skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best combo so far (June) was AstraZeneca first then Pfizer (not the opposite, nothing then about Moderna), the next good one will be probably intranasal AstraZeneca after some mRNA:

Mixed Oxford/Pfizer vaccine schedules generate robust immune response against COVID-19, finds Oxford-led study:
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-06-28-mixed-oxfordpfizer-vacc... ,

..
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397 - "the ideal
vaccination strategy may use an intramuscular vaccine to elicit a
long-lived systemic IgG response and a broad repertoire of central
memory B and T cells, followed by an intranasal booster that recruits
memory B and T cells to the nasal passages and further guides their
differentiation toward mucosal protection, including IgA secretion and
tissue-resident memory cells in the respiratory tract."
.. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28019151),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28016821 -
Covid-19 Vaccine Intranasal Study (COV008), UK phase 1 trial recruiting,

That said, current vaccines don't provoke the exact same response as an actual infection, particularly in that they don't fully stimulate an immune response in the mucous membranes of the upper repository tract. Here's an Scientific American round-up article (from back in March): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-beat-covid-we-...

[..]

The current vaccines are excellent at helping the body stop the virus as it progresses into the lungs and further (thus the massive reduction in severe illness and deaths). But it still means that there's a period of a few days after initial infection when a vaccinated person has a relatively naive immune response (while the virus is mostly just in the nose/throat). This would then result in the person still being pretty contagious. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28014448).

I would like to see intranasal Novavax (intranasal mRNA is more difficult ?), having good results, as an option to this mix..
Amazon Drops 'Draconian' Policy on Making Games After Work Hours
> I am skeptical this was the "right" path, broadly defined.

Yes, it was the wrong path. I am sceptical too. But even with some modicum of a different government, they were uninterested in doing anything to actually prevent the taliban.

Maybe I'm wrong and we'll see them finally re-align to fight against them. But... I'm not holding my breath.
That's exactly what I meant by "any "var" could be replaced with "let" at a different scope":

let foo;
if (checkForSomething()) {
foo = 2;
} else {
foo = 3;
}
How would any largish business buy office buildings? I'm sure beneficiaries don't want personal liability.
I had to buy my house under a trust to avoid a stalker because the ownership records are public. It's still possible to find me if you search the trust name (but you need to know the name first). It's been enough obscurity so far. I loathe the idea of public records required to show my name.
Businesses don't have one owner. Think about all of the properties that a company like Apple owns.

Now, if you're specifically referring to residential properties, maybe.... although there are lots of mixed-use properties, and ownership of land can be separate from the house that's on it, etc
Well we are "pivoting" to asia. Apparently, that's the new battlefront. Funding unrest in myanmar now that the hong kong fiasco failed. Also a few black presidents/leaders died in the last few months. No doubt isis will magically show up all over africa and we'll need to set up more bases there in the near future. God knows the people who want iran and venezuela taken out are still around. Who knows these people will do to get us to destroy iran and venezuela.

Considering that the "defense" budget has increased, I doubt the empire is ending anytime soon. More wars. You have to justify your budget. My guess is that we will be "defending" ourselves all over asia, africa, south america, etc. Now that iraq, syria, libya, afganistan, etc were turned to rubble ( mission accomplished ), we'll need to spread "democracy" all over the world.

We're like the borg. We have to assimilate them all. It's amazing how long we've been able to get away with being so evil and cruel.
First, it destroys the entire mechanism of LLC protection.

Second, privacy is a human right. You should not be forced to list yourself in a publicly accessible database to own real estate. Needing to pay a trustee to avoid this is bad enough.

Registering the beneficial owners of entities privately with the government is as far as makes sense. Of course then we run into the problem that government isn't terribly incentivized to do enough analysis to catch the large scale evaders.
It’s not pointless to correct a small misunderstanding. It is true that some articles here have been reinforced against flagging. I don’t have a political motivation to make these clarifications.
I'm unfamiliar with Volcom, but both Forever 21 and Eddie Bauer can be classified as stagnant or struggling along with the rest mentioned in the prior comment. (Additionally, both companies have also gone through bankruptcy proceedings).
As part of the acquisition, the buyers (Authentic Brands and Simon Malls) agreed to continue operating Brooks Brothers stores across the country. Not sure what they've done in other cases.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/brooks-brothers-enters-purch...
China already operates their own iCud storage so this is irrelevant to them.

Apple doesn't have any iCloud data centres in Saudi, so Saudi can't pass laws about what is or isn't stored in them.

