skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effects of covid are far from completely understood. We do know that it kills a decent percent of the people infected with it and gives long term symptoms to another relatively large percent. The long term effects are unclear but they are almost certainly much worse than the long term effects of the vaccines.

My question is whether or not it is a rational position that the risk of the vaccine is higher than the risk of getting covid? Is this a conclusion that someone could reasonably come to - that they would rather have covid than be vaccinated?

If the answer to the question is no, I believe mandates from private companies are something that needs to happen as the government will not be able to act.
> Anyone remember the Windows Messenger Service alerts that would randomly pop up?

The Windows Messenger Service alerts that you could make pop up with a simple command-line incantation, you mean?

> It was such a common thing, and the only fix was to turn off the service altogether in Windows XP.

What? Nooo, don't do that! This meant no more cool "There, almost done. Lunch in five? /CRC" messages on your colleagues' screens.
Anyone flagging this because they think it's an exaggeration, well, I envy you not having direct counterexamples in your immediate family. Paul is almost pitch-perfect explaining posts which real people make in all seriousness.
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney over 'Black Widow' Release
Most Silicon Valley “CRUD” startups have fraud baked in. It’s just whose holding the bag in the end that matters. Sometimes it’s the VC funds early in the stage, sometimes it’s the late stage investors ala WeWork SoftBank and usually it’s the retail bag holders post IPO.
Isn't that exactly what a lot of open source licenses have permitted due to hiding things behind SaaS layers rather than distributing products?
I think Trevor was counting on people not being able to tell the difference. They named their Tesla-competing company “Nikola,” which is a bit astounding when you think of it.
I read about a cat who used to visit a pub and learned to lick beer from under taps. The cat got banned from the pub for its own good but I don't believe it was anywhere close to poisoning.
I own a few Pocket Operators, and I'd daresay that they're underpriced.
I have had a similar experience. I have 0 regret, I really do love it, but yes it is "an effort". I feel Oculus is "just there" to be that VR defining experience that will get people hooked en mass.
I think you also make a good point that is missing the games that will "define it" and that will make you come back. I really don't understand, considering the numbers sold, why some games can't be just reworked for VR "perspective". I know it's expensive, but I would pay money right away if someone ported (I realize it's not that easy) old Lucas Arts adventure games (e.g). Perhaps I'm under the impression or The Room VR which reminded me of Broken Sword.
Also, you mention purchase rate. I can only judge based on myself and my colleague, but I would say it's high! Neither of us are "hardcore" games, but we each both 10 games so far.
Also x2, how would you (anyone) feel using it on a plane,train, bus ect. I haven't tried it, but if someone has I would appreciate the feedback.... did people think you were a weirdo?
It is not a low number at all! For comparison, the PS5 has sold 10M units worldwide in the same time.
Doubt it. Were I given the option of "buy 100 queries that work" or "have an existing engineer code out the solution", I'd never pick the other option. Ever.
Maybe you're not making enough a distinction between the federal government and state/local governments. I think a lot of people are aggravated with the federal government usurping state voters.
Have a look at ProseMirror, let us know if this seems like what you want!

https://prosemirror.net/
Ah, it supports... ehh, sideloading of liberally licensed media files. Smart move.
>Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events

Wow, back to high school. They don't track attendance in undergrad even. Why do companies need this sort of information? If the person is important to the meeting, them being a no show will be pretty evident. If they are so irrelevant to the meeting that they could just dip out and no one would be the wiser, why are they even wasting their time in the zoom meeting to begin with? Just email whatever information you need to get out if the zoom meeting is going to just be an announcement or one sided lecture.

It also wouldn't be hard to write a little script that automatically connects you to zoom meetings that are coming up. You probably only need a few lines of bash to write your own if you have a tool like icalbuddy where you can grep for upcoming zoom meetings in your calendar.
You can. At least on the Oasis. Tap the menu button. Tap “Turn off touchscreen”.
this was one of the main reasons I acquired the kindle keyboard :)
worked excellent as an emergency device when you _needed_ to rebook travel things with nothing else around.
Are you under the impression that "security guards" are not legal?
If YouTube asserts a claim of authorship in violation of facts, the moral right of authors to attribution:

That's 17 U.S.C. 106a under US Code, and is a key element of European copyright generally ("droit d'auteur")

