skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was tested twice and came back positive both times - many people in his workplace had it. He 100% had it.

Agree on the self-reporting, but I guess my larger point is he already doesn't want to get the vax and people telling him that his natural immunity is not sufficient makes him even more distrustful since he does know enough about science/statistics to see that natural immunity is about equal with a vaccine as far as we can tell.
How much work are you doing at these 10 companies? Are you writing code or just literally doing nothing?
My iPad always wakes up if previously connected to sidecar, even wirelessly.
> and employees are actively discouraged from eating with any teammates

I'm sorry what? How/why are they doing that? Huh? I'm lost
My wife participated for several years. Sometimes she got good gifts, other times they were not that good. Nevertheless most of the joy we had was in giving our gifts. We tried to go out of our way and it was exciting reading the reaction of people who received them.

The best gift my wife got (she is an avid dead tree book reader) was a book she had on her list. But the secret santa bought the book and illustrated it magnificently (using the book's empty pages) before sending it to her.

That's the type of gifts you just cant price.
> if they fail to claim it

Makes sense, but what is an acceptable threshold here? A month? A year? That’s the question.
Miami. I'm not sure it's hit 90F hit but it's definitely hit 85-88F. So close. I'm not sure how much hotter it'll get but I'm all about it still.

I've thought about why this is. Not commuting I think is a big part of it. So the weather doesn't have to bother me if I don't want it to. Like I literally don't have to go anywhere.

I think the trade winds are a big factor too. Hot, humid and still is a special kind of hell.

Another is expectations. Like if you live in Miami you just assume it's going to be relatively warm (even hot) and humid. It's not a surprise.

Lastly, I have more space here and more facilities where I live. I can go for a swim easily even if I don't want to go to the beach.

I have been to Tampa in June/July years ago and that was hell. My circumstances were different and I'm sure my attitude was too. It actually turned me off Florida for years. Up until last year actually.

Funny story: when deciding where to work remotely last year I was strongly considering Dallas (maybe Austin) and decided on a whim to go to Miami instead. I said if I don't like it I'll just go to Texas. I haven't left. Funnily enough, in that time Texas had the big arctic storm and a foot of snow in Austin. I think I made the right choice.
They are also similar in population density. Norrland has 8.6 people per square mile while Montana has 7 per square mile.
"If these providers have built in the ability for the CCP to access user data, then there's no way they could ever stand up to US gov't asking for the same access"

There are plenty of good reasons to refuse to cede to CCP demands but this makes no sense.

The only tech company that were able to mount serious resistance against a serious data access request by the US government were Apple and a couple of things:

1. They are a trillion dollar company.

2. They are primarily a hardware company, not a cloud services company

3. There is no guarantee (and I would argue rather unlikely) that if the FBI were unable to break the encryption of that phone independently that they would not have kept mounting pressure on Apple till they cracked.

It's a complete fantasy to believe that any individual or company has guaranteed data protection in the US or indeed most nation states. Once the government really want your data, they will get it with enough time.
> Do you imagine a skilled programmer living in India gets paid the same for the same work as a skilled dev living in Indiana?

I know of several expats that do exactly this, working remotely for US based companies.
I understand the goal and all of the justifications of Kaynsian economics. I don't have a misunderstanding of it, but a disagreement with it.

See Bitcoin Standard podcast and or book for more on hard money and economics under it.

https://saifedean.com/thebitcoinstandard/

And or the Mises Institute for the low down on Austrian economic viewpoints that answer many of the questions that Kaynsians can't.

https://mises.org/what-austrian-economics

And on top of that the fed itself says we've already had 4.2% CPI inflation this year.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/latest-numbers.htm

But, that's trusting the stakeholders in the inflation game to be honest.

