skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they do. The data still show pretty good protection against severe consequences from Omicron for boosted people, even despite the vaccines not being as amazingly effective against Omicron as they were against earlier variants. This is especially true for largely young and healthy populations such as the Stanford student body.

Some of them may still catch and spread Omicron, true. But overall far fewer will than without the three doses of vaccination, and those that do catch it will tend to have far briefer and milder symptoms than otherwise. It's still a big help to both the vaccinated/boosted students and all of their close contacts in the dense community that is a university.
Agreed. It could easily not be an either/or thing. If you look at how services are charged today they always try to extract maximal value. So I doubt that it will just be "while you're engineering my child could you please make them better in every way for no additional cost to me?" The provider will have a premium package even if it costs them more to _not_ do it for market segmentation purposes. Look at Intel disabling parts of otherwise functional CPUs for an example. Given that, if people have the choice I think they will value looks more and be more willing to pay for those so unless intelligence is actually cheaper they won't choose it.
https://www.ruiying.online/post/2021-07-02-install-and-use-e...

The byte code compiler uses gccjit to compile elisp to elf files. That, in conjunction with the use of libjansson for json handling, makes emacs substantially, noticeably faster for lsp (language server protocol, which most editors at least have support for now).

If you haven't looked at lsp yet either, I'd highly recommend it. It provides a common set of language server apis so you can have a unified completion experience between languages. I can remember all the unpleasant tricks to getting jedi mode for python, meghanada for Java, and having to memorize two totally separate apis. This is so much nicer.
Santander: Bank hands out £130m in Christmas blunder
Locks are a terrible analogy for what's going on here. This would be like the government publishing a newsletter, and then writing a bunch of teachers' social security numbers on it in invisible ink. Someone then noticed that you can still read the invisible ink, and then wrote an article about how incompetently the government managed the data.

This is a simple case of an egotistical politician who wishes he was King tussling with the media that is rightfully making him look incompetent. "Anyone who disagrees with me is a criminal" is a common pattern for wannabe dictators. Vote against him at the next opportunity.
> ever-devolving UI trends

I thought it was just lazy developers who don't want to internationalize their strings.
No need to go that far. If you allow an untrusted process to write to your memory, you've already lost. One thing I haven't seen called out yet is that there is security associated with this API call - ordinary users can only call this on processes that they own.

(And as far as the terminology, these aren't "bugs" since they aren't defects in the software.)
I think a winning play would have had to be based on some of their existing strengths rather than start something entirely green-field. For instance, there was a surprising amount of good platform technology at Yahoo! that could have gone somewhere interesting with more juice behind it. (It was managed like a means to and end, not an end in itself. This is what set companies like Google apart from Yahoo, Lycos and all the early 2000s portal companies)

I'm not sure products like Flickr was salvageable. I think I would have just starter over with more stringent technical goals to allow for more flexibility in enabling a product strategy that could remain flexible. (First, it has to be able to serve images properly - at the very least).

A winning play would have needed at least 3 if not 4 years to bear fruit as well. Without opportunists trying to force their way into a controlling position. And that wasn't going to happen.

The problem with Yang, Bartz and Semel was that none of them were the kind of people who "get it". They were not part of Internet or tech culture so they lacked all instinct. On top of that, Semel was a greedy asshole I have absolutely no sympathy for.
1.44MB?
The real genius of Idiocracy is that it realizes that the audience wants to see "ow my balls" but doesn't want to admit it. So it provides a framing where you both get to feel above it and get to indulge.
I'm not really sure anyone knows for sure with Omicron since the data is too fresh and limited. The experts claim not to be able to tell how severe Omicron is yet, so I'm not sure how'd they know boosters are effective at reducing severity.
The Japanese version says "FD" multiple times, so it really is talking about floppy disks.
The CO2 portion of your proposed solution is very difficult to calculate.

One of the things I say all the time is that reality isn't a simple single variable problem. It's a highly complex multivariate problem with hundreds to thousands of interconnected variables. Reducing reality to such things as "solar will save the planet" is simply ridiculous on the face of it.

Here's an example of that:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/off-the-chart-co2-from-cal...

And, at a global scale:

https://www.globalfiredata.org/index.html

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/natural-disasters/global...

