skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was younger, the political rhetoric was mostly focused on improving the state of the poor. In recent years, it shifted entirely away from that into reducing the difference between rich and poor.
> practically everyone who got the COVID vaccine did so because they didn't want to get seriously ill from COVID themselves, not because they really care that much about people they don't know. > nobody

Are you just sharing your opinion? What country?

I know that in New Zealand plenty of people are getting the vaccine because they care about their parents or grandparents. Or they care about others, such as children under 12 that can’t get vaccinated. I also care about my 40 year old friend with diabetes. I care about my friend with a baby that needed hospitalisation for RSV, which teaches the right fear to us all. Anyone in their social circle that doesn’t get vaccinated is a loaded gun. Anecdote: one friend who I expected to be deeply anti-vax due to reading mostly US sourced crap, is getting the vaccine to protect her step-mum: in a more antivax social environment I might expect her to have said no.

We don’t have as much fear-mongering in NZ, and there are fewer people acting selfishly from what I can tell. Ones risk of catching COVID in NZ is extremely low at present, so selfishly one could decline vaccination without much difference to ones risk.

Currently we have 66% of eligible population vaccinated, and the rate of vaccination doesn’t seem to be slowing down yet due to hesitancy. The limitation on vaccinations in NZ here is getting access to doses, which is clear from the graph here: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...
My mistake. Are they not unified into a single Australian government? I'm not Australian, I'm observing from across the pond.

More importantly though, that distinction does little to make it feel more right. What controls exist to keep the idiocy contained to only one part of Australia? How do you know they won't make that the policy everywhere? Could that happen?
I don't think it's necessary, but there are a lot of things that make it somewhat inevitable without a lot of pushback.

One of the worst is inherited fortunes. I think the world would be a much better place if extremely rich people couldn't leave a fortune to their kids. Those kinds of kids practically always end up being fail-sons or fail-daughters. Besides, if you remove the motivation of "leaving behind an empire for my kids" you probably remove the excuse for acquiring more wealth than you could possibly spend in a lifetime in the first place.

Also, this would really help with problem of "elites". If your family name didn't imply a lot of wealth, would colleges etc. be so eager to let in rich scions? IMO the number one problem america has is we have a ruling class of "elites" that know practically nothing, but think they're experts because they have degrees from nice schools and their families have money. Almost every disaster this country has had in the last 20 years have been from these various "elites", such as the economic collapse in 2008, the continued ridiculous wars since 9/11, etc. If we broke up these incestuous "elite" circles by not allowing this generational buildup of influence and wealth a lot of the inequality problems would go away also.
The ownership class are able to organize and conspire with one another to pool and promote their own mutual interests, and no one notices or bats an eye. When workers try to organize in order to promote their mutual interests, the ownership class uses the power of the state to crush them. They enact laws that make such organization illegal and then enforce the laws harshly and without mercy.
Ask HN: Is Your Company Mandating the Vaccine?
For those in a HR or executive position, after the announcement made by President Biden on Thursday (and Boris Johnson's announcement today), is your company planning to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine? How are you enforcing/verifying vaccinations?
(Unless the charity they found is really just a fraudulent tax dodge for funneling money)
Can't be emphasized enough. Even if simplified down to three groups:

1) immunologically naive (never been exposed to SARS-CoV-2)

2) vaccinated

3) recovered from previous infection

Most discussions on HN completely miss the distinction between these groups. The truth is, so far scientific consensus indicates that groups 2 & 3 are at least equally well protected and pose equivalent risk to others.

Much of the bickering here conflates groups 1 & 3 - it's such a common mistake I've grown tired of trying to discuss it.
I assume by crypto OP meant cryptography
Yes, one second per second.
Hoping someone on HN knows the answer to this. Can someone explain what "5X more likely to catch Delta" means?

I'm vaccinated. If I'm around someone with a delta infection, do I have 5X the amount of time to get away? Can I receive 5X the amount of viral particles with the same infection risk? Is my immune system response 5X as effective at preventing an infection?

I'm assuming its a population level analysis and not at all attenuated to individual immune response performance (unlike the death multiple which I think you can draw individual conclusions from). But I'm wondering what function (if at all) the MRNA vaccines play in reducing COVID infection.

Basically, if I engage in risky behaviors (no mask wearing, hanging around in big crowds) am I 5X less likely to pass the virus onto my son?
I personally feel the same about both.

