skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit off-topic but why does PDF export sometimes produce these incredibly, seemingly gratuitously fugly font renderings? The size and spacing of the letters seems to be random. Like, here's a giant d in the middle of a word for no reason.
The increased risk of myocarditis is confined to ModeRNA 2nd dose, not Pfizer or AZ
Inside Job (2021 TV Series)
> Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life.

Two issues with that:

1. A good VR setup requires more space than a good home office. I've got a perfectly workable home office that is also my VR space, but is at the bare minimum of what SteamVR will allow room scale usage in, and does lead to bumping into things.

2. Longer term VR use is actively tiring. I mean obviously beat saber and active use is, but even two hours flight simming which is sitting in a chair does this in a way it isn't using my monitor. Maybe lighter or dimmer future headsets will help with this, but that's a big assumption.
My understanding is that you are legally required to carry third-party liability (TPL) insurance in MX, but credit cards only provide collision/damage insurance.

Do you have a CC that explicitly covers TPL?
nnhackernews in emacs. I see a side of HN the typical front-pager
doesn't see, and the RSSer wishes he could see more efficiently,
Totally agree there's extremely limited risk here from towers. The broader issue to me is that all of the conspiracy talk and bizarre science fiction around the topic of 5G (or vaccines or flat earth) has created a sort of conversational countermeasure where its acceptable to clap back and shut the topic down any time people appear to be wandering in those woods. As a result, some folks with legitimate questions and concerns end up frustrated and looking for answers elsewhere.

Endless patience for off the wall ideas isn't a sustainable option either, so I'm not claiming to have all the answers, I just wish we were maybe a step or two in that direction.
One has oil/gas and the other has money/tech. And I'm not sure per capita is the proper metric if you're looking at funding a country rather than comparing them.
Is it just an American boilerplate type thing? Americans just think they should have non-competes?

As I work for an American parent company and my non-compete covers basically any other security or enterprise company. No IBM or EY or SAP for me.

Ironically the subsidiary I work for is included on the list and the list includes no actual direct competitors.

So walking away to our competitor and building them the exact same thing is interestingly legally fine.
No, not unless Pfizer was a typo and you meant Moderna.
The article also mentioned twitter and instagram. All the apps that let you look at user generated content.
The paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2105254118
> climate change is a global flood myth

Here’s some light reading, with evidence, if you’re interested.

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

https://www.nytimes.com/article/climate-change-global-warmin...
They can not rent to you for having pets, but if you end up having them, they cannot do anything.
If the modeling is this good and this accurate, it would be helpful if consensus predictions were published in a prominent outlet that is easy for the public to consume and compare against empirical data as it comes in. I think this is particularly true if you can make reliable predictions about specific regions.

This would help build credibility. Right now, it seems like many are quick to attribute any kind of unfortunate weather to climate change, even if it leads to ultimately contradictory claims.

For example, a few months ago Scott Alexander posed the question of whether climate change could reduce the number of cold-related deaths. In the comments for that article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28960588), many countered by saying that climate change is actually predicted to make winters colder on average, and/or increase the number of extreme cold weather events. It was no help that you can find news articles from prominent outlets that appear to make contradictory claims on this point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28963655).

It took a fair amount of digging into IPCC reports to determine that this appears to be incorrect; the consensus prediction is warming winters (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28963266). But in the thread we couldn't come to agreement on whether the consensus view predicts more or fewer extreme cold events.
The mRNA encoding for the spike protein in the BioNTech vaccine is different enough from B.1.1.529 where your body doesn't recognize the spike protein on sight but is the same enough where after you're infected the body can muster a far quicker and more complete reaction to the infection.

Edit to add: the fact that vaccine + previous natural infection has a better immune response over just the vaccine likely has to do with the rest of the virus being more similar to older variants of the virus and your body recognizing some other part of the virus versus the spike itself.
That sounds like a charming mess.

Each keypress would direct you to a new URL derived from a hash of the new text, an approach that takes advantage of browser history to provide a built-in undo function. Fans of this “content-addressable text editor” say it reminds them that writing is ultimately a grand exploration of Borges’ Library of Babel.
So what does this say about the intergenerational poverty in the US?
Cantillion Effect[0], see my earlier post.

If you print money by lowering the interest rate, the new money is created by credit worthy people, who go on to buy assets, so you see no increase in consumption demand, so there is no inflation. If you print money and give it to the average person, you will see consumption demand rise.

But that first effect is temporary. When you lower the interest rate, you are storing inflation, and using my previous posts analogy, by trapping it behind a dam. That money still exists, and given a supply shock, that dam will be opened. But it wasn't the supply shock that caused the inflation, it was always the creation of the new money in the first place. So Milton is correct. If the weathy did not have wealth stored, they could not use that wealth, and you would have no inflation.

