skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The legal profession self-selects for people who think this way, for a number of various reasons.

1. If you disagree with the base assumptions of copyright, you are going to misunderstand the law and fail your LSAT/bar exam/etc. You will be blinded by "it's just to keep big companies afloat" to notice the actual rules of things like fair use.

2. If you get a law license but disagree with the base assumptions of the law, you are going to be at a financial disadvantage by refusing to represent clients whose politics disagrees with yours.[0]

3. If you choose to represent copyright defendants, you can only do so to the extent that there is a legal argument that they can make. It is illegal for a lawyer to aid a client in the commission of a crime... and if your legal career is based around the idea that something shouldn't be a crime, then you will need to hold your tongue and pick your battles a lot.

4. If you somehow jump through those hoops and competently represent clients... you probably have sacrificed on your "abolish copyright" ideology a fair bit.

[0] Remember that at this point you are probably deep in student debt - your legal career is predicated on you paying back your loans by charging your clients lots of money.
I've considered Boox devices, but I'm put off by not wanting to reward the GPL abuse that seems to be occurring in that product range.
Early Learnings as a Staff Engineer
> the new strain is not been detected in vaccinated persons

...this part cannot be correct since a double digit number of people on that one flight that was posted about tested positive and were vaccinated.
Annoyingly, my intuitive impression is that we are still far more ignorant than we'd care to admit. Being in a place where we all willingly wear masks to grocery shop, I get the impression we are far more cautious than most places. Still, I expect it is just a matter of time before we are exposed.

Why? I honestly don't know. It isn't lack of wanting to be safer. But it has gotten fatiguing to try to keep up with what makes us safer today. I remember the start when folks wiped down delivered groceries. Even isolated them for a few days. Nowadays, it seems masking is still the visible thing to do, but most seem pretty sure that it is the vaccination that will make a difference. Anything else is a slowdown, at best.
This answer does not address the why, only the 'did it happen'.

Like other commenters have said, Nu was skipped because it sounded too similar to "New", and Xi was skipped because of Xi Jinping.

It's not a conspiracy, it's to avoid political controversy, before someone starts a flamewar on here.
Well, given that virus particles start to be meaningfully filtered only at a certain MERV level (14?), that upgrade may in fact have been more than a "minor symbolic" gesture.
The "default" formula as presented in the article seems… strange. Is this really how it's normally taught?

(-1)^S * 1.M * 2^(E - 127)

This seems unnecessarily confusing. And 1.M isn't notation I've seen before. If we expand 1.M into 1 + M : 0 < M < 1, then we pretty quickly arrive at the author's construction of "windows" and "offsets".

(-1)^S * (1 + M) * 2^(E - 127)
(-1)^S * 2^log_2(1 + M) * 2^(E - 127)

let F := log_2(1 + M)
0 < F < 1

Note: [0 < M < 1] implies [1 < M + 1 < 2] implies [0 < log_2(1+M) < 1]

(-1)^S * 2^(E - 127 + F)

Since we know F is between 0 and 1, we can see that F controls where the number lands between 2^(E - 127) and 2^(E - 127 + 1) (ignoring the sign). It's the "offset".
The TSA handles neither customs nor border patrol.
Most office buildings also do not have windows that open at all.
You’re including weekends in your calculation :) I believe OP is talking about contract/freelance work where you only get paid for the days you work.

For a fair comparison vs a full time job in the U.K. when I compared the two recently, I was using 226 working days per year (261 week days - 8 bank holidays - 27 paid holiday days). Of course if you don’t want to take so much holiday or want to and can work weekends then you’ll earn more!

650 x 226 is £144,460 for the record, still nothing to complain about!
The Greek letter pronounced more like Kai. But, yes, the anglicized written form of the Greek letter looks like the anglicized written form of the Chinese leader’s name. And I agree, I’m sure it was skipped in the interest of not being antagonistic.
The thing about this you're engaging in a clear fallacy. Depressed people tend to draw negative conclusions and reinforce their conclusions, therefore if someone draws a negative conclusion (that you consider unwarranted), they are depressed and making themselves worse.