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
Depends on the culture. People like Musk or Jobs wouldn't last 5 minutes as CEO in my country.
Everyone will just move to a non toxic workplace.
The CDC was spreading misinformation, and we shouldn’t expect the government to be immune from misinformation (through incompetence usually).
I think the idea is sound (ha!) but the problems I read about are mostly implementation and process issues that people are blaming the tool for.
Only applies for Content ID, which seems to be the case in this particular situation. For a DMCA claim the video comes down while the dispute is being worked out.
If you're sad now, just wait until the ads start coming. I'm not joking or hypothesizing -- I have a friend at Oculus who hoped that they'd take a different path because they're selling hardware. They've made it very clear to my friend that Facebook is an advertising company, and their strategy is to sell hardware with little margins to squeeze everyone else out, and then monetize you and your eye balls with ads.
It's technically possible for most people to "be" anything, i.e. to succeed in an unusual way, but I don't think that's the right way to look at it. Why is our current economic environment not optimized for this behavior? Why is our economy set up to disproportionately reward ruthless behaviors and predatory personalities?
The search engine on Github also calls up entire pages of GPL licensed code verbatim. Does it run afoul of copyright?
The developer did an AMA. He makes a decent living off it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...
You mean Germany?
Another no-glasses technique I've heard works is Orthokeratology, specially shaped contacts that you wear at night which reshape the lens, and the effects last through the next day. I find contacts incredibly uncomfortable to wear during the day, largely because it's very dry where I live, but I suspect I could wear them comfortably at night.

Ortho-K is fairly expensive ($1-3K from memory), and fairly rare. I could only find a couple places that do it in my entire state.
I think the biggest difficulty in front ends is that they are statefull. Backends are usually stateless and pass through data from a data store or a cache.
It seems a lot of people don't know about the jump in quality between the headsets that came out. The original oculus was leapfrogged fairly quickly by the HTC Vive, and then that was eventually superseded by later headsets like the pimax, Valve Index, and Quest. If you haven't tried any of them I definitely recommend testing one out, the difference is very noticeable.

Not only watching videos but even reading text is much easier in the latest headsets. Unfortunately many people have only tried the older or commodity VR solutions and think that's the limit of the technology. This is largely due to the price and physical setup required for some of the better headsets, but already there are some great setups out there.
When we're speaking of proficiency and comparing them between reading, listening, and speaking, you look at them through a similar lens. How well can you understand or communicate ideas in the language? Can you convey complicated and nuanced thoughts in your target language? Can you understand those? How would your speaking ability compare to a well educated native speaker? How does it compare against a less educated native speaker?

You feel more fluent in speaking because you're only working within your own ability while listening you'll encounter things you don't understand or situations where it's difficult to understand things all the time. That doesn't mean you're more proficient at speaking and in most cases you aren't going to be nearly as proficient at speaking as you think.
Why would I need to set up an account to see the price movements? You'd rather go down the conspiracy lane than try to see it from the user's / reviewer's perspective.
Wyoming hopeful Bill Gates’ TerraPower nuclear plant will replace coal
Scientists are like a lot of academics, in my humble opinion, they are susceptible to ego and the certainty of their knowledge. Entire careers are built around their ability to be right, and sometimes it can be hard to admit when they are wrong.
I miss the days when HN was becoming Slashdot.
Derek Muller is a bit of a celebrity at my faculty. He is a fellow Queens University "Engineering Physics" alumni, a degree most people have never heard of. Thanks for putting us on the map, Derek!
Yes, it does state that. However, there is the word 'and' between detection and differentiation.

The original could not detect, so therefore differentiation is a moot point.

Also, the test for flu was a separate test. So it would have had no effect on the lower flu incidence assuming we didn't test for flu at a lesser rate.
> $200 can buy you a Nintendo Switch these days, or half a Steam Deck

If these could play the playdate’s games, you’d have a point. As it is they are not substitutable products, so price is not the only factor determining sales volume.
The earth feels flat, and feelings are objective (especially in this post-truth society) ;)
I have found a number of gems. Eleven Table Tennis is just awesomely accurate table tennis against real people. Pistol Whip is a great workout and beats the pants off DDR. Population One is a fun Battle Royal that keeps me coming back. Eternal Starlight has major Homeworld vibes. Walkabout Mini Golf is a mini golf course in your living room.

The platform needs way more investment, but this is a decent start.
"Although coded language in job adverts can crop up anywhere, these words tend to arise more often in postings for smaller companies and start-ups, say experts. “These types of companies have evolving priorities, making it difficult to write job descriptions for different careers,” says Renata Dionello, chief people officer for ZipRecruiter, a New York-based digital job marketplace. “This is when we see broad terms, clichés and catch-all language.”"

For startups, the job description is often written by the (mostly) technical founders. They may not be familiar with the subtilties of writing job descriptions.
So why hasn't it happened yet? It's been on the market for _years_ and very little units have sold. Personally I think VR is way overhyped. The experience is fun but intense, much like a rollercoaster. I like rollercoasters, but don't want to go on one daily.

