skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single dominant variant has originated in a country without mass vaccination. There is data. We know that no variants of concern have been caused by vaccines.

We all know that if vaccines are not effective enough for herd immunity, then cases of variants due to vaccines are likely to happen. They haven't yet, and it is possible they never happen.
Currently on HN's front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077258
Pragmatic people install them in a VM or inside Flatpaks and make the permissions more restrictive. Dual boot between two encrypted isolated distros is also possible. It doesn't seem so overkill when you have to use not only proprietary software but also things like npm and containers.

Many pretend they don't use proprietary software while they still install what could be called malware directly from Steam. We're all forced to use proprietary software inside our CPUs and other hardware anyway. It would be easier to fight back if more people used and supported free software and hardware to move society to a better place. By the way I'm not implying that being open source or not has something to do with software quality.
Or catching the virus and being more or less asymptomatic.
It's really easy to imagine: think of a neighborhood of politically engaged homeowners, whose sidewalks are covered in sleeping homeless people around the clock.

The residents of that neighborhood don't have the power to end capitalism or the money to secure homes for all who need them (bare minimum $500k each). But they do have the power to get an ordinance passed.
It may help your understanding a whole lot to realize that, in fact, the REAL problem REALLY IS the buildup of burnable stuff because of past wildfire policy.

Climate change explains why it is all catching on fire now. But if we had the forests that we had a century ago, and current climate conditions, we would have far smaller fires than we would if we had current forests and climate conditions from a century ago.

Did you know that in a healthy forest, most of the mature trees do not get killed by the fire when a fire comes through? It is easy to see that it has to be true - trees survive centuries and fires come through much more often than that. And the reason why it is true is that when you have minimal underbrush, it burns past quickly and doesn't catch the trunk on fire. But we have enough fuel that it burns, and stays burning long enough to catch the whole tree. Which generates such intense heat that you get local weather conditions that dry out the next area so that when it burns, its trees will catch fire more easily.

Guess what? Climate change may start the fire and make it hard to fight. But fuel load is the biggest factor in how intense it is. And that is the result of past forest policy.
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A lot of software development is just "executing recipes" and there's nothing wrong with that: https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA?t=1363
But isn't all that essentially cultural knowledge?

If you compare the art and technology of Homo sapiens 50,000 years ago vs 50 years ago... it's clear that 50,000 years ago gives no inkling of Homo sapiens' intelligence.

So how could we possibly infer that Neanderthals were less intelligent? How could we possibly separate their intelligence from their state of cultural and technology evolution?

Edit: indeed, a quick Google search reveals that the idea that Neanderthals were less intelligent than humans has no real evidence, that it's now considered to be an outdated/discredited view. So wherever you seem to be getting your facts and conclusions from, appears to be wrong.
Great publicity for Godot which i believe will get as heavy and important as Blender.
Transactional DDL changes is a huge one. Postgres allows me to modify the table schema in a transaction, and rollback changes as if it was a mere data transaction, if something fails mid-migration. Makes maintaining production databases through upgrades and schema changes much less stressful.
What’s that got to do with my post? The flu season places extra pressure on the hospitals - I’m not comparing the two viruses. Don’t get so triggered.
> at least making it possible to run Affinity on Proton/Wine.

I would be overjoyed even it was unofficial/at-your-own-risk. They previously stated on their forums that they were worried that they wouldn't be able to deliver the experience that they wanted[1]... or recoup costs.

[1]: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/626-affini...
Yeah, it is in theory, but even small businesses incorporated abroad with US persons involved in them put huge reporting burdens on the US person. Form 5471 and friends make this stuff look straightforward. Most of the time I find my frustration isn’t about how much money I am paying in taxes, but just how much dull and confusing paperwork I have to understand. Even trained professionals who spend their whole lives doing this get confused by US tax compliance for people who have international lives. The US needs to realise how important the a positive reputation in its expat community would be for its soft power.
Yeah, I find it deeply frustrating. We've known about the dangers of wildfire suppression for literally decades, and yet it's taken a very long time for forestry management practices to change. There's likely many reasons for that, from institutional momentum to a lack of funding, but something has to change or forests will simply burn uncontrolled and the problem will solve itself...
How does that data support the case that climate change is the main culprit? It shows no record fires from ‘77-‘03, and a lot of record fires since ‘03. Why wasn’t there a steady progression, if the cause is slow-and-steady climate change?
Calling someone snarky is snarky and HN ALWAYS downvotes comments about downvoting which means this is an echo chamber and basically a waste of time as your comment so well illustrates.

My election votes do matter however and I may use them to downvote certain candidates which was the topic at hand.
So how do you support people without smartphones?
The delta variant of coronavirus seems to have a R0 in the 8-10 range. That's why the case counts are rising so fast now.
Yes I did, sorry !