It's kind of logical for the entire bad-faith exercise involved in this article and the comments defending it. The whole thing is putting elaborate psycho-trappings on the "boomer" complaint of "you kids just too sensitive these days" (but just said about to things you consider fine).
Getting vaccinated, staying isolated if you are infected, and wearing a mask all work related to that
Again, I'm just the messenger. But the gist I get is this: locking down select subsets (of high risk individuals) is doable simply because locking down everyone is doable.

But speaking for myself, the fact that early on there were such a ridiculous number of deaths in retirement homes (primarily in NY, NJ, PA and CA) never smelled right to me. We had data - openly mentioned in the media - about Italy and the elderly and yet the same thing happened here? It's been all down hill since then.
As mentioned in that Stack Overflow post, though, things change again with FSRM (Fast Short Rep Mov).

While there are still startup costs, the overhead of calling a function (especially via a PLT) and incurring instruction cache misses is hard to demonstrate in a microbenchmark, while rep movsb encodes more compactly than many flavors of call. In an actual application though, the "slower" but smaller implementation can often win (https://research.google/pubs/pub50338.pdf and https://research.google/pubs/pub48320.pdf)
>Depending on the tax bracket and the state, they might or might not be.

I looked it up for Germany. Let's say you make $400k married with children sole income earner. In Germany your tax comes out to 41%. In NYC it comes out to 34%. Not sure if Germany has the same number of deductions and loopholes as US taxes. If it doesn't then the US one would be even lower due to those.

>But e.g. putting a kid through college is $200k in the US vs free in the EU.

There are cheaper state schools which can be rather good but in general yeah. That said when the post-tax income is $150k more in the US versus Europe the $50k/year for college isn't that much.
I drove a 40+ year old car for a while and it had one of these. Great feature, except that in old cars they always need to be at max these days due to all the street lights, etc.

Now it's been replaced with headlight moving knob in newer cars, which is more awesome.
I had a horrendous sinus infection in 2006, and got Prednisone for it, and various other drugs, and finally it went away. Fortunately, my allergy test didn't indicate much in the way of allergies. Before that, I had regular bouts of cold-like symptoms, was on Claritin, etc. etc.

Then I heard something which (cliché alert!) changed my life: it's sinus-rinsing. I discovered that it's not some woo-woo alternative therapy; lots of people do it, and your doctor will probably give it his or her blessing. You can get the kits in any drugstore (I use NeilMed). Everyone hears "sinus rinsing" and says "Neti Pot" and that's fine, although I think its major advantage is its Eastern-sounding name. I just use the squeeze bottle. Be sure to use distilled water. The powder is just saline and baking soda, which makes it not burn the inside of your nose.

Since I started this, I get maybe one cold a year, and it goes away in a week and a half or so.

What's the technical, scientific explanation for this? "It clears the crap out of your nose" pretty well covers it.
If the symptoms are indeed milder, then what mechanism is there for long-term effects?

The alternate possibility is that a milder form of COVID variant is bad for business, if you are in the MRNA vaccine or Totalitarian Government business.
I’ve stopped relying on offline downloads (on netflix) since upon crossing national boundaries, the offline content is deleted. As an expat who travels back to India once a blue moon (and has shitty internet back home), I now pirate any content I plan to see during my vacations.
Torrents tied to a digital wallet is a clear next step. Creators could get paid and no need for a "distributor". Anyone could host pointers, we could download and pay when we watch.
Isn't the standard library definitionally depth=1?
What's the end-game there? Opening windows doesn't eradicate the virus. Admittedly, we don't have a clear end-game as things stand, but what you suggest is just another mitigation factor, not a solution.
Do you have Office installed? try saving a document from that.
That would be devastating to their argument, so of course they are.

