skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not ned to “fool a lot of people”, it needs to convince scientists.

And yes, if there is a process which turns lead into yellow material, and that yellow material behaves as, and composed of the same particles as gold (according to physicsts), and reacts same as gold (according to chemists), and looks like gold (according to jewelers and artists) then this yellow material is gold.. even if philosophers say “this is not a gold!”
Social Conduct for Programmers
The Pfizer vaccine has already received full FDA approval, and Moderna is expected to get it shortly.
I guess it depends what you mean by "working".

In addition to being a software developer (my day job), I also write and publish poetry, reviews, and non-fiction. These pay very little, if anything; I find that US literary publications pay almost nothing, while Canadian ones are usually able to pay a little. I think this is due to Canada Council rules around funding, but may be wrong.

Regardless, it's a field where it's very difficult to make money, and most of the people I know who manage this full-time do some combination of traditional teaching at colleges/universities or via online courses, manuscript editing services, that sort of thing.

As much as I'd like to be able to spend more time on my artistic pursuits, I'm grateful that my day job allows me to do things like pay my mortgage, and eat, and so likely the arts will stay a side thing with me forever.
Yeah, again this is a great talking point for those who are enjoying their newfound power, but unfortunately for them (and fortunately for the inhabitants of this country!) the numbers do not bare this out: https://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/hospitalization-utiliza...

Do you know of a hospital system that’s overloaded in the way you are worried about? I’ve seen plenty of bloggers who talk about this, but they never seem to actually link to the data backing up their stories.
The fact that commenters at HN resort to ad hominem is a worrying pattern.
Related discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500246
> They estimate the rate of myocarditis after two shots of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be 162.2 cases per million for healthy boys aged 12 to 15 and 94 cases per million for healthy boys aged 16 to 17. The equivalent rates for girls were 13.4 and 13 cases per million, respectively. At current US infection rates, the risk of a healthy adolescent being taken to hospital with Covid in the next 120 days is about 44 per million, they said.

This is a bad comparison. We're all going to get covid eventually, so we should compare the risk of getting the vaccine with the risk of being unvaccinated when you do get exposed and/or infected, not with the risk limited to an arbitrary time interval.
And if the vaccine prevents hospitalization and death Covid will become just like any other virus making turns in our societies. IF enough people are vaccinated, that is. if it wasn't for the people unable to be vaccinated, kids under 12 for now, medical conditions and so on, I'd say get rd of restrictions. If it was only the unvaccinated that are at serious risk, well, it was their decision and I don't really care. they are still putting others at risk, and that is simply not acceptable.
Tech Giants Still Haven't Disclosed Raw Numbers on Post-2018 Workforce Diversity
Have any actual rebuttal to the statistics I'm posting? Or are you just going to keep blowing hot air?

I assume you're embarrassed that you're so confused about the data.
The US government is us. The US government is not you. Better?
Depends on how much glue I suppose. I've salvaged plenty of 18650 cells from 'glued' packs. I'd assume that the Tesla batteries aren't a brick of epoxy since they use fluid temperature management that would have to flow around the cells.
I try hard to unsubscribe to small companies because marking their spam will be easy but it may hurt the companies future emails.
I take issue with this comparison: just because the prior 'experiments' have been failures does not mean that future efforts which utilize entirely different methods will be. The war on drugs was already highly criticized for its ineffectiveness on several accounts: there is definitely a way to eradicate the problem, but those were not it and even people at the time knew it.
It's hard to unpick your argument but it seems that you say in a couple of places something similar to "eradication isn't possible therefore reduction has no benefit".

For example:

"Vaccine passport proponents routinely cite "slowing [the] spread" as a reason to impose vaccination requirements

Yep.

> despite discoveries earlier this year showing that vaccinated individuals can still spread the disease.

If you'd said "can still spread the disease as much as unvaccinated" then this would have made sense. From my understanding the jury is still out on this question with the consensus being "the vaccinated spread it less but we're not sure how much less".

> Likewise, unless the vaccine can reduce R below 1[...] universal vaccination cannot stop the spread of the disease.

Even if we accept this part (and I'm not sure I do) then you again seem to be conflating "can't stop it entirely" with "has no benefit"
The Philosopher's Toolkit by Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl (Wiley-Blackwell)
Either way, I don't imagine gasoline retail having high margins even under ideal circumstances. It sells very predictably and reliably and requires virtually no overhead anymore due to self-service stations. It's a stream of money on auto-pilot and any non-trivial profits would quickly get eaten away by someone else who sees it as a the automatic stream of money it is.
Please someone update the link to the HTTPS version.
That's what you get for tearing down any worker protection or ability to organize.
Conspiracy clickbait given there’s actually recent pictures of the place. If the guy really was dedicated to figuring it out, could’ve hopped the gate, flew a drone, or just kayaked down.

