skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This study has several issues which are rightly pointed out by the author:

> Owing to the small sample size, the authors were not able to establish the vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infections versus symptomatic infections. This limitation together with the unconfirmed source of transmission in many of these index-contact pairs, suggests that the low SAR reported here should be interpreted with caution.

> this study unfortunately also highlights that the vaccine effect on reducing transmission is minimal in the context of delta variant circulation.

> They report that peak viral loads showed a faster decline in vaccinated compared with unvaccinated people, although peak viral loads were similar for unvaccinated and vaccinated people.

> Time since vaccination in fully vaccination contacts was longer for those infected than those uninfected, suggesting that waning of protection might have occurred over time, although teasing out general waning versus reduced vaccine effectiveness due to delta is challenging owing to so many confounding factors.

The study is meaningless without disclosing how long after the vaccination is he study done. While the study does mention waning effectiveness, it doesn’t mention (as far as I can find) how long after the vaccination did they do the sampling.

Other studies show that in the first 2 months, the breakthrough is less likely and viral load is less but after that, the breakthroughs become more common and by 4-6 months, the viral load becomes the same.

This is observable in my province here in Canada where vast majority of the vaccinations occurred after June 10th (we had under 10% vaccination till June 10). So in the first few months of the honeymoon period, breakthroughs were less common. However after 3-4 months, they became more and more common.

And now that omicron is here, it’s become wildly common. While only 77% of Ontario population is vaccinated, 80% of cases are fully vaccinated.

Another thing to mention is that the study doesn’t mention the age, comirbidiies and obesity level of the individuals. It’s shown in other studies that older people, obese and those with comorbidities have higher viral loads and shed the virus for longer. And the effectiveness also wanes quicker in these groups along with in men. So there are too many variables.

These shots should never have been labelled a vaccine based on these factors.
I would say I usually spend around 7€ for an entire day. But there's a mix of common sense and also agreement with the barista. I will generally consume more or leave if the coffee shop gets really busy, or change my seat to the least used one (next to the noisy coffee machine). The baristas also think I'm good company, so that also plays in favour of me staying longer without consuming excessively. And from time to time I help them out if there's something they can't do alone.

I also found other coffee shop that are more work focused. They are usually more spacious and with big shared tables. They mind less if you don't consume regularly. Of course, that's always as long as they don't get overly busy. In general you will notice if your presence is a "problem", you will be asked if you want to consume more.

Edit: I'm located in Prague, CZ.
It's not stealing it's sharing.
go doSomethingWith(x)

Threads.@threads for x = 1:42

thread::spawn

How is that difficult? The problem is that people are taught that concurrency and the capacity for parallell execution is somehow difficult. It really isn't.

> It is still the case that most code the end-user is waiting for is JITted Javascript

That's a problem with JavaScript, not with language design. JS is simply not a very good language, and its lack of support of parallell processing is just one of its many problems.
We had similar situations (we're 3.5 now), our kid wasn't talking as much as others at certain age categories, but he knew ABC very well in multiple languages, he could count to 100 easily and do basic addition at the very early age, while others were better at talking. Whenever someone was saying "by now he should be doing this and that", I would respond that it's not the race[sometimes more harsh than that, so that the discussion would be over immediately]. We do not follow the so called "recommended milestones", same as we do not follow guidelines of the age recommendation on the back of the toys.
The mistery of the bones of a 20mt man found in Naples, Italy
You’ve come to the right place!

This is where the Stripe CEO will reply to you when all their support processes have failed, and you have no other course to save your business. That’s the way all $122billion companies operate.

If he hasn’t been here yet, stay on hold he’ll be here soon.

Patrick? Catastrophic customer support fail call for you….

(Call waiting music….) Oh dear he’s on Christmas holidays. I’m pretty sure their automated processes suspended your account for good reason. If you feel this is not correct, email your case for why you should be allowed by us to have a working business to noreply@stripe.com
More than happy to do a post-mortem and to satisfy your valuable insights later.
How do you reconcile that your peers likely earn more than you, and perhaps then, you were underpaid for your (negotiation) skills of the same position?
I remember a while ago I was very much in the "I guess it's ok to use Discord, even if I don't like it". A number of tech/programming communities are there, and so I participated despite having a bad feeling about it.

Now more recently I started receiving my first "hey we believe there is something wrong with your account, attach a (first time, new) phone number to it to join this server". That is most likely a lie of course, Discord just wants to blackmail me into giving them my phone number. Also apparently there is an option to make an attached phone number mandatory in order to join a server, which quite a number communities activate for some reason.