Though I'm impressed they're literally making the "lockdowns are being driven by Big Delivery Service" argument.
I'd like to see something far closer to my "Motherfucking Website" variant:

https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB

There are a few bits of that I'd fiddle with, but the idea of defining margins and avoiding text that runs flush to gutters, as well as defining most of the whitespace in rem & em units rather than pixels or points, is a big part of it.

Another alternative would be a stock set of document types for which users could choose from predefined styles. The document would specify the doctype, the user the styling. That could include various branding or simiilar components, but they'd be reasonably minimal.

The ever-encroaching headers, footers, sidebars, floating interstitials, etc., of the modern web really need to go DIAF.
This paper’s from March, 2020?
The other factor is the sheer number of oscillators you'd need to get polyphony. The DX7 has 6 oscillators per voice. With 16 voices, that's 96 oscillators. Typical polyphonic analog synthesizers have two. You occasionally see three. Polyphony is often lower. 8 voices is fairly common, but you saw smaller units... Prophet 5 was 5-voice, and Oberheim's OB-X was available in 4, 6, or 8 voice versions.

The DX7 had somewhere between 9 and 12 times as many oscillators, depending on which of those lines you compare it to.
FWIW, pot, or cannabis, is not a drug, no more than nutmeg. They're vegetables. Alcohol, on the other hand, is indeed a drug. So, no drinkers in Sweden? It always sounded like a pretty nice place to me, and now it sounds even more so.
As you suspect, Coronavirus isn't unique in having an incubation period, or in being infectious during the latter part of the incubation period.

Of course, there's questions of degree.
Arse covering is as good ulterior motive as any, something anyone who’s dealt with large organisations of any sort will attest to.

I’d argue the reason governments obsess over marginally effective at best measures like masks is that they give society the opportunity to wag their fingers and exercise the usual moral authoritarianism at their neighbours instead of blaming the politicians for their various inadequacies throughout the pandemic (including in the UK’s case running the NHS into the ground with cuts a decade before in their usual miserly short-sightedness).
You can avoid that by not sending a Referer header with your request.

jwz's default redirect for HN is well known[1] (and, IMO, apt).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801699
Thanks the for correction.

So do Belgians do it 100% like the french? Or so they mix a bit of FR and CH?
Would be interesting if Omicron turns out to be protected against by vaccines over natural immunity. I’d been in favour of America adopting the European 2G precedent, but perhaps a more conservative stance is warranted.
> Perhaps a better metric for software complexity would be the amount of work the computer has to do, or the number of instructions it has to execute.

Complexity is a measure of human difficulty in comprehension, not mechanical difficulty in execution...
Not inherently. Good counter example is the delta variant, which was worse in every aspect.
It's a shame you'll always be wrong. Flagging those that prove that you're wrong and display why will be your downfall. I guess you're too weak to discuss why you're wrong.
Indeed, but if the travel bans give us a few more days to prepare it's not a bad thing. Maybe the Omicron variant is truly a nothing burger, but if it wasn't, just getting one extra week before it starts spreading more means the hospitals can start flushing non-urgent patients, testing centers can rehire workers to handle the higher load, etc...

To me what's more important is how fast we lift travel restrictions once we know that the situation is ok OR that the variant has spread enough that it would make no differences. If we "punish" South Africa for two months for a variant that only causes mild symptoms then it's an overreaction, if we lift is in 1-3 weeks then it's "better safe than sorry" and can understand the policy.
i also prefer native apps for doing anything, but the collective "we" has already decided otherwise, and there's no point fighting that tide.
Let’s hope the vulnerability isn’t injected into all the deps your OS pulls down to run the VM

Physics informs us a perfectly secure system is impossible.

We need to socially accept it rather than make ourselves paranoid.
Happened to me on Wikipedia today. iOS 15.1 Safari
I suggest "Hey partner, my weird internet friends told me if I tape my mouth shut while I sleep, it might help with snoring and improve my quality of sleep, so I'm going to try it, let me know if it works" and if your partner is snarky, be prepared with eye rolls for him to say "why only at night?"

