skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only a personal choice if you do not come in contact with anyone else as best as you can.

Else, you run the risk of being infected, not knowing it, passing it onto other people who "have made a personal choice", involuntary manslaughtering them (unless you're religious, then you've biblically murdered them); or, alternatively, you run the risk of ending up in the ICU, and now somebody who did get the vaccine now needs that ICU bed, and they die because you're wasting a perfectly good ICU slot because you "made a personal choice."

Your rights end where the rights of others begin, this is the fundamental rule of modern western society above all others. Be very careful when you think that doesn't apply to you, not all mistakes can be corrected.
His name will get headlines and PR no matter what he is doing. Just a fact in the tech biz for being who he is.
The sprawling 20 and 30 story apartment complexes that are all around Taipei really expanded my view of how other countries do it. “Fields and fields” of these massive structures. Someplace tourists never go I’m certain.

Hadn’t seen anything like in NY or LA, etc.

I agree there are other ways to do it, I double agree it’s going to be hard if not impossible.

Look at how strong NIMBY is in SF with people who consider themselves to be bleeding heart ultra progressives. Everyone clams up when it effects them, but, build somewhere else? “Oh we definitely need to do that!”.
I'm gutted on hearing this. I’ve been on one of my regular Norm YouTube binges, and was watching a ton of them just last night. His dedication to comedy was legendary, and his complexity was intriguing.

Norm’s fake late gift to Conan for The Tonight Show, given after Conan was leaving, is a great example of his sort of expectation-bending humor.

https://youtu.be/uarJj-K4XH4

His appearances on The View are legendary examples of his ability to be uncontrolled and play the dumbest guy in the room at the same time while actually being the sharpest. His intentional subversion played off as uninformed is a seemingly one of a kind talent. There are videos of interviews where he describes some of the background to things he did on the show.

https://youtu.be/a4ageUPHgno

https://youtu.be/Z3PP_SWHUQQ

“Not everything has a point” just gets me. It’s amazing how the hosts just want to jump from talking point to talking point and just refuse to let the guest actually talk, which Norm really plays off of.

And lastly, the moth joke remains a shining example of his anti-jokes.

https://youtu.be/jJN9mBRX3uo

His monologues at roasts, awards shows, and the correspondents dinner were examples of not being afraid of anything.
Right, the game shouldn't have crashed regardless of the response from a web service, let alone an ad one.
Well, it's not revealed if the research is published in a 3rd party, independent, refereed journal.

Also, the date is not revealed when the research was accomplished.
So they're switching from the Bazaar model to the Cathedral model of Open Source software development. [0] As others have said, it seems unlikely this will work out for them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#%...
In China they sell iPhones that take two physical SIM cards.
>it's pretty messed up if you're making 3x the national median household income

3x national median income would actually mean something if real estate costs the same nationally, but obviously it doesn't. Many areas in the country costs far more than 3x in terms of real estate prices.

If you make the 3x the median income of the area you live in, then it would be a stronger argument.
Bold claims share the studies. I hope you review them well to make sure they match your claims.
There is finally a relevant flu analogy for those people to use, but they completely miss it in favor of some other non sequitur:

Exposure to this years seasonal flu will give better immunity to this year’s seasonal flu, than the vaccine for last year’s seasonal flu will give to this year’s seasonal fly. One day we’ll be able to say “Duh” in response to annual COVID flavors.

There will be vaccines specifically made for the delta variant and others.
If minimum wage workers aren't responsible for the growth in productivity, why should they be paid as if they were? Would productivity actually be increased, if business owners not only had to invest in, say, machinery to improve productivity, but also needed to pay employees more now that they were using machines that improved their productivity?

For example, I build fences for a living. Usually I pay a guy $100/day to dig post holes, and he can dig 20 post holes in a 6 hour day.

I decide to scale up, so I buy a post hole digging machine for $20,000. This machine is pretty much point and shoot, and now lets the same guy dig 200 post holes in 6 hours. Not only has he dug 10x more post holes, but he also feels better at the end of the day because he was using a machine and not his own muscles to do the job.

How much should that guy get paid now? Is it $1000, since he is 10x as productive? Is it $100, because he is working the same amount of hours as before? Is it $80, because his job is actually easier now because I put in $20k of my own money to make it so?
and more so, its extremely hard to track peoples blood test. Adobe Acrobat can easily change anyones name on a piece of paper with a blood test result, there wouldn't be a way to confirm this person has antibodies

In Israel a high antibody blood test gives you a "vaccine passport" for 6 months.

