skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also available in portable form on Windows: https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/openshot-portable
From the article:

> She was told she didn’t qualify because she was a contractor, not a full-time employee—even though her boss told the lender she was not at risk of losing her job. Her co-workers were contractors, too, and they had mortgages.

The most important difference between Crystal Marie and her coworkers is not skin color but the fact that, as the article says a couple of paragraphs earlier, she "had moved to this Southern town from pricey Los Angeles a few years ago".

Based on my experience in applying for mortgages, if you have a contractor position, lenders will treat you as a high-risk client unless you have been working at the same job for at least 3-4 years. And according to what I've been told, the lenders don't have a choice in this matter: it's due to a federal regulation enacted after the 2008 crisis.
Yeah, I agree with that, but building new villages on greenbelt land is another highly contentious issue.
I feel like with Tesla navigational brain technology, they can easily put together a bot that can mow lawns, sweep and mop floors. Pull out the garbage/bring cans back in. Security Sentry observe. Get mail. Walk dog. Deliver packages. I would pay for a bot that takes those chores off my hands.
Measuring is undervalued, particularly vs writing, because it doesn't show off creativity.
Supply and demand.

How many people can assemble widgets? Billions of people.

How many people can make the correct decisions as a CEO of a large company? Really not many, since you need someone with an IQ over 140, someone with industry expertise, with the right personality, etc. So the supply is low. Also the demand is high, since that person's decision making has multi-billion dollar consequences. Low supply and high demand equal $$$.
I agree that this is the way. Fairphone, Pine, Librem, etc all try to provide their things along these lines. It would be great if we could make FOSS more profitable.
What's a good source of those numbers?
Indeed.

And since we are on the topic of the South African 'Star of Africa', the astute investor should note that those muppets in South Africa are busy changing their constitution to allow the expropriation of private property from their own citizens (never mind evil foreigners) a) without compensation, and b) just for kicks - without recourse to the courts.

So I ask you: would you be happy if your pension administrator sold up in Switzerland and USA invested your retirement in South African farms and factories?

It will impoverish them further, and yet it will be someone else's fault.

This is how we in Africa roll.
It's no easier than lying about vaccination status. Antibody tests are widely available, yet none of the pro-vaxers are willing to accept them as evidence of immunity. Why do you think that is?
1. backups - ship an external drive. No it won't help them if their house burns down, but it's easy to encrypt and handles most failure cases.

2. public internet access - skip it, setup a vpn.
Make a rule that anyone who signs a sub-lease for a rent-controlled apartment has the option to take over the original tenant's lease and void their sub-lease.

That gives the tenant an automatic incentive to report the person who sublet it to them.
Why would a widget library need to deal with input stack directly? For portability it'd provide an API where the caller will dispatch abstract events such as mouse events and keyboard events and already translated character events.
Clickbait and truth are not mutually exclusive. In fact I would suggest that most clickbait is true.
No - we have anti-vaxxers because nobody will debate them. Instead we ask them not to post their nonsense and so they just retreat to their echo-chambers and begin reinforcing their views to each other.
The one thing I really would love in an office is a bar to hang from.

Not to do pull-ups or anything, just to decompress the spine.

It's the one thing I am extremely glad to have in my home office. Walking over to it, hanging for 30s once in a while, really fulfills that need for both getting mentally unstuck from problems and changing posture.
Can you explain how it was compatible? That RFC says "Updated Internet hosts talk to old Internet hosts using the current Internet suite unchanged." which sounds exactly the same as the way v6 normally does it.

As far as I could tell from the RFC, if TUBA counts as v4-compatible then so does v6.
The volume of criticism for posting verifiable facts that might be misused in illogical arguments, is really frustrating.

It's as if we need to post a disclaimer in advance that we agree with the consensus first in order to post a fact like OP.

For example, OP's fact correlates with the recent study that demonstrated that getting one shot of Moderna and one shot of Pfizer was more effective than getting two shots of either.

...and none of that is a surprise to virologists, because a diversity of antibodies is obviously going to be more effective at combating infection, and more importantly, provide broader protection against variants.

...but instead OP gets downvotes because of the fear that some imbecile is going to repost this all over Facebook in order to convince people to not get vaccinated.

Think about the consequences of this reflex. We cannot talk about the truth in-depth because less informed people might be mislead by misinterpreting it. This diminishes the quality of our conversations. It puts a cap on the intelligence of this community.

