skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't the fact that it's outcompeting Delta imply that there is some cross immunity?

Not really. If Delta's Rt is greatly reduced because lots of people have immunity, Omicron can show up with a much higher Rt and grow in case numbers. It doesn't need to further reduce Delta's Rt to "win".

I.e. even if R0 among those naive to the variants is similar, once you have 2/3rds of people who can't get Delta because of vaccination or prior infection and that can get Omicron, ... Omicron is going to win. And it looks like Omicron may be more contagious than Delta at baseline, so it's even quicker.
More people will be working from home. So more rules are needed around setting reasonable hours between personal time and work time.

The vaccinated have now matched the case count and hospitalization number of the unvaccinated. So come January, probably even more people will be working from home, because Ontario seems to be headed for another lockdown.
Who says the vaccine prevents heart complications from infection? All the statistics I’ve seen compare mainly mortality. From a pure risk vs reward of vaccine vs no vaccine, measuring mortality seems reasonable. When in history have we vaccinated to prevent side effects?
It's not that impractical, I've seen systems setup that way with unix domain sockets where you can pass an fd along with a message. I'm trying to remember where (android?), but there's a bluetooth stack setup like this, where your manifest is registered by a trusted entity, that then you talk to over an unix domain socket to get another unix domain socket to the actual bluetooth stack on an IPC endpoint that was setup with the bluetooth stack with only your permission set.

It's just not a panacea. Even if you fracture the permissions, they still exist in many places and exploit chains are used to having to act as the same sort of distributed application as what you're suggesting to exercise those distributed rights.
Perhaps read what the latest Nobel price winners in Economics have to say:

Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

They have done real world studies on the issues discussed here and arrive at a different conclusion from you.
My prediction is the next country that will go through this in this century will be Communist China. It has stark similarities to Soviet USSR / Russia in the 1980s & 90s, as well as Germany in the 1930s & 40s: a totalitarian regime, increasingly persecuting more of its own people, and openly thumbing its nose at the rest of the world and its own neighbors militarily and economically.

I want to clarify that I don't think that China as a country will collapse, but rather that the CCP will lose power as a result of internal and external factors playing out together.
There are large CIs around the mean increase with Pfizer booster, but the mean doesn't fall into the confidence interval for second dose Moderna. Does not appear to be tracking as commensurate.
I really WANT to contribute to OSM but I can’t help but feel like I’m just making up for the foundations inability to implement automated imports from city data. Why are we still drawing house by house when many cities offer this data freely?

I’m sure it’s a complicated and well reasoned decision, I just don’t get the same feeling contributing to OSM that I do contributing to wiki.

Maybe more mainstream integrations like android auto will help remedy this by generating more awareness.
Javascript does that too with its ES6 chaining syntax, would you say it is elegant too?

var list = Array.from({length:20}, (_, i)=>({"Foo":i+1, "Bar": "hey"}))
Source? One friend with this exact issue was never hospitalized, was told that it couldn't possibly be due the vaccine, but ended up with several visits to a cardiologist and now had to deal with the long term effects. So no- there was no hospitalization. Technically. And they will never show up in any data set either. Because we aren't even tracking this stuff correctly in the USA.
Feel like “reputable” is loaded here lol

I’ve had it happen before in searches where I’ll see something and can’t find it on google, but can easily find it on DuckDuckGo.

Idk here’s something for you: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-le...

There are leaked slides showing the intent to censor. Not sure if this is “reputable” enough, but there is something.
Perhaps "little-acknowledged-by-politicians" is more apt.
Imagine gene therapy to fix the problems. After a few generations, many diseases will be extinct.

There's a guy on YouTube doing diy gene therapy to treat his lactose intolerance so it's not exactly science fiction.
Autoslash still uses a similar business model. They’ll keep checking rental rates right up until the day of your reservation, automatically canceling the old reservation and making a new one.

Haven’t used it in quite a while due to Covid, but it was pretty cool booking for $40/day, then seeing it go down to $35, then $27, then $22 and finally $19. All automatically.
All banks AFAIk not just EU banks.
> Exploit chains these days are very used to having to jump through IPC channels to components with different privileges to get everything they need.

Thank you for bringing this up; it's an important point. Do you have a sense of what a practical solution might be?

One thing I can imagine is that there's a JNDI component, but to communicate with it over IPC, you need the JNDIComponent capability. This would allow a couple ways to prevent the log4j vulnerability:

1. You don't give the JNDIComponent to log4j.

2. You use capabilities inside JNDI to separate out the bits that use the network from those that don't, and only supply log4j with a JNDIComponentWithoutNetworkAccess.