...to get that, you sign up for the blood test using your government ID # (SSN for the US), the government gets your results before you do, and the government issues you an encrypted barcode that can only be decrypted by a government built mobile app that restaurants or stadiums have. They scan it and compare to your own ID

Now, does anyone think the US can pull off getting peoples SSN , connect it to a blood test, send the SSN+result to the federal government and have them issue you a federal "antibody ID" which is directly connected to your SSN in a government database?

We could only wish

Americans are just really bad at these kinds of things. This is why we can't have nice things etc. etc. etc.
For many people though, Facebook IS the Internet. Especially for those who don't own a computer and most of their online usage is done through the mobile version of FB.
“culture encourages people to have children…”

That’s not true in any western country :)
There are far more Boomers than Millenials. Of course Boomers are going to have a larger "share" of U.S. wealth (compounded by the fact that Boomers are at the ends of their careers, in their highest-earning phase).

Here's an article [0] that looks at wealth per capita by age (and inflation adjusted), rather than by share. It shows that Gen X is doing much better than the Boomers (which matches my experience--my siblings and I far out-earn our parents), and that Millenials are on track to do the same but just aren't as far along the curve yet.

[0] https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/09/01/who-is-the-w...
The best video games back then sold millions... just like today/
have you ever sat through the commercials of American TV news stations? pharma has a directly controlling interest in the media. this should be uncontroversial.
Orc Warriors aren't even the highest variance in the game though! That's just... typical Wesnoth. Really, Orc Warriors don't have much more variance than Elvish Heroes.

When we start talking Horsemen, Lancers, Thunderguards, Ulfserkers, Griffons, Wraiths... these are the real "high variance" units of Wesnoth. (Wraiths have self-healing on their hits. So its very "sharp" when they hit. If they "get lucky", a Wraith may be at full health after killing 3 units, because they self-healed). EDIT: Oh yeah, and Trolls too have way more variance.

That's the thing: the default level of variance in Wesnoth is really damn high. Far more variance in this game than pretty much everything else I've ever played. And when we get into the lol "variance as a strategy units" (aka: lancers/wraiths), its pretty much like playing against a slot machine.

> The solution is to avoid fighting them full powered at night with your valuable units -- sacrifice some T1 units if you have to, hit the orc with a bunch of archers, slow them with a Shaman to reduce their damage.

2x attacks from the Shaman is pretty low accuracy. Assuming your typical 40% evade chance, there's a 16% chance that your shaman misses both slow-attacks. If the Orc is standing on its advantaged hill or mountain terrain, you're basically screwed (slow probably will miss more often than hit).

No T1 unit has a chance of killing an Orc Warrior. None at all. Slow is probably your best bet (-50% damage), but its really not that reliable of a strategy.
It is also a massive wealth distribution scheme for the rich.

starters are not able to afford a home, and instead have to rent from either a corporation which has the means the own property, or for a landlord who does the same.

It will cause a lot of issues with wealth disparity, especially for young people in the future.
I think you severely underestimate how hard it would be to organise every single person in the country having a blood test, and then sending out invites etc based on the results of those tests.
And three can be too, but it's not possible to talk about two at once.
> Every time I think we have hit the bottom as a country in terms of the power of ignorance (and evil, on the part of the GOP establishment), we keep going.

> Any comment that points out that IT IS THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE MURDERED 650,000 AMERICANS AND ARE ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL AS MANY MORE AS THEY CAN gets downvoted below zero.

That's because the comments like these are political hysteria designed to get others to vote for your team...
> I pointed this out because pixi.js was the first thing I thought off when I read the title of this post. Others have pointed out they made the same association.

People make associations all the time with often unrelated things. That's exactly how our brains are wired to operate. The fact is the names in question are still different.

> Coincidentally I just named a rendering library for WebGL a few days ago and it's already the first result on google.

Google tailors results. And I bet if you shared the name of your library I'd find some similar project that I have an association with when I hear your name.

> Naming projects isn't that hard

Naming things is incredibly hard!

> There's only so many possible combinations of five characters. You'd think software developers of all people would understand that and maybe stop giving their projects short names that look like acronyms and convey literally no meaning.

Love the contradiction of how you start out by saying naming things isn't hard and then go on to explain why naming things is hard. It's also worth noting that adding more characters creates might create more entropy but there's still only so many phonetic phrases available before you drift into the realm of stupidly long names.

> The easiest way is to pick a longer descriptive name with a good acronym. If your project becomes popular, it'll become known by that acronym. Most 2 word combinations aren't taken either.

Please no. Acronyms are almost as bad for names as stupid pseudo-words (like SPDY and NGINX). A name doesn't have to be English, but it should at least be a word. Otherwise you're making things artificially hard for anyone who isn't a native English speaker or who has reading difficulties (like dyslexia).