But I wouldn't be surprised if some did; polio infection is far more serious than COVID-19, polio vaccine had proven efficacy for many years before becoming required. It's hard to even find the #s for COVID-19 vaccine efficacy. (What are they?)
I got vaccinated and I still won’t comply. If I have to get fired for refusing to prove to my employer that I’m vaccinated, so be it. Even more so because I’m a remote employee; what business is it of theirs?
That’s not precisely the issue. Do you hold any beliefs someone else knows to not be the truth?
May have come from RTFM (manual) which according to this wikipedia link may have originated in 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFA
> You can’t extract someone’s fingerprint from a gym’s fingerprint scanning system and run it through a background check database, for example.

Until they swap out the reader at the door for one that also saves fingerprint images (if the one there doesn't support that already!).
An excellent distinction. In the world of data with research & operations, I only very rarely deal with data that is intentionally biased. Counted on the fingers of my hand. Cherry picked is more common, but intentionally wrong to present things in a different light, that's rare.

Well, it's rare that I know of. The nature of things is that I might never know. But most people that don't work with data as a profession also don't know how to create convincingly fake data, or even cherry pick without leaving the holes obvious. Saying "Yeah, so I actually need all of the data" isn't too uncommon. Most of the time it's not even deliberate, people just don't understand that their definition of "relevant data" isn't applicable. Especially when I'm using it to diagnose a problem with their organization/department/etc.

Propaganda... Well, as you said there's some overlap in the principles. Though I still stand by more preference of #2 > #1 > #3. And #3 > 2&3 together.
Dlang's betterC would be a good option for just a better-than-C language but looks like it doesn't support D's standard library [1]. That'd mean being stuck with plain C container libraries. :/

Personally, I was impressed by an approach taken by the authors of Pixie (a fast 2d library like Cairo) [2]. They created a "library wrapper" generator for Nim code that supports creating libraries Python, Node, C, and Nim itself that they call Genny [3]. Haven't tried it but being able to use Nim and it's ref based gc but still export to nice API's in other languages is fantastic. Pixie's aim is to be a Cairo alternative so it makes sense they'd need this. I hope the approach takes off. Usually writing any cross language API's is a lossy operation.

Here's a sample of the API definition:

exportObject Matrix3:
constructor:
matrix3
procs:
mul(Matrix3, Matrix3)

1: https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
2: https://github.com/treeform/pixie
3: https://github.com/treeform/genny

(edited formatting)
Yes, an echo chamber is a concern. But unlike other systems, you are in total control of who you get your content from. You are responsible for what you see. Which I think is the best place to have this responsibility. This does not work for everyone (e.g., kids don't know what is better for them), but hopefully many people will find it useful.
It's true that perceptual color spaces can be hard to work with, but they can help generate fairly good UI themes on-the-fly when used correctly. For UI, the ability to keep lightness constant regardless of chroma and hue is essential to preserve contrast. Likewise, hue is quite important to keep constant because it's the most prominent part of a dynamic theme. This leaves chroma as the remaining component that can be reduced to bring colors in gamut.

UI examples: https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1427822417313898498 (using ZCAM, not Oklab or the new Oklab/Okhsv) / https://www.figma.com/file/ZeqPgO1RgA6eg8TMm7r8Ae/kdrag0n's-...

Full generated palettes: https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1431100523894083589 / https://www.figma.com/file/mZ6VxvsC2yN4zD9rDR4S2I/kdrag0n's-...

Yes, it's very easy to create colors outside the sRGB gamut boundaries, and you have to compromise something in order to bring them back in gamut. However, when working with colors programmatically, I'd still recommend considering perceptually-uniform color spaces instead of HSL/HSV-style models that are made to simplify interactive color picking.
Yup. It's blaming smokers for second-hand smoke. We need to figure out the social-media equivalent of "no smoking" signs.
Think of a religion more like a union
I agree with you on principal but the courts have kind of interpreted the free exercise clause of the first amendment broadly by 2021 standards and there's not really any going back.
I'm sorry but this is upside down.

Pricing in Supply and Demand is decided by Bargaining Power, not the other way around.

The idea that workers 'outnumber' the capitalists does not give them power, it's the complete opposite.

I have no idea why you would think think they have some kind of power in that equation especially when there is probably a labour surplus.

If workers merged and formed a coherent Union, and acted as a single monolithic entity i.e. 'all labour in the colonies comes from a single Guild', then they'd possibly have more power, but this wouldn't really be possible obviously.

The entire treatise is essentially about the disproportionate power of concentrated wealth and that's what will ultimately drive wages.

That it's difficult to quantify doesn't make it false.

'Profit concentration' is literally a measure of value chain power: if you can collect a lot of profit, it's a sign that you have leverage over the other entities: workers, financiers, customers and suppliers.

