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by lukev 4y ago
At some point we (commenters on hacker news) should stop reflexively typing this in response to every study without reading the paper. From the abstract: > Propensity-score matching (PSM) was used to create flu-vaccinated and flu-unvacci
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by lukev 4y ago
This is the premise of Nosedive , Black Mirror S3E1. Spoiler: it does... not end well.
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by lukev 4y ago
One thing I'd love to see logic programming used for is in an infrastructure-as-code platform to provision cloud resources. I don't want to have to define security groups, subnets, route tables, etc. Instead, I want to declarative
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by lukev 4y ago
Clojure's core.logic (a Clojure implementation of miniKanren) definitely gets some use in production.
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by lukev 4y ago
I second this. Don't get me wrong, I applaud the concept and the effort, but this implementation isn't quite there. I searched for "document management system comparison" since I am currently in the process of selecting
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by lukev 5y ago
Could you provide an example of such a law? To my knowledge the US courts and legal systems have been fairly consistent that sexual content is protected under the First Amendment. The main culprit appears to be the prudishness and conservat
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by lukev 5y ago
Modern Energy ( https://modern.energy ) | Information Systems Generalist | Full Time | REMOTE+ONSITE Durham, NC (remote work is mostly fine but occasionally you'll need to do physical stuff at the office) Modern Energy is a d
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by lukev 5y ago
Well it depends on if you have a type system that distinguishes between "date" types and "instant" types. If you only have instants, then sure, you could do what you're saying, but the context in which the question
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by lukev 5y ago
I am a little shocked that neither the blog post nor the twitter discussion nor any of the discussion here clearly identifies the missteps of this approach beyond alluding to a "category" or "type" error (which is correc
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by lukev 5y ago
I liked the factual analysis and the story of /r/antiwork. But regarding the actual topic of work I think it sets up a false dichotomy; that one is either a sane normal person who thinks productivity is good, or an out-of-touch an
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by lukev 5y ago
It really doesn't have to be either/or. It's possible to build quite nice abstractions in a declarative style, using real code. This is actually the next generation of devops tools... CDK, Pulumi, etc.
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by lukev 5y ago
That isn't the whole picture either, though, which is why I said someone shouldn't use this article to govern their choice about vaccination. Someone who has already had Delta is susceptible to Omicron infection. Probably not a
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by lukev 5y ago
Note that the data for this study is entirely pre-Omicron, which is known to have higher breakthrough rates (both for vaccines and for prior infection.) Given that Omicron is now the dominant strain everywhere, unfortunately this study isn&
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by lukev 5y ago
Of course one would like to see the data broken down more granularly. That said, nothing we know about how vaccines or the immune system works should lead us to believe someone is more susceptible to a disease immediately after being vacc
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by lukev 5y ago
There's a lot of advice in this thread saying one shouldn't pursue a certification until you need it. Fine, that makes sense. I'm in the thick of our SOC-2 and it is indeed a pain in the ass. But that doesn't mean you sh
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by lukev 5y ago
This is true of any litigation over open-source rights. What are you suggesting here? That we just give up on open source?
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by lukev 5y ago
This article seems to be mostly a eulogy of someone who seemed to be a good teacher and a good person. That's great, although a bit odd material for HN's front-page. But he does this mostly by comparing and contrasting his father&
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by lukev 5y ago
This is pretty straightforward in Pulumi. I recently built a stack that, in a single `pulumi up`, creates VPCs and subnets in a handful of different accounts with VPC peering, routing and DNS between each of them, including an AWS Client VP
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by lukev 6y ago
Market cap is an expression of how much investors think a company's stock is worth. For an apples-to-apples comparison of real growth, you want to compare _revenue_, not market cap. Amazon has not yet passed Walmart in retail revenue (
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by lukev 6y ago
That's precisely the problem though. Genuine tutelage requires a relationship with the student. A 300 person class might as well be an online course, for all practical purposes.
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by lukev 6y ago
The value of Bitcoin is driven almost entirely by speculation. Speculative assets are not known for their stability.
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by lukev 6y ago
I'll ask you... Bitcoin is a high-risk, aggressive investment by any definition. Which is fine if you believe it and like that sort of thing (other than killing the planet but that's a different question.) Would you define someone
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by lukev 6y ago
Is there any evidence that Bitcoin is actually displacing traditional banking? Using BTC for your savings or checking account would be an absolutely terrible idea given its volatility. No rational person would ditch traditional banking in f
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by lukev 6y ago
This starts to touch on one of the reason every "personal assistant" is crap: they're basically just a verbal command line. Their only real value proposition is basic interactions when the user's hands and/or eyes a
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by lukev 6y ago
I'm glad that the HN consensus is against government censorship. I also really wish we collectively put more effort into solving the underlying problem of mass disinformation in the internet age. It's a real problem, and while ham
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by lukev 6y ago
If you Google phrases similar to the ones cited in the article, you'll certainly find the racist stuff, but most of the top results will be context and rebuttals. You will be in a position to learn the truth (whether you avail yourself
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by lukev 6y ago
A lot of the harm of this book is in the title. Imagine being a trans person, just out doing your weekly shopping at Target, and seeing that on the shelf.
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by lukev 6y ago
How come it's bad for activists to try to "cancel" her book, when the thesis of her book is to "cancel" trans folks? Or maybe "cancel" is just a word people use to try to claim the moral high ground when t
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by lukev 6y ago
This is disingenuous. If she had "no desire to be a provocateur", she would have given the book a different, non-transphobic title.
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by lukev 6y ago
The problem with Voter ID isn't the ID itself, per se. It's a problem when coupled with very active, intentional voter suppression from those who control what forms of ID are acceptable, and how easy it is to obtain them, which is

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