Like I keep saying, naming things is incredibly hard.
If a worker wants to partake in the profits of the company, they should work for a public company and buy shares, or be part of a company that offers profit sharing/private shares/options/bonus compensation.

Their salary is a cost, like any other expense, and should be kept to a minimum, and only high enough to retain talented employees according to the market rates for those positions.

That's a fundamental principle of corporate accounting.
ISaaS - Immune System as a Service
>I don't have it handy at the moment, but apparently housing is still more affordable than in 2008.

this? https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...
Isn't this really "Facebook is concerned that Instagram is toxic for teen girls" -- I don't think we can point to this conclusively and make any statement about "toxicity" because that's a subjective concept.

But that Facebook is aware of it and is investigating further I think is all that is noteworthy here; it's not like they are accused of using this data and attempting to make Instagram more toxic for teen girls, which would be a much more shocking allegation.

The idea that we (humans) can engineer engagement somehow is a misguided one; we stumble upon things and try to optimize things, but we don't have a theory of human behavior that will naturally give us concepts like this -- it's not even clear that such a thing could exist in any generality anyway, and if we had it, then it would naturally become ineffective because everyone would use it.
>It will be months, not years, before it is enabled by default.

So in a few months we'll have feature parity with 2012 mobile HW ?

I have quit 3D development around 2015 but I remember trying to use MRT on webgl to do some basic deferred shading and you could run on FF and Chrome desktop only. It's infuriating that 7 years later it's still the case. I used this technique when I was learning 3D programming in 2007. Calling this cutting edge is just...
Calling the idea "laughably naive" doesn't seem appropriate when many businesses today are ran this way, some of them producing billions of dollars a year. That makes me question your age, as anyone with some life experience knows about worker co-ops. They're all over the western world. GE and Microsoft are fully aware of them, they've researched this extensively, sending representatives around the globe to figure out why these businesses maintain such high quality. It's the removal of worker alienation.

The authority to define what working there is decided upon by the shareholders, it's a democratic workplace. So you couldn't be that person on matter how hard you tried. That's kind of the point. To finally remove the master-slave class tension from the our places of work and replace it with democracy.
It's Google's machine translation of a German-language article,

https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/physik/mater...
Lol, spoken like a true corporate slave. Sad thing is anyone who works in McKinsey has more than enough talent to succeed without sacrificing their personal life. I guess the saying is true, McKinsey is filled will people who used to be interesting.
Pornography does not cause you to go into spasms and die though. You being unable to control yourself does not justify undue restrictions on other people. The internet should not be ceded to nanny staters and morality police.
Since you're getting flak. I'll add on - I'm in the same boat. Just turned 31. Make about ~$400k/yr. I have about ~$1.5m in stock (will be sold in the next year - so - maybe $1m cash). I've sold my soul to FAANG and an ultra toxic startup to get here.

Can't or will not buy a home here in SF. If I wanted to stretch - I could afford a $1.6-2m home but it'd be unpleasant. Depending on the neighborhood - that's just a starter home. I'm not even talking like a nice starter home either. My neighbors just bought the house nextdoor for $2m and spent a year renovating/fixing. Would they have bought this place if they knew all the issues? Probably not but couldn't do anything about it since you have to buy without inspection. Even when you buy at these crazy prices: Usually still requires a few hundred K in cash to renovate to put up to modern standards. We're talking all the electrical, plumbing, insulation, roof, some structural issues that went unaddressed, kitchen and bath updates, etc. Add on that you can't even live in the damn thing while that's happening. People underestimate how much places here cost and how much work they take.

Only way you're getting a nice modern turnkey house in a decent neighborhood is if you go $3m+. And unfortunately that's still wildly out of reach for many of us at the threshold of 1% individual incomes. (~$350-450k - depending on the study)
Tuples and records are proposed immutable data structures and currently in stage 2[1] (same as the pipe operator).

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple
> Data and the methods to act upon the data.

This logical grouping is what Rich Hickey called the attractive thing about objects. So a namespace in Clojure does exactly that: lets you refer to “a logical grouping of data and the functions specific to acting upon it” with a meaningful name. (It also handles the specifying of dependencies, and seems like the right place to do that, but that’s not relevant here.)

Clojure also supports private functions with “defn-“ but oddly requires using metadata for binding ns-private vars. I wonder how many folks have written their own “def-“ macro to do this. It’s never come up for me, but I haven’t written production code with it either.
I can imagine an “all products must be adapted to the local market” type of rule leading to this situation with Fitness+. My country has been added this time around with subtitles, but I’m struggling to imagine how they are useful when the workout is going to constantly take your eyes off the screen.
I'm serving as a poll worker in SF today. There's a section in our manual (page 65, there's a PDF online somewhere) about what to do if a voter is not wearing a facial covering, the TLDR of which is to politely offer them a mask or curbside voting, and then let them vote regardless. We are a long way off from requiring vaccination.
Why? Probably because everyone and their uncle self-diagnosed a bad cold as COVID-19 and plenty more would lie about having natural immunity.