Apple has incredible leverage over vendors, which is why even if you sell some really cool and awesome component to them for their iPhone you might not make Jack in profits, and may find yourself out of business a few years later.

Apple makes 100x more margin per device than Foxxcon, which illustrates the capital vs. labour dynamic quite well.
As shameless self promotion, if you’re interested in writing computational lessons for a course, check out Pathbird (pathbird.com), a SaaS product for creating guided computational lessons (targeted mostly towards university faculty right now but feel free to reach out if you’re interested).

We took a lot of inspiration from Jupyter Book (and use Jupyter kernels under the hood), so nothing but respect for all things Jupyter.
Depends on what desktop environment (Compositor, specifically) you're using. Gnome (Mutter) has RDP support built in but the documentation is pretty scarce and it only has a CLI interface. I'm not aware of any other distros with RDP support over Wayland, they mostly only use VNC.
Upvoters, colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_...
I believe that the bragging about "no exceptions" means no exceptions on the basis of "I prefer not to" (including "I prefer not to submit proof of vaccination").

Given that even Fox News has articles about making sure the exemptions aren't abused [1] (instead of claiming they aren't exemptions), he should be fine at his employer.

It's not clear what the rules are for travel and so on, but this thread is about mandates for employment.

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/health/surgeon-general-monitor-vacci...
Parent however qualified that they were considering the risk to themselves and their own contacts, who are also vaccinated. For them and their associates, treating this like the flu seems more reasonable. Assuming they’re in the USA, everyone who is unvaccinated at this point (except children, who have low risk of death) is doing so by choice. We can’t be expected to put our lives on hold for conspiracy theorists forever.
> Will salaries rise with inflation?

usually it's the other way around - (some) inflation is caused by salary increases.
Masters [capitalists/bosses] conspire together with each other. Whoever denies this is naive. They conspire together in lots of ways, but especially to keep wages down. They keep things quiet until they act on lowering the wages or whatever they're doing, and [somehow] do so in such a way that keeps the workers from communicating with each other about it. In contrast, when workers conspire [unionize] the masters will loudly beg for help from the state to keep the workers from achieving anything.
There is nothing wrong with contact tracing during a pandemic. It's been used by many countries in the past including the US.

Let's go back a long way to 1854 during the cholera epidemic in London when Dr John Snow found that the Broad Street pump was its cause and he located it by contact tracing those who contacted cholera and worked backwards to the source. This case is famous for the very fact it shows that contact tracing and isolating saves lives (please ensure that you look at the map he used to trace the pump):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_ou...

I can attest to this, contact tracing put a quick end to the COVID outbreak near where I live and I'm very thankful for the work those tracers did under very arduous circumstances.

In principle, contact tracing during a pandemic has nothing to do with the general increase in surveillance that's gripping the planet at the moment - it is an entirely separate matter.

The fact that we have sleezebag governments prepared to subvert a decent legitimate process is - again - a separate and serious problem for democracy.
The economists have read Adam Smith and the Textbooks are likely correct, they just leave a lot of things out.
Not so.

They can be saddled with debt on a depreciating vehicle, meaning that although their overall income may be negative when accounting for the debt, the alternative is even worse.
I guess it depends on your definition of small... VSCode recently mentioned a 10MB hit to statically link the libcxx library from Chromium to dodge issues running on older platforms.

Edit: libcxx from Chromium, not libstdc++

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/129360#issue-952350...

> The increase in bundle size is significantly small (~10MB).
>Improving the state of the poor does not imply it is necessary to prevent others from doing much better.

I never said it does.

I was just saying that providing a minimum standard of living for the poor, at the expense of the rich (through increased taxes for health care, lowered property portfolio values for affordable housing, and increased wage expenditures for a liveable minimum wage) is a noble goal to pursue - arguably more noble than reusable rockets.

The fact that you can't eliminate economic equality doesn't mean you should make no effort to reduce its harm.
Cool yeah I don't have something with sufficient page visits to merit analytics but if I did I'd probably reactivate plausible from its dormant status

Public analytics seems interesting - have you been able to do anything particularly interesting by leveraging this capability?
I wrote something up when I ran into these instructions last year: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/main/linux/x86_approx.md
Loving, LOVING this fantasy world you're living in, in which a primary driver of a person's behavior at a big company is the esteem of friends and family, and, you know, not because the boss said so and/or ruthless thirst for profit and domination.
Disappointed that the person had to claim religious beliefs to protect common dignity. Owners of those companies should be fined into oblivion. Maybe by then they will realize what a scum they are.
We were fighting empires that liked conquering. Is it really that hard to envision the nazis wanting to keep going? After they took Poland they told Russia, we promise we are content. Then they invaded Russia. They took land that wasn't theirs at a frightening pace. Where exactly did you see any evidence of them wanting to stop?
Genny – Generate Nim library bindings for many languages
In the least we need better surveillance of public spaces and facial recognition for (limited) use when a crime is involved. If criminals aren’t brought to justice and don’t face consequences, there is no deterrent and they’ll perform more crimes and bigger crimes. It is why BART escalated from isolated crimes to an entire train being raided by 50-60 robbers with no arrests (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bart-robbery-oakland-teens-stor...).
> The truth is, so far scientific consensus indicates that groups 2 & 3 are at least equally well protected and pose equivalent risk to others.

