skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't 1 in 1000, or we'd be confirming far more than a few hundred examples. The lack of examples isn't for lack of trying to find them -- immunity escape is currently the #1 pre-occupation of every national health service around the globe.

The immune system works, and the failure cases here are truly exceptional, whereas the likelihood of rumor is high. Most of these "{my friend} got Covid twice" stories are either hearsay, or people imagining that their allergy symptoms were Covid, while never getting tested properly.
They could remove the word "political", but didn't.
You could also customize the notification sound for incoming messages in whatsapp and mute (or just use a short plop sound for) anyone else for grandma. Now grandma can focus on learning to use only one app for all her grand children and will find all the pictures from all her relatives in one place and will more likely be able to even forward pictures to other people on her whatsapp. Assuming Grandmas in their 80s.
>> Why does Israel get this special treatment and not others?

> evangelical christians think that jews occupying israel is a prerequisite for the rapture, so they want to defend israel to ensure that happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

Such a categorical statement doesn't seem to pass the smell test, since a quick google found this survey which seems to show that a large fraction of American Evangelical leaders likely don't believe in the rapture at all (I say likely, because it doesn't give that number explicitly, but it seems safe to say it's more than a third).

https://www.pewforum.org/2011/06/22/global-survey-beliefs/:

> Among leaders from the Global South, 73% say they believe in the Rapture, compared with 44% of Global North leaders. But majorities of those surveyed from all regions except Europe believe in the rapture of the Church; evangelical leaders from sub-Saharan Africa are especially likely to believe in the Rapture (82%).

I think the real reason for Israel's special treatment is Cold War and post-Cold War politics. much of Israel's population had ties to Europe, many of its neighbors were Soviet allies, and similar Islamic militant groups have caused headaches to both countries.
I found this helpful. It's also kind of nuts.
I just checked and I missed an important message by somebody I had been on a thread with because gmail thinks it is spam.

Because of that I just added a recurring remainder to go through gmails spam folder every sunday, but that of course defeats the purpose.

Gmail also thinks that every 2fa message from Microsoft is spam for some reason, despite how often I tell it is is not.
> State law determines whether a fired employee can collect unemployment. Generally speaking, an employee who is fired for serious misconduct is ineligible for benefits, either entirely or for a certain period of time (often called a "disqualification period"). But the definition of misconduct varies from state to state. In many states, an employee's misconduct has to be pretty bad to render the employee ineligible for unemployment benefits. An employee who is fired for being a poor fit for the job, lacking the necessary skills for the position, or failing to perform up to expected standards will likely be able to collect unemployment. But an employee who acts intentionally or recklessly against the employer's interests will likely be ineligible for unemployment benefits. Other states take a harder line, finding that employees who are fired for violating a workplace policy or rule won't be eligible for unemployment benefits, at least for a period of time.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unemployment-benefit...

Like anything, it depends
Sounds like we will just be moving them from the streets to prison?(which is not cheap?) There is a portion of homeless who may be able to do better but mental health or other complications prevent others from pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
How to Use the Supermetrics Google Analytics 4 Connector Effectively?
Where does it actually say they are deficit spending? I see the total budget is like $227B but I don't see the total intake. I even did some quick googling could find that number.
The beginning of the thread where a citation was asked for and given is interesting. This continuing discussion on the matter is a tedious digression whichever side you are on.
The minimum wage already eliminates positions. It’s just that thanks to inflation, every year more and more tenuous jobs can be made available since the minimum wage doesn’t track the rising revenue.

Given enough time, the minimum wage would simply cease to be impactful.

We should reset the minimum wage to at least levels on par with what it would be inflation adjusted. That impact on the economy was the intention of the law in the first place. Jobs that are lost are jobs we never intended to exist in the first place.

Remember, you can still do lower than minimum wage work if you work for yourself. With a hiked wage, no longer will corporations be able to capture this section of the market, and instead small businesses can do it instead which would be more stimulative for the economy.
FWIW, Singapore uses Pfzer-BioNTech and Moderna.

There's a scary situation happening here now for the last 2 weeks or so. There has been new clusters popping up after having been relatively tame for a few months and safety measures have been tightened (slightly, but obviously) again. Some of these cases involve those that has been vaccinated. One lesson that we can learn from this is, coming from a city that is marketed as having handled the situation well — the world is far from being done with dealing with COVID.
Inflation is caused by a decreased demand for money.

When in normal times you go up to the grocer and say "can I have three eggs for this coin?" they go "sure, I like coins, that sounds like a fair deal."