If you remove the constant adjustments to the CPI you get a _much_ higher rate of inflation than governments will admit.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
I’m kind of shocked that Microsoft has to partner with godaddy and didn’t already have their own CA long before Azure was even a twinkle in some executive’s eye.
There was and I believe still is a fantastic typewriter repair shop still operating in Arlington, MA (just outside Cambridge): http://www.cambridgetypewriter.com/

I had them do a tune up on a 1930's Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter I bought while living in the area and was blown away by how they were able to bring the machine back to like-new operation.

There were once entire schools dedicated to training typewriter repair and now the art is almost completely lost for some of the older mechanicals.
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Care to explain what should have been done?

Also, what were people naive about?
Also, the delta variant (B.1.167) is just on the verge of breaking out in Japan:

> 2021-06-07 B.1.617系統の変異株（デルタ株等） n=87 (+34)

> 2021-05-31 B.1.617系統の変異株（デルタ株等） n=53 (+24)

> 2021-05-24 B.1.617 インドで最初に検出された変異株 n=29 (+21)

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/newpage_00054.htm...

From the latest PDF linked there.

Hiroshima prefecture has gone from 1 case to 7 cases in 1 week.

Kanagawa prefecture has gone from 3 cases to 8 cases in 1 week.

We can suspect from experience in other countries (India, Malaysia, the UK, Vietnam, Taiwan, ...) that delta will out-compete other variants.

So if we wish to guess what COVID-19 cases in Japan will look like 3 months out (post-Olympics) it's best to focus on the rise in the delta variant.
I doubt they care about the keyboard and mouse and all that, but surely they’d want two fairly pricey monitors back.
I’m not sure the world wants or needs an App Store full of arbitrageurs. It wouldn’t be a very good experience for customers and it would lead even more questionable businesses to leverage it.
Indeed, it's the same thing.
I should restate. Mary wants to buy from John, but the dollar exchange won’t convert for her.

She exchanges her Bitcoin for monero. That monero is sent to John. John now converts it back into Bitcoin. When it converts to Bitcoin, the money is perfectly laundered and ready for conversion to dollars.
The claim that they would be needed for centuries more is fairly unfounded. Especially if we point out that we will have zero-carbon fuels that are chemically equivalent to fossil fuels but created by carbon capture powered by renewable energy (we are already playing with tech like that today, let alone centuries from now).

But yes, using the word "absolutist" was in bad taste.
How long has it been? Did the company eventually reach out to claim it?
Lol they should just buy bitcoin, digital real estate is more durable
They were probably formally studying people who had never seen or used a GUI before. Visible controls were a great crutch that helped get us to the point where we don't need them anymore. Because at the end of the day, content is king. For example, Netscape Navigator 4.0 had a big button labeled Find with a little binoculars icon. Today, everyone knows about CTRL+F. So we can use that screen space for the thing we care about, which is content.

We still have much further to go. My main display doesn't have a single UI element on it. It's a terminal in full screen mode. Except devoting 100% of the display to content wasn't enough for me. I wanted a third dimension of content. So I modified the terminal software so that I could control transparency by shift + scroll wheeling which means I can play movies in VLC running in full screen mode underneath the full screen terminal. That's my design. Terminal and television. The most important use cases of the most important devices of the twentieth century.
time for common carriers and public broadband
Lol, fair enough. I do remember once being pretty dehydrated and being about to pass out on the subway ride home from work, standing in the middle of the packed, sweltering train with no room to move. Luckily someone saw me looking pale and offered me their seat.

But at least in hindsight the good outweighs the bad :)
Welcome to getting downvoted for posting relevant facts that contradict the group narrative.
Deregulation of the construction market was a disaster for New Zealand, and cost the country billions of dollars [1].

Also, New Zealand has some of the least affordable housing in the world, and it's only getting worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_homes_crisis
Interesting approach to reduce or even eliminate the workload of left folding the logs
Between the entry fee and the liberal use of banning, I'd rather they know my address than most internet sites. I don't remember thinking the users had a particularly bad reputation either.
I started engaging with Reddit about 3 years ago, right on the verge of things going downhill.

