skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government made it free to citizens. But nothing is actually free.

When some nation donates 1-million doses, there will be a market value for those doses: maybe $20 million for the batch or so.

It's not even black market vs grey market. This is just standard market economies between nations.
The study you cite doesn't seem to say what you want it to say.

> Controlling for differences across studies, secondary attack rates were higher in households from symptomatic index cases than asymptomatic index cases, to adult contacts than to child contacts, to spouses than to other family contacts, and in households with 1 contact than households with 3 or more contacts.

It acknowledges asymptomatic spread.
I also don't see Chinese symbols as fundamentally different from non-english ASCII. It's pretty common for Physics bachelor students to show still naming their variables and write comments in e.g. German (my teaching background). I'll push them to kick that habit pretty quickly and switch to English, but this is no different from them still writing the bachelor thesis in German and then switching to English for the master and PhD: there's nothing really wrong with it, but you won't have any reach within the scientific community if your work is not in English.

There's really nothing wrong with beginners starting out in their own language. Why shouldn't a 14 year old Chinese kid write their first programs using Chinese characters as identifiers? I'd much rather have a language support full Unicode they way Julia does than to force everyone into ASCII.
We all talk about unit test coverage, end-to-end testing, hiring the right people (leetcode hell treadmill) all while we slide absolute crap in through the backdoor. It's Kafkaesque.
> This variant has been in the US for about two months, and it is easy to spot in the data in places like Colorado.

What is your source for this? Is there anywhere we can read about it?

edit: The New York Times seems to disagree:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/28/world/covid-omicron-...

> Omicron has not yet surfaced in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
People will pay to skip the queue, which creates a perverse incentive to hoard and limit distribution to incentive paying.

Corrupt officials receiving free vaccine shipments could very well do this.
Oh boy! Another Windy Tan sonic analysis!

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the one on dialup modem links. Seriously. It's a wonderful walk-through of all those screeches from the 1990s:

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
SF has banned guns for all practical matters.
Here the open pit mine creates a huge surface area for the oxidation of metals and then the combination of rainfall and metals. In a working mine, this is the function of a closed loop leaching field.
I occasionally need to rent cars and the UIs are often so bad I just ignore them. Set them up at start and use a car mounted phone instead. Suction cup mounts to the rescue.

Navigation UX is usually just annoying in most cars anyway.
I imagine you're best placed to do a bisection test yourself? Like move to a different locality, cut out everything but water and be a nudist for a couple of days and see if it's improving?
Indie game developer here, 10+ years, multiple commercial titles - this rings true. I mostly spend time in communities where people are in a similar work situation, yet producing different products (programming, art, film etc).

This isn't to disparage intentional game dev communities. They certainly have their place. But often these communities are for hobbyists who want to share screenshots of their A* implementation in Godot (again, that's great), which isn't really useful to me these days.
It's insane how these companies get away with this. Nobody is "buying" anything, they're licensing the content and that comes with a ton of restrictions. This should be considered false advertising at the very least.
It's arguably the most 'authentic' emulation available. The amount of work they've put into the project of emulating the DX7's various nuances is enormous.
> Do you really mean that government acts primarily to avoid being voted out of office? Should we be shocked or disgusted by that?

shocked? no.

disgusted? yes.

the ideal politician is one that works towards societies best interests, not one that maximizes time-in-office and career security.

That isn't to say that one can't have one without the other, only to emphasize the fact that no political office was ever won on the promise of a lengthy career and self-interest.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul – All 3 David Bowie Concerts [video]
I'm like near B2 in spanish, B1 portuguese, was about B2 in german awhile ago but I don't practice it anymore (not that useful).

Learned all in the past few years.

Go for Pimsleur to start, plus a little bit of Duolingo. Then start going to language meetups (this is the most important after you're approaching B1), reading up about grammar a bit, using Italki for online practice, and think about traveling to the country.

You want a balance of natural speaking ability, but also want to understand the general gist and way the language works so you can reason things easily if needed to - to fill in any gaps.
Ahh, so the Asian countries that have been using them for decades, as well as medical workers all over, have been hiding their secrets from us until after March 8th, 2020.

Perhaps the real answer is a little bit of both things can be true? That is, if you don’t consider Fauci an infallible deity?
Please rename it back to Covid Nu, so we can use Covid Xi for next round, who made this for the whole world to suffer.
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>if you want to duplicate a universe, there's all that matter in the second copy to make, which you've got to pay E=mc^2 for.