This requires co-operation between capabilities in the OS and in the programming language, though, which is a big ask. Plus some foresight; much more than as described in my post.
It's very common to use 2 bits per nucleotide despite the human genome having ambiguous bases on top of the 4 letters. These tools typically encode the ambiguous base as a random nucleotide but keep track of them and then convert them to a random nucleotide later.

In practice BWT alignment based tools may use a forward-index and a mirror-index of the reversed genome string (not reverse complemented). This dual index approach is important for dealing with mismatches strings. There's a nice example explaining this for an older tool named Bowtie [2]

With a two bit encoding and both indices it isn't uncommon for a genome index to take up several GB of RAM. For example, BWA uses 2-3 GB for its index [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index
[2] https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/25/14/1754/2...
[3] https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/25/14/1754/2...

There are some great computational benefits using 2 bit encoding for the BWT
Sure,

But in the end most times people (outside of the rusty community) speak about rusts borrow checking it's about the combination of checking lifetime, "pointe" aliasing rules and the (not fully specified) memory model. I.e it's ownership model.

And while lifetimes get eliminated at some point in compilation this is after making sure they are correct, which enables rust to use a "pointer" aliasing model for it's references which is subtle different from C-pointers in ways which affects code generation.

I.e. they implicitly affect code generation in the way they affect what the rust language/compiler can do/can rely on (like relying on being often able to mark &Mut as noalias).

I.e. if you write unsafe code assuming lifetimes are just about making sure memory is freed correctly you will produce unsound code.
Have you played Mass Effect, used Java or OpenBSD? One has natural resources and money and tech. Different parts of Canada bring different things to the table.
Open packages, cut boxes… various projects. Strip wires in a pinch. Improvised tool if one of the motorcycles I own from the 1980s breaks down.

I do also commonly keep a leather man wave + in the same pocket.

Other pocket tends to have car key, chapstick, streamlight, and a mala.

Edit: I will say I’ve brought the flash II with me to at least 5 countries, and have used it to also once cut some chambira while on a boat on an offshoot off the Amazon river.
Non-competes don't have to be enforced to have a chilling effect. Your new employer may refuse to hire you because they don't want to get into the legal fight that determines whether or not non-competes have teeth.

An outright ban assuages a lot of those fears.
Wow, are they moving the James Webb space telescope that far out?
Not sure why you need it in an app but...

...every car rental company already offers this, though not necessarily at every single location.

That you didn't know that and don't use it suggests it isn't really as useful as you think it would be.

Hertz charges you £25 for the delivery and £25 for the pick up. Very few people are going to find that extra cost worth it.
People making minimum aren't self-isolating, that food you ordered is being prepped and delivered by someone who went to work telling themselves "it's just a cold and they need that paycheck".
There are many quirks in the car rental business, and some of the biggest companies are struggling with their own internal history. For instance, the largest car rental companies have grown by way of acquisition. ZipCar is now owned by Avis Rental Car. But internally, trying to merge all of the different databases into a single database, or at least create a unified API to create the illusion of a single database, is an absolutely epic struggle. I have some experience, which I wrote up, and which was discussed here on Hacker News. The old conversation (and link to original) is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260114
This is capitalism reacting to bad government policy. An artificial shortage of construction permits means only the high bidders (luxury condos) get them. Tuition keeps rising as long as we keep guaranteeing reckless loans for teenagers. Health insurance lacks competition because it’s mostly arranged through blanket contracts with employers for tax reasons (dating back to world war two!)
> I had the opposite problem, I always reserve a small four door fuel sedan, and several times they upselled me an SUV or sports car "at no cost".

That's clearly another consequence of "You can book any car with any rental company and cancel up until the minute of the rental or just not show up and there's no penalty.": they've run out of the smaller cars and only have one larger one left (e.g., more than X% of the people with smaller car reservations showed up, but less than X% of those with larger cars - and if you think this through, I think you need to bias towards larger cars in your planning to avoid not being able to provide an at-least-requested-size car when the opposite case arises).
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i agree. Turo is quite nice.
I get the problems. But travelling to another country is to research and accept that things are different. For example, if you rent a car in Argentina, they hardly have any automatic car, all stick, unless you do a special request weeks in advance. You could complain all day about rental cars ruining vacations, or you can just research ahead of time and ensure that what you’re trying to do is possible in that country. Lack of credit card in the US will cause you tons of other problems, nobody cares about debit, better come prepared.
You are asking when in history we vaccinated to prevent infectious disease induced morbidity?
it must be very annoying when one of your favorite products is advertised to you
ontario - ngmi
Hardly.

BC has the real title of Canadas California! We have unaffordable housing, restrictive zoning powered by aging hippy boomers in multimillion dollar homes, temperate weather, and a massive film industry.

