skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as simple as lethality. Generally a pathogen needs to cause some sort of symptom in the host to spread well, but the more severe the symptoms the more aggressively the person would isolate. Insofar as the vaccines mostly worked upon their initial release, you can imagine a new strain that is much more virulent (replicates significantly faster, etc); such a strain could cause a vaccinated individual who would normally be completely asymptomatic and therefore not infectious [hopefully we all accept by now that there is pre-symptomatic spread but not asymptomatic spread, if not you're behind a year on the research], to become symptomatic and therefore capable of transmitting. If that same strain were to infected an unvaccinated individual who had never been exposed to the real virus, it might cause much more severe symptoms in them.

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There's also the separate phenomenom of immune escape. The current major vaccines (mRNA and adenovirus-vector) all just make the body's own cells express (generate) the spike protein (S2 subunit), and nothing else. So specifically point mutations in the S2 subunit could allow some degree of artificial immunity evasion (it wouldn't work against those naturally infected because they were infected with whole, live-replicating virus and thus have much more diverse epitopes for their immune system to "learn" and possibly a stronger immune stimulus in the first place)
It's a question of ankle mobility, a lot of people have very tight Achilles tendons and can't do it without a lot of stretching, flexibility exercises and practice.

Depending on how close you are to being able to squat with flat feet, you can put books or something under your heels.
Oh yes. There's nothing like doing 3 noisy slow fade captchas correctly only to be failed for unknown reasons and asked to do even more. It's like it's wondering how much free work it can get out of users before they get mad and give up.
Airbnb Fraud Escalation
We had security concerns on an Reservation so we cancelled it. We found out the the person that made the reservation is not staying. The person that made the reservation gave the door code information to other people and lied to them. There are now second-hand guests from the cancelled stay illegally in the unit.

Needless to say this is a huge security risk not to mention illegal and fraudulent.

Support from Airbnb has been subpar. Anyone have contacts to get a higher level of support?
Your conclusion assumes bad faith on the part of the moderators.

An alternative assumption is that there are strict quality guidelines that are well-enforced by good moderators.
So, duels at dawn? No? Talking about it? But you don't like to hear about it. Uhm, hmmm, how does an adult handle a situation?
When I hear stories like these, I always think that nobody is doing stuff like this these days; but in retrospect, I think it's just that I've never asked or seen it discussed.. so..

What are you guys doing these days that has this same hacker-ethos applied to it?
My Data Backup Plan – 2021
It is apparently impossible to google search for the actual nickname of the rock. In duckduckgo you can find it easily, which suggests that google forcefully removed the search results that mention that word in many natural searches for it. I'm a bit proficient at google-fu and pages containing the stupid word just do not appear.

I'm not from the USA and I feel ignorant to say anything about the racial issues there. But the technical depth of this thing is, to say the least, curious.
I think it's not about proving that the long isolation is possible, but rather about carrying this experiment in a controlled environment and doing a study.
This comment is also incorrect almost from beginning to end; "open source" has always required the same set of freedoms as "free software". The only correct statements in your comment are that Chris Peterson coined the phrase and that Eric Raymond took the lead in its further promotion.
My limited understanding is that for most states, if a store, even if accidentally, sells to a minor and gets caught a certain amount of times, the store will lose it's liquor license.

This results in the following problems:

* Underage College students and teenagers are very creative at appearing way older than they are if it means getting booze

* People who are of legal age, particularly older men, will often get offended if carded since it implies the person asking thinks they are young looking

Making it a policy to just check the ids of everyone decreases the amount of people offended and decreases the risk of losing your license which could destroy your business.

I imagine your varying experiences across multiple states is a combination of individual business decisions and how strict that state is with enforcement.
You seem to be assuming that the producer/grower and retailer are the same company. There are often disconnects in supply chains like this where someone is hemorrhaging money while others in the chain are doing quite well. And besides if your production costs are high there's a point where lowering the price no longer helps. eg. the cost to package it for retail distribution just adds more even more loss.
Absolutely. It's possible to be firm/assertive while being polite. Not called "screaming". Even "screaming" is very low on the scale of "abuse".
windows are weak points.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28098253
Because the barge is carefully positioned to be in a place this exact rocket drops from the sky.