The constant tone of “how could anyone believe that!” on totally believable stuff. Like why would the family donate money to the fire department (according to the pics, it’s heavily wooded) if they didn’t want them to protect their property.

Again the whole point is moot because you can see the pictures
What is your evidence for the implied counterfactual?
The closest thing to a full time job that pays a living wage in the arts is to become a professor

I think many people here are missing the career of a tattoo artist (though the OP was asking about literature, not visual arts).

They can get paid as much as contract programmer -- $30 to $100 an hour -- or even a dentist, e.g. $200-300/hour if independent and well known.

Ironically, tattooing is one of the few forms of art that's not economically affected by computers -- you can't download a tattoo :) Computers made every form of knowledge easier to copy and thus less expensive: software (open source), journalism, literature, music, and movies. But it didn't do that to tattoos.

I think they also follow Jamie Zawinski's law, i.e. write software that will help your users get laid. People will pay more for tattoos than they would pay for something they hang in their living room. (This isn't a negative statement about the art form; I don't think anyone who tattoos would disagree that it's often sexual)
The Philosopher's Toolkit by Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl
> "Someone an outlet like the BBC trusts."

The BBC clearly has not trusted these reports. Nor has any other journalistic outlet.

They are literally just the tweets of any old Joe Schmoe. It doesn’t matter who they work for, since the BBC is not taking any responsibility for the reports.

Journalism has fact checkers and editors for a reason.
I get that my tone would be offensive if used against a person’s personal achievements, but this is an enterprise product likely built by not one but several teams, and the writer is the principal product manager. They don’t get the privilege to lie about their product and expect it to pass without outright mockery, and I expect them to be compensated for being in such a public position and forced to perpetuate whatever the executives want.
Not as much as you might think. A huge amount of energy is required to gain the altitude for long distance flight. Cruising much less so.
Editorialized and misleading title. More anti-vax propaganda. They’re really hiding it what with the article being posted on nih.gov and all. HN should be better than this.

Let me summarize the study: “We deleted a protein from a different virus and made it less dangerous, thus showing that the protein is important.”
HSV and not HSL for that mental model? That's surprising to me—I thought the tint/shade system would lead to wanting to put max-chroma in the middle.
I've been scared before, but I've never tortured someone and imprisoned them for 20 years on a hunch.
The sub’s content is based on actual examples of vocally unvaccinated people dying. Unfortunately, there has been an endless supply of new content. That’s not the result of astroturfing. It’s the result of large numbers of people refusing the vaccine and ending up in the hospital for weeks, often dying.

Frankly, the sub has probably saved lives by convincing some folks to go get vaccinated. My own parents refused to get vaccinated until my dad’s unvaccinated cousin got COVID and was dead within a week.

I can't find the example you're referring to. Feel free to link to it.
"Don't you see, no one has ever done this before! I've got to do this! I've got to do this!"

With that last shout and a wild look in his eye he ran madly out of the lab, hurrying back to his office.
How is KSM still alive?
Wow hacker-news this is totally hacker news related. Are you sure your China propaganda algorithm is disabled? What a dog shit thing to see on a technology aggregator.
That's exactly why I included realization b) :-)

I should have also added:

c) Sometimes, you perception has limited you to choosing between two choices. Change your perception enough to see that there are always a multitude of choices. You may not want to pick the 3rd+ choice, but knowing that you made your choices freely allows you to own the choice and the outcome.
Direct-to-consumer retailers try to bring pizzazz to dull goods
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. In a democracy there is a way to make your point for every particular case in question: voting. Or demonstrations, which were held against Covid measures basically since the first wave all across democratic nations.
I was in a similar situation as you. I had a SE job lined up right out of college after having run a small late night bakery out of my apartment during my senior year. After a year and a half working as a SE, I left to pursue work in the food industry full time. I ran my own business which subsequently folded, then worked in a few other restaurants. I eventually bought the same restaurant I managed for 2 years and was chef/founder of it for 3. COVID hit as we were looking to open a second location and I decided that it was time to hang it up entirely. I am now back in software.

I regret none of it. I am so happy I took the chance at the age of 23 because I knew the software industry would always be a fall back if things didn't work out. As others here have stated, try out your art as a side hustle first, if at all possible. You can always come back to software, the industry is not going away any time soon. Some employers will love your multi disciplinary talents if you do come back to tech. It is better to try when you are young. You do not want to look back and regret not trying!

