skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there is no formula quite that simple while we're still in the transient, exponential growth stage for omicron. 5x transmissibility can lead to single-day infections much greater than past peaks. If omicron does cause a disaster in the US and other western countries, it will probably be due to a short (2-3 week) window of insanely high daily case rates, leading to very high daily hospitalization/ICU requirements. If the US hits let's say 1M confirmed cases/day for example (3x the peak last winter), with a daily demand for beds (non-icu) of ~25k, things would get very bad in urban centers. The combo of exponential growth and localized hospital resource constraints means that what would seem at face value to be an even tradeoff of transmissibility for lethality is not so simple.

Omicron might be a blessing in disguise, but there is a very bad plausible outcome for the coming month.
If a loan is so risky that it requires greater than 36% interest, it should not be made. Loans with gigantic interest ruin lives.
It's not the cable - the main IC in the board that the drives plug into "imploded" - there are cracks in package and it's sunken in. I was running it for ~4 years essentially 100% uptime, but took it down in early 2019 and didn't get it set back up until now.
I hope someone sues them and wins. If anyone knows how to help make that happen do tell.
> but can more easily regulate the people in the military and interactions with them

I always found it amusing how the "patriots" worshipping the military are pretty much the same people who hate any kind of government intervention in their lives.
> i wonder how people here inte west think of china. do you really think that GESTAPO will come and beat the shit out of you just because you were talking shit?

I have no idea what it is like generally, but this video[1] (which I admittedly cannot confirm the authenticity of) depicts a man who has been arrested for comments he made on social media. He is chained to the table and his arms are restricted as he tries to apologize for comments he made about the police to a WeChat group with 75 people in it.

[1] https://youtu.be/rbTXb6bEMfI?t=30
One must point out it's also likely to foment the classic flavor of racism. If you're there and succeeding as a cisgender white man, you might be inclined to think you're superior to the people eligible for various kinds of assistance, whether any individual actually needed/used it or not. You could carry that sense of superiority or that feeling of resentment the rest of your life.
Edit: APPARENTLY NOT, SEE COMMENTS BELOW, VIDEO IS MISLEADINGLY CUT!

Canadian government doesn't care about the legality of breaking human rights.

Here is Trudeau saying:

> "Regardless of the fact that we are attacking your fundamental rights or limiting your fundamental rights the charter says that is wrong, we’re still gonna go ahead and do it."

https://twitter.com/apexworldnews/status/1473254056550449160
Fair enough, I'm generalizing that US regulations are poorly designed, based mostly on my experience with municipal building codes and few niches of finance regulation.

But about the issue at hand, I've been specific in my critique: market share is an amorphous concept and thus ill-suited to legislation and a prime opportunity for regulatory capture.
You'll notice the functional iterators under iter/ don't include benchmarks.

Go will not inline a function that exceeds complexity metrics, and one of those metrics is whether the function contains a range statement. You will get a real heap-allocated closure invocation on each loop.

Go's function calls are not that cheap, and these will be measurably slower than the for-loop equivalent. I see functional idioms as being a huge risk factor for Go.
I don't doubt the Mossad/NSO link either but as for "empowering and giving away" I wouldn't reach that far.

Rather I suspect they were selling it as hacking-as-a-service and the clients they had never actually got their hands on the software or any physical servers (apart from possibly NSO relays), rather everything probably passed through their servers hosted in Israel where they could control that +1 and +972 numbers were never targeted.

The people they had as client only cared as long as they got into the iPhones,etc they wanted, I doubt they cared if they had control of the software or not.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648823
What about the population of the unvaccinated? What percentage should we expect of the unvaccinated to get omicron given how contagious it is?
Does it even matter? Covid is here forever. Doesn't matter if the next variant is "good" or "worse" or "horrible". It's here forever. We cannot continue playing this restriction / mandate game any longer. We have something like a dozen vaccines globally, multiple treatments, etc. We've had 2 years for government's to build healthcare capacity to handle any "surge" we get and it is no longer fair to the public to keep blaming them any time some hospital gets full.

It's time to return to actual real normal. Let people make their own risk assessments.

Life is very, very short and we just spent 2 years of it acting as if the only point of our existence was to stop the spread of exactly one specific illness to the exclusion of basically everything else.

Move on.
Section 42:

Special programs
42 (1)It is not discrimination or a contravention of this Code to plan, advertise, adopt or implement an employment equity program that

(a)has as its objective the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups who are disadvantaged because of race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, and

(b)achieves or is reasonably likely to achieve that objective.