So it turns out the bad feeling was correct.
Who’s “their” in your comment? Is that signal or WhatsApp/FB messenger?
1) You can't send it to someone without a btc address. You can't send it to somewhere without internet, or rather, someone somewhere without internet can not use their newly received btc. Every transaction requires a middleman that you pay and you can't even choose which one you would like to use.

Gold: can send it to anybody with an address, doesn't need internet. Can actually be used without middleman and in instances where you want one you can actually choose which one you want to use. Also doesn't need financial infrastructure. On paper gold seems better.

2) This only works for on chain stuff. Want to program a smart contract that pays out building contractors as they finish stuff around your house? Congratulations, now you have additional work of programming the smart contract. Simpler to use gold.
I live in Europe and no one I know makes something close to these numbers. Some friends who read HN reach a 3 digits gross salary by working for USA companies in Europe, but they are the exception.
I'm not sure I see it as game changing for audit logs; it's relatively easy to use privileges in Postgresql to make a table effectively insert-only[1], mysql/mariadb and others almost certainly has something similar.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35919167/create-insert-o...
Send the list to the FTC, not to me. Or file suit against them yourself. I don't have standing to do so because I haven't been defrauded.

The fact that some people get away with telling a lie isn't generally a very strong argument that it's not a lie.
> uses barely less CPU% in a 2020 computer than in a 2011 one and it is extremely frustrating.

But if that's the case, what's the point in all that extra-complexity in the CPU, if in the end the benefits seem to be miniscule?
I am not disagreeing but how is that a rebuttal of what I said?
This sounds good. While I don't have much preference about "being explicit" vs having automatically-invoked dtors, it will be nice to be nudged when I actually forget to clean up.
> I know a lof of of Stripe are reading here including pc

Why don't you directly reach out to them, instead of posting to HN?
i see thx
These two challenged my beliefs about the state of the environment:

S4: E18 – Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know | Marian Tupy
https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4-e-18-ten-global-trends-marian-tupy/

S4: E:51 – Apocalypse Never? | Michael Shellenberger
https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e51/

This one was riveting, terrifying, and made me realize how important it is to preserve our democracies, if we're lucky enough to live in one:

S4: E26 – Tyranny, Slavery and Columbia U | Yeonmi Park
https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/s4e26/
Google Cloud Custom Voice Overview
Yeap, why would someone hide the actual project name and replace it with Rust, we should flag this shit to get better quality submissions. Athis moment tile is "Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer"
I don't get it. Are you charging people before their stay? In most of my experiences with Booking.com or hotels themselves, I settle the bill (with my card) at the end of the stay.
We have, and their support needs more time to answer our email or chat queries than they've given us notice. So I guess they do observe holiday support times, just not for their customers.
IIRC enterprise solutions from the big clouds usually ask for at least hours of studio quality voice recordings for a custom voice model.
I just downloaded the free version and I'm going to purchase a license. It's baffling how it is not possible to have the functionality to navigate with arrow keys in mission control really...

How is the license managed? Can I take it with me when I get a new device and want to use it there?
Its more likely that they just want the number for Multi-factor authentication. Not that I like, that every site now asks for a phone number. But it is more of a security reason. Otherwise there must be real people involved in oder to restore your account. It also insures that most of the user accounts are no sock puppets. Not every user has access to vast ammounts of mobile phone numbers.

Another great thread, describing this dilemma is "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108662

In discords defense: It was never made for open source projects in mind, but gamers and small private communities. Having a free service provided might come with traps and pitfalls, but I would prefer that over having only paid online services. Choose your poison. I don't think discord is the right choice for FOSS communities.
> available vaccines don't even seem to be good enough to give herd immunity at the moment

AFAIAA, no COVID vaccines confer "immunity" - they confer resistance. Vaccinated people can still catch and transmit COVID. The vaccines are effective at preventing you being hospitalised; this protects health services from being overwhelmed, and reduces the chance that you'll die.

I don't think that even catching live COVID confers immunity. I imagine that live COVID confers better resistance than a vaccine, especially a vaccine such as these mRNA vaccines that target a specific spike protein. But I have no reliable source for that notion (/me not a doctor or researcher, just some dude on the internet!)
Those were just the first two I could find in efficiency categories A and B. Here's one for 317 EUR that's rated at 118 kWh/a (with a C efficiency label). The rating is supposed to reflect typical usage.

https://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/amica-kgc-384-110-e-a212...
This is fantastic, thanks for linking it! Yes like GP I haven't played this game in more than 2 decades but the movements are still etched into my memory, and how brutal the difficulty is.