To top it off we resent our conservative neighbors to the East and have a chip on our shoulders about our overlords in the east.

BC is definitely the California of Canada.

The thing that unites all Canadians though is our strong belief that our neighbors to the south are dangerous and run by a corrupt and incompetent political system, regardless of their suitability as a winter vacation spot. Which… I guess is a feeling that the Americans have too.
Am I missing something obvious?

Am I reading too much from the error bars in the Incidence Rate Ratio charts? Or did I misinterpret the charts some other way?
A discussion of the 1970 film “Patton” [video]
I'd like to see the test people try to do automatic numbering in Word. I'm a long time Word user (like 30 years), and numbering in Word has NEVER worked right.

A few weeks ago, I was tearing my hair out trying to get simple list numbering (1, 2, 3. Some non-list text. 1, 2, 3, 4...). Word seems to think that if you start numbering a list at the beginning of a doc, and then you go back to Body Text (or the horribly named Normal text), and then twenty pages later you start another list, this next list must be a continuation of the first list. What idiot decided that? You have to right-click on the first list item of the second list and do "Restart numbering at 1". And even then I was getting weird numbering of list items, like 1, 2, 5. No visible reason, and very hard to fix.

Legal section numbering in Word? Like 1, 1.1., 1.2, 2, 2.1,... Don't even try. It used to be a built-in, but it was so buggy they removed the built-in. There are instructions on the web for how to create such section numbering in Word ex nihilo, but the instructions are so complex that I haven't even tried. (And probably just as buggy as the list numbering.)

Both list and legal section numbering work out of the box in LaTeX, of course.
Ugh, hunter Biden laptop is indeed completely acknowledged fact at this point by all sides

https://news.yahoo.com/york-times-quietly-deletes-claim-0218...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/politics/hunter-biden-laptop/...

https://nypost.com/2021/09/21/the-hunter-biden-laptop-is-con...

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...

One Hillary Clinton’s campaign attorneys have been charged in connection to creating the Steele dossier (lying to the fbi and falsifying records).

https://nypost.com/2021/09/16/fresh-proof-russiagate-scandal...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/icymi-th...

Senate Interview notes: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/February%209,...

Plot against the president, is a decent documentary on the subject - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12734800/

The covid stuff I guess we can wait for, but there’s a lot of evidence out there on that as well. In either case, not lies and definitely should be searchable.
> These data support the notion that, provided high neutralization capacity is elicited by vaccination/boosting approaches, reasonable effectiveness against Omicron may be maintained.

I think the "reasonable effectiveness" part speaks for itself. My reading of the "provided high neutralization capacity" part is that, we know vaccines lose effectiveness over time, so the "reasonable effectiveness" has a caveat of "provided you get a booster, and possibly regular boosters in the future".
There is a definite overlap in people skeptical of lockdowns and the vaccines, but the sub tries to steer clear of vaccine skepticism due to it being technically off topic, and something that would get the sub nuked.

Not that you asked me- I would classify it as "different" than the flu, that it affects different individuals differently, and that the original variant was definitely something more scary than the flu. Especially due to the novelty of the spike protein. Now- I view omicron as about as dangerous as the flu for a much smaller subset of people than the flu is dangerous for. Especially when you account for age and comorbidities. The flu kills children, while covid generally does not.
Some of the most successful campaigns I've seen in this pace start at the top.
+1 to this process vs. going to a counter. You make a reservation online, show up at the rental car lot, walk to the emerald or executive aisle, pick any car you want, scan the barcode with the app on your phone, show your ID and the QR code at the gate and you drive away. Hertz Gold service is similar. Frequently renters have much more efficient ways to pick up and drop vehicles. Many US credit cards offer higher tier membership with rental car companies as a benefit. The time saving only is worth any small annual membership fees.
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When have we vaccinated to prevent infectious disease induced side effects excluding morbidity.
So what is the mortality rate of the vaccine? Because this is the myocarditis rate, and the vast majority of cases didn't even require hospitalization. If you want to compare mortality rates, share a link.

And yes, the virus prevents heart complications from infection, because it prevents symptomatic infection.
This disruption was real and did happen at the beginning of the pandemic as the used car market was not up in March and April. It brought a major rental company to bankruptcy.
I live in a rural area and I know of someone that happened to. They worked for Hormel, jumped ship to another employer in the food production business who found out they had signed a noncompete. They got let go and no longer had any job.
Some chess tournaments make draws worth ⅓ instead of ½ to incentive aggressive play, but they seem to end up with similar draw rates as normal tournaments. Of course, that wouldn't work at all for a 1v1 event like the WCC, it would probably just make it ~50% longer.