One of my neighbors recommended thiamine supplements for help with night breathing, and my spouse was happy to have me try something. I'm sure she'd be happy to have me try taping my mouth shut overnight too.

I had some success with the thiamine, but the first suppliment pill is a B-complex with lots of stuff (all at pretty high RDA %s) and something in there makes my muscles ache in addition to seeming to help with night breathing and smelling like a vitamine shop. I've now got a liquid I'm supposed to dropper into my mouth, but it tastes and smells like a vitamin shop, which is hard for me to tolerate, and it doesn't seem to work as well (lower dosage and as bottle has been used, the dropper isn't so full). The first couple or times I used it, I noticed when waking up that I was breathing through my nose and it felt easy; that's not normal for me, I can breathe through my nose, but it usually takes some amount of concious effort to do so.
I hope my french is okay.
I assume if you deal in any kind of tourism/business travel or travel adjacent business, you wouldn't be too happy about closing the borders.
It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta.

I thought this was weirdly worded. It's also not clear whether Omicron disease is less severe, either, right?

A long time ago, long before the pandemic politicized messaging so much, a researcher posted a comment here on HN where they said that virus deadliness and contagiousness were in tension.
Yah, this is majorly true. I discovered at exam time my freshman year that I couldn't read my class notes. I then did a major upgrade to my lettering technique :-)

(I had never taken notes before.)
That's pretty impressive! Having worked at Amazon much later, I do think that most copy changes do go through an A/B test. I remember an instance where we tested 20 different versions of a minor UI change. Interestingly, there was a wide spread in the performance of the different treatments.
It already coexisted with a host: bats. If we're going to anthropromorphize the virus, maybe it's searching for a way to kill off one of the biggest predators of its preferred host.
Yes, but there's no guarantee that What.cd[0] remains a charismatic defendant in any scenario where they don't get shut down. Nor should the law be written around protecting charismatic defendants.

The argument against copyright maximalism should not be made on the basis that "nice" pirate sites can exist - in fact, you should advocate for copyright reform or reduction on the basis of the least tolerable, most scummy site that should be allowed to exist.

[0] insert any other non-scummy pirate site here
However, your own answer clearly lists the evolved purpose of that nerve - it was the simple and straight line from brain past the heart to the gills; and there is an obvious reason why it can't be changed - there's no direct mutation possible to route it to the other side.

On the other hand, there generally are possible direct mutations that would significantly reduce any tissue/structure, so if they aren't "chosen", then that does indicate that the tissue still has some purpose (which might have no relation to the purpose it had when it first appeared).
I have been living in Austria all my life. I might not have misspelled some things :)
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/26/covid-omicron-variant-south-...

South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla said that new travel restrictions amid concerns over a heavily mutated Covid variant are “unjustified.”

He slammed other nations for “wanting to put blame” and ascribe the variant to South Africa rather than working collaboratively to address the situation as guided by the WHO.
We've had a lot more information come out since March 2020.

The Bangladesh study is a particularly good one, demonstrating changes in disease prevalence even with less than half the population following masking recommendations: https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/the-impact-of-community-mask...
Not quite like that, but yes, sure.

I can decide not to process what comes in my eye, as long as it's not a tiger or something. Then I don't see it. If it's a familiar face or a threat, then it's harder to phase out, almost impossible.

It's useful to have something better to fidget with than a black square. But I can do black square.

Also your actual vision is like a spot, not like a square.
My experience has been pretty different - though I guess games jams can have very different local flavours depending on where you participate. I found the people who cared enormously about games as games in seemingly trivially-themed game-jam communities, and the bigger/professional/more serious organisations can end up being swamped by professionalism/business considerations (But not always). Thats kinda how I got started, more than 10 years ago. Building up a network of like-minded/interesting/whatever friends I guess was for me critical in my artistic (and professional) development. And when the communities are disrupted, as in which covid, my work gets thrown into confusion. But different people find different environments conductive to making games (of different types), I know... .
A TypeScript Onramp
My wife ist Polish. This might explain it.
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IBM unveils the Eagle, the quantum processor set to revolutionize computing
Hmm yes but a suboptimal nerve is still not the same as a useless nerve - I'm sure you wouldn't want a surgeon pulling yours out because "I don't see the use of this!" ;-)
>This does not even rise to high school level discourse.