So I’m not sure how much of this is normal over Reddit’s whole.

But I did notice a shift in the political boards to a mean-spirited alt-left attitude.

Whatever, politics are needlessly divisive right now.

But as I got more into other subreddits, the same attitude seems to be there too.

Make an objective statement even remotely pro-Apple in r/gaming (which I would reasonably assume to be platform-neutral)? Instant dozens of downvotes, with no replies, or if lucky, a reply calling me an Apple sheep.

Wander into a cutesy dog subreddit and someone posts a picture of a dog eating a hot dog? Too bad, that post will be downvoted to hell along with a lengthy post about the nitrate content of most hot dogs.

There’s just a weird pack mentality sweeping across boards that I would expect to be somewhat forgiving and neutral.
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I'm really not sure that's true. I don't know exactly how many were built, but Melbourne (Australia) added a lot of CBD apartments and the price continued to shoot up.

Those were overwhelmingly tiny/cheap/low-quality/investor-bought apartments, but the fact is they were still there.
Which update? The latest update explicit gives the error message that the app is not intended to run on the platform?
You seem to suffer from some misunderstanding. Solid state batteries advocated by companies like Solid Power or QuantumScape are lithium ion batteries. In fact the cathode materials made by Northvolt would go 1 to 1 into a QuantumScape battery.

Northvolt has actually acquired a competitor to those above and will compete in the same field (actually lithium metal anodes, not solid state).

The fact is, that even the most advanced company in lithium metal anodes (wrongly called solid state) will not have its product in 100k cars by 2025. In the years from now to then 10s of millions of BEV have to be built, and the supplier to those cars will have made billions.

And even then, all solid state companies combined will likely not produce enough for 100k in 2025 when the production rate of BEV should be running at 10+ million a year.

So it will take many, many years for solid state (li metal tech) to be a real player in the market and 10s of billions will be made by battery suppliers until then.

For them to simply wait 15 years and do nothing would be kind of crazy.

> Aluminium-graphene

They are not even as close as Li Metal.
Perhaps Orion will be of interest to you (WebKit fork with web extensions support, I am the founder)
At my company intern engineers are the same level as new grads yes.
I have not been given an address. The laptop box has a preprinted sticker but it’s being sent to a third-party for processing, not the company. Without a return auth, they’d likely refuse the shipment.
Yay, more corporations locking us into subscription plans they can revoke without reason.

Wonder how long before we will own nothing, yet be so far from the great mystics who lived this way...?
>Lately France is getting a bit more of the delay too, with shops opening at 10 and closing at 19.

Technically we should be on GMT, not GMT+1. Then we aren't that far from France.
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I could, but I’d rather donate them to a local school or library. I just don’t want to be billed full price for it eventually.
I think these content creators have it too good, they're only taxed about 30% by the government, and 30% by social media platforms, and only 30% by hardware platforms. That's a whole 10% they're left with! Those content creators should pledge 30% of their net earnings to worthwhile causes. It only makes sense.

Besides, look at how much they're earning gross to begin with. A whole $0.99 per app, and $0.04 per click on advertisements! These people are rolling in it.
> What amount is fair for Apple to charge for payment processing and the infrastructure to actually make the purchases?

Just that? Probably about 3%.

If they're not stacking more fees on top then even 5% wouldn't be an offensive number for payment processing and would give them tons of profit.
I am worried that Miro is becoming the new Jira.
IIRC part of South Florida (around Ft. Lauderdale) is the only tropical rainforest climate in the CONUS.

I've spent time in the mid-Atlantic region and time in South Florida. Miami in July is the closest thing to hell on Earth. But I'd rather deal with that and live in a beautiful climate year-round than deal with north eastern winters.
If you’re moving from NYC to Florida as a techie you’re making some bank and are in a nice, modern place with central air near the water, golf course, or whatever your thing is.