Under inflation they go "I don't want your coins" and if all you have are coins, and you need eggs, all you can say is "okay what about 10 of the coins? 100?" and this is how prices go up.

Once people realises inflation is happening, that in and of itself will feed into a negative feedback loop and cause them to demand money less. When people want to get rid of their money as quickly as possible -- and no other people want to take on large amounts of money, liquidity drops and as always when that happens, prices rise.

By visibly pegging the prices of things in a completely virtual measure of value, people's faith in the virtual measure of value was established, causing demand for things that could be exchanged for a fixed amount of the virtual measure of value.

How can a powerful economic entity set a maximum price? By stubbornly offering to sell seemingly infinite quantities at that price, for example. That way, nobody will have any reason to offer it for sale at a higher price.

Why couldn't they do this with the old currency? It depreciated too fast even for the government, due to the lost confidence in it.

Maybe this is all obvious to you and I've been rambling for no good reason.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_and_waffles#History
FWIW I'm taking 92 days unpaid leave from my FAANG job. Just uploaded a YouTube video about it [1]. It's already been a month, and the freedom has been an incredible boon. Started exersing more, reading more, just took a Jiu Jitsu class, did a quick trip to Miami to visit all my NYC expats. I guess I'm not alone in feeling burnt out and needing a break.
[1] https://youtu.be/7vSBCZ1mnL4
Wondering what the UK will do..
is the road-smoothing an artifact from the fact that the camera input sources lack the ability to resolve a detailed picture of the road at-speed?
I think the biggest issue is that they were paying employees for login credentials to sensitive systems. Imagine you’re an IT manager and you find out that an employee is giving the company’s* usernames and passwords - to a 3rd party at their own discretion. I think this is a HUGE deal. Unless the employees had explicit permission from the employer (the article strongly insinuates they did not), I don’t see how this is anything besides a giant mess.

*if you log into a company system, with a company provided username and password, those credentials belong to the company
Changing hidden/locked BIOS settings under Linux
But I'm not different in that respect. Everyone has different abilities. No individual is "normal," that's a statistical artifact. Everyone has personality quirks, whether they are aware of them or not, and has to adapt their personality constantly. I don't think of my quirks and shortcomings as disabilities or medical issues, anymore than I would think a left-handed person has a disorder, even if they aren't (statistically) normal.

That's not to say everyone who suffers from autism or any other physical or mental disorder can just will themselves to overcome it, or adapt -- some people have seriously debilitating problems. I have been around severely autistic children and I can't compare my experience to theirs, like I can't compare my inability to dance to someone in a wheelchair.

"Normal" people innovate all the time, I imagine that takes an act of willpower for everyone. I haven't been innovating my whole life, just dealing with it one day at a time like everyone else does.
Lebanon is a democracy. Israel is perhaps the least democratic considering they enact apartheid.
Was this ironic with Google Wave?

Can you imagine a company that went all in for Google Wave and then had to deal with Google pulling the entire product?

Email has been there for over 50 years and it's likely to be around for a long time.

The Lindy effect isn't a bad way to look at it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

In my current job we've had 3 ticketing systems in the last 5 years.

We now use Slack and Jira but we still archive certain important emails for some things because, well, the archive of email and the fact that someone sent an email is something we can trust a lot better than the rest.
The parent is not saying exposure to Cov-1 provides long-term immunity to Cov-2. Why are you confusing this? It says exposureto Cov-2 provides long-term immunity to Cov-2, as you would expect.
I'd love to see some pressure readings from Hellas Basin. It's a full five miles below what scientists say is the average elevation.
NASA didn’t spend a single dime developing the Fisher space pen. It was developed by the Fisher company at their own expense, in the hopes that it could be profitable. Yay, capitalism. Lead pencil tips frequently break during use. Carbon pencil lead is electrically conductive. You really do not want random pieces of electrically conductive debris floating around in your spacecraft.

I’m still waiting for my TSO’d pencil to arrive. http://www.rstengineering.com/rst/articles/tsodpencil.pdf
The complications from the virus are nearly always going to be worse than vaccination. I’m failing to grasp your logic.

Edit: Ah, perhaps you mean for someone who has recovered. Given the reports that vaccination helps with those who are experiencing “long COVID”, plus the added protection, I’d eagerly get vaccinated even if I had recovered from infection.
Worse, it’s actually commentary backed by politics and virtue signalling to encourage people who have had COVID to still get vaccinated.
Check out the dueling scene in the Kubrick film Barry Lyndon. I think it might deromanticize it for you.
You tend not to launch rockets from a few metres away from the front door of your target.