(2)[Repealed 2002-62-23.]

(3)On application by any person, with or without notice to any other person, the commissioner may approve any program or activity that has as its objective the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups.

(4)Any program or activity approved under subsection (3) is not in contravention of this Code.
Monitoring student-to-student chat and e-mail, even during school hours*, is several steps too far, in my opinion. Like placing microphones at every desk. Such measures may be justifiable only during tests.

*Do e-mails or chat messages sent outside school hours, or during recess, remain private?
TL;DR the author thinks _GNU_SOURCE should be defined in the build system instead of in source files.

She doesn't give a rationale.
It depends on what you mean by grade school, I suppose. In the US and Canada, kids attend first grade at around 6 years old. From this age, they should be learning how to read, write, and do addition. By third grade or so, they are learning multiplication. Softer skills is definitely part of school, but learning to read and write and do math is like the fundamental thing you send kids to school for.
It's still a voluntary transaction.

Would you be opposed to a sole proprietor offering loans at 200% apr?
And Firefox was refreshingly light before it. All browsers are doomed to bloat or remain niche.
Apple iCloud is in that list.

And you still need to scan local photos on the phone?
Consent of the governed… seems like the kids are the ones being governed, and nobody is really asking for their consent.
The people who were killed last winter can’t be killed again. They were definitionally the most susceptible and we haven’t replaced that demographic. You can’t naively compare the two waves without a control since they effect very different populations. In other words, if you ran the same experiment backwards, you could plausible get the same results.
There is a lot to unpack but I doubt you are as right as you think you are. For instance in new variant outbreaks there ate usually harsher responses than for known variant outbreaks, so it is very difficult to identity the real infectivity.

But more importantly it's well established that diseases that those diseases spread most widely that don't kill rapidly (or that more generally don't have severe symptoms) and that have a longer period between the start of infectivity (= shortly after infection) and the onset of identifiable symptoms. So you would indeed anticipate that any disease that runs sufficiently long in the population becomes more mild and has a later onset of symptoms as variants with these features outcompete thr others.

In other words: it is expected that covid mutates over time to become more mild on average. But that doesn't mean that everyone survives. Infection rates in many countries are higher than ever, which even if the % of severe cases is lower than with other variants, delta and omicron will still kill and have severe long-term effects on many.
While Assange is not free, neither USA nor Australia have any credibility with respect to a free press.
That wouldn't apply here because this was a professional photoshoot and the photographer obtained a release from everyone pictured.

I guess the lesson here is to restrict the use to the project that it's being done for and otherwise reserve all rights.
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Sorry, but this is just naïve. Washington/NY media invented "yellow journalism" long before the PRC or your scapegoat "wumao" bogeyman even existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Hearst_in_Sa...
Asking politicians to not over-estimate exponential growth is like asking water not to be wet.
It means you can ignore it unless you live in Vancouver. It isn’t related to the broader gay rights community, but masquerades as being something to be aware of, but is only relevant to the long existing cultures in that area.
The issue is that calling America a "fascistic regime" is flat-out wrong (at this point in time). It's just completely false - it doesn't matter that there are some issues, because it's crystal-clear to anyone who has read a few history books (or lived under an actual fascist regime, as one of my relatives has) that America ain't it.
The poster should revise their headline as it is inaccurate. A job posting that is aimed at female applicants (among other groups) is hardly "non-minority". It is definitely a diversity targeted policy.
Logical consistency wasn't the way I meant that it coheres!

The themes, arcs, symbolism, prophecies, moral structures, deeper messages, all of that stuff.

God, by definition, defies human understanding. In the same way that the Zen people use apparently self-contradictory statements or questions to try to get across ideas, the Bible works with more than just literal historical statements.

There's plenty of history in there too, of course. Often seen from different perspectives.
"EVERYONE IS BRAINWASHED EXCEPT OF US BLESSED AMERICANS" F15 flyover bombing of some random civilians cool individualism that was build on exploitation of the planet and the 90% of the world KEK, sustainable, mate.

China workd. I lived there for years and people were happier than here in Germany.

I am just sooooooo sick and tired of those anti-China sentiment here in HN. EVERY SINGLE TIME a china article is posted, you just read shit. If it was balanced, i would not care, but it is so predictable. I just want to rant and vomit.
> Since the production of magnesium is so energy intense, its price chart mirrors that of liquified natural gas, fertilizer, polysilicon, and the many others crossing our terminal today. These cost pressures will soon be passed on to chemicals, food, solar panels, and cars, adding further fuel to the inflationary fires igniting across the globe.