In NYC, you’re almost certainly in an older, smaller building and likely have lousy HVAC. The subway is great, but in many stations you learn to love the unique aroma of garbage juice mixed with hot piss that tends to be a thing.
Wolbachia. That name rings an ominous bell [1]

https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Wolbachia
> But I find it depressing to read threads like this.

Me too - it's as if the entire scene has "sold out". I'm younger than you are, but I entered the Free Software(TM) scene as a zealot and a true believer - you probably had to back in the day because the overall software quality of the entire ecosystem wasn't close to parity to proprietary solutions (some parts of it were clearly superior, e.g. Apache vs. IIS). I think this high bar resulted in a self-selected group being involved in LUGs and similar groups. These days, the bar is much lower, thanks to Github and the large number of high-quality FOSS projects that are market leaders - far better than proprietary equivalents.

My theory is that with this self-selecting filter gone, a lot of developers are now part of the community for self-serving reasons, so their attitude is ...mercenary. Its now all about "How does this project help me and make my life convenient as a developer" rather than "How does this project help software users like me": it's a subtle difference, but with far-reaching consequences.

I don't think we were naive - we thought we had won when corporations defected, but our victory was subverted and it feels more and more like most corporations are a fifth column. "Open Source Software" is slowly suffocating "Free Software".
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I’ve never before heard this described as a fencepost problem but its perfect.
I’d like to donate it but I don’t want to pay for it should they choose to attempt recovery at some random date in the future.
Yes, of course it is. And it's self-serving. Apple saw that they needed to have these cross-platform services -- from big and small and medium sized creators and businesses -- and they carved out exemptions.
It certainly depends on how willing you are to just have a random off topic chat with someone over IM. For me, there are a few people where if its the last hour of the day, we will just spend 30 mins half working half chatting. This helps build relationships with the people you work with in an otherwise unproductive period. If they are really busy at the time they can just tell you.
FB is hiring like crazy in UK/Canada.
Well, that is because it _is_ an enclave in which speaking French is the majority "normal" and surrounded by provinces in which speaking English is normal.

If Quebec did not enforce language laws then English would end up driving out French except for decorative, heritage functions.

The result of the language laws is that we have a part of North America strongly bound in to not just a significant part of the EU but also to Vietnam, large parts of Africa and the rest of la Francophonie. Not a bad thing at all.
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I'm pretty sure they expect subreddit mods to also moderate the chatrooms, despite the fact that we never asked for them and don't have any tooling for that.
If interested, the FT had a piece recently on the many DeFi projects/services of lending, payment, and exchange: https://www.ft.com/content/0f179c8d-aa60-41d4-96d7-5d53e78c3...
This project has been controversial since inception, though, and that did not change when Trump and the GOP came into power in 2016, despite what seems to be a sham approval rammed through by that administration. The controversy and lawsuits did not magically disappear.
Curious what you do and what your strategy was for being a contractor. Care to share?
> "young people don't die from COVID" type mentality.

What mentality is this? It is well known that young people are at extremely low risk of dying, even more so than the average person.

> He told us the day after being in close contact for 3 days, that he tested positive and had symptoms during our contact with him.

The problem wasn't that your acquaintance refused the vaccine. The problem is that he didn't stay home. You could say the same thing about the flu. If you have it, don't go to parties. Who goes to a party with a flu? A cold even?

I hardly think this guy is representative. There's also evidence that asymptomatic people don't spread COVID. This would mean that if they don't have symptoms, you won't get it, and if they do and they're like most people, they'll stay home which means no transmission.

> Of the unvaccinated [sic] people I know, this mentality is the large majority of them. They refuse to get vaccinated because they refuse to consider how their actions might actually impact someone else.

This seems unnecessarily hostile. Plenty of people don't want to be vaccinated either because they've had COVID and don't need it (this study isn't the first; Peter McCullough for example has spoken about other studies), they don't want to risk the potential side effects, including long term, of an experimental vaccine that is not technically approved by the FDA, ethical/religious reasons (the use of stem cell lines derived from aborted children during vaccine research, etc), and because the virus is not a serious threat to most people.