Look, the way this works and how it's implemented matters. It's stunning to me how many people are thoroughly confused and jump to unwarranted conclusions about how this actually works and what that means.
The sci-fi font that showed up in the 60s was not MICR, but a bunch of typefaces inspired by it. Chief among these was Westminster [1] and Data 70. They were inspired by MICR, but the latter only has digits and a few control characters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_(typeface)
tl;dr: commodity price of coffee is going up due to environmental infrastructure problems of producing countries.
> slippery slope arguments

There is a stronger 2nd argument, but it's buried towards the end:

> Now imagine an Internet of Snitches doing it badly. It’s easy if you try. Some vendors already do a bad job of keeping customer data private and will continue that track record, so you can expect public leaks of databases that have flagged suspected criminals. Other vendors will write bad machine learning algorithms (or biased ones) leading to false positives and ruined lives.

No slippery slope is needed, CSAM alone is extremely sensitive, a false accusation is ruinous... if automated client side CSAM scanning becomes a wide spread practice with Apple leading the way, it will be an "AI" of the flies... Apple has also demonstrated that it's willing to use ML as an unquestionable source of truth before with it's in store security, using facial recognition which is blatantly wrong to prosecute the innocent.
I fought so hard until my dad bought me a pair. Damn I thought that maybe once the bullying would stop in school.

I still wore the wrong jeans and shirts, though.

Nothing like a pair of shoes conjuring up memories.
So do normal people, like reporting "suspicious activity" and SWATing.
This is part of why I specified “on my computer.” I used to use university/work systems and whether it was paid for separately or as part of the OS, I generally had a variety of compilers available to me. My personal favorite oddity was that IBM had two different Pascal compilers for VM/CMS. One was called Pascal/VS and the other VS/Pascal. One was slightly more capable than the other, but I don't remember which it was or what, precisely the difference was. It never came up in compiling TeX and its related software. I do remember the long process of installing PL/I on the UIC mainframe back in the 80s though.
I have a newborn at home, and like every other parent, we take thousands of pictures and videos of our newest family member. We took pictures of the very first baby-bath. So now I have pictures of a naked baby on my phone. Does that mean that pictures of my newborn baby will be uploaded to Apple for further analysis, potentially stored for indefinite time, shared with law enforcement?
This is only really true for television advertising, since most of it is brand building, instead of "click here and buy now" online.
I had them. They were sold at Aldi for some reason, while they were still popular shoes. Didn't dislike them but the pump gimmick wore off quickly...
> The inability of the military to effectively execute total war because of public palatability leads to these outcomes - zombie wars that can never be won, because no one has the stomach to do/say what actually needs to be done.

What more could have been done in Vietnam? The US deployed napalm, agent orange, reinstituted the draft at home, maintained a policy of inflicting maximum casualties on the enemy, and still failed to achieve victory. It's also hard to justify "total war" when your sovereignty/existence is not at stake and you're effectively an interloper in other people's conflicts.
The o's look bad, but wtf is up with the e's in that picture?
Ok, we've added that to the title. Thanks!
While the Hippocratic and other oaths, and the Nightengale pledge, are not legally binding, I think they explicitly promote prevention of disease among the public before individual treatment. What you’re seeing is a professional body enforcing its membership and the brand “doctor”.
> If the government can require private media to carry government messages, the first amendment is toast.

Currently, the government is directly involved in Facebook and Twitter's moderation decisions, by their own admission, and the Supreme Court is doing nothing, so I don't see your hypothetical as being very realistic.
>Or is there something intrinsic to Reddit traffic that makes it difficult to monetize?

Reddit is also home to an enormous amount of porn and nsfw content in general which probably hurts this. They only just started preventing sexually explicit subreddits/content from appearing on r/all six months ago[0]

https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lhnvok/removing_...
Isn’t this an NP hard problem?
Accenture downplays ransomware attack as LockBit gang leaks corporate data
As others have already mentioned, this really applies to places like Europe where truck routes are quite short. In the US I'm bullish on hydrogen-powered trucks (fuel cell). It's a technology that doesn't make much sense for passenger vehicles, but does make sense for heavy duty commercial vehicles that can have planned stops and fleet-managed stations.
Related from yesterday:

Mosh: The Mobile Shell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150287 - Aug 2021 (132 comments)

lots of other threads at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150719
It’s all in the eye of the beholder. I once had a friend trick me into running barefoot through a few cactus patches. We’re still great friends to this day.
You can totally expand to resize based on content, among many other tricks. That would require someone to care to do so, which is probably the bigger problem.
I want to see more of the US before I do any kind of international travel. The thing that holds me back is either I have to fly, or use our poor excuse for a rail network. I get a week at a time for vacation, and don't want to spend half of that just in getting there.

I would be very much on board for something like this in the US. Zip across large swaths of country - I get where I want quickly. It would be nice if we found a way to make it open: we would still get to see the country as we pass by at ground level.
I don't see this being a big player in the US any time soon. I'm having a hard time imagining the infrastructure required to service recharging all the batteries at truck stops every night, even if the range problem gets solved.
All of the new large battery factories that I've seen make the news are being built as joint ventures between a battery company and an automaker for the exclusive use of the automaker - and the capacity is probably never going to be sufficient for the automaker to sell batteries to 3rd parties.