It tends to be from kilometres away, and you tend to target from above.

More "satellite view" than "street view".
> Me? I respect the truth. I can work with it. I want to hear it.

> Many don't.

We're not negotiating with you, we're negotiating with an average boss picked out of the "many" pile.
In none of the job I had did my colleagues discuss work at lunch. It was and is a kind of big no no. Might be a cultural thing.
Is that not like saying any expert who lacks first hand experience is barred from proposing any solutions, i.e. an infectious diseases expert not being able to offer policies to combat Corona because he/she has not been infected?
Thank you, and you are right. Client side encryption is what I am looking for.
You could ask more politely by showing you did the bare minimum of independent research before asking for a citation.

'That's an interesting assertion but I couldn't find anything backing it up searching for "SARS immunity 20 years" or "long lasting SARS immunity", do you have a cite I could read?'

Even showing you've put in even the teensiest bit of effort makes people much more charitable about helping you.
I thought the article would explain why the shape of USB is symmetric.
KaiOS is the second most popular OS in India - more popular than iOS :)
Why?

Would you really prefer to be tracked by your friend every hour of every day instead of only when you are walking their dog?

I do not believe that.
Did you write up anywhere on how you ended being homeless for 6 years?
Now you're part of the continuing discussion as well. Welcome!
Paywalled .
Anyone willing to post a synopsis?
Humans always looking for bright lines of demarcation.

Consciousness is not a well defined concept. Any line you draw between conscious and non-conscious is arbitrary. So where do you want to draw the line?
Yammer Alternative in Jira
It assumes that the sensor is exposed to fresh air every once in a while, and that fresh air is at 400 ppm CO2. It'll basically slowly lower its baseline calibration over several days, and if the value ever drops below 400 ppm it'll increase the baseline calibration relatively rapidly.

It can be disabled via a command IIRC.
Israel doesn't justify its counter-strikes based on "equal firepower" or capability, nor should it.

It's more "if you launch a rocket at us we will flatten the militants and workstations of the organisation that fired it", which in my opinion is justifiable.

The alternative would be wildfire rockets in return, and you can be sure the body count would be much higher in that case - particularly given Hamas's tactic of firing from neutral territory (ie in 2018 when they repeatedly fired from the carparks of schools, and housed weaponry in the basements of UN hospitals), also known as "meatshield" defence.
On the consumer side I can’t imagine ever giving my bank credentials to Plaid or any other company. Super unnerving that this is even a thing, it’s like the number one rule of passwords.
They probably could handle it with perl and cgi scripts.

Most of their traffic is reads, and serving cached HTML is fast whatever backend framework you're using.
Excellent, excellent post. I read l the way to the end- and I’m not a front end developer. The author throws in great examples as he walks you through his performance journey. And the site? It is damn fast.
Who are you hiding from exactly?
Sure, but:

1. Not every doctor is a consultant. Specialists range £41k to £76k. GPs range £61k to £91k.

2. The salary bands are fairly narrow. Consultants may start at £82k, but they only go up to £111k.

Here you can have it from the horse's mouth: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
There is violence is lots of parts of the world. You are correct of course, but this reasoning also applies to Syria, Yemen, and probably some other places where there have been missile attacks as well. Are similar restrictions in place for those locations (maybe there are? I don't know.)
Bitcoin is still being developed yes. However, what are the chances that old stagnant wallets, like Satoshi’s, are moved to a new quantum proof wallet? Are we to trust whoever tries to move Satoshi’s fortune 30 years from now when all the old wallets are considered “broken”?
There is probably no succinct single article summing it up, but you might be interested in these two of my many blogs:

https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/

You might also be interested in this research piece written about me by a college student who interviewed me:

http://alexandralindelof.com/story-package/
If you're fancy, make the signs exactly 1m by 1m, and say "a meter is the width of this sign". Or make the sign oversized and mark out a meter box within the perimeter, to account for edge damage.
Sounds like a toolbox full of sharp implements. I guess if you're really performance tuning these would be useful?
Seems pretty painless to me:

$ python3 -m asyncio
>>> from requests import get
>>> url = 'https://example.com'
>>> response = await asyncio.to_thread(get, url)

A lot of Python libraries now offer async APIs, have async support on their short term roadmaps, or other async projects have replaced them.
Hell even here in Canada we have the Interac system, which from what little I know of the US banking system, is consistently 10+ years ahead of the game. I've had "Chip & PIN" on my cards since at least 2008, and distinctly remember getting my first "tap" card in ~2011 or so. I genuinely couldn't tell you the last time I inserted my card into a machine because anything under $100 (>99% of my in-store purchases) can be tapped for, and >99% of businesses support tap (looking at you, Walmart and Pilot/Flying J. Get with the times!). From what I understand tap is still barely on the docket at a lot of the US banks.