Which reduces the set to two: immunologically naïve, and primed for an immune response.

Or as we like to call it, unvaccinated and vaccinated.

Edit: vaccination via live virus is absurdly foolish.
Feel free to show a different study. Whatever the exact number it’s clear that it’s nowhere near 100% (just like 76% is not), and whatever booster scheme you fantasize about has to be accounted for in these vaccine passport schemes, which, surprise surprise, typically is not the case. As long as you did the blessed dance of 2 Pfizer or Moderna shots you’re clear to go.
My point would still stand. Nobody should be given additional rights and protections under the law by virtue of being a member of a union (or political party or corporation or anything else).
Ergo just means "therefore" in Latin.
You’re not wrong. I think the vaccine is much less likely to cause harm than the virus, and that it makes sense to get vaccinated.

But statistics don’t matter when you’re the one who wakes up paralyzed after getting the vaccine, and people are terrible at probability. But I think the failure to call that out and say “The vaccine’s not perfect, this is the challenge of our time and we need to take the vaccine to address it - some people will have adverse effects but it will save 100,000s of lives.”

Our circumstances have changed and we’re forced to choose between two outcomes that no one would want to decide on before the pandemic. But this is the reality, and if everyone took the vaccine we’d reduce resources used on hospitalizations and the stress on the healthcare system.
They were money changers being thieves. For debt collection see Exodus 22:25.

For tax collection, he wasn't opposed, if they were not stealing for personal gain. Matthew 17:24 and following for instructions to pay Roman taxes. Luke 19:8 for theft repayment by corrupt officials.
That has its benefits given that anyone could otherwise just make up beliefs on the spot to suit their need. Religion requires a bit more institutionalisation and weight.
I also bike and walk around the city alongside driving, and have almost never smelled or seen a “plume of fumes”. Vehicles today emit very little human-detectable pollution. These aren’t dirty two stroke engines like on a leaf blower, but heavily regulated and incredibly advanced engines. The only times I can think of when I’ve seen a problem is when the rare vehicle (like an older semi) is emitting dark clouds of smoke, which is atypical. I’ve also eaten at many outdoor dining setups that are in the parking lane of a road with motor vehicles and neither I nor those with me thought it to be unpleasant. It feels to me like the imagery you’re drawing (“plume of fumes”) is hyperbole. What am I missing here? Do you have video of what you’re describing or some other way to help me understand?
Laion-400M: open-source dataset of 400M image-text pairs
1. "Taxation without representation" is not a law anywhere in the US. Non-citizens and DC residents pay taxes and aren't represented in Congress, for example.

2. Are you honestly trying to argue that people making more than $5M are underrepresented in politics? They are the voiceless, oppressed class we need to protect?
Great idea to give it the same name as Google's build tool.
......? Herd immunity is herd immunity. It doesn't matter what caused it.

Natural immunity is great, but most people clearly don't have and won't get natural immunity. Having had COVID-19 already also does not make you later immune, to any variant. You can get it again and spread it again. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/can-you-get-covid-19-more...
I would love to trust a government and have it take care of everything.

But unfortunately government is run by humans who are susceptible to delusions like the consolidation of power over other humans. And if it is ever run by an AI, well, that AI may decide to just destroy everyone. So while trusting a government would be great, they have not earned that and Australia's governing bodies are clearly driving off a cliff with everyone still in the car. Why trust that anymore?

They're arresting people for making Facebook posts against lockdowns. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

Australia presumes to say how many people can visit your home. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097

So what is there to trust?

Where will you draw the line? And when? When it's too late, and when you have to pretend to be "happy with the trade-offs so far" because they're monitoring your posts on HN and arresting you if you are not happy with the trade-offs so far? That's not far off from how they arrested that pregnant woman for making a Facebook post. Wake up.

And you celebrate that you can't defend yourself with firearms, but now you have police and military patrolling your streets to enforce these covid laws and check papers.

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idP8sX

Why trust this?