Do you really gain "economies of scale with passenger cars" if you have to build your own battery factory for your long-haul trucks? Which would never be of the same capacity as the automaker factory?
The Diversity agenda of the past 20+ years has created more racism and division than I witnessed in my entire life before then. I have come to conclude that it's one of the most misguided movements in modern history. We were making progress (seemingly too slow, I know) by applying Dr. King's prescription for Color Blindness. But, that concept has been rejected (though his name is still used in honor); and sure enough, we've slid horribly backwards.
So how much does that increase work out per cup? About 3¢.

The $4.39 12oz latte from the article requires 17g of ground coffee per double shot of espresso. Coffee loses 17% of its weight when roasted, so one pound of coffee (454g) after roasting (377g) makes 22 double shots of espresso. So their cost of coffee has gone up less than 3¢ per cup, from $0.086 at $1.90 per pound to $0.113 at $2.49 per pound.
Why frugal lifestyle? Was it frugal lifestyle in 1970? From 1970 productivity increased a few times, so the work day can be reduced a few times.

I've spent some time looking for a part time job, there is none/rare. Also part time wage likely will not be enough for life support.

Almost no one have a choice in how many hours to work so we do not know what people prefer.
I'd add that in the early 90s, Linux was very much a fringe OS. I had contemplated running FreeBSD (or was it BSDFree?), but as I only had one computer and getting a second seemed an unimaginable expense, I never did so (I don't think virtual machines on x86 were a viable thing yet either).
Tiny Tasks | Remote | Recorder | https://tinytasks.me/

Tiny Tasks are looking for recorders from different languages for IA / American English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Bulgarian, Greek and Portuguese (PT)

Hi guys!

The company that I work (Tiny Tasks) is looking for recorders for our online recording jobs. The jobs consists of recording sentences and/or a dialog through applications. The payment depends per language (it goes from U$48 to U$85 for the completed project). There's projects for American English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Bulgarian, Greek and Portuguese (PT).

The only thing you need to do, apart from recording the sentences or/and have a conversation with someone else, is to download the apps on your mobile.

More information and how to apply on our website: https://tinytasks.me/ (The payment information in the website is only an estimative since you can complete the projects in 1~3 hours and still be paid between U$48~U$85)
Wyoming builds its economy on it:

https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2015-08-14/a-...
Reddit Coins are still a thing - I have a Gold subscription as well.
I don't care if Google convinces some company to pay them while Google provides a service to me without paying. Of course they're going to try and monetize it anyway they can. I don't think Walmart has my best interests either, so there is nothing special about social media companies. Nor do social media companies have a monopoly on "spying" on their users.

I recall reading a case study over a decade ago about how a dad learned his daughter was pregnant because Target was sending her ads to register for a baby because she was buying things people buy early in their pregnancy like pre-natal vitamins.
> Many subs have enormous blacklists of users,domains,and even words.

This is the most pathetic slam against mods I have ever seen and shows that you haven't spent two seconds considering what you're criticizing.
I don't know. Intuitively a place designed to attract sick people must be qualitatively and quantitatively different. I mean, it's literally full of severe covid patients and your job is literally to care for them. I mean, I'm not an expert, but if if that's indeed similar to the average workplace environment then I need some extraordinary evidence, because this does seem to me as an extraordinary claim
totally depends on situation.

I've been asked to sign NDAs. "Hey, i got this cool idea, sign my NDA". The couple times I've done that have been... not worth the effort, and never amount to anything. But they're still some mental overhead I have to keep account of for a while.

"We're bringing you in to project X, and we've agreed to payment terms, and project length. Sign this NDA preventing you from sharing our corporate secrets (with some reasonable definition of 'secret') to work on the project". I've generally no problem with those sorts - they are a part of real project/work/life, and generally money is attached.

I've given up dealing with the first sort, and have "lost out on some big opportunities" (their words, not mine) because of the refusal. I've managed to eke out a living nonetheless.
Getting rid of patents would probably help.

With stuff like phones there's probably plenty of options for mass production of open source hardware modules purchasable from electronic hobbyist stores anonymously with cash which would allow anyone to build their own personal communicator with radio, SIM, wifi, quantum, etc modules.

The issue is that competitive mass production of many independent compatible modules would required a public description of an applied system that everyone can debate and discuss and agree to on technical merits, but people self-censor and don't want to share ideas for such applied systems online because they think some monopolist is going to patent everything in order to arbitrarily halt development for 20 years.