In terms of everyday HCI, there are very few scenarios where it truly beats a flat 2D screen with touch.
For the old Kindles, this’ll be close to 15 years of usability, which is really good. However the list also includes a bunch of newer models:

> Kindle Keyboard (3rd generation), Kindle Touch (4th generation), Kindle Paperwhite (4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th generation), Kindle Voyage (7th generation), and Kindle Oasis (8th generation)

The 7th gen paperwhite, for example, was still being sold until 2018 [1]. It seems kind of ridiculous to still be selling a 3G-only device 3 years ago, and to only be offering a partial credit for a device that’s going to stop working so soon after purchase.

[1] https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2018/11/09/kindle-paperwhi...
I just can't wrap my head around how a person with any sort of moral framework can do this kind of thing, every day, and maintain a shred of self-respect. It just doesn't compute for me. At least the negligent people at YouTube can stretch it and tell themselves they're "doing their best on a hard problem" or whatever. But intentionally abusing the system... the sheer contempt you must have for your fellow human beings.
Fossilised procedures are tests against failures which either happened a long time ago or which someone decided might happen.

Neither may apply today.
I hope one day people realise there is a place other than kubernetes and VMs to run containers, such as GCP's Cloud Run or AWS's ECS Fargate, these are essentially plug container and play services which avoid the baggage of kubernetes and VMs
I have experimented with it (with an honest partner to give me exterior feedback) and:

- no shampoo works for me, it has a difficult adaptation period but afterward it feels normal and my hair is healthy (nowadays I use a carefully selected shampoo about once a week)

- no soap also works but felts to weird to keep doing (nowadays I only use soap on sweaty areas, never on my face)

- no deodorant works and does not smell bad as long as your body is clean (nowadays I only use deodorant when I know I will be out and maybe active for too long to garantee that my body will stay clean)
Yeah, it really sucks and points to problems with our weak UN and world governments.

Sure, we may have somewhat high manufacturing standards in the US, but take a step into foreign soil and all the sudden all the rules are out the window. With companies specifically using countries with the weakest safety regs to cut costs.

It's why walmart keeps getting busted for using slave/child labor.
The vaccine has now been administered to more people than any other medication in the history of humanity, with more data points collected than any other medication. There's no way that your claim that it hasn't been sufficiently tested stands up here, at all. It's a transparent lie.

And on the topic of ethics, we have more than enough data on the rate of bodily damage and death caused by the covid virus to make vaccines available to the public as soon as practically possible. Any public policy of holding back vaccines for years of small-scale testing in the face of such mass death would be tantamount to genocidal negligence.
I use it as a dedicated Beat Saber machine and I still think it's worth the money. It runs BS more than well enough and it's wireless. Like you I bought other games but nothing else has been anywhere near as enjoyable!
> you are free to negotiate contracts within the limits.

So then I am not free to negotiate, and me and this other company right to engage in a mutual agreement are prevented.

Yeah, that's my point.

> I fail to see how the right to work for less pay

I get paid way way way more money than the average unionized tech worker, where they exist.

So actually, my ability to negotiate for myself, outside of the restrictions of a union, has worked out pretty darn well for me.

> the absolute minimum fair pay

Oh that's funny. You aren't aware that union contracts cover much more things than just a minimum wage.

The whole point is that many union provisions can be bad for many people and are not strict benefits for workers.
Yes, all disputes will get resolved in some way. Worst case is that they drag it out for 60 days.

Source: https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/respond-to-co...
I can’t find the previous link which discuss this, but does anyone know the repercussions of someone who refuses to get the vaccine? Is that an automatic work from home, or does the company say no, you are returning to the office and you must get vaccinated?
I agree. I think the problem is that most people don't see (why would they?) the problem areas.
Wheelchairs! What a pain. Try find one that answers a different need? It's impossible or super expensive. I have been pushing and pulling family members for years, across gravel, snow, rocks, stairs. Idea! Mountain bike.
I wanted to find one with mountain bike tires. Seems easy. Not at all. I finally bought a cheapo fat bike mountain bike, removed the wheels with the axles, and mounted them to a normal wheelchair. It's amazing. We go off road. Across rocks and gravel. Into creeks.
But you can't buy one.
The sin is the same: Being successful when I'm not. Off with their heads!
> Millions of people would lose contact with friends and family that they have no other connections with.

Not at all.

> Companies that depend on Facebook advertising would disappear.

Good.

> People would be locked out of OAuth accounts on thousands of websites.

OK? If you were federating your auth via Facebook it was only a matter of time until you were locked out for one arbitrary reason or another. This just seems like an acceleration of a good thing.

> It would be catastrophic.