...and when you first identify this phenomenon - you begin to recognize it all over the place on social media. True verifiable facts being downvoted because they might maybe work against the "greater good" agenda in a less sophisticated forum. ...and that ultimately causes a dumbing down of the conversations - something very noticeable on Reddit and Twitter.
> People don’t get the vaccine strictly on the strength of the vaccine. It’s considering the risk of getting COVID, understanding the long term side effects, and minimizing risk for those around you. It’s also about avoiding mutations of the virus as the higher availability of the virus only provides more opportunities for it to mutate into something more resistant or possessing other less desirable traits.

Erm everyone I know under 40 got it because of a huge marketing campaign, wanting to travel with as few restrictions as possible and not wanting a vaccine passport to party.
My hypothesis there would be cultural factors drawing out a greater percentage of those with the potential.
Public funded education is a government service.
Exactly. The only reason that the other four endemic human coronaviruses don't kill many people today is that most of us get infected as children and build up natural immunity which protects us later. But they can still be deadly to people with weak immune systems.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102597/

Obviously most people weren't infected with SARS-CoV-2 as children so the smart move is to get vaccinated and jump start your immune system. Non-pharmaceutical interventions like masks and social distancing are only marginally effective so everyone will eventually get exposed to the virus no matter what we do.
> And I, personally, refuse to grant them that courtesy.

Inalienable human rights are not a courtesy for you to grant.
Earlier this month Rand Paul, a U.S. Senator and a former physician, was banned from YouTube for a week for simply saying that cloth masks are ineffective.

YouTube et al. could just as easily decide that discussion of natural immunity from prior infection is also "dangerous" (it might discourage vaccination) and ban it.
It can’t be serious. Peak clown world
the m1 is an example of arm only being available to a very rareified, select user: apple, the biggest tech company on the planet by far.

qualcomm's 8cx gen2 is a possibly interesting consumer offering i miggt cite if i wanted to talk about arm inroads. but again much harder to acquire & use than x86, no public documentation. and the core is from december 2018 (kryo 495), which feels like a typical arm pace: very slow to get modern chips in consumers hands, except bleedingly expensive flagship phones.
I think we're way beyond postposterous. Think postpostposterous.
I run a Mastodon. It’s not very good at de-duplicating media. Your SSD will quickly be filled up with a thousand copies of reposted memes if you do not configure it to aggressively prune remote media.
C++ has a lot of these silly rules. For the case of reserved identifiers, they are reserved for the implementation of the standard library, but of course C++ uses a copy and paste system of #include's which takes place in the preprocessing phase, before the actual parsing/compiling phase. That means when you #include <vector> into your own main.cpp, you're copying and pasting "vector" into "main.cpp" and compiling "main.cpp", so the compiler would have to jump through all kinds of hoops to figure out that a certain section of "main.cpp" comes from "vector" and another section comes from this or that.

It's certainly possible to do this in principle, but the standard does not impose that burden on any implementation.

At any rate, the standard is full of this kind of compile time "undefined behavior". The formal term for this is "ill-formed, no diagnostic required" aka "NDR" which means that the program is invalid C++ but the compiler is not required to report an error, and running the subsequent translation is undefined behavior.
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In Oxford there's a lot of places called Isis because that's the name of the stretch of the Thames which flows through the city. Fortunately most businesses weren't willing to cede the name to the militant group so cheaply!
> Nobody died from vaccine

That’s not strictly true. There have been deaths, but this can be attributed to components in the vaccines that these unlucky people may have gotten at any time. There have been rare and unusual vaccine caused deaths.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_and_Scanner_Interface_Sp...

When something goes awry with our capture stack, sometimes my google searches start to look a little sus.
Isn't this the company that wants to fine unvaccinated employees $200/month iirc? Somewhat poetic justice if so.
IntelliJ is a lot more than a GUI. There's a ton of language modeling and parsing and lookup stuff going on in there. It has tons and tons of features too.

Electron is hundreds of megabytes for "hello world."
As a software developer, this has been obvious to me for a long time. It's interesting how hard it's been to sell in organizations, though.

By way of analogy, consider which programs scale better and which scale worse. The best scaling programs are termed "embarrassingly parallel". The communication is constrained to the start and end of the work, issuing the data to be worked on and receiving the result of that work.

Programs that scale poorly often have too many interaction/synchronization points. Some of these are unavoidable, but minimizing them is literally what you do if you've worked on concurrent, parallel, or distributed systems. And the ones which scale the worst have constraints which force sequential execution of every step.