Satellites are not 'sitting in orbit', they are falling on earth extremely fast, and not reaching it only because they fall sideways. Since they go very fast, they have immense momentum. To attack a target you have to steer that momentum elsewhere, and that takes a lot of energy and precision,and you also have a very small attack area for every satellite. So to cover all earth reliably you'll need a constellation with numbers like Musk's Starlink - i.e. thousands of satellites.
Is "consensus-driven" that necessary? I'm thinking how one might argue that it's fundamentally an implementation detail of "append-only," meaning that you don't really have to say it out loud, like "electricity-driven" or "cryptography-powered."
Wouldn't you just use earthlight and normal solar panels? The internet says moonlight is 1/345th the power of sunlight but once you factor in Earth's larger radius and larger albedo you get 1/9th the power of sunlight. IE you just use 10 times as many solar panels to get you through the night.
Verb or adjective?
They’re depressing to me because they are a chore - I don’t think much about them, just as I fail to see the beauty in washing up plates.
I think this is a case of hyperawareness/catastrophizing - upon realizing the mindless interruption of CAPTCHAs, the authors have focused so intensely on the minor discomforts of monotonous, poorly composed, poorly shot pictures that the discomfort has grown through hyperbolic focus into a soul-destroying burden.

It's like anaphylaxis - a completely outsized and self-harmful reaction to a minor disturbance.
https://youtu.be/d-Klzumjulo
The amount of excuse making in this thread is insane.
Harvard has 98% and that would be the high bar. 93-95 for MIT.
Leave the phone at home. That's a technical solution to the police in your pocket.
You don't really need the vowels. I remember a windows license key that started with FCKGW.
Interestingly, antivaxxers have been told their actions put others at risk, but they believe personal liberties are more important.

If that sentence you quoted comes to pass and a vaccine protects those who receive it, yet makes the disease more dangerous for everyone else, it will be the exact opposite situation. How many antivaxxers will cling to their ideals of personal liberties when they are on the losing end of the situation?

Of course, it works the opposite, how many have thought it irresponsible of antivaxxers to put others at risk, but then would ourselves put others at risk with such a vaccine?

Human interactions are interesting and complicated.
No.

Because when you're as large as Google, you don't ask your underlings to write book reports on things that are of strategic business importance. You go through the proper channels and get them to hire qualified people to cut through the bullshit.
This is today's cancel culture, unfortunately. Dramatize and exaggerate things. And hypocrisy, but that's a separate issue.
Ah, I see.

I touched on this a bit in another comment but there's more factors than lethality at play. If a virus makes you sufficiently symptomatic you're much more likely to isolate. Conversely if it remains completely asymptomatic you will spread very little. So they're targeting a sweet spot of symptomaticity. You can very easily imagine a strain that would lead to the sweet spot of symptomaticity in a vaccinated person, which therefore would tend to "overshoot" and be excessively pathogenic in an equivalent unvaccinated individual.

In fact, this is a bit of a tangent, but I suspect part of the reason the vaccinated are spreading Delta so much, is that it causes normal cold symptoms in them (which btw the original SARS-2 did too despite how people would act like it's way different); and imo because the media and the "expert" class has so sufficiently scared them that SARS-2 is this scary supervirus, they assume their run-of-the-mill cold symptoms can't be COVID and keep engaging in society without getting tested or anything *

As very circumstantial evidence of the above hypothesis, I would point to https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009787. This was before vaccination but it's a case report of people who actually had SARS-2 (if we can trust PCR; given the symptoms I think in this case they really did have it), and indeed had COVID (+ pre-existing risk factors) bad enough that they ended up developing strokes. And yet even though these were actual covid patients who eventually developed strokes:

> "Social distancing, isolation, and reluctance to present to the hospital may contribute to poor outcomes. Two patients in our series delayed calling an ambulance because they were concerned about going to a hospital during the pandemic."

So my interpretation of the above (this is me reading between the lines) is that even though they felt like shit, they thought actual COVID was even worse than that and thus avoided going to the hospital so they wouldn't catch COVID, not knowing that they already had it...

* Note I don't necessarily think this (unintentional spread) is even a bad thing, I am firmly on the side of "SARS-CoV-2 will propagate through the population no matter what we do and the more we flail about and needlessly damage ourselves the worse it will be". But from the perspective of the average vaccinated person, they are probably very against the concept of spreading it and thus if they were aware that their "cold" was really SARS-2 they'd act way differently
Approximate dealer repair cost:

1 new 3.5-inch 20 MB HDA ..... 488.33

Holy moly, that's a lot
I find it infuriating because it pits me against other people without explaining what the rules are.