Still sparks a lively debate, though ;-)
Reminds me of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26344650
I learned about Paolo Soleri from William Gibson's Count Zero (sequel to the much more well-known Neuromancer). Gibson always had a knack for foreseeing not just the automobile, but also the traffic jam:

> But today’s episode kept veering weirdly away from Michele’s frantically complex romantic entanglements, which Bobby had anyway never bothered to keep track of, and jerking itself into detailed socioarchitectural descriptions of Soleri-style mincome arcologies. Some of the detail, even to Bobby, seemed suspect; he doubted, for instance, that there really were entire levels devoted to the sale of ice-blue shaved-velour lounge suites with diamond-buckled knees, or that there were other levels, perpetually dark, inhabited exclusively by starving babies. This last, he seemed to recall, had been an article of faith to Marsha, who regarded the Projects with superstitious horror, as though they were some looming vertical hell to which she might one day be forced to ascend.

> Other segments of the jack-dream reminded him of the Knowledge channel Sense/Net piped in free with every stim subscription; there were elaborate animated diagrams of the Projects’ interior structure, and droning lectures in voice-over on the life-styles of various types of residents. These, when he was able to focus on them, seemed even less convincing than the flashes of ice-blue velour and feral babies creeping silently through the dark. He watched a cheerful young mother slice pizza with a huge industrial waterknife in the kitchen corner of a spotless one-room. An entire wall opened onto a shallow balcony and a rectangle of cartoon-blue sky.
Can't you just stake more coins in PoS and receive more income? I though this was how PoS coins worked. How else would you even have a notion of people requried to satisfy the condition "all people get the same amount"? Surely not photo ID?
I think we have different definitions as to what constitutes a large array. The ability to create photonic arrays is much more limited than what we have in elections. This is due to the rather large size of the elements (~0.3mm per device) as well as the fact that there there is loss in each element. Such a device would be ~76mm on one side. That’s not including any other elements or devices including optical coupling for light sources (no native lasers in silicon).

The other dimension could be smaller but will have practical limits due to thermal and/or cross-talk between elements depending on the technology used.

Optical computing is analog so the cascaded loss matters. If we assume a 1x256 array and we biased the MZMs such that we propagated a “1” to the end of the array and assume each MZM only has 0.12dB of loss; it would have 30dB of loss at the other end. So the “1” would have 1000x less power at the far end. This is only a toy problem to show how things would scale in a very simple way. In reality these devices will have much more loss per device.
Did you see the line near the bottom of the article:

>>However, McCann said her brother had asthma in an earlier tweet on 3 July.
" Forests take thousands upon thousands of years to mature."

I can't be too many thousands of years. It doesn't take too many thousands to completely change the nature of forests (spruce to pine for example).
You can actually use it in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and more. However you have to live with it being in English for now
There’s a little bit of emotional manipulation in here. By asking “do you feel guilt“ assumes there is guilt to be felt. “Those who work for the government, do you feel guilt?” The same question could be applied in a number of ways, but it frontload the negative emotion by implying that the existence of guilt is there.

Better way to ask that question:

Those of you who work at Facebook, Amazon, Palantir, etc. Does the act of your job or workplace evoke any strong emotions?
What I mean is we need to let wildfires do their thing and stop trying to terraform and control every facet of the environment.
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I've hacked together a web app that removes the background of your videos for free:)

How do you like it?
I love me some partial indexes, exclusion constraints, range types, etc... Not even mentioning the GIS capability.
> Back in time it was known for being a fast way to multiply and divide by powers of 2. This hasn't been true for a long time now, and in the rare cases it is, most optimizing compilers will bitwise shift where in your source code you divide or multiply.

Shifting is still faster than multiplication--a shift is a 1-cycle operation, multiplication typically 3 cycles. Division is somewhere in the region of a dozen cycles or more. (Also, division is one of the assembly operations whose time is data-dependent). So it's faster to replace a multiplication with a single shift (but not multiple shifts), and to replace division with shifts or even multiplies--there's a fast division replacement that replaces a division by a small constant with a multiply-hi and shift.

Will compilers replace multiplies and divides with shifts? Kind of. If you multiply a value with a constant (after inlining/constant propagation/etc.) that's a power of two, or if you multiply it with an expression 1 << var, then that will be converted to a shift.