Business processes are not fundamentally different from any other process. There's nothing magical about it being done by people instead of computers or machines. If you have a large number of synchronization points then you have a cap (which may still be very high) on your ability to scale. Remove those points, to a reasonable level since some work fundamentally requires more than others, and you can smooth out a lot of work issues.
My natural antibodies "protect the immunocompromised" just as much if not more than any antibodies stemming from vaccination.
Why not. Efficient companies create value out of nothing, certainly it is better for society than the counterfactual of them not creating value.
Well, to be generous, Gilgamesh did suffer from a boredom so severe that his own people begged the gods to bring him an equal. After Enkidu showed up, he spent more time adventuring and fighting mythical creatures, instead of wrestling the townsfolk and enjoying the perks of prima nocta.
I rewrote a large Rails+React+GraphQL with LiveView. LiveView replaced most of React. I still use React for rich text editors and complex browser based UI. LiveView plays well with this. I am happy not using GraphQL at all. It also consolidated all MVC code in one place. Phoenix made a few other things possible: in place chat, live updates (via websockets. No more polling).
if you think the delta variant is bad, the united-airlines variant can kill your dog
you're missing the forest for the trees. this is a good python tutorial for somebody at my skill level
I agree, and I'm in Toronto, Canada.

I genuinely believe a 4-day work week is the way to go. It's Friday and I'm already burnt out at 11am.
Is there a big problem with investors not being incentivized to invest in startups? I’m not really hooked into things these days but pre-pandemic seemed like probably the best time in history to raise money as an early stage startup and I can’t imagine that reducing or taking away QSBS would meaningfully affect that. VC firms seem to be doing just fine.
I hope eventually markdown would replace docx.

Afterall I think certain official documents are still typed out in plain text.
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Well, actually pedantic anti-vaxers would formulate it as "If you survive covid 19, you will have greater immunity to covid than you would get from surviving taking the vaccine"
Consider the Enums simply as defunctionalized closures.

https://blog.sigplan.org/2019/12/30/defunctionalization-ever...

There are significant advantages to this sort of defunctionalization in a system like this. It is a bit more administratively at the point of enum definition, but the flexibility and simplification of the other parts of the program will be a win for almost any non-trivial UI application, not to mention the future-proofing it gives you.
It's a good idea why, exactly? Because previously-infected people tend to experience worse vaccine side-effects for little to no additional benefit?
Google, Privacy, and FLoC: Lamb or Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
This is too bad. Apple taking the "appliance" path with their computers makes me wish Microsoft would lean into power user features and customization options to play to the strengths and appeal of Windows. I don't think trying to be a worse version of MacOS is a good strategy.
I remember reports of the first reinfections as well as early talk of asymptomatic cases, where the news then tentatively concluded: and thus we hope a vaccine will be able to get good immunity where the having of covid does not. A few days ago was the first time I heard that knowledge challenged.

So it's not so much that it's unbelievable, more that it was established knowledge for more than a year and only now we're finding out these people were fine the whole time? Why then do we give them a booster dose that could be going to Africa?

(I don't mean to have those questions answered by the way since it's off topic; the questions this information conjures up are in answer to why it, at first glance, sounds controversial.)
Got to agree about Windows 7, it was absolutely great.

GNOME 40 is pretty good, and I think KDE gets better every day, although they do have a lot of cruft still, inconsistencies even within their own app suite.
And also, the value developers add to Apple's ecosystem
It’s controversial because nobody can package and sell “natural” immunity. Given that there are about 7.5B people in the world, RNA injections are, apparently, only good for 90 days, and that Pfizer (or someone) gets $20/injection, the market is about $600B a year.

Do you remember 20 years ago when the people on TV said that terrorism was an existential and imminent threat and the result was defense and surveillance companies made massive fortunes? The more things change…

Just kidding. Public opinion shaping campaigns are a dangerous conspiracy theory and nobody of any public office or Fortune 500 company ever lied for money and nobody ever tried RNA injections for humans until, like, just now.
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I gave up on Windows after version 11 got pushed to my personal workstation. I had been using the insiders build that updates weekly.

I loathed that I was getting app suggestions and ads, and there was a greater loss of control over the operating system.

Switched to Fedora latest, haven't looked back.
> why should they then get vaccinated?

I haven't done the sums but I suspect the risk of harm from the vaccine is less than the benefits the vaccine gives (especially when you factor in the duration of protecection depending when you had Covid vs when you had the vaccine).