The big kicker for me is Interac e-Transfers, where you simply log into your banking and can email (or text) money to anyone in the country - they click the link in the email/SMS they receive, log into their bank account, and choose where the money is deposited. We've had this system in place since at least 2014? Hell I pay my rent and buy weed just by sending e-transfers, they're treated the same as cash and happen instantly. I reminds me of something that happened recently, I stumbled into a conversation with some of my American friends trying to figure out how the one person was going to pay the other >1000 miles apart; it was absolute lunacy listening to them decide between PayPal, Cash App, Venmo, etc., trying to figure out who had the lowest fees for both parties, factoring in the time it takes for the transaction to happen and transferring to/from their bank account if necessary. It's insane to me how the banking system underlying the world's largest economy is so far behind the times.
It's amazing how such long experiments are organized. My first thought when I read "longest-running experiment" was the Rothamstead Park Grass Experiment.

I'm accustomed to thinking of Big Science as the LHCs and the Human Genome Project and the Human Brain Projects of the world, but there might be a category of experiments that are instances of Long-Term Science.
Receiver 2 is an amazing and disturbing FPS
I believe the game is still very unknown to many PC players, and it’s a pity as it deserves so much more recognition for the very unique experience it delivers. Therefore I decided to write a very late review (the game was released a year prior to this article) of what I consider a fantastic game despite all of its flaws. I hope it will guide some of you to become a Receiver and fight the Threat as well.
Is drilling a couple holes out of vogue now?
The DX is really subpar. They really need to improve wrangler.
Not going to comment on the validity of your statement. However… if what you said was true the least of our problems would be Bitcoin.
Excellent book. I also recommend his recent "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours". It really makes you wonder to what extent our law may be in a local minimum.
The subtitle sums it all:

“News companies are pioneering a new brand of vigilante reporting, partnering with the spy agencies they once oversaw”

—-

Edward Snowden would not even be covered now (or the Church commission).
GG1: An Electric Locomotive Way Ahead of Its Time
I can find Slack conversations from years ago just fine, also link a lot to Slack in our ticketing system which is very useful.

So for me Slack has become a second memory for technical and other details.
> Fighting homelessness is easy: make it strictly illegal

Note: I have been homeless. I prefer a little more practical solution, which is unpopular with many people...as almost any solution will be.

If a person is arrested for breaking a statute (municipalities usually have ordinances against camping in areas), without a residence in the county, move them to a staging area for identification and program entry (assign a sponsor). If they repeat offend without having participated in a program via the sponsor (or have violated out), move them to a minimal camp in an unincorporated part of the state. Filtering those who want to contribute versus those who are opting out, benefits those who try versus those who are not going to recover. I feel for the homeless people with master's degrees from various disciplines (see Youtube), but urban areas breed urban problems like illicit drug distribution, disease, sexual violations, open fires, burglary, etc. We know this historically. Why we continue to allow people to concentrate where they have the most opportunity to predate on the public and each other while simultaneously being enabled in self-destructive behavior is beyond me.
> On the consumer side I can’t imagine ever giving my bank credentials to Plaid or any other company. Super unnerving that this is even a thing, it’s like the number one rule of passwords.

Yeah, and it's also the number two and three rules with bank passwords.

I sold Bitcoin for the first time a few months ago on Coinbase. Their only bank integration is via Plaid, and I did a double-take and noped the fuck out of that right away. It boggles my mind that's even a thing. Luckly I was able to get my money out via Paypal instead without too much hassle.
I got the impression it was the employee side of the app. As in me logging into ADP so they can figure out how to scrape ADP
Political pressure or rather information on the benefits of the vaccine is the best way to improve the situation for any country.

Where it goes wrong is if said country begins to deny participation in society, by for example requiring continuous testing for those who are not vaccinated. These measures in reality decreases your ability to participate.

Israel is one example where their Green Pass system denies you access if you dont have the green pass:
https://corona.health.gov.il/en/directives/green-pass-info/

While Texas among other US states has the complete opposite approach:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/06/texas-greg-abbott-co...

And the EU is somewhere in the middle, though it does consider limiting free movement if you are not vaccinated.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...

I much prefer the American approach, as the other approaches force the individual to be vaccinated.
Its probably cause its easy to grow and you can get 8 generations a year to study in the lab.
Oops! Math is hard >_<

Still good ROI though.