If we look at the first article, just in CA, 25% of the emissions were due to forest fires. We could cover every roof with solar panels and build ten nuclear plants and this isn't likely to change. And, more importantly, none of that is going to make a dent on atmospheric CO2 concentration.

We know that planting massive numbers of trees can be a theoretical solution (not fast, but trees do convert CO2 into tree matter). There have been proposals about planting a trillion trees:

https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-clim...

This is where I go back to the concept of reality not being a single variable problem. You can't say "trees good; more trees; save planet". No. Can you imagine the fires that would rage if we had a trillion more trees? Just one good fire could negate decades of carbon capture or any other measure. The risk is hard to measure. If you care about CO2, massive unmanaged forests, as much as they sound great as a single variable solution, should truly scare you.

Going back to your question, when we are talking about a planetary scale problem with a baseline of somewhere around 50K years for a meaningful change we have to be careful not avoid the math that any rapid solution must solve to be valid. If humanity left the planet it would take 50K to 100K years for CO2 to drop by 100 ppm. If we want to force this change in 50 years --1000 x faster-- we are likely talking about a requirement of both energy and resources (minerals, etc.) that is exponential at a planetary level in nature. Furthermore, in trying to force a 1000x rate of change from baseline we are far more likely to kill everything on this planet than to save anyone.

I think we need to understand that we can live with these changes and simply focus on adapting to them over time. That's a far safer and healthier stance as far as I am concerned.
I'm not sure the lock analogy works at all.

The reporter asked for a page of information, it contained information that wasn't supposed to be there, and he's being blamed as if his eyes manifested it into existence.

Seems more akin to shining a UV light on a piece of paper. (Interesting how the sibling comment came to a similar example with invisible ink.)
The metaverse is for remote teams. Is Meta ready?
> "...Scientists go looking for trouble."

It is several repeated and very costly attempts that I made to do just that which leads me to give the advice I did.

The pyramid quote is an interesting one. Obviously there is a tension between being passionate about an idea/goal/cause but not being overly siloed. It seems the best-case scenario is: pick your passion, find some people who're thinking in the same general direction, and compromise the vision among yourselves.

Let's just say that the thought of solving some of the problems I'm interested in from outside academia has occurred to me. But I'm sure it's not all sunshine and rainbows on the outside, either, and moving from academia whose primary motivator is risk aversion to something like a startup is an extreme culture shock, the more so because my objective would be building something real, rather than bilking gullible VCs into an acquihire.

Really good thoughts there.
Japanese culture is very strict about being being precise and having high expectations of each other and of companies in general.

Some may not know this, but trains, and railcars in Japan are accurate _down to the second_ and if there's any deviation from that, the management company for the line will generally offer an apology to the riders.

The easiest one I could find was from 2017 where a train left the station 20s earlier than scheduled. Source: https://www.mir.co.jp/assets_rti/pdf/2017.11.14.pdf
Intent matters most. If the reporter had compiled a list of every teacher and their personal information by doing nothing more than "View Source", that would be a crime.

If a researcher breaks a few ciphers, and makes no effort to store the plaintext, and reports the flaw, that not a crime.
>> "It's got electrolytes!"

One of my favorite lines in the movie. Whenever I hear anyone talking about how they only use "good" salt ("it's got micronutrients!"), I giggle and have to bring it up.

"You should be using water" "you mean like in the toilet??"
not just problematic because of the data on them, but if they keep losing them they might also run out of floppy disks for their day to day business, since they've been out of production for a decade
Is there really nobody attempting to be the single source of truth on where you can get vaccinated?

I had the exact same experience as you, but figured I just didn't know where to look. The earliest appointments on my local government website were for weeks out. And, each pharmacy had its own booking website. Surely, there must be someone working on integrating all these fragmented schedules into a single source of truth, and they're just doing a poor job advertising their solution?
Complete opposite of my experience. You can an appointment at most cvs or Walgreens near me same day in most cases.
That's roughly true, but it's sort of a special case; as I recall it, the US Department of Defense had come to depend on Iridium and didn't want to lose service, so they facilitated the orderly bankruptcy and re-emergence of the company, in part by offering an enormous multi-year contract to the successor company.
Not up to me in many cases.
Was it really necessary to buy a GT version? If they went for the base version, they could have bought 267 cars for $11.5M…
I saw the post the other day, and immediately switched to Bitwarden. I guess I was right that LastPass isn't safe enough. Bugs are inevitable but how they spin it shows they don't want to take responsibility (what was the bug??)
That’s a bit different from my experience. Every time I became eligible, I immediately went to Walgreens website and made an appointment for that week. No hassle at all. Where do you live that it’s that difficult?
> The irrationalities of power fascinated him, but he found the irrationalities of activism exasperating. Most activists, in his experience, would launch big campaigns about big issues and do things that they guessed would be beneficial, like running television ads or sending out direct mail, but they never did the work to figure out whether what they were doing was actually changing policy.