So this year we see a combination of three effects.

1. Less people working, so the average wage goes up. (The people not working retired, as their stock was up by enough, so they are still spending.) This allows the average person to have more money, which they will spend.

2. Governments have given money - and more importantly to the average person - have suspended student loan payments. This means people can spend more of what they earn.

3. Supply shock on goods caused by CO-VID and caused by inefficiencies of the Supply Chain caused by the increased demand and the switch from service economy to more stuff.

You'll note that unlike 1971 or Weimar, none of this is exponential. When we reach an equilibrium point, peoples wages will level out, and peoples wages might rise back to the level they were in 1971, but the system will be stable. So the Fed is correct, it's transitory, but that transition might be longer and bigger than they expected. That is, until they raise rates next year.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646585
I have known people who have declined work over non-compete clauses since it adds an element of risk to accepting the position. I am talking about those with low income who cannot afford to hire a lawyer to tell their ex-employer's lawyer to take a hike since such clauses are non-enforceable.

With respect to the right to disconnect, simply having a written policy will help in many instances. I have worked for organizations where upper management generally frowned upon employees being contacted outside of work hours for anything more than checking a person's availability to work or telling a person not to report to work. Yet lower levels of management never seem to receive that message (possibly because they are expected to be on call).
This sounds really cool:

> Arithmetic operations, which previously required 160 transistors, are possible with 24 transistors due to this increased adaptability. In this way, the speed and energy efficiency of the circuits can also be significantly increased.

> Some details still need to be optimized, but with our first programmable germanium transistor we have proved that the basic idea really works. This is a decisive breakthrough for us

> Our human intelligence is based on dynamically changing circuits between nerve cells. With new adaptive transistors, it is now possible to change circuits directly on the chip in a targeted way
I'm A-okay with just clarifying the policy. I carried a pager, and got paid well for it. I no longer do, hut absolutely would again for the right compensation.
define gmail-like :)
And do what? ML requires a way to know if it’s making correct predictions.
Your overall odds of death from covid went down. And as I understand it, myocarditis often goes away on its own or can be treated at home.
If you have specific areas of interest that are unpopular enough your local yacy instance can index those [say] 100 or 10 000 websites and the results will blow you away. Google is still useful of course but its a joke by comparison.

Say for laughs you are only interested in yourself. You put every page by you and about you in the crawler. It will obviously render fantastic results. Using google you would have to start every query with your full name OR user names, whatever you type behind it doesn't even matter, it wont return pages with all keywords. With yacy you just type the query and it will return EVERYTHING. To compare the 2 would be to compare useless with perfection.
Excellent article (and great opportunity for a startup)
Aspiration is pulling back the syringe plunger prior to injection to ensure the needle tip is in the correct tissue and not in a vein. This isn't typically done for COVID-19 vaccinations, and there is some controversy in medical circles about whether this should be a standard procedure.

https://f1000research.com/articles/3-157/v3
Lots of rental car companies offer a drop-off service like this already. They use two drivers.
That's quite the Kool-Aid. I am also from Ontario and have the exact opposite conclusions as you.

> It subsidizes the rest of Canada (the "have-nots"), but it can afford to do so.

This is only a very recent phenomena that they are not getting equalization payments [1]. Even then, it's mostly because of the bottom provinces falling even further than Ontario rising. Don't even be tempted to blame this on the rural areas as Toronto alone accounts for about half the population.

> To give you an idea of how sophisticated Ontario is, most Hollywood comedians and a large percentage of writers are originally from the Toronto, ON area because of their writing and self-production abilities.

Such a sophisticated engine cannot keep them?

> Ontario universities have a direct brain-drain pipeline to SV, but this will help them return later in their careers.

From my personal experience, other than interns and students, I don't know a single Canadian who opted to build a career in the US and later to return.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canad...
Legit question--would you have higher chances of surviving COVID-19 had you gotten it without the vaccine?
To be fair, we're still talking about 1:10,000 odds. You're much more likely to, for example, be hit by a car in the next year, even if you're in a high-risk category.

I tend to run numbers here and compare to events I'm worried or not worried about. I can live with 1:10,000 risks.
Superhighway84 – a Usenet-inspired decentralized internet discussion system
Personally I think the opposite: that there isn’t actually sufficient competition for whatever reason. It seems to me that people choose the lowest fares because unless you pay double there’s not going to be a meaningful difference between slightly different economy fares. Likewise AFAIK there is no option to prepay or pay a deposit to reserve a rental car and have it be guaranteed.
This sounds like the sort of thing a founder or executive would say to make themselves not seem like the bad guy and shift blame to “middle managers”. There’s a reason that in the world of fraud and auditing that “tone at the top” is such a big focus and not “tone at the middle”.
Very defensive response.