For division, it's even more complicated because shifts and division by power of 2 are not equivalent if the type is signed: -1 / 2 is 0 but -1 >> 1 is -1, so the transform is not legal unless the compiler can find out either a) the value is never negative or b) the division is exact.
Kdenlive supports automatic subtitles created with VOSK now btw. This makes it a lot more accessible for non-tech folks.
Coqui is phenomenally good and well done, so this new data should lower the barrier to entry for the represented languages.
Again, that is not the same as scanning a local machine for it. That is all things that are on Microsoft's own servers or in their search results. Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare all have features like this. It's not the same as scanning local machines.
It's possible to run SQLite on an NFS share (with caveats: file locking must work correctly, WAL mode does not work at all). AWS EFS Elastic Filesystem specifically calls out its compatibility with SQLite. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/03/amazon-el...

I would definitely not try using this in a write heavy workload but could be interesting to consider in a write occasionally scenario.
Was it not the case that most of the vaccine producers were providing them at cost?
Pharma makes more money on average from covid infections in the US than vaccinations.
I took bets with others on when we'd be allowed return to the office. This was in March 2020.

Some said April, some stated June or July. One outrageous bet was January 2021 which we all took as a bit of a joke. No way would this last that long. "People will wear masks and isolate and we'll beat this".

We made the same bet in March 2021, laughing at our previous bad estimates. The furthest out was again January next year. That was a ridiculous suggestion we thought. "The vaccine is here it should be over soon".

I wonder how 2022 will go.
> I do wonder though if some of the second cases aren't people going in with the flu and having some covid fragments in their nose.

This is why using PCR tests cranked up to absurd cycle counts isn't the best way to determine _infection_.
Awesome, great to hear! I've been using clickhouse for a long time and although we haven't contributed significantly to development, random bugs and issues have been quite painful in the past. Looking forward to what you're able to do!

p.s. Please don't add in-process DNS caching ;-)

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/5287
I would imagine this might not be an ear mechanics issue, but a brain processing issue. Some animals have dedicated "processor" and other do not. While in the larger more agile human brain it's simply one of many features. Maybe?
We just had a voluntary return to office 2 weeks ago, which was canceled after 1 week with the rise of the delta variant. I'm pretty sure we will be in limbo until spring.
You're making the argument that it might happen in the future.

The original argument was that it did happen.

Beyond that, the main factor for vaccine induced immune escape is incomplete vaccination or ineffective vaccination, not targeted vaccination. The existing vaccines are not even that targeted as they target the entire spike protein - the only other antigen source would be the capsid.
Or your other citizenships are solely from the European Union. (You can be a dual/tri/quad EU|German citizen)
Then people will be empowered to enforce community standards instead of being held back by a State force that doesn't do its job but prevents them from doing theirs.
This is great. I read the first edition cover to cover years ago as I first got interested in data science. 6 years and 3 data scientist jobs later and I still find myself going back from time to time.
>Even people without an "underlying health condition" have died.

This isn't a useful cohort.

Age. Pre-existing conditions. Vitamin D deficiency.

So many factors that narrow the funnel.

You can narrow down your odds of complications with specificity - there's no need to discuss with these generalizations.
Confidently incorrect and took a lot of words to do it. Bravo!
LSP-mode has really reinvigorated emacs, at least for me. With flycheck and a language server it's magical.

Writing go, it even auto-formats your code and auto-adds imports.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Are you saying that we should be “pushing for herd immunity through both means” as in we should be pushing for vaccinations and pushing people to spread the disease as fast as possible?
We don't have enough doctors and nurses to staff the ICU beds bolted to the floors of the hospital.

Those field hospitals are surge capacity; and work with hurricanes and earthquakes where a single part of the country is affected. You can bring in volunteers and reservists from other areas to create capacity.

When the emergency is everywhere, and on-going, all of your surge capacity is gone.
In nature, males can impregnate many females and do not have to necessarily be around to rear their many offspring. So it is advantageous to have many females that can procreate with less males to increase the population size at a higher rate than more males and less females to mate with.
Phashes can have collisions, and the false positive rate increases exponentially when you use a fuzzy metric like hamming distance to find derivatives of a source image.
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> And now, he won't go down for killing thousands of elderly and the ensuing cover-up, no - he's going to go down (big maybe!) for being a sexual creep.

A politician killing a few (hundred) thousand people is rarely that big a black mark on their legacy, especially among their supporters.
You still need to pay for a devkit even with Godot, and be on good terms with Sony, Nintendo, Google and Microsoft, which give tier 1 preference to Unity.
General Availability Microsoft Build of OpenJDK for Apple M1, Windows/Linux ARM
Linux kernel AFAIK has less security issues than Apple. Qubes even less. Not sure what the reason for your insult is.
The worst part for me is not the taxes themselves, but it's that I feel like I have no representation while overseas. When I was living in Australia, my representatives were for the state of Oregon. Not once did one of my assigned representatives nor senators propose legislation meant to help expats overseas, they understandably represented their voter base in Oregon.