Still I don't understand the current approach to COVID in the US. Vaccines are safe and available yet we only just approved the use in children under 12. I have heard second hand many doctors are downplaying the importance of the vaccine for people under 18.

On the other hand places with good vaccination rates are reimposing lockdowns and mask mandates. Quite a few public events are getting canceled or rescheduled.

By any metric the COVID response of lockdowns, etc. was at best breakeven in terms of cost effectiveness. Since the risk of COVID is lower now both due to the vaccine and also just our knowledge of treatment, any lockdown/mandate response will have a lower cost effectiveness.

IMO it would make a lot more sense to just keep vaccines available for everyone older than 2 including boosters every 6 months (just in case) and end all other restrictions. Sure there is a small population that would get vaccinated but genuinely can not due to a medical issue but that scenario is no different than the seasonal flu and other viruses.

It would be better to just do a vaccine/verified immunity passport like program but that is practically impossible in the US. Too many people won't like/use the governments app including both the normal conspiracy nuts but also the privacy-minded HN crowd. It also does not help that there are half a dozen passport like apps from insurance companies and various government agencies.
Can’t you just install systemd in a Docker container? Can you expand on your comment? I’m interested in what you mean by it.
You would never know if it was serious is not. It could have been more of a comment really.
The fact that it’s a personal choice doesn’t mean that both choices are equally correct.

IMHO, unless you’re a hermit, and excluding certain other extremely rare edge cases, the only moral choice is taking it.
Darknet Diaries had a really interesting episode about this a few years ago (nearly two years to the day, actually): https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/
Climate change risk assessment 2021 [pdf]
Indeed the final version has not been published yet, but there are no major reasons to doubt its validity. Here's an evaluation of the preprint from Johns Hopkins: https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/comparing-sars-cov-2-natural...
Just zero the entire block of memory instead of checking the state of each bit.

If only these blocks cooperated!
Why is any of that easier with vaccination status than with antibody status?
I'm freaking out in a similar fashion. It's bananas. Between money being practically free due to low interest rates, and the large incomes that are about, we keep feeding the beast: dumping more & more money into the stock market, into housing. Those valuations go up and up, further increasing the money supply of those with some stake. How and where does this cycle ever slow down or stop?
Yes. Thank you!

Apparently my well intentioned ramblings can be directly converted into brain farts.
Bah, I'll be happy if I could even get correct averages. I see pipelines getting value X1 from a server that served 100 requests, another value X2 from a server that served one request, and then it returns (X1+X2)/2.
IDK! I wish I had some better idea because there is money to be made at least in options I think.

On one hand, I hope that cheap landfill-express electronics take a hit.

On the other hand, I’m well aware they will manage somehow and it’s the good stuff that will be hard to find/make.

For one thing I am certain, we absolutely have not seen the height of the supply shortage bullwhip. It’s going to get worse.
The entire administration has set vaccination percentage as their OKR; they're not going to risk that number just because of the facts.
This particular article is actually pretty informative ... until the dialog at the end. And in it, he's approving of a _strict liability_ scheme. I doubt most other pro-business ideologues would approve of a law that 'simplifies' legal disputes by mandating that the business always lose the case.

(In fact, there's currently an effort to overturn New York's Scaffolding Law, and the arguments fall in line with that detailed in the article -- victims are being negligent or careless, so why should contractors pay?)

The article is not without flaws ... Workers comp was a compromise that created strict liability, but also limited the compensation workers could receive for on-the-job injuries, so it can be argued that it was actually a windfall for owners at the expense of workers.
I just wish they could figure out a way to get the sapphire display on the aluminum models. My stainless steel Series 5 doesn’t have a single visible scratch on it and I’ve worn it every single day since launch. My previous aluminum S3 display was horribly scratched in the same timeframe.

I guess it’s good in that I don’t want to upgrade because it still looks new.
It’s absurd to assume that the opposite of this fallacy is true indefinitely though. There is a point where someone is simply not worth employing to do anything at all. There is a finite number of valuable things that can be done with little to no skill/education/training. It would take a much greater level of investment in our domestic workforce to get around this than we currently provide. And at the moment it’s simply cheaper to effectively outsource this training to other countries and bring in skilled workers on visas instead of subsidizing training for our own citizens, so that’s what we’ve been doing for decades.

There’s some truth to what you’re saying but IMO it would take a lot more to get there than simply having a higher minimum wage.