dollars right now, how much CO2 could you prevent / remove" would be interesting, and the answer probably isn't giving our free electric cars, but none of that is relevant to how this company is using their money
> cars are the most empowering invention for the average person ever.

oh really? So imagine you have your car but without Lighting, so you'd drive around in the dark?

Or how about sewers? Imagine having to take out a bucket of poop, and live in steets covered in poop, and loosing your kids to the Plague.

Or Soap, Running water, electricity?

You just take everything else for granted.
Market cap is the total volume of all outstanding shares, but the price at any moment is defined by the last price sold. Only the shares currently being traded affect the price. 100 billion is plenty enough to affect price of 'traded shares' even if its only a small percentage of 'all shares'.
That's a very smart approach, and one my cyclist friend used when recovering from COVID in June of 2020. Took it easy for the rest of the year and put up some good numbers in 2021 and had his best year in 2022.
You seem very sure they aren't, yet you have no evidence apart from your own belief that you might be correct.

That's circular reasoning.
like, a whole bunch: olling n he loor aughing y ss ff to spell it out. obviously, some letters are used more than once, so my math teacher will deduct points for not reducing the fraction.
Thus the US either needs to have a friendly regime in Cuba or if unfriendly, one that is weak enough not to be a threat.

I vaguely remember the USA saying something last year about Russia not having any rights to impose its interest on the sovereign Ukraine...
Cellular-Automaton.nvim
Coming soon: web browser in an OS emulated in your web browser, to do CORS/XSS/MITM attacks. At 116kb and especially if you add JIT support, with a bloated site you won't even know it's being emulated!
Now try writing the "snapped" value for 2.3 as a finite decimal. :-)
Entirely anecdotal, but I had a freind who had been a smoker for fifty years. On giving up he was delighted to smell tomatoes for the first time since his boyhood.

Before that point, I had never before considered tomatoes as even having a smell.
Delete Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. Are your claims still true?
Opened the comments to put in a recommendation for NextDNS. The free plan allows 300k DNS queries and is more than enough for me across three devices (Mac/iPhone/iPad).

I have not needed an ad-blocker for the past 2 years and hardly see any websites breaking. Often syndicate links break, which is not a big deal for me.
This seems likely. Early iPhones and iPod Touches were much more attractive targets for jailbreaking, given their more generalized nature, better hardware, and more capable native OS — the range of possibilities was far more great.

It's also not practical to upgrade the storage in flash-based iPods, which reduces the utility of something like Rockbox. The stock OS is perfectly serviceable for the size of library one would be carrying around on a Nano.
Devops is what I hate.
What finally got me to setup pi-hole on an old Raspberry Pi was getting an LG OLED TV. The webOS apps for YouTube and Plex are pretty convenient, but the TV was absolutely packed with ads via the home screen and pop-up toasts. To add insult to injury, the home screen would lag for several seconds at boot while it pulled down all those ads. And then I discovered that even after opting out of all the telemetry options, it was making DNS queries for _several_ data mining services that analyze what's being shown on the TV. I didn't Wireshark it to see what API calls it was making, but clearly opting out in the menu wasn't enough. After some passes of scanning the pi-hole logs and adding to the blacklist, my TV is snappier and ad-free. :) Definitely will not be going with LG for my next TV, though. It's mind blowing to me that this is the user experience on a TV that costs over $1k.

As for the pi-hole setup itself, it's working great. It's a great backup to locally installed adblockers, and I have my EdgeRouter as the primary DHCP DNS server, which makes requests to pi-hole. Both the router and pi-hole have caching, and my DNS query latencies are good. Pi-hole also has a nice interface for pointing `.local` domains to local IP addresses, which is much easier than messing with dnsmasq settings on the EdgeRouter.
I ran into too many problems with pihole breaking sites so I just turned it off.
Sure with -fast-math or similar compiler options without a way to also say “preserve NaNs”, that could happen with macros, but it can also happen with inline functions where the body is in a header file.
In spite of what the page says, the cell isn't 7x7. One diamond-shaped cell is 24 pixels wide, measuring from the center of the leftmost pixel to the center of the rightmost pixel, and 12 pixels tall center-to-center.
I just got a K3 (non-pro) last Friday and I'm mostly liking it. For years I used an Apple Magic Keyboard Pro (or whatever the wired full size keyboard like it is) and really liked it, but wanted something narrower and without the 10-key so I could move the mouse closer to the centerline of my body.