It essentially creates a system of taxation without representation; ironically something the country has a deep history fighting against. The number of US expats is enormous, and if they were a state of their own they'd be the 11th most populated state (just ahead of New Jersey). If we're going to tax expats overseas, at the very least they should be provided with senators that are dedicated to fighting for their cause.
About a third of the population claims to go to church regularly. The amount who actually do is somewhat less, surely. And anecdotally, amongst my churchgoing friends & family, especially the non-elderly ones, tithing isn't particularly common. It's pretty common with LDS, though, I understand.
> someone having standing to call BS on Dijkstra

Yes, but he does so respectfully. A lost art…
Those are the right terms.

Even more mind blowing is that the visible screens could have different resolutions. The display hardware could switch modes per scanline while keeping the same output frequencies, so you could have a low-res/high-color screen on the top half of the monitor with a high-res/low-color screen on the bottom half.
> A charitable interpretation is that this law is aimed at Australian residents traveling to other countries for pleasure or non-essential business, contracting covid, flying back home to Australia, and spreading it to others.

That was already restricted. This change targets citizens living abroad and prevents them from going back home. Who could leave by demonstrating that they are residents of an other country.
In this example, isn't the problem that you're declaring column A as an 'int' type when what you really wanted was a string? Column B would be the "correct" one for your use case I'd think, unless you also need numeric sorting behavior.

Is there a type in e.g. Postgresql that would let you store '000123', give you numeric sorting (000123 > 1), and still return the leading zero characters? AFAIK that doesn't exist but I'm not that familiar with DB types.
There's no need to jump to kicking people out of their homes. There are plenty of options:

Special taxing districts and/or community volunteer programs in high fire risk areas to fund fuel removal initiatives -- think a crowd of people with power tools clearing dry grass and underbrush.

Incentives and/or code changes for fire-resistant building. I know of someone in a fire-prone area who had to replace their cedar shake roof with a metal roof because the fire department told them they won't bother trying to save houses with wooden roofs.

Changing expectations and funding for controlled burns, and helping/expecting property owners to assist with clearing debris so that controlled burns remain controlled.

Ecosystem engineering beyond controlled burns -- it's a wicked hard problem, but it might be possible to breed, engineer, or import cultivars and species that are less prone to out-of-control fires.
The reason behind Win95 showing icons much faster than any Amiga was due to the relatively slow filesystem used by the Amiga, not by its hardware speed, which in fact was a bit faster than PCs in a MHz to MHz comparison.
I said:

> I'd imagine that the average ratio would be closer to 2-3x

To which you replied:

> 10% is a gross exaggeration but "the average ratio would be closer to 2-3x" sounds equally exaggerated in the other direction.

My original example pointed to the top of the range and then I used the median, which is the statistically most relevant indicator for comparing salaries.

> 3x != 2x, and I suspect 3x is still too low; also comparing median salaries is not enough.

At this point, you're arguing in bad faith.
There actually are some edge cases even for matching against image blacklists. Google has experience with hitting them because it's used this type of image simhash for years (for shared cloud files at least).

The definition of child porn varies around the world. These systems use the US definition. This is not entirely what you might expect. For example, in the USA the courts have decided that cartoons can be child porn even though no actual children are in the picture. Most of the world does not agree with this, meaning an image can be CP in one place but not another. Is Apple going to enforce the US definitions or the ones where the user actually lives?

In the USA, photos an under-age person takes of themselves can also be considered CP.

What counts as a "child" for sexual purposes also varies around the world. Some countries have a lower age of consent than other places. In some parts of the world the age of consent and the age at which a child stops being a child for CP purposes are different, meaning that a teenager can have sex legally but if they take a photo of themselves doing it, they are trafficking in CP.

Finally, what is actually on these image blacklists? Hardly anyone actually knows because of the third rail nature of CP. Tech firms are often delivered image hashes, not even the images themselves, by third party 'charities' of various kinds and tech workers are - for obvious reasons - not normally given access to the actual pixels. Additionally, appeals from users are invariably ignored because people say "legal issues, it's complicated" and so everyone clams up. If FPs occur there is no way to resolve it and the people who see your appeal, if there even is one, won't be willing to actually look at the image to find out what it was.

It should be obvious how much potential for abuse this hands the people who actually manage these CP databases. Literally any image can be made verboten immediately, without any recourse, and basically nobody will ever find out including the people who shut down the affected users.
A few man have a lot of offspring, which is how it makes sense again.
I agree with everything you say. Whether someone gets this question right or wrong does not really tell you anything about whether you should hire them.

In my defense, at the time I was asking this question question I was fresh out of college and my company gave no training or guidance on how to interview.
No. Not even close. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/vaccine-monopolies-m...