This bothers me also, it's like every tiny quantum event creates a Big Bang in a new dimension. There is information duplication as well. Without a way to communicate between dimensions there would seem to be absolutely no way to test this theory. Maybe every quantum event is a communication? And why a new universe for every event? Why not just two universes? And how does time fit in? Maybe the second universe would be the first universe running backwards in time? The energy and information duplication seems too extreme. Could new dimensions eventually fill all possible dimensions and start to collide or overlap? Maybe our universe is a superposition of all dimensions?
For a less-maximal outlook that is actually achievable with minimal editor support, check out elastic tabstops.

https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

I've found that the last reason I can justify spaces has to do with hanging indents which are not aligned on tab bounaries. Elastic tabstops handles those with - you guessed it - tabs.
At least in terms of law as it's applied it's definitely not true. Either your sources are not correct, or "circumvention" is described very differently in other places.
I think modern theory is that stem is something like "-eksa" meaning without. And link to indoeuropean ten is just coincidence. Likely more believable to me looking at rest of the small numbers, which are pretty local.
I spent about 10 years very involved in that forum :) Met some of the people at Casual Connect in Seattle, and randomly elsewhere throughout the years. Cliffski is still going at it, Steven Zhao is now running a very successful VR space franchise (Sandbox VR), I've dipped in and out of games (Google -> Improbable -> Google). I remember getting into extensive debates about C++ vs Java with princec. That forum has a special place in my heart <3
controlling climate via physical is a very bad idea. You only need manual a lot when a climate control implementation is bad. The ultimate goal, is car knows how to keep you in comfort. In electric car heat or cooling is instant( you don't need an engine to warm up). You have a touchscreen controls for the flow settings, that allows you to have preferences, to the point when system can detect your position.
I love tesla's climate control. It is ALWAYS in automatic mode by default. It knows I like 71 f, when i'm in the car, it first start with very strong fan on, trying to pick up temp as fast as possible, after that slows down, to reduce the noise, and just keep the comfort temp.
I never ever touch it. at all. My girlfriend has a different preferences that changed automatically whenever she activate her profile. Whenever I go to a second car and activate my profile there, it also knows what I like, where to blow, and how strong to blow.
Why on earth anyone want to downgrade to manual knobs? In the rare occasions you can tell car, I'm hot, or I'm cold.

Changing profile is a separate story. It changes mirrors , sound preferences, temperature, seat position. I'm doing it that with two touches on the screen. Now imagine you're doing all that manually with old dumb knobs and buttons? Imagine you're doing that every day?

Your kids will be laughing how stupid cars were in 2020's while having all the computers and possibilities to make your car really comfortable.
Oh, with the glowing mushrooms (plus plenty of other abstract/fantasy landscapes)? Damn that takes me back
That seems to be disputed too, this is an interesting read: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States.[0]

> At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days

> Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.

> There also appears to be no significant signaling of COVID-19 cases decreasing with higher percentages of population fully vaccinated

Of course that could be different for third world countries.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/
Nice, thanks for the advice :)
Are there any sources you know of regarding the related African countries selling their allocations?
I disagree with that premise.

I get it's hard to transition and that poor countries do gain money from exploitation.

But almost always, almost all the money goes to the few while the local communities are poisoned. often times, like in the sources I provided, traditional industry/food production is decimated.

So first point is quality of life for the actual locals is often reduced, sometimes greatly. Corporations and developed nations have increased our quality of life at the expense of others for centuries.

Second, once we scale up renewables we won't need to extract nearly as much carbon fuel from the ground. We NEED to stop extracting almost all of it so we can IMPROVE quality of life for everyone.
I have had that problem in general with iOS 15. Sometimes a tap repeatedly won’t register in a certain portion of the screen.
zsh completions with fzf replicates somewhat in the terminal
I think the parent meant something a bit different than "what are the pragmatic advantages of buying an mp3 as opposed to piracy" - rather, they wanted some kind of handle on what - legally and/or ethically - has actually been purchased.
That’s great for Ubuntu!
Only one data point, but I know someone that had radio-frequency turbinate reduction. They were suffering from constant sinus pressure and migraines that correlated with sudden changes in barometric pressure. An MRI revealed abnormally large turbinates. As far as procedures go, the RF reduction was very mild with minimal post-op. Their doctor errors on the side of caution, preferring to start small with the treatment and repeating the procedure if necessary. The first treatment worked wonders, greatly increasing QOL and nearly eliminating the migraines. It's been over a year and my friend is still very happy with the results.
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> I hate the interface, the playback skips (very infrequently), and the subtitle support is pretty bad.

Yeah. The video player straight up sucks. We had better software than this decades ago. There's just no way these things will ever be able to compete with something like mpv but we're forced to use them because it's the only legal way to watch something.
Weren’t there already YouTube videos documenting this at the time? Unless they came out the next week.
Delta managed to thread the needle and grow both more deadly and have higher transmission.