If it says "select a sign" and I see there's also a sign far away in the distance only a few pixels in size, I select it because it is a sign. I think most people don't because I frequently get many tests after, because I'm not human enough for them.
Google is generally loathe to fire unless they absolutely have to, so this explanation tracks.
Same with age here in Europe. I believe they call it family, ugh! ;)
A robot would never give up.
Lunar Helium-3 is a mirage. There is no plausible scenario where trying to gather lunar He-3 turns out well.
The stats_agg + extractor function pattern is exactly what I was thinking about in my last paragraph :-). Very cool!
And Lucasarts with SCUMM.
Google was more aligned to making human communication searchable. Now it’s about assimilating that information and actually making it available (to the chagrin of the content creator)
Why Silicon Valley's Asian Americans still feel like a minority
why silicon valley's asian americans still feel like a minority
Right on, it's kind of surprising how quickly our interest in the Moon waned off after the first series of Apollo missions
As someone who comes from a very poor country, I feel like academics don’t do enough to help understand why some countries succeed and why some don’t. They blame “colonialism” or some such thing, but that doesn’t explain this. Argentina was rich in the early 20th century:

> Something has gone awry in what was the most successful of all the 19th-century liberal republics in Spanish America. In the early 20th century, Argentina’s per capita GDP ranked among the world’s top ten, on a par with Australia and Canada and ahead of France and Italy.

What explains the coups and political instability? If the GDP is the same, why is the government of Canada and Australia so much more stable than Argentina? This seems to be one of the biggest things holding back Latin America, but there seems to be no effort to understand what’s causing it.
End of the day, it's a job. Requirements change. You have to do things you don't want to do that might not even seem related. If you don't want to work under someone who does that stuff then leave.

I yelled at a CEO because he asked me to do something that wasn't related to software engineering role. He stopped asking me and anyone else in eng due to that confrontation. But - guess what - he wanted to fired every single day I worked there after that incident. I only remained because I had a lot of people protecting me.

So - you have to ask - are you willing to lose your job over it? If so - great - see ya! If not - then take your lumps and get it done.
It's not the security or trust that is even the issue.

Even if the footage was never recorded or deleted instantly after. Even if it was 100% anonymous and 100% guaranteed secure, it still feels like some creepy dystopian nightmare.

A system like this means we've catastrophically failed with technology. It's too dehumanizing. At this point, burn it all to the ground, we're done.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Opposes ‘Hasty’ Cryptocurrency Regulation
> lose effectiveness sooner than originally thought

To be precise, have partially reduced effectiveness against transmission of a variant of the virus evolved after the creation of the vaccine, while still preventing almost all severe illness/death.

Possible ways forward: (1) give people additional booster shots of the existing vaccine; (2) develop a modified vaccine booster targeted more precisely to the variant virus; (3) keep public health measures in place (e.g. requiring everyone to wear face masks indoors) so long as Re > 1.

> What if that's unachievable though?

It has been more or less achievable for past vaccinations. It is a logistical challenge to be sure, but modern society is certainly capable of it if it is prioritized.
> Can we not imply that "on the spectrum" means being an asshole?

Conversely, can we also not imply that being an asshole is excusable by being "on the spectrum"?
I also mourn the loss of User Agents. Why can't they just let bots browse?
An issue with PTs is that they don't (in the US) have the full diagnostic capability of an MD. Particularly when the issue centers around the neck and spine, going to an MD first and then getting a referral to PT is very important. At that point the PT can be informed of the actual physical issue and develop a proper course of treatment.

Now, if an issue is chronic (like my shoulder problems), there's not much point in going to the MD except to get a "Yep, it's your shoulder again, still don't want opioids? Ok, here's the referral for 10-20 PT sessions so you can get it covered by BCBS."
> Apple says: "The threshold is set to provide an extremely high level of accuracy and ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account."

I'd rather have evidence for that statement first, since these are just funny numbers. I couldn't find false-positive rates for PhotoDNA either. How many people have been legally affected by false positives so far, how many had their images viewed? The thing is, how exactly the system works has to be kept secret, because it can otherwise be circumvented. So these technical numbers will be unverifiable. The outcomes will not, and this might be a nice reason for a FOIA request.

But who knows, it might not matter, since it's a closed source, effectively uncontrollable program running soon on millions of devices against the interest of their owners and no one is really accountable so false positives can be treated as 'collateral damage'.
>And what's the alternative, Excel?

Lots of GUI based alternatives for data munging such as: Easy Data Transform, Alteryx, Knime. Whether they are better than text based tools, such as R or Python+Pandas, depends a lot on your use case and experience.
How is it corruption? The website’s owners consciously choose to use said bouncer who has agreed to accept compensation in the form of making the website’s visitors solve captcha.
> The opioid epidemic was largely caused by the idea of them being non addictive

the parent comment said "non addictive" which I said wasn't true. You said

> The claim was that the risk of addiction was extremely small

which is another way of saying they thought they could manage addiction that did occur. They thought this because they had a time-release pill which made the risk of problematic addiction "extremely small" as you say
Sounds fair TBH.
The iron age was a long time ago, America had not been 'discovered' yet.