It is disturbing how the media is lumping those wary of the COVID vaccine in with antivaxers (~2% of the population; 98% of Americans get all common immunizations), COVID deniers, or "grandma killers". Let's not do that, as the OP recommends.
They haven’t given me an address. The laptop is going to a third-party processor with a return auth. I’ve been told there’s nobody in the company’s office to accept shipments due to COVID so they’d likely be returned to me.
+1 for pass-otp or keepasxc because the chain is strong as the weaker link (cause 2FA is generally badly implemented) and password/mail is reliable.
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Is there anywhere I can try out this application?
In the UK company directors can borrow money from their companies, but if it isn't repaid after a certain duration a tax of 32.5% becomes due.

The public record[0] tells the story

Year end April 2017:
- Number of employees : 6
- Directors Loan : £238K
- Balance sheet : £154K
- Tax due : £60K

Year end April 2018:
- Number of employees : 8
- Directors Loan : £999K (prev rolled over)
- Balance sheet : £736K
- Tax due : £303K

Year end April 2019:
- Number of employees : 2
- Directors Loan : £1.27M (prev rolled over)
- Balance sheet : £1.1M
- Tax due : £307K

Year end May 2020:
- Number of employees : 1
- Directors Loan : £253K (£1.1M has been repaid)
- Balance sheet : £227K
- Tax due : £15K

Repaying the loan would have allowed for the 32.5% tax owed by the company to be reclaimed, then regular corporation tax of 19% and personal dividend/income taxes would have been paid.

My theory is that his directors loans were fully invested in personal assets (or spent), which explains why the tax wasn't ultimately paid in 2018/19. So he nerfed the company so his tax bill could paid from revenue earned between mid 2018 and early 2020. This fits with the fact that he only started rehiring seriously in 2020.

Customers effectively paid for unmaintained open source software during this time. Now of course, on the website, he brags about how much he loves customers.

I can't speak for the IoM move specifically. I know the CEO has familial connections there, but I'm sure the confluence of tax advantages helps.

[0] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
Speaking as an anglophone I think you are entirely correct. Quebec is majority Francophone and has a right to stay that way. In addition it is also fun and interesting. This thread is clearly pitched at people that get off on Freedom Fries.
Wow, I'm surprised I never ran across this excellent essay before.

I also liked the use of the term "memory model" in this case to mean conceptual model, because the metaphors and affordances of a language are what give (or restrict) its expressive power and the level of abstraction you can bring to bear. A mixed blessing.
Ah, so when you go to autocomplete, you’d like there to be less of a mixture of different handles, and more like Messages, which has one row per person?

The two are much more similar in iOS 15.
I've been trying to build a house for myself. Going through all the hoops is not only cumbersome and expensive - but nearly impossible. I've run into legal tiff's between the county and nearby city. The city wants me to pay $40,000 for a sewer hookup for a single family dwelling when the sewer line is literally right along the road in front of where we will build the house.

Costs like for all city services are standard everywhere in California.

The reason is proposition 13. Cities can't raise taxes to pay for services so they basically have to charge for each service "a la carte". That sewer charge is more or less for what you and others are going to get from the city over some longer time frame. It suck but the alternative is home owners paying taxes, which home owners have decided they don't want to do.
Semi-related: Guy who became a Reddit meme because he took his typewriter to the park (he explains why in the linked article) describes what its like to be ridiculed on the Internet.

https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ri...
Aren't pcr tests notoriously unreliable? Maybe you didn't have it first time?
Something like:

assertEquals(0, add(0,0))
assertEquals(1, add(0,1))
assertEquals(2, add(1,1))
assertEquals(8, add(3,5))
assertEquals(-3, add(2,-5))

PS: This kind of proves why a test is a lot less useful than the algorithm. Try figuring out how to implement "add" from the above test.