I am not making any claims that are unsupported by the CDC's own data.

Just because a response is rare doesn't make it any less true.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...
I use the prefix site:news.ycombinator.com a lot
Fire people who don’t use the new grammar. Apparently, this works.
Alsa is fine, if you needed absolutely no features whatsoever. This weird glamorization of alsa as sufficient or at all adequate feels like itcs true, for only rhe most basic basic basic of users.

Anyone who has ever plugged in a usb headset or connected a bluetooth headset or plugged an hdmi output into their laptop knows the value of pulseaudio. It's role as a modular, pluggable, controllable audio intermediary layer is invaluable: it has a great control panel that lets you say, ok app, start sending your output somewhere else now. Even if you only have one soundcard ever: it let you adjust per app volume! Utterly basic need. To propose that users ought have been fine without these basic capabilities is insanity. Alsa was insanity.

Alsa was a dead, impotent, lifeless husk. It let apps output audio to a device, if you knew to try various hardcoded strings like hw:1.0, hw:2.0, hw:2.1. But that was all alsa was good for. One couldnt open a control panel & change the volume of an app. One couldnt send an app to a new output (bluetooth, hdmi, usb audio). Trying to get a sound card to pick between various output modes, for optical output for example, was hell: i spent literally days getting optical audio going. Everything required careful scripting in a shitty awful .alsarc dsl to do anything good.

Pulseaudio made it all much easier.

I have no clue why anyone would valorize alsa. It was incredible finnicky, super hard to configure. It feels like certain sects just want to spread poison against linux & freedesktop. There have always been reactive, outraged camps. Eternally dismayed at progress, at better. I just can't take seriously the thought that alsa was an appropriate & adequate tool for end users, in any way though. It's ridiculous: nothing worked without careful careful delicate scripting & trial by error, and the system was utterly static, unable to respond to change. Alsa was not an end user system, unlike pulseaudio: it was an api for software. Pulseaudio changed the game. I am so tired lf hearing pretenses that alsa was ok or enough. It never was amything remotely adequate. The nonsense hate has to die. Progress was required. I saw it work flawlessly on many systems even in the earliest days. It wasn't & still usually isn't required. I don't see what anyone could be asking for. It just seems like a need to sow doubt.
The idea that capital should be allowed to act without any oversight or accountability is fundamentally fascist. Wealth distribution follows a power law at the top, so the majority of wealth ends up in the hands of a few or even a single individual - if you say that wealth must be able to be used anonymously and society must not be allowed to stop any mutually beneficial trade between two individuals, then you give those few essentially unlimited power, because there will always be someone desperate enough to do whatever it is they want.

I agree with the need for some flexibility and grey areas. But unrestricted capital is far too dangerous, like private nuclear weapons.
Is r/lockdownskepticism also skeptical of vaccination?

And do you think covid is worse than or same as the flu?
Oil and gas in Alberta is hurting and most of the oil and gas workers I know have left the industry or become unemployed
After only looking at the charts at the end of the PDF, they seem to indicate that the 3rd dose (booster) of the Pfizer vaccine raises your myocarditis risk about as much as the 2nd dose of Moderna's.
And what is the reason for every agent seemingly needing to rewrite the computer operating system in assembly for each new customer that approaches the kiosk? Seriously why does it take 30+ min to gather someone's basic information, sign a few forms and hand them the keys?
Not just pfizer, everything, MABS and including previous infection too

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03796-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03826-3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.22.21268021

The question is if you get omicron can you then turn around and get delta which is still out there, just being out-competed at the moment.
Only having 2 Pfizer/mRNA vaccines are'n enough to greatly reduce symptomatic covid infection. A booster (or previous covid infection) looks like it is needed.

Though this is only looking at the drop in vaccine efficacy with respect to symptomatic infections, two shots of an mRNA still might give decent protection against severe disease; don't know if there is a change with this.
The vid has auto-generated captions available, so hopefully one can read them at a lowered speed—assuming that the algo itself caught that speech.
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Technically, 100.

That's still very safe, but it's good to be accurate.
Why? It literally takes less than 15 seconds to clean and dry a stainless knife.
Regarding the last point, everyone who has looked at the game of Go with its 0.5 point komi (compensation to white for black playing first) must agree that it is a stroke of brilliance to prevent endless draws.
There is no privacy with DDG because it pulls content in, so the search results show the website icon so its possible to workout what you are searching for in general terms from the icons that get displayed.

when you consider how many websites exists, those general terms dont take much to work out, plus its mainly powered by Bing so Bing needs to know what you are searching in order to deliver the right results.