I know people who've recovered from serious Covid and still got vaccinated. I would.
So... on-the-go playback, general data-hoarding, music piracy, weird 'raw video' sharing instead of URLs that everyone has been doing since 2006 (please stop this! It's baffling to receive video files in emails from boomers in this day and age), and a bit too much attention to the abundance of terrible passively consumed content that you all spend too much time on youtube.com itself for
Hate to be callous, but as global pandemics goes, a 7 figure body count over almost two years and over the whole world is not that bad.
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> The most important example of that class of error is REFERER. It should have been spelled REFERRER.

I thought it was supposed to be REEFERER.
The department stores were on life support long before Brexit. It's part of the general decline of the UK High Street but also failure of the stores to stay relevant.
That’s not compliant with GDPR, then.
Youtube doesn't really let you do that. If you're watching a video you chose and some shitty little ad gets crammed in there to screw with your enjoyment, its own little yellow timeline appears that you have to sit through until you can click to skip ahead after X seconds.
>the actual goal is: to end the pandemic while minimizing death and suffering

We can all agree we want less death and suffering. However, it isn't difficult to imagine that other goals may exist.

"The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world" - Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/focus/the-great-reset
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The World Economy’s Supply Chain Problem Keeps Getting Worse
The article states that 'since 2016, 388 department stores have been shut'.

The Brexit referendum was in 2016.
Maybe they should call it "the Indian variant"?

It's funny how people were completely fine calling it by countries (e.g. "UK variant") but when it came to India (or China/Wuhan) - Discrimination! - it's OK do discriminate against the first world though.

(I agree though that eventually a new naming system was needed, countries cannot be reused twice...)
Now that you mention that, it's quite an upgrade over my idea of putting 32 Octavo easy to interface packages (you need to connect like 5 balls for what I want) along with a ethernet switch and make a cluster of 32 puny nodes...

The number 32 is important because a stack of boards should look like a Thinking Machines CM-2a (http://www.corestore.org/cm2a.htm) and each CPU would control one LED (or three - Octavo now has a 3-core, two puny, one even punier, part, ending up with only 10 nodes per board).
It would be great if the people who had covid and developed immunity will finally become recognized by governments on par with vaccinated. Currently, they virtually don't exist for governments and media in many countries who prefer to divide everybody into just two groups: vaccinated and anti-vaxxers. A third group does exist and deserves to be heard.
I think this attitude is actually what leads to a lot of hesitancy.

> Listing cold facts does not effectively communicate to the broad public

It’s very patronizing.
Being on-call should be limited to a single work shift per day. Period. Anything more is not just overtime but creates health and safety risks
FWIW supersymmetry and string theory were never convincing to people who value science, empiricism, epistemology, etc. This sort of pseudo-scientific hype is necessary to keep the money flowing under capitalism. See also "artificial intelligence", etc.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2658
Yeah, everyone has a strong aversion to doing it but it's kind of self perpetuating. Once you get comfortable writing SQL to do everything, the ORMs feel like a frustrating game of trying to get the library to generate the SQL you have in mind.
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The problem with these articles is that while it tries to inform. The people who don't understant the implications of getting covid will use it as support for their bias not to get vaccinated.
On the one hand that's understandable, but on the other hand it appears to be almost 2 years old already and if people start to actually use it in its current state the lack of accessibility will become problematic.
If the progress in physics really was halted for a millennium (actual physics was not moving that fast beforehand), any blame must rest with the intellectuals of that time.
Do you honestly think its wrong or uncommon to study a group of people who have experienced a disease? Perhaps in an effort to make them informed about their particular risks?
I just tried it, and Openshot doesn’t have hardware acceleration beyond encoding, so preview is very choppy, this is on my windows box btw.
This isn't just some random fact. It's extremely relevant to the pandemic.

Knowing that previously infected people maintain immunity high levels against variants is important for people making informed decisions about their situations.

What GP is really worried about is this fact being misused to incentivize people NOT to get the vaccine.
This is Apple saying Tim Cook is 100% responsible for their 10x growth which of course absolutely false.

Apple individual/private/corporate consumers and their wallets are responsible for all that growth.

Tim Cook is responsible for the policies, enforcement of policies, commercial-propaganda, and the MASS dissemination of commercial-propaganda that extorted consumers, proliferated human rights violations, destabilized regional and global economies, and severely impacted the environment and ecology of our planet.
I think medicare is capped after your first 140K of income, so it is a rounding error. Tax is still a huge cut.
Is there an orbital trajectory or launch-facility-resources reason to be launching out of FG, or is it political?

Seems like the easiest way to avoid sea pirates would be to launch the Webb from its current country of residence.