That look at inflation is toward the end of the article. The bulk of the article places more weight on supply-chain breakage, i.e. not at any price.

Magnesium is to aluminum alloy production as small processors are to vehicle production.
> Also I don't think straight white cis-male is a protected class in any case.

A disabled "straight white cis-male" isn't a protected class in USA? Stop being racist.

We live in crazy times where some form of casual racism is acceptable, because the people who are racist claim they are "anti-racists". You can't be anti-racist if you say racist things, no matter what race is the target.
Sounds basically like the Apollo lander...only today we have better computers and control systems.
One might even call it … racism?
Azure App Service vulnerability exposed hundreds of source code repositories
I wonder.

Can this position go to a person of East Asian descent?

So that is to say, in the geographical area of UBC, the demographics being what they are, does that count as a "racialized minority"?

Or, never mind that, how about in consideration of the existing high representation of that group in STEM fields?

If they mean "non-white OK", they should write that, otherwise someone of East Asian descent has no idea whether to bother applying.
5. How to seek help online.

or how to post questions and copy answers posted on stackoverflow.com and make them fit in your own code.

I see a lot of comments on SO asking to tailor down the answer further for their exact problem.
Design for hot-swap batteries, and eject the batteries (with their own smaller chute or chutes)?
Not sure what you're trying to say. Of course there is a limited pool of people to infect. And various effects can cause infections to spread in multiple waves even far from herd immunity.

And yet, you can go from a few rare cases in your country to hospitals overflowing in a couple of weeks. That's because of exponential growth, obviously.
So everyone except white, straight males then?
You’re right, social distancing is no more realistic for many people than maintaining a healthy diet and exercise routine. My point is that we have tools to stop these diseases, we just view using these tools as worse than getting the disease.
In 2021, Asians are not Asian, but rather White Adjacent
> Do I think Crypto is here to stay? Absolutely. There are too many hurt, and traumatized young people in the world without a viable career path otherwise.

That’s a hot take.
Its almost as if I live in and am registered to vote one of the few major counties and states that are prone to reintroduce restrictions, and am not currently physically there right now.

The goal being that there would eventually be one less county and state that would consider restrictions.
No, don't compare modern OSes to each other, they're all infected with the same disease so this comparison is expected to be bogus. Compare the native controls of macOS Monterey to those of Mavericks (10.9), for example. Or Windows 7.
In this thread: A bunch of people from the U.S. not realizing that employment laws and norms are quite different in Canada, where this kind of "employment equity" (or what is called "affirmative action" in the U.S.) is required, especially for public institutions.
"I readily admit that I don't know what I'm talking about but at the same time I'm going to insist that my hypothetical situation is definitely correct and the knowledgeable people working on medical staffing and capacity management for their entire careers simply do not know as much as me, a computer toucher."

Somehow I remain unconvinced that "thinking outside the box" conjures doctors and nurses into existence or makes those who refuse to work ICUs suddenly interested in the job. I guess you could demand the military have doctors and nurses work at the point of a gun, all so John Q. Public probably still couldn't go to Target without a mask on two years hence. That sounds great.
Normally we'd call that a "civil service." They don't traditionally answer to the electorate, because the electorate appoints their boss(es).

And, whether you like it or not, must of the public does want its teachers to be supportive of children who aren't straight or cis.
> The pandemic isn’t over because someone decided it was.

Doesn't matter. The virus has nothing to do with how humans react to it. The virus didn't tell us to shut everything up and hunker down for 2 years. We could decide to move on tomorrow if we chose. Many places moved on almost a year ago with very little repercussions.
I took a programming language concepts class and we had to write an essay about some uncommon language and what made it interesting. I chose Io and it was a pain for sure.
So it’s not only racist
It does not work that way. Long distance extreme high voltage transfer loses about 5% per 1000km, with the transformers adding another 10%, under ideal circumstances. In practice its higher, and thats on land. Sea cables lose 100x per km around 50% per 100km, again under ideal circumstances. In practice double the losses per distance, and if using existing grids, double it again, because most places dont build top end voltage grids.

Looking at maps for power prices with large hydropower dams you can easily see how most countries grids dont transfer more than around 1000km, and often quite a bit shorter. In practice this is the point where it becomes more cost effective to build new powerplants, than bigger infrastructure for transfer.