I'm sure some variant in the future will improve both deadliness and transmission. But there is a low chance that this variant (or any particular variant in general) will accomplish this feat.
GM proceeded to ignore everything that worked at that plant (and still does, nevermind what that article says). They flat out refused to learn from Toyota even when they saw it upfront.

We live in a racist world. You either accept it or be blind to many of the problems of the world.
When I worked in IT we had a mantra: Don't be a superhero. This was at a massive company of 70k+ employees. Don't stay after hours to fix things. Don't take on more issues than you can handle. Don't agree to unforeseeable deadlines.

Backlogs represent a staffing failure. Customers are waiting 2 days for an email response? That's a staffing failure. Working harder to cover up a backlog leads to staffing issues never being addressed, and only passes that burden on to the other IT staff.
You don't understand the problem, do you? Nor do you understand you're part of that problem.

It's - by definition - is a pandemic of everybody. Anyone who suggests otherwise is suspect. Those ppl fuel the discontent. The fact that they're allowed to furthers the divide.

The phrase that comes to mind is: "Divided we fall." An absolute truth if there ever was one.
counterpoint: I'm an Excel power-user and I really like the ribbon UI. when you use the alt mode you can fly through it and opportunistically/incrementally learn the keyboard shortcuts.
How do salaries in France compare to the US?
this is such a bullshit you are writing here. maybe justifiable if your payment was really decent - but only then. with your line of thinking reintroducing public flogging for bugs would probably also work very well.

also you are naive with your argument that people just do their job right so they don't get called in the middle of the night. bugs and problems can arise out of nothing (dns problems in google cloud and stuff like that) also bugs aren't always immediately attributable. there you have your group pressure dynamics. no, thank you.
Skimmed over some of the wiki and it looks like the answer is yes.
Apple still working on multi-device charger
Also try to buy some J-Pop only available on www.amazon.co.jp. :p
Which are the fully vaccinated countries you're talking about here? Vaccines for kids 5-12 are just starting and even the countries with the most vaccine intake still have 10%-20% that won't take it. At any rate it's really enough to bring this to a low enough case per capita which generally the vaccines do help with. The less active cases the lower the number of random mutations.
I bet most of those didn't study history. Otherwise they would recognize a lot of similarities between BLM and the Red Guard in the Maoist revolution.
>the absolutely bizarre way you’re talking about Teslas in these comments is a narrative.

Yeah, I think what's bizarre here is that your own narrative is so important to you that you can't stomach even the mildest critism of Tesla without feeling personally attacked, or even imagine anyone not having a Tesla "narrative".

So, of course, the fact that you charge people with having a narrative is in itself bizzare. Then, you casually make these odd statements like, "I don't know if you know anyone in real life who has a Tesla", as if it's a unicorn vs. a fairly common motor vehicle.

It's very much a marketing-fueled "us vs. them" worldview you seem to have there around a car. Tesla ownership is clearly an important part of your identity, which may also help explain why you're motoring around with "Autopilot" on and not a care in the world that the vehicle is making errors and braking when it shouldn't.

Best of luck with that. Seriously.
Asian countries have been using them in part due to pollution. In March 2020, there wasn't much literature on the efficacy of it for disease prevention; we now have a lot more information on this.

Healthcare workers are trained not to "keep fiddling with the mask"; that aspect of Fauci's quote seems to indicate some of the concern was not the theoretical mechanics of masking, but the more practical aspects of having the untrained public doing it.
It also possibly increases discoverability even compared to a traditional GUI, because you can scroll through the list and see things you otherwise might not have known about.
I do, but as I mentioned in a sibling comment I uninstalled OneDrive so it no longer shows up as an option in Office or anywhere else.
Several ships trapped in ice after Arctic sea freezes early near Russia
More likely the water was pumped out when the mine was operating because digging, blasting, and other mining activities are easier when the equipment and people can breathe the atmosphere.

I don't know when the pumps were turned off but it would have been after the mine ceased operations, possibly after the owners threatened to walk away completely. Because they could do that in the USA, and many other parts of the world.
Not going to play this game. At all. I sense I could easily put 3000 hours into it. A man needs to know his limitations. Cracktorio taught me that.
That's not wrong, but this time it was scientists who were ringing the bell.

This write-up [1] explains the particular mutations in Omicron in more detail. Basically, Omicron appears to be a perfect storm of various concerning mutations that had appeared in individual strains before - now all assembled into one strain.

Add to that a sudden, unusual spike in infections right where the variant is found and I guess things can start to look scary for a moment.