So far it's been good, but there's a couple things that are taking some getting used to:

1) The spacer bar is wider than on either the Apple keyboard or any of my HP laptops. I hit space with my pointer fingers, sometimes right sometimes left, and I keep accidentally hitting the Command key along with space, and popping up Spotlight on top of whatever I'm doing.

2) The delete key is in a funny position. I almost wish it was where the backlight key is. I guess if I'd gotten the Pro keyboard I could remap it.

3) The lack of eject key means I've lost my Ctrl-Shift-Eject shortcut for immediately blanking the screen. Not huge, but I liked being able to do this on demand.

Otherwise, it only took a few days to get accustomed to the greater key travel and I think I like it. Although I have half a mind to return it and get the Pro now, just to fix the Delete key... And maybe I can make the backlight key be some combo, and I can restore eject?
My friend is in his 50s, pudgy and kinda athletic but not elite, and he just had mild symptoms for a week. I wonder if "athlete's heart" could be compounding effects in some way?
You're missing the variable of how severe the long covid symptoms are. If it's 10% long covid and 10% of those are serious it's only 1% of total covid cases.

Unless you're using a loose definition of "disabled".
An example - California is banning the sale of combustion powered small garden appliances - lawnmowers, line trimmers, and so on.

A lot of these are still powered by two-stroke engines, which are literally thousands of times more polluting than modern (ICE) cars, and even the four-stroke versions are much more polluting than larger vehicles with pollution control gear.

Batteries are now powerful enough to be a satisfactory substitute for gas engines in these applications.

Other jurisdictions should adopt the same rules.

Another easy one is banning wood stoves and heaters in populated areas.
Generating quality voice is sufficiently compute-intensive that it would increase the file size, as they would still ship all the audio (instead of computing locally) but there would just be so much more of it.
It's possible docker4mac doesn't enable nested virt?
I guess? I'm a NYT subscriber and I don't even really know what Dealbook is. I'm not sure it's as influential as you think.
There are certain things I have no problem smelling and tasting. And other things I just can't smell or taste. The result is that I have a whole entirely new set of sensitivities that I didn't have before. I cannot stand the fragrances in detergents and air fresheners. I used to keep the Fresh Linen scent Febreze fresheners around the house. It doesn't smell like Fresh Linen anymore... it just smells sickeningly sweet like dunking your head into a container of liquid detergent. I can't eat oranges anymore and have basically retired from giving recommendations on cigars because I'm just... broken... in that respect anymore.
> Why in the world should I continue to allow a billionaire to profiteer, at the cost of immense civic damage?

1. Because creating a valuable company that provides a useful service is not profiteering.

2. Because creating a company did not cause civic damage in the first place.

3. Therefore confiscating the value of that company and transferring it to the government could not reverse any civic damage.

4. Destroying the engine of wealth creation in our society would cause immensely more civic damage.

This is also symmetrical in that once you realize this will not solve any problems - and that it will in fact create many more problems, you can then conclude it is not a civically appropriate thing to do. Even if it gives a sense of satisfaction to envious people "intuitively reason" that knocking people down a peg is "civically appropriate".
> but you’re still not allowed to say that.

you literally just said it.
Show HN: Use predictive modeling to win your bracket competition
Hi! I made this as a side project this week to submit a bracket for our friends' NFL playoff bracket competition. It is all html and vanilla JS, runs directly in the browser, and is pretty fun to take for a spin.

Obviously it is far from polished - that might have to wait for next year!
I don't think the person you're replying to said that.

If I had to characterize it: giving money to charitable causes that benefit you indicates a heternomous will, which in turn voids the act of any moral value. It might be beneficial to society for Brin to plow his money into Parkinson's research, but he gets no particular praise (or fault) for doing a thing that benefits him.
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Reducing oil content of Fried potatoes with difluorodichloromethane (1974)
How to Run Video Games on an Oscilloscope (2022)
> 30% - 40% of the population disabled?