We could build grids designed for this, but never across oceans, and we are talking about an absolutely gargantuan investment, and its generally not considered as a solution for the unreliability of solar and wind. Its also why no one ever suggests to use the big empty oceans for truly large scale wind or solar etc, its always places very close to land.

Its also worth pointing out that superconductors cannot solve this, even if price and the gargantuan cooling energy requirements are ignored. This is because while superconductors transfer power without loss, they can only do so up to a limited effect, as the power interferes with the superconducting ability after that, essentially breaking it.
I'm pretty sure it was hyperbole.
The problem with investing in gold is that there's actually a lot of it to dig up, it's just expensive to do so, there's always a lot of natural ceiling pressure on the market, if the price goes up enough we'll be extracting trace amounts from seawater.
Nah it's long gone, however I've later read that the 1.2 series was declared deprecated long ago and after that there was an exploit for 1.2 released in 2019, not entirely sure if it was ever patched so that might've been the source.
Oh come on, parents should obviously have the final say in what their kids are taught (via voting for school boards, etc.). How is this even remotely controversial?
Chernobyl was also a political/PR issue, and in typical USSR fashion, the general public wasn't even informed until over a week after the incident. Consider the half-life of iodine-135, by the time people were being recommended and provided with the necessary medication most of the damage was already done.
Two Spirit is considered a contemporary, umbrella term that is specific to the Indigenous LGBT2QQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Two Spirit, queer, questioning, intersexual, asexual) community.

Frankly I'm not sure whether to laugh at the idea a gender identity can be limited to a specific ethnicity or to condemn it as inherently racist. This is entirely too meta.
The books of William Uttal cover the issues of localization and neurological modeling at different levels of detail. The most popular I think is The New Phrenology[1] and the most technical is Mind and Brain[2]. A quote from the latter:

To sum up, the new metaphor proposed here asserts that it seems more likely in the light of current research that there are no demarcatable regions nor any regions of predetermined and fixed cognitive functionality in the brain; there are, rather, just "softly" bounded areas that may shrink, enlarge, or be recruited as the current task demands. Furthermore, none of these weakly bounded regions has any specific, preassigned, or fixed function. They all serve as general-purpose processing entities as required by whatever cognitive task is being processed. The whole notion of a place on the brain having a specific identifiable purpose has to be abandoned as an unreliable and outmoded metaphor.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/New-Phrenology-Localizing-Philosophic...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Brain-Appraisal-Cognitive-Neuros...
Hah, but it was absolutely necessary. The government can't shut down companies merely for lying or legally cheating customers...
Ask HN: Do you see a weird Google result when you Google for “miggelil turshi”?
From what I've read[1] it looks like we should be able to use nuclear fission for a significant amount of time (>1000 years). This would involve using uranium and thorium as well as breeder reactors.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-...
But this is an issue of Russia putting the squeeze on gas prices, not an inherent issue of the German energy system.
While I don’t disagree with the ethics of selling such things, selling underground pharmaceuticals is almost certainly an example of a crime.
The obesity wars and the education of a researcher
Meh.

The US is somehow singularly incapable of implementing decent public transport. Thus venture capitalists are throwing stupid amounts of money at exotic technology that could potentially alleviate some of the problems arising from this stupidity.

First we had the "full" self-driving cars and robotaxis coming any day now. Then there's Musk's attempts at tunnel digging and Hyperloop that have gone nowhere. And now eVTOLs that will go nowhere.

It's kinda fun to watch from afar though.
A Japanese study showed that Omicron is reproducing 70 times faster in the bronchi but 10 times slower in the lungs than Delta.
That's why it is giving less lung problems and therefore doesn't make people as ill as Delta.
Again with the application of systemic change at the individual level. You hate to see it.

If I wanted to solve the problem (assuming it were perceived as such, due to males not getting the opportunity to be a nurse where they otherwise would want to) of nursing being predominantly a female profession, which option do I choose:

- investigate whether there are institutional (hiring bias, biased availability etc), cultural (nursing treated as "for girls"), or systemic (nursing careers primarily promoted in female-coded environments) reasons why males are seeing reduced opportunity to access nursing as a career

- just put up a sign saying "hiring male nurses", completely ignoring the raised concern about lack of opportunity to look good to a particular twisted perspective on systemic issues

It bothers me every time I see it. Even without the immorality of excluding people based on immutable features.
Once again its no the vulnerability but how permissions are assigned to applications.
I think people should be treated based on the content of their character and not by the colour of their skin.