In order to achieve such a cultural shift it might be necessary to reform the religions.
> You shouldn’t be able to buy property using an LLC

That's ... an "interesting" view

How do you propose companies purchase anything if you won't let them buy it without using "[r]eal people's legal names" "on every transaction"?
No, it doesn't work like that.
"Dear sir/madam"...

Should've called 0118999 88199 9119 725 ... 3
> or if they even have.

I think the jury is out on that.

The tower collapse in Miami is a prima facia example of the need for credentialed engineering. In some countries, every time they have a 4-richter temblor, buildings fall like dominoes, and people die all over. These are usually nations with lax and/or corrupt engineering culture, while Tokyo can take a 6, and people just pick up the glassware, and carry on.

I remember that story about the engineer in Oregon that was fined for claiming to be an engineer, without a license.

That was ridiculous (especially when you consider that there's a rather ... large ... corporation that has huge plants, all over Oregon, filled with uncredentialed "engineers").
Well, what a convenient "quirk". It is just a surprise that this was not engineered to work this way... It seems to me like the perfect tax haven.
Vacancy taxes tend to only hit the wealthy. There are certainly regressive taxes we should examine (like sales tax on staple goods) but vacancy taxes tend to target high earners pretty effectively.

Taxes are generally a good thing since they allow society to function well.
Whitley Strieber wrote a similar kind of fictional warning about Denver’s air quality in the opening chapter of Nature’s End back in the 80s. Thousands of people in 2019 die over a few days from a black smog event. It’s part of a story where humans are headed for extinction because they have killed off most of the forests and badly polluted the air and ground. It’s an apocalyptic story from the the late 80s worry over deforestation, acid rain and over population. But it does predict serious wildfires rather well.
That's a great way to put it.

There right balance of action and caution is the thing that enables you to move forward quickly without blowing up.

It also "takes all kinds" on a team since different people have a knack for one or the other. The problem happens because most people fall in love with their preference and are blind to its downsides.

A quick tell is - whenever someone's justification for something blowing up is "oh but I have a bias for action" -- they are basically oblivious to their recklessness and underthinking. Whenever someone says "oh but I am much more cautious and thoughtful than these cowboys" they are oblivious to how little they do (vs could be doing) because they are paralyzed by overthinking.

The person I like to work with is the one who says "man, I have a bias for over/under thinking but I try to catch myself in situations where it's not appropriate"
In three months this will all be forgotten.
This seems a little paranoid, yes. :) What text do you envision copying from Twitter that's going to specifically include their special logo character? It's not going to be in anybody's tweet text.

> Because they're using the "Private Use Area" of the font improperly...

Uh, isn't putting your own characters in Unicode's private use area specifically what that area is for? Isn't that where fonts that have dingbats unique to them, for instance, would put them?
Because the primary function of an LLC is limiting financial (not criminal) liability of the owners, and the liability of the directly named owner would not be limited.

Only 4 states in the US allow anonymous LLCs anyways: Delaware, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

The problem is that even with owner's identities, unless you follow the trail of money very far, it's hard to know whether the capital is clean or not.
The reason for all this is pretty simple, when you get down to it. Corporations want to look good with regards to quote-"diversity" much more than they actually want diversity. Pandering to the stereotypical caricatures of diversity is far more rewarding, both in the C-suite and on the modern university campus. Real diversity is a nice-to-have, sure — it's not all cynical pretense — but quote-"diversity" will mean good press, more status, and ward off certain critics.
Also eggs and wheels, cause Python.
Who cares who's buying it? What do you have against people buying a property and then renting it out?
You seem to forget that Vietnam war was a side effect of the Cold War. USSR and US fought through proxies in Cold War, Vietnam being just one instance. Another one before was Korean War which resulted in splitting that peninsula. I'd say your 20k is a bit low, might want to reconsider it with at least one order of magnitude.

Oh, and since we are splitting hair here about numbers, US started a 20 years war as result of just 3k deaths during 9/11. You and US government have another order of magnitude disagreement about what constitutes a "good" number of deaths as war causalities.
Yeah I know what it means. But he wasn’t charged. I don’t know why the person I’m replying to is saying that because it’s untrue.
The problem is that throwing money rarely leads to the outcome desired.

I would know how to run a high-quality reddit on $5M/year, and perhaps as much as $20M. I would not know how to run a high-quality reddit on $100M/year.

The term is 'overcapitalized.'

At some scale, people focus on climbing corporate ladders over the core business, on pet projects, and communications becomes a bottleneck (and the number of potential links grows as a square law with the number of people).

The right scale depends on the complexity of the product. A car requires an army to engineer and produce.

Reddit? That benefits from a small team, where people can holistically understand the whole system, and everyone involved. That's at most 20 SWEs.
I would invest in B2B. Reddit should have just as much of an easy-to-use marketing suite like Facebook or Google have. A team of 10 engineers can do that in a year, then the rest of the money goes to sales.