That assumes likelihood of getting long covid doesn't drop after successive infections.
I remember using turbo switch when playing Tetris. At the startup game would try to adjust its speed to the speed of the hardware it was running on so turning of turbo (basically lowering 8086 frequency from 10 to 4.77Mhz) resulted in a game being so slow that it was possible to easily reach scores over 20k.
Worth what? The personal "cost" of the vaccine, outside of some extremely rare outliers, is a day or two of discomfort.
>As far as I can tell, everyone is going to get COVID

Not if everyone gets antibodies first.
> They are very anti-government

This isnt even true at all. They are more than happy to use government power against people. Just look at the latest anti-trans bills as an example.. attempting to ban transitioning for anyone, including adults, and mandating pronoun usage in workplaces that "aligns with the persons DNA"
Building Effective Ratio Features for Machine Learning Models
> Competition is a wastefull process, thats literally what it means- someone looses and goes under.

Competition, since we’re talking about ideals, is the opposite of wastefulness — it allocates resources where they are most vitality needed. The wasteful uses get priced out of the market and everyone, as a whole, benefits.

If you make the (non-idealized) argument that all existing processes are useful because of the fact that they exist and competition causing them to fail is wasteful then…I don’t have an answer for that because that’s just absurd.

Of course, we don’t live in some ideal world so wasteful processes get protected and subsidized, useful processes get penalized and everyone thinks the all knowing AI central planner won’t just nuke all the irrational human “market actors” as an optimization step in the ideal resource allocation strategy.
Lol I think you spend too much time reading social media...

I honestly doubt someone wrote this because they want to degraded black people using a far fetched analogy. It feels to me like a small group of people really wants this to be perceived as racist for some reason.

Like, don't get me wrong. I'm familiar with racist rednecks calling black people "monkeys," but I see no reason we need to give so much power to some small part of American culture and let it transfer into a fantasy world. What's infuriating is that those racist reprobates are probably not even aware of this situation, and we gave them so much influence.

Anyway, I wanted to write a more extensive reply initially, but then I felt like you've probably already painted me as a witch/heretic/racist in your head, and don't care about what I have to say. So, let's just agree to disagree and move on with our lives.
Honestly, not necessarily--there are often many ways to solve a given software problem. If someone else has a vision for the software and a plan to achieve it as a team, as long as I can see that it is looks like a viable alternative I'm generally happy to go along with it. Far better than flapping in the breeze with nobody providing clear guidance or input, in my opinion!
Except BCBS Premera here in Texas. They're having a bitch fight with Ascension/Seton healthcare, which includes Dell Children's Center and the majority of the good hospitals and ERs in the area, as well as many doctors practices. But Open Season ended in November, so now people can't switch insurance companies so that they can actually go to their healthcare provider of choice.

And BCBS desperately wants to force you to use only their approved pharmacies, but as of late last year there is a new law here in Texas that makes that illegal. So, what BCBS does is make their preferred pharmacy "optional", but what is not optional is that you can't get any drugs from any other pharmacy until you call up their preferred pharmacy on the phone and speak to a human being to get them to opt you out of the "optional" preferred pharmacy. And imagine how hard that process is these days.

Fuck BCBS.
I haven’t spent much time thinking about the full extent of the metaphor I’m about to propose. But what you’re saying sounds to me something like “do you hate being in a relationship but love making love?” Yes, many people would prefer one without the other. But that’s not how it works in real life most of the time.

And not only engineering vs programming or relationships vs love making. If you pay attention, many other aspects of life are like this too:
— do you like learning but hate school?
— do you like hiking but hate waking up early, driving, and sweating?
— do you like seeing new places but hate planning and getting there?

Granted, sometimes some people manage to arrange their circumstances such that there’s no dichotomy there. But most of the time, on average, this is what it is. There are two ways of dealing with it: accept it as a fact and learn to deal with it or try to change your circumstances with the understanding that there’s a high chance it’s going to be the same at another place.
Something akin to fast-math is the default for some shading languages (although some have switched to fast-math-but-preserve-NaN-and-INF).