I am asking basic questions because I do not see basic answers which are consistent with logic. It would be more useful and helpful to provide those answers if you know them of course.

>All of the points you bring up have been discussed more critically and insightfully on Body building forums.

Unfortunately in practice it is hard to observe impressive results of "what was discussed more critically and insightfully". So again perhaps sharing their line of thoughts would be useful.

My concern of course that "what was discussed more critically and insightfully" did not produce something logically consistent and that might explain why we do not see actual answers.

>I’ll start with that you seem to be hung up on that the only thing money can be exchanged for is property.

If we put aside "hung up on that the only thing money can be exchanged for is property" part which is irrelevant then probably we can see the real answer to the question : What one actually gets for his money and what is purchased when one "buys" some mp3?
I’ve never followed this. Are you saying that Q was a psyop by left-wing against right-wing to convince them not to vote?
AFAIK, seaweed farming at scale is the best know way to remove carbon from the ocean - which is desperately needed to reverse acidification.
Farming seaweed for food is good, but you have to build the market a lot too. Cattle feed and biofuels would be great drivers of scale for this.
Perhaps I have. I've seen the prescriptions you write!
It's not really pronounced Kai, it's Xi.

Ξύνω, Ξύστρα, Οξυγόνο, άνοιξε, ξένος, ξηρό, λέξη

It's pronounced ξι, exactly. "ξ".

Take it from a Greek ;)
People on the flight were vaccinate OR tested negative. Not both. Don't yet know if the cases were in the tested negative group or in the vaccinated group.
That quote is overly hyperbolic. It compensates for not invoking responsibility (ie assuming the socially-successful outcome) by playing up the dishonor of social breakdown.

I think it has been better put - "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.". I exercise(d) my freedom by wearing a proper respirator, both back in March 2020 when the government was pumping out misinformation about the utility of respirators, and continuing today with these garbage "masks" being the social standard.

Of course like anything, the quote I referenced can be twisted for abusive ends. But I think it's quite apt regarding Covid. Ignoring its wisdom is the path to more authoritarianism - if you do not act like an adult, you will inevitably be treated like a child.
I didn't refute anything just like the original statement didn't prove anything. To do this you require evidence. Neither of us offered anything concrete so we are in a discussion where we only offer opinions.

Additionally my statement itself doesn't refute ass covering. All I am saying is that the government is too complex to classify it as a singular entity out to cover it's own ass.

Several things cause me to disagree with you. Some of the most best science is being done by people who are part of or have high influence in the government. There are definitely people up there who view the problem as a situation that needs to be resolved rather then an every man for himself type of deal you seem to characterize it as.

As I said, the government is a hodge podge of both. This has both benefits and downsides.

An example of a government that tries to act as a singular entity is China. In terms of stopping covid in its' tracks China done better than the hodge podge government that makes up US democracy. However, in terms of stopping covid from spreading out of Wuhan, Chinas' ass covering is what screwed up the world. There's good and bad to either methodology and It's too complicated to characterize.
Heat exchangers can recover a large fraction of the energy lost through ventilation. Modern systems can even recover humidity from the air leaving the building.

Air purifiers are very loud and mostly effective at removing particulates. If you want to remove VOCs, formaldehyde and CO2 then ventilation is a lot more effective.

A well designed ventilation system can be completely inaudible.
Well nowadays tough screen controls have no affordances, it's not even clear what areas can be pressed, much less what actions it will engage.
Also this documentary was made recently:

https://www.inthedarkofthevalley.com/