Of course, it's still guesswork and even though the genome looks scary, the real-world effects may be mild.

[1] https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-concernin...
- Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

- Then don't do this.

Web browsing on e-ink is widely known to be barely usable, and not what e-readers are made to do. So usage of "even" word is hard to explain here really.
You can strike New Zealand from that list, our isolation systems for people arriving were never very good and didn’t stand a chance once delta became dominant.
I work a lot with Java 8 and Docker. Anyone has any hands on experience with these on M1? I am thinking about moving from MBP 2015 to MBA M1 16GB.
Different type of disease for starters. No animal reservoirs either and the vaccine is effective with a single dose (and doesn’t require boosters). Perhaps we can focus on more health generally? Diet and exercise to curb the massive obesity in the western world.
Personally, I hate coordination and knowledge dissemination. It's better for me if I own my stack and support it 24/7 if that means I don't have to communicate details with other people regularly.

I also gravitate towards teams that work well without a lot of documentation, so that helps in case I'm really unavailable.
The concept here is Net Present Value (NPV). I don't really know of a list of such concepts, I've just cobbled together enough to be wrong for a good reason :)
IPA English pronunciation: “zai” or “ksai” [0]

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter)
Got off a train from Brussels at Gare du Nord and asked at the kiosk for “une cafe sil-vous-plait”, guy behind the counter responded in English

I don’t bother now. Germany, Italy, Greece, sure, but not France.
Milk bags more environmentally friendly than jugs or cartons
They are pumping water out, treating it and returning the water at a higher pH (more alkaline). But oxidized metal minerals plus rain water results in acid.
That's awesome but why isn't it universal?
Linking to or referring to Fauci should be considered disinformation or at least misinformation. He's a known liar with a lot to lose and cannot be trusted.
Marc Feeley of Gambit Scheme is one of the contributors. And the compiler is in plain Scheme itself, so can be executed from Guile, Chicken and Gambit. Very interesting.

And as for the origin on the Chicken Scheme name, it is mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9323673
I think another aspect of the early internet culture, is the demographics.
The participants were much more tech inclined, I imagine the autism quotient of the early internet user population, would have been much higher than it is today.
Hi guys, a few people asked to see some of the content before signing up, so I've made it possible.

The idea of the platform is that every month everyone pays $5 and gets 50 NiceCoin (which can be sold back to the platform for the same price at any time).

So every time you get upvoted someone is giving you 1 NiceCoin (which is 10c).
Ironically, Zsh has a huge amount of thorough documentation, which is badly undiscoverable due to the "conversational" writing style as well as the utter lack of "semantic" search ability in man pages.
In any other job you'd be fired immediately for that kind of behavior. Why are cops different?
I like a good command line, but the whole search box thing is annoying me to no end because it not predictable.

If I type three characters and press enter, it shouldn't matter if I wait 0.5 or 1.8 seconds before I press enter. But with this mechanic, it typically does. What is "set _rem_inder" one time is "_rem_ove all files" the next time.
This hack can be truly deadly. I am more scared of medical devices and SCADA systems being hacked then say your bank being looted as they can be used to kill people.
Opening external links in an external browser is too distracting and cumbersome for me.
Some people, which includes me, think this parody captures the cringeworthy-ness of the original.

It always sounded so fake to me. Even if someone proved it did happen.

That's not because I don't think pointy planes are cool! I went to a school with an F-104 lawn ornament.
That's right. Did you see/use Fish as a shell?

I'm having much fun scripting in the Fish language at the moment, and using the shell in interactive programs.
The last five companies I’ve worked for, three large, one tiny start up, and two msb’s, extensively used A/B and split testing to carefully fine tune every funnel and product to maximize conversion. Most of my job for the last decade has been moving split points around form flows and capturing metrics to show what caused a split to occur. I talk to less than more people that don’t use this practice.

I’ve run splits for everything from background colors to copy changes. If product management anticipates some facet could influence outcome, then it will be tested.
It is called "Intellectual Property Rights", and has been defined for centuries as exactly sets of prohibitions against anyone having a right to make a copy (even if not presented as original).

The entire point is to encourage creative endeavors, whether by patents for inventions or by copyright for the arts. The ability to restrict trivial copying has been essential for the advancement of arts & sciences.

So, no, making a copy and giving it to your friend is technically against the law, but in a practical sense, unless you are doing it at scale, it is legal in a practical sense.

That said, the systems of both copyrights and patents are massively forking broken. And abused.

So, the need for overhaul is massive, but to act like it is some alien concept with no possible worth is not helpful to the discussion, merely disingenuous or ignorant.
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