Good luck!!!
thanks, I didn't found it initially
Of course Amazon can sponsor those companies hoping that they'll bring more profits in the end. But that's not a guarantee, just a good will, may be depending on mood of support person who'll handle that specific case. I made a mistake with Amazon in the past which costed me $100 and I did not get a refund despite asking for it. I had some bad sour in my mouth, but whatever, my mistake, my money.
NTFS/ReFS support symlinks if that's what you meant.
There are a few organisations campaigning for directors and shareholders to take unlimited liability.
I believe everyone should be vaccinated but your point worries me. This doesn't seem 'right.' I don't believe in conspiracy theories of people pushing anti vaccination propaganda just to bring this state of affairs about as some are suggesting: that said, I don't want us to be in this place, but I also want everyone vaccinated so the vaccines can actually work and we can eradicate this thing.

I can't help but feel manipulated in this state.
Get a prescription, then? Cannabis is a valid medical treatment for ADHD.
Just block trustarc in uBlockOrigin.

starbucks.co.uk works fine for me without trustarc, newrelic, googletagmanager or cloudflareinsights. No point executing all of that extra JS as its not for your benefit.
Would be fun to visit the old problems(like this one) with modern toolset. Say golang with channels(not the /join type of channels) :p
Have you ever been in a position where you had either the power or the responsibility to imprison someone?
Hybrid vigour: A new form of sea defence is part natural, part artificial
Can you elaborate on the Rust problem or give me a pointer to something describing it?

I always thought that Rust is perfectly happy to link in conflicting versions of a module into the same binary.
ULA has fully booked the last of Atlas and will have no track record on Vulcan if it's even ready before U launches.
I abandoned "successful" art career to be a graphic designer in advertising industry, moved to web-development and created my own company.
It is personal.

I code and design to pay the bills and paint to save my soul.

Saving my soul is not a career so I will stick with tech career until AI makes it irrelevant.
Parent’s Internet – Solving the Misinformation Problem
I don’t really understand this comment. I don’t think I’ve even read a press release from SpaceX, most of my exposure to the Starship program has been to videos of Starships flying (and often exploding)… and then another one flies soon after.

So I’m not sure how we can call the Starship program vaporware? There are stainless steel towers flying in Texas - the only vapor is their exhaust.
No, no. Noise leads to poorer sleep quality, which increases dementia risk. I'll take that nobel, thank you
I am honestly intrigued any time I hear anyone mention RDF. You have had success using it? It wasn't exactly clear how you used it from what you said.
if they're using aws route53, your isp needs to support edns.

otherwise, your netblock might have been falsely advertised in the dns provider's geoip database. (eg. maxmind)
Just because it's been "tried" before doesn't mean the concept is invalid now.

The underlying physics of wing in ground effect remain unchanged, but our technology has advanced. We now have new missions, new engines and fuels, new advanced control software, etc., that make these concepts potentially more cost-beneficial.
the CDC recognizes long covid, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/..., but not necessarily as a result of mild infections.

it is also worth noting that the CDC, so far, does not recognize vaccine-induced long haul syndrome as a real syndrome.

edit: re vaccinating the young, you need to pay special attn to the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, which can potentially outweigh the benefits of the vaccine. vaccine advocates already made this mistake of ignoring vaccine risks with young women / GBS previously in the context of another vaccine and it would be a tragedy to needlessly maim the young with these new innovative vaccines.

edit: dear creeps who are downvoting me without a reason, please take note of another HN submission at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...
The demoscene is fantastic, it’s just very math-heavy. I love shaders and the speed of GPU’s/parallel processing, but learning to write GLSL is hard especially when you haven’t had much math education. (Which is often the case for art students).

That’s also the reason why I mentioned Processing. It’s one of the few programming languages that’s very accesible for non-beta students because of it’s very simple and visual documentation.
Would you also jail the folks ho were vaccinated but still infected others?
Exactly, I'm just pointing out that there were (and still are in my opinion) valid scientific and rational thinking for being hesitant of getting the vaccine.
What kind of argument is there to cite a single state's COVID ICU utilization as an argument?

First of all, that's not total ICU utilization, which is the metric that should interests you.

Illinois, the state you cherry-picked, has only 508 ICU beds remaining out of 3127. That's one doubling away from disaster.

Here's an example of people dying because they couldn't find an ICU bed : https://meaww.com/ray-demonia-cardiac-failure-dies-icu-beds-...

Right now the US is at the cusp of disaster with 78% nationwide ICU utilization. As we've seen some states are at functionally 100% utilization and turning away patients.
Masks are proven to be effective against transmission. Countries with early mask mandates suffered much less than countries without.

I still fail to see the extraordinary “burden” “hardship”, “sacrifice” of - wearing a mask as a proven way to save lives?