Really surprised people on here thought DDG was private though.
Marriage for kids isn't necessary. You can prove you're a parent and that you have a legal right to your child even if you are unmarried. I've known plenty of couples who had kids without being married and it wasn't an issue.

The immigration part is more difficult but you can get married temporarily for the purposes of immigration unless you're specifically moving to that place to live there forever. I've known people who have done this and it is clearly very feasible. They got legally divorced after. However - I am assuming that both people in a relationship are going to be working and therefore this is a not a problem. If one is not going to be working then that adds a layer of complexity. Marriage law at that point is weird.

Personally - I'm tailoring my advice for the overwhelming majority of people - not the one-off weird scenarios that most Americans are not going to be dealing with. 60%+ of people in the USA don't even have a passport. And they definitely aren't thinking of leaving permanently - lol.
It's all draws even when it's not the WC. But the better the players, the more draws. So the WC is the most drawing of all. That's a lame sport.
One reason for the complexity in Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) is that language is complex, and FLEx is designed to handle all of the lexical and morphological complexity (reasonably) well. Toolbox, OTOH, has a minimalist structure, which means that whatever complexity you have, you'll have to figure out how to deal with.

Another reason for complexity in FLEx is that it tries to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot--e.g. by by inconsistent spelling or inconsistent use of fields.

FLEx does not however try to cover all possible dictionaries, e.g. its ability to work with dialectal variation is not its strong point.
The Problem with Ponzis
As an American working in Canada:
Canada has a much stronger workers rights culture, and tends to have regulatory agencies that can produce results. (At the individual level, regulatory capture at the macro scale is just as prevalent, if not more so in the case of extractive industries).

It wouldn’t surprise me if vague clauses don’t get upheld, or if requiring an employee to be connected also comes with the responsibility of compensation and expenses. When I worked for a company that required me to do on-call on holidays or weekends, I was given an extra vacation day in compensation even if I hadn’t actually done anything but triage.

Work life in Canada seems generally much more balanced from an anecdotal perspective.
> most of the great African empires had collapsed under the onslaught of the slave trade

Powerful African states like the Ashanti empire, Dahomey and Kanem Bornu empire grew and based much of their economy on the wealth of the slave trade, benefiting at the expense of their weaker neighbors whom they "exported", and collapsed only after the slave trade was over, in part because of the loss of that trade revenue. In general, the conquest and colonization (beyond trade posts) of sub-Saharan Africa does not overlap at all with the years of trans-Atlantic slave trade, the collapse of pretty much all the African empires and kingdoms came starting from 1880 after the slave trade had ended.

And of course there are earlier great African empires like Mali and Songhai and Kush, but again their collapse had nothing to do with "the onslaught of the slave trade". Arguably the causality is the other way around - the peoples whose empires collapsed due to attacks by neighbours or internal fighting became the victims of the slave trade afterwards, benefiting the economy of their victorious neighboring African empires/kingdoms who then kept raiding the less unified areas for slaves.
Personally I don't think Satoshi is a single person. I'm pretty sure it's a group of people connected to the old cypherpunks usenet group and Adam Back is a strong candidate for the author of the paper itself and the person managing the Satoshi account. Back goes dark online when Satoshi starts posting, both use British english and a double space after each sentence. Back suddenly pops up again with expert level knowledge of bitcoin soon after the Satoshi account goes dark then founds a company called Blockstream specializing in blockchain tech. Plus Back has a PhD in distributed systems, has subject matter expertise in cryptography, is an experienced C++ programmer and invented HashCash in '97. The concepts behind HashCash underpin Bitcoin mining and HashCash is sited in Satoshi's paper. But that's just my two cents...
> But if you're going to make a rule about them, your rule can't take those differences into account, because everyone thinks their own moral position is correct.

No, that’s precisely what I’m disagreeing with. The point is that it is possible to think your position is correct, and your opponent thinks their position is correct, but you are correct and they are incorrect. Why can’t a “rule” take that into account? Any notion of justice clearly has to take this into account already!
That is an anonymous type. They cannot be returned explicitly, but you can instead use "(Foo: i, Bar: "hey")" to return a tuple with properties (int Foo, string Bar)
CDC best guess mortality risk for his age group is 500/1000000 if he gets an infection. I would say risk probably not outweighing the benefit if it doesn’t prevent infection outright.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...