I used to love two games at the time, this and Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders. I managed to played the latter to completion in my teenage years, but I never finished PRINCE.EXE, perhaps it's time...
I thought posting to Hacker News was the best way to contact Stripe? ;)
Wow, we're one step closer to the Rust-lang and Rust-game crossover
Not foolproof either, but

export HISTIGNORE="* rm *"

makes calls to rm not show up in the history, for better or worse.
Slate's expensive, and roofing with it is labour intensive and requires skilled people

Looks lovely but if I was building a house I'd go for a sheet metal roof and it can be done in a couple of days at most even if it won’t be that different cost wise from tiles
https://www.hsbc.com.hk/ways-to-bank/phone/voice-id/ HSBC Hong Kong allows you to use your voice to log in to phone banking without a PIN. What could go wrong.
That sucks. What reason did they give you? Something vague like "you broke the terms of service" or something more specific? What could customer support tell you?

I read you're in the hospitality business, did a whole bunch of people cancel/chargeback because of the omicron covid wave, maybe? Just trying to see if there's any reason Stripe may have picked this moment to kill your contract with them rather than any other.

From a business perspective I can see why the timing sucks but this week is just another week, especially with Christmas and NY falling in the weekend. Companies generally try not to pull these stunts around (American) holidays, but there's nothing more special about this week than there is about next week or the week before. You can't expect Stripe to turn off their fraud department for two weeks because it makes the flagged companies sad.
While I also would love to hear what you have planned and what failed (I would have worded it differently though), even if you did plan for this, 48h notice and that on a holiday season sounds absurd and may not even be enough for "just changing a config and testing the system through". It's mean and you shouldn't feel too bad.
I specifically removed my phone number from my CV when I noticed companies like to call and scheduele a meeting immediately.

Such things gotta be done in an async manner e.g. by email.
Once I took a microphone, plugged it into my ZX Spectrum's tape input, did LOAD "" and was able to successfully screech a valid header into it. It said Program: and a bunch of random chars, but nevertheless, the machine stood by flashing its borders in awe hoping to receive the rest of the code. Ohayo gozaimasu.
Um, that was really a long time ago...

As I can remember, my approach was the first one: "bottom up in literally translating instructions and assuming it will lead to same results if translated accurately enough". That was not to difficult to achieve.

The funny thing was that Jordan Mechner used every bit of available memory in the Apple II computer, so I had to be very careful ;-)

Then the hard part: create the input and output codes that were totally different on the two computers, then the code for sounds and music also totally specific and then I wanted to have better graphics. So I ended up by creating a sprite editor, in assembly language, for my graphic artist colleague so that we can recreate all graphic assets and put color in it...
There’s a difference between for example killing animals for sport, for food, or by not taking enough precaution to avoid it (e.g. sweeping the road for bugs before walking). The agency matters - if your salary is explicitly tied to bad outcomes, or if it happens to benefit from them, by proxy.
I think I know the place he is talking about: HUBSY café & coworking | Saint-Lazare. Been there several times, you pay by the hour with unlimited drinks and some snacks. It's a small place but it is nice and was life-saving for me.
Those are mostly either heavily marketed recent books or some very popular books considered "classics" that sort of circulate as representing some field (which they mostly really don't).

If I had made a similar (probably much shorter) list about programming languages it would include Go and Pascal as mind-expanding languages.
I'd be afraid of relying too much on this only to, at some point, be on a server or user that doesn't have this and accidentally deleting something too early.

Maybe it'd be best to just give this command a new name like `delete` or `trash` just to be safe.
That's interesting, I have the exact opposite impression. I don't have what people in the United States would consider a modern fridge by any means, but it was recently bought brand-new (2021) and it's so quiet it's almost uncanny. The only time I'm reminded fridges are even supposed to make noise is when it beeps a jingle from being turned on after the power goes out and returns.
So, unicorns in 2022 seem to do support by Hacker News pledge.

Good luck resolving this.
The Flaw of Averages (2002)
> Esim is a mature and excellent technology. This is overdue.

And this is the first time I've heard of it. (and in with https://xkcd.com/1053/ before someone else does)
There’s Oxygen near the surface just not further down in the depths.

Whales could swim through an area since the surface to breathe, but could pop their clogs at any time (I assume).
I am actually the other way around. I use them as one data point to find new libraries in fields I have never worked in. They tend to be incomplete and no curation at all. But still useful.
Variability and luck are huge factors. The hard _employment_ offers I've declined since early 2015 fall in the range kEUR[40,500] total effective annual gross, globally. >10x! Rising trend, but mostly scattershot.

The really interesting part is that during the initial chats I have not been able to guess the offer coming at the end. The strongest correlation seems to be with location, but it is much weaker than most people seem to think it is: The same tech region brought 300k and 40k with just a year apart. Just two different companies in similar fields and roles. Another noticeable difference come from whether I reach out to them or they to me, with the latter often offering above median.