Would you feel better if there was some medal attached, maybe “Great Hero of the Fight against COVID”?
Highly suspect: I heard that they count anyone without three jabs as "unvaccinated." that might not be israel and it might be two jabs, apologies on unreliability. I'm putting this out here because I hope someone can disprove or verify it.
Aa terrible as the international secret prison system is, I'd still say the worldwide trial-less assassination program is a larger affront to the Constitution. Particularly as our methods often kill the family and neighbors as well.
> We regularly show papers for everyday activities - library card for reading books, ID for a hotel stay, driving license for driving a car, ID to pickup a parcel etc.

This is a classic demonstration that "slippery slope" isn't a fallacy.

First you need a driving license. Privacy conscious people objected. You don't need to show your driving license to drive, was the response, only if you break traffic laws or get into an accident. There's no one using it to track everywhere you go or anything.

Then comes the vaccine passport. Privacy conscious people object. Now the response is, hey, you already have to show your driving license if you get pulled over for speeding, what's the difference? And you don't have to show your vaccine passport if you, um, never go outside again.

Meanwhile we now have ALPR cameras recording the location history of every vehicle on the roads. Because some slopes are actually slippery.
Did you have breakdown by political party?
Ditto. The sudden inability to mount Google Drive to a folder instead of a separate volume in macOS finally got me to get off my ass and migrate to a self-hosted Nextcloud, something which honestly was pretty far down on my to-do list, so if Google hadn't made Google Drive so much more unusable out of nowhere then they could have continued harvesting data from me for who knows how much longer. They had to put in effort to lose me as a customer.
I think the difference is effort to get the vaccine is very close to 0 - it’s free, you can get one at Costco.

And what’s the benefit or not getting it? As much as I despise cars you can at least go do something arguably beneficial with them. I think we should have fewer though because they do cause unnecessary deaths. But what is gained by not having the vaccine? If I have a car I can do something beneficial. If you don’t get the vaccine you can transmit the disease or wind up in the hospital and for what reason? Do you, or society get much pleasure from skiing? Seems like it. There’s an entire industry. Will there be COVID-19 resorts and YouTube videos showing who can get the sickest or something?

We do deprioritize smokers and drinkers BTW on the transplant list.
>Classical violinists are already playing at close to a professional level before they start college. At your age (assuming you're older than 8), you don't have a chance at making your hands do those things, or mastering skills such as sight-reading. I started playing music at age 8.

Sort of bewildered by this statement. You can't learn to sight read after age 8?
My personal complaint with color pickers is that they make it hard to find many normal environmental colors. Where is brown? I've learned to find it around red, a little toward orange, and a dark saturation. It's not intuitive, and I don't feel like I just pick _some_ brown because I can't easily explore the space of browns through beige and tan. Flesh tones are similarly difficult.

I'm not sure what the solution is. A purely algorithmic color picker probably isn't the answer because it's not just our color perception that matters, but also the way colors are formed in our environment (which is what gives us so many browns).
I highly doubt it will be legislated. Heat waves regularly kill hundreds of people, yet few states require rentals to be air conditioned, even in the south.
That would be interesting! The only way I know to ionize air en masse is a strong electric arc. These planes would sound like science fair Tesla towers!
While most of this article can be argued to be true, they missed a key point of early adoption of linux phones- privacy. They forgot to mention how both Ios/Android are less private than the linux phone. Also, they should have delineated between security, privacy, and anonymity to be clear on what point they were trying to make. Poorly written at best.
So you can nick collide people, obviously.
Evil empire is the one that lost.
What in your opinion has America done to India?
And the serious offenders will keep using the anti-privacy phone?
The next question is what the rate of myocarditis from COVID after a single shot is. I assume myocarditis counts as serious disease, but I don't know enough to say that for certain.
I think Target is the biggest first mover here. They're the most common to have a ton of Tesla superchargers and often a little Starbucks/Pizza Hut/Food place inside.
Ethanol also sucks in water from the atmosphere which causes big problems if not adequately managed. Especially ‘back in the day’, the technology to do so was very poor - even keeping a gas tank somewhat sealed against rain was difficult and often didn’t happen well.

Modern plastics, better valves, better treatment chemicals all mean it’s less of a problem now - but it is still a major problem and kills a lot of small engines in particular in states where all gas is some kind of ethanol blend.
I'm in your camp: the problem is the people we rely on as experts are said to be lying/wrong/stupid/evil/devils/.etc by the people against the positions they hold.

How do you fight that kind of thing?
Currently interested in year-round solar irradiation data for seas and oceans (mostly over shipping lanes)

It seems that out to sea (over 100 km from shore) solar actually weakens due to humidity/clouds?
Hate authoritarianism, but conduct your business this way?

You might be exacerbating the problem.