The main thing to decrease draws seems to be shorter time format, but the Blitz championship seems to attract less attention than the classical, and of course blunders are more likely, which is a double edged sword.

Maybe the next WCC will be more exciting, since Alireza probably has far better winning odds, or if Magnus doesn't compete then the challengers won't be terrified into playing 14 Berlin draw lines.

(For those who don't know why Magnus may not compete: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/only-alireza-... - first decent looking article I found)
PDF rendering is the bane of my existence. I've found it stunningly difficult to generate an acceptable output from a source format like Markdown, and the process usually requires massive dependencies and fiddly configuration to get something close to what you want. Don't even try to produce numbered headings or a cover page unless you're willing to write the whole thing in LaTeX from start to finish, but who knows if you'll ever get the table to appear in the right spot on the page. :D
> I guess there could be a business in buying up 2/3 year old ex-lease cars and renting them, but I'm not sure who the customer would be. Short-term renters want new vehicles. Long-term renters... well, why would you rent a 3 year old VW when you could buy one for less?

I do think there's a middleground that's underserved. I've considered booking 1-3 month work / travel trips to areas of the country that require a car, and my options are either 1. spend an absurd amount on a car rental or 2. buy a car and deal with selling it a few months later. The rental price always seems to scale linearly with the duration of the rental, which is fine for something short, but seems absurd for longer rentals given the typical "utilization" of a car.
Go didn't have komi just 60ish years ago.

The issue is that chess has lost its ability to make rule changes, like komi, superko, passing stones or whatever.

We can erase draws from chess with Black wins stalemates, white wins 50 move / three move repetitions.
ah sure, I don't think I would have called them "commensurate" – but was I wrong to think of both rates as "elevated"?
If contract work is an option for you, I have a few ideas that might be interesting for you. As an independent consultant, I'm continuously reading the market to get a feeling for current and future demand. This thread is filled with great advice on upgrading skillset and I +1 to all of that because having a viable skillset is a prerequisite for a lot of jobs. You can get some experience by contributing to open source, which is something you discuss in a potential interview - recruiters might not care about it but someone interviewing you might.

On contract work, you'll need to select the recruiters you want to work with. Large recruiting firms have clients all over town and if they send out your resume, they send it to everyone. Essentially, this means if you give your resume to too many recruiters, you're hurting your job prospects. Many hiring managers will skip resumes that are multi-submitted because they don't want to deal with the hassle of which recruiter gets paid if they want to hire you. What has worked well for me, when I use a recruiter, is to go with individuals or small shops that don't have the reach of the larger firms. They're also more likely to pay attention to you because of a candidate shortage and thus easier to create a relationship because you're taking a bet on them as much as they are on you. Go after Jr. developer roles for whatever they want to pay you.

The idea here is to get your foot in the door on any software development work possible. This corresponds to the business perspective of being a contractor, the market determines what you're able to do. When times were hard, my rate went down and I took less desirable work - but it was work. The benefit of any work over no work is (beyond bringing in > $0) that people would rather hire developers that are already working. With contracting, you can get a 3, 6, 12 month gig and get experience. When that's over, it's easier to get the next (better) gig at higher pay - just work your way up over time.

Another idea is to scan CraigsList, attend user groups, or network locally to see if there are any companies or individuals looking for software help. Volunteer work is better than nothing too. Then submit a proposal that is dirt cheap enough to get the work - again this type of market is cost conscious. There are also very few developers, beyond college students, who are willing to do this type of work, especially in today's competitive market. It isn't much, but all of the sudden you have something current on your resume.
If you’ve done all this then how in this world are you not a “real” developer?
Yeah, that part sounds doable -- although, at least twice as expensive as it'd require two cars in the place of one, plus whatever the cost of having two drivers is.

I guess a service where the users pickup/drop off the cars up would only require employee intervention to correct flow differences from one pickup point to another? Although maybe the cars need to be cleaned anyway.
If you're talking about the voltrax, you still need to pipette reagents in at the right times. They don't really talk about it in their advertising, but it's basically just to make mixing consistent when you have under-trained techs. Definitely will get there eventually, but I don't know if they are working on that right now.
Having access to banking, electricity, and the internet are inherently good things. I hope 100% of people have access to these things and use them as freely as they would like to. When people have limited access to resources they are most vulnerable to being treated unfairly.
This space is really interesting

Edit: also I think cdrt’s and webrtc
I wonder when data like this will be available for kids
A van from U-Haul is a fraction of the price of car rental companies. You can rent a van for 7 days from U-Haul for only $139.65 and $.69/mile. For that price I don't care what the hell it looks like.
My favorite way to find good projects to explore is using GitHub.com. I go to explore page and checkout trending projects for the week/today. https://github.com/trending/python?since=daily