Just two pictures to give you an idea of what has been lost:

https://i.pinimg.com/550x/73/62/26/736226b8437e6ce9eb1bab42e...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7a4mTiIIAEsESF?format=jpg

Multiply by a few million or so...
Will we ever run out of CAPTCHAs that computer vision can't solve? When reCAPTCHA was started, it used difficult-to-read letters to digitize books, but that's long gone at this point. It seems like Google's been feeding us all pictures of street features to identify for years. Someday adversarial models will catch up and be able to pass these CAPTCHAs (or maybe all CAPTCHAs) right? What then?
And let's not forget the subtle dread that comes with getting it wrong. Does that tiny edge of the traffic light that sticks into the next box make that box count as a traffic light as well? Oh no, I get another one - I must have gotten it wrong and now the computers think I'm one of them!
Like the other comment mentioned, you can widen your stance, so your belly goes between your thighs. An Indian-style squat with the thighs touching the calves already is a wide(ish) stance and puts the torso sort of between the thighs, so you adjust a bit based on that, depending on how much room you need.

Look at how a toddler squats, that's basically it.

And kudos on your weight loss already! Squats are for everyone, really. It's one of those ways our bodies can naturally be more flexible than we might think. Now, if you have issues getting back up from a full squat, you may need a helper or a handhold like the edge of a table, at least in the beginning, and that's fine. I can't do one-legged squats (pistols) without stabilization, I just can't.
Ay, I did miss that, didn't go up enough to see the parent :facepalm:
China do spend more on defense than policing, at lease nominally, per page 5 of the 2021 budget proposal hosted on Xinhua:

"National defense spending was 1.267992 trillion yuan, 100% of the budgeted figure.
Public security expenses totaled 183.59 billion yuan, 100.2% of the budgeted figure. "

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/download/20210313budget.pdf
I've only ever configured a mikrotik router in the datacenter and it was a good experience. We did not wind up deploying it though so I can't speak to it's reliability, uptime, or anything.

PS hi pdimitar ;)
In the case of Delta it almost certainly didn't. But the fact that something happened through one mechanism doesn't mean that it can't happen through another mechanism.
Here is an observation, make of it what you will:

These are the environments I’ve been in where it has been very common for people to scream at each other, both loudly and often:

- banking
- venture
- consulting

These are the environments where I have not seen this behavior:

- academia
- tech
- an operating company

I’ll tell you what makes it tolerable and normal versus abusive: if a subordinate is “allowed” to yell back.
Uhm, isn't pushing back against such "adversarial behaviour" one of the adult ways to deal with such behaviours? What are you trying to say?
Code doesn't exist in a vacuum, it exists in the context of our general knowledge.

I would argue that the only comment really useful here would be one pointing to the paper/wikipedia article/whatever that explains the algorithm.

If no such article/reference exists and/or your implementation has nuances you want to explain, that's where technical documentation should come in. For instance, check the linux kernel's explanation of circular buffers and how to use them [1].

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

> What does it mean to "relax an edge"? Why do we need to do it V-1 times? Does order matter?

These are questions related to understanding the algorithm, not the implementation. There are much better ways to convey that information (including examples, diagrams, lengthy explanations, etc.). Trying to convey that information through comments in an implementation is an exercise in __not__ using the best tool for the job ;)
If you can derive them, what are the chances someone else can do so too?
It's amazing that they still charge for something smaller than an average packet.
I haven't heard of those. I'll look into them and see if any are at my local Kroger. But I'm fixing to move countries so I hope I can find better options there. I know other stuff has less sugar than America (bread was a real pain in the ass to find without sugar!)
A billion gram? You mean a thousand ton?
It's absolutely fine for an exec to ask an employee to do "x" task, where there is value for the company, even if it is not in the employee's scope. This is a moot point, and I'm astonished we're even debating this. What has the world come to?

So, imagine I ask my developer or even my accountant on a one-off, rare occasion: "write me a critique of this new UX design". He replies "How dare you ask me about UX design!". What a strange answer.
The consequence would be vaccine makers are now gods on earth with the power of life and death.
I’m from a much poorer country (Bangladesh) but I see the same thing. We squander a large fraction of what little we have to this sort of corruption.
It is likely that permanent low gravity will kill them even before boredom and depression from realization that the rest of their lives will have to be spent in those small confines.

(Low gravity is extremely unhealthy. And even a relatively short 1-week stay in such conditions severely affects cardio muscles, so that super-healthy astronauts have to exercise for several hours per day to keep their heart in shape)
Fixed the typo, if by that you were referring to the construction "elite schools like Oxford" to mean "elite schools that are as elite as Oxford".

And yes, it's not just community colleges. But those are the worst part.
Then how we should solve captcha problem? Captcha should be easy to do for humans, easy to verify but hard to solve for bots. It should be humane and happy. How to do it?