I may be blind and stupid, but from what I see, employment salary is just bizarre. If you can, I recommend running your own most of the time, and accept employment only on the most interesting projects, if required.
Articles about these map-redrawing efforts among the western states suffer from a lack of historical awareness. The geography of WA, OR, CA, and ID (at the least) were determined in disregard of the wishes of local communities. The east and southwest of OR have long complained that they suffer economically from policies pushed from Portland. Similar case with the northern third of CA wanting to separate. This is not just a recent Red v. Blue or rural v. urban conflict. It goes at least back to the beginnings of statehood.
I don't have any numbers on this, but I'm certain lots of "flat-eathers" are just trolls that enjoys annoying people who tries to act smug and smart, but in actuality failed to get the humour behind the flatness of earth. Anyone who is seriously trying to argue with flat-earthers have a very low bar for intelligence. Which is not to say that there aren't actual dumb people who actually believe the earth is flat, but I reckon those people are far below the minority.
> Those will last basically forever.

Yes, but where? :-) Because those large plates and the attached isolation plates fly damn well when there is a bit of a tempest.
If you are in Academia and not a professor you are generally doing your net worth curve a huge disfavor. The story of academia in recent times is rife with people being compensated peanuts for important, _profitable_ research.

In Germany there's still a social value to having a Dr. title, but until you get there in your mid-30's or so, you are earning way under the average of someone with a similar education and work ethic in Industry.
I don’t enjoy reading the old language and lack of modern context. Any more modern philosophers you recommend reading? Or modern summaries of older philosophers?
Many hotel booking sites do charge at the time of booking, particularly when the booking is heavily discounted / non-refundable.
Depends. Many sites offer non-refundable reservations for a cheaper rate. You pay when you book.
I like to think that it's people taking from corporations, while UGC is corporations taking from people, spamming them with ads, monetizing their hobbies and selling their personal data.

anyway, if I pay for Netflix who has produced their own content, why should I also watch the ads for other Netflix content?

Isn't it enough to pay for it?
Right, but in almost all languages one of the possible options is chosen by default because people want "+" to do something instead of having to specify each time. My personal opinion is that "+" should trap by default and the various other behaviors that are available (which 'tialaramex lists below as examples of which Rust provides) via some other mechanism. Some languages (C, C++) do it yet another wrong way in that "+" does a thing and there is no other way to do addition, and it's even worse because they picked one of the bad ones to use as a default.
It's to prevent people from creating unlimited "anonymous" accounts. Phone numbers cost money and are, in many cases, something that can identify you if needed.
booking.com always charges me before I fly. Same with agoda and another site I’ve used which name eludes me.

Never had the option to pay at the hotel upon arrival.
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nationalized by which government?
You didn’t actually answer op’s question. What reason did they give you? What part of the TOS did they say you are violating?
Sometimes I think it's the copyright holding companies spamming downloaders with these crappy versions to gaslight them into thinking the official versions are always better.
Have you actually contacted lastpass about this?
Are you willing to relocate?
There are other options such as stopping payouts completely and holding 100% in reserve, not shutting down completely within 48 hours.
It's weird that the character 'overruns' like in a cartoon and makes control quite annoying.
I would personally prefer a stronger invariant–overflows checked in release builds as well. Compile time checks are nice in the scenarios where you can make them work, of course, but not feasible for many applications.
> Seems like places that did the worst -- outside of the first wave when nobody was prepared -- are what you'd expect: places with poor, dense populations, and worse infrastructure.

Ok, that's make sense. I'm however more concerned in understand the "aftermath" from 2020 and 2021 regarding the Media narrative. Get all this data and correlate with what was being published live in in the media. I wish we could hold all the reporters, scientists and experts accountable for the amount of misinformation that was published mainly to generate clicks, support narrative and political stances.
the absolute best fares i got were always paying in full before the actual trip. i still do this today with covid.
It was as easy to use as an official streaming service is, with integrated subtitles downloads in the background (from open subtitles), links to trailers and critics sites (it also pulled a lot of metadata from different sources).

Popular movies were always on top of the list because the default sorting was by seeders and these movies would load instantly

At the time it was the best streaming experience existing, paid or free combined.

[edit] oh and install was just dropping an all-in-one app somewhere on your computer and launch it.
Hope you get help, but I know which provider I won't be using in the future.
General question: when switching payment processors, is there some way of taking all those pre-authorized card details with you? Or is the only way to re-prompt all customers for their card details again?
Thanks! Do you think they're using models as good as the ones echelon uses at FakeYou? Maybe he can get by with less data.