From your perspective, I can see that. But there are other perspectives out that that are not completely beholden to Facebook.
Intel Exaggerates Foundry Win with QCOM/Amazon, No Deals for Manufacturing Chips
But it's not a PS5 competitor. It's supposed to be a competitor to computers + smartphones (or at least that's the hype.. the 'next big thing'). These numbers are tiny for such hype.
Even if you draw the funny arbitrary line of “Elon wasn’t a founder” - the previous founders were technical as well.
But taking Tesla from a lotus kit, to the brand it is today makes me think he really is a founder.

No comment on the Stanford piece, though it seems believable…
Will they? I've hardly noticed any changes in my rental market, now that things are normalizing.

I agree, government transferring the wealth indirectly would be better, but it's politically infeasible. Barring that, I'd rather help renters and hurt landlords than the other way around, since the latter are generally more stable.

Also, I don't think the effort to distribute money was really a failure, I think some states squandered it because they didn't want to give handouts, but it was likely one of the largest disburtions of direct aid in the history of the United States and coupled with other programs avoided an economic disaster that would have dwarfed 2008.
Which personally I can't help but hear as "But she's got a new hat!".

I don't share OPs depression over it, but it is pretty disappointing.
Docz Ask Me Anything Session in Aviyel Community
Hey guys, tomorrow I'll be with my friend and co-maintainer of Docz Renato Benkendorf in an AMA (Ask me Anything) session in the Aviyel Community talking about the Docz, answering some questions and helping people!

So, I invite you to participate with us!
I bet there are a minority of accounts that are responsible for a lot of spam/fake news. Time for Facebook to start shadow banning?
The YouTuber is Derek Muller, his channel is Veritasium (https://youtube.com/c/veritasium), I really like his content and I would recommend it to anyone!
You don't _need_ a lawyer, but I'd at least hire one for an hour to review such a letter. If the case proceeds, that counterclaim will almost certainly be entered into evidence, and you'd want someone with more background and knowledge to make sure you're saying the right things.
Tap the menu button. Tap “Turn off touchscreen”. That takes care of what is a major annoyance.

This is on my 3rd gen Oasis. I don’t know if this feature is available on yours.
> Keep the anal area clean by washing with water every day. Don’t use soaps as they will reduce the natural oils that protect the anus and may make the area dry and itchy. Use aqueous cream or a soap-free cleanser instead.

Non AMP link: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/anal-care
Complete guess here but I would suspect that means some items are made in Germany and some are made in China or elsewhere (meaning, even the same model may be produced in both locations). If they are printing "MADE IN GERMANY" directly on it then it will be obvious which ones aren't, because they would lack the print. And that would likely degrade the perceived quality of those not made in Germany vs those that are. And Sennheiser doesn't want you to think that some of their items are built with better quality than others.

Of course, people can look at the fine-print and determine where it was made. But that's a lot less obvious than the silk screened badge not being there.
Simple distribution laws are going to ensure that the bulk of claims go against smaller channels, and that those channels will have little recourse but than public outcry and outrage to seek redress.

But larger channels have been hit, notably Adam Neely, at 1.38m subscribers, by Warner Chappel, over his defence of Katy Perry's copyright in a Warner recording, for a segment of the video illustrating the source of the claim against Perry, and not the Perry piece Warner claimed infringement of by Neely.

https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/adam-neely-youtube-copyrig...

https://youtube.com/user/havic5

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8
Realistically it'll be like this until they get some good competition (if ever) or some laws change
Series C funding round announcement
So just unfollow her. It sounds like you have some major issues with her personally anyway so how is this a failure by the platform and not just you subjecting yourself to a negative situation?
It doesn't work directly through YouTube; only big companies get to do that.

What you can do is release your content as music (e.g. your channel intro music or similar) through a music distributor that offers Content ID services, and claim it on yourself. Then it becomes a revenue share, so instead of stealing 100% of your revenue, a fraudulent claim only takes 50%. This is, no joke, legitimately a thing people have done.
AT&T is highly regulated, what they can and can’t do has little to do with the average company.

That said they are allowed to do quite a bit such as blocking calls between individuals.
Please go find an example of a fact-checker checking something that can be proven scientifically as objective truth. It doesn’t happen.
I would argue that if you have a "Item" class then it is the set of all concretions/specializations.

By creating a tool class you haven't extended the set, you've instantiated a subset of the set of items that contains the items that are tools but nothing else. It's obvious why it is so difficult to represent a tool that is also e.g. a consumable item. The set of items that are both tools and consumables is a superset of the set of tools and set of items. You can't represent it through a second layer of inheritance because it only lets you create a subset of the items that are tools. You obviously have to use multiple inheritance for something like this because it will let you form the set of items that are both tools and consumables. Of course, multiple inheritance is very messy so you should try to avoid it.
Big tech is cultivating a rather toxic environment these days.
Since when did Apple delete your account because you didn't post enough statuses or photos of your kid on the Apple social network?