This is the frustrating thing about any activism: it moves slowly. For someone who cannot finish projects, or needs immediate feedback, it appears to be constant failure. However, activist movements are less like drag racers (the cars ;) and more like xenon ion thrusters that NASA tested a few years back: they spew out tiny ions that individually barely move the satellite, but slowly, over time, the sheer number of the small exhalations translate to colossal speeds. The activists seem to be mired in failure, but they are slowly moving the needle.

I wonder if as he got older he would have learned discipline to stick with longer-lead feedback loops. Or maybe not, perhaps his brain wasn't wired that way.
What is the cost of storing public records versus destroying them? I'm betting there isn't really that much of a difference given the main consideration is digital, not space.
> that famous quote often attributed to Charles Bukowski: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

Isn't that a Yeats quote?
By the way, I'm not arguing for artificially controlling the birth rate or eugenics or whatever else. We need a properly-funded education system that teaches critical thinking. There is both a nature and nurture component to intelligence and related traits but we can get plenty of mileage by focusing on the nurture part.
provided that we don't get so dumb in the meanwhile that we forget how to do genetics
Family farms large are “giant farms” nowadays, at least in my area. Nobody is farming 50 acres, they all have hundreds or even thousands. You can only really be born in to it when farmland is $10,000 an acre and the equipment will run you hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

And they’re all stupidly wealthy for the amount of work they do, but that’s another matter.

Note: that’s all for crops. Raising animals seems to be another matter with plenty of smaller farms - and they do more work too.
Japanese version of the news also reports floppy discs (ロッピーディスク), what would make sense since leaked was "only" the data of 38 people.
Is there a notable difference in case loads between Socal and Norcal?

Florida seems to have done relatively well for themselves (unless you buy into conspiracy theories about misreporting case loads), but I wonder if vit D and general level of outsideness plays a big role, but it's hard to make apples to apples comparisons between Florida and e.g. New York.
The Log: What every software engineer should know (2013)
I liked this previous comment thread with a minority detractor view on Idiocracy, which argues it’s a little more dated to it’s specific Bush-era cultural milieu than everyone remembers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18489573
Will you elaborate on why it’s a travesty? Genuinely curious as a newer photographer still discovering the best online resources.
Idiocracy is in indeed the easy case. Notice there is no villain in the movie. Even the sports drink company isn't pressing hard.
Thanks, that looks impressive.

It doesn't look like it supports filtering on headers -- at least I don't see any calls to GmailMessage.getHeader(), and the only call to GmailMessage.getRawContent() appears to be in retrieving the ListID header (which Gmail's search natively supports). Looks like there's an open feature request for generalized header matching: https://github.com/ranmocy/gmail-automata/issues/36

I noticed that in the article I referenced (https://mjasion.pl/label-gitlab-notifications/) they also don't mention using getHeader and instead use getRawContent. It makes me wonder if the getHeader API was added more recently than this article and the project you mention.
In this kind of context (residential university) where you’ll have a concentrated group of people living and working together and where the consequences of an outbreak would be extremely disruptive, I think it makes perfect sense.
Vaccines aren't that great to stop the spread. We have ample evidence of the fact by looking at the winter 2021 numbers in highly vaccinated regions. They are even less effective against Omicron.

Omicron is mild anyway. Heaven forbid that students will experience a "a sore throat, runny nose and a headache":

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59768366
The scariest part is how much hasn’t changed. ;)
So throw out the other two? Or at least relegate them to deep storage?

The implications of these questions are exactly what the essay is about.
It’s interesting that you call the characters cartoonishly stupid, but another poster in this thread characterized the film as “so grounded in reality that it took very little creativity to write or think about. Making 1-to-1 comparisons of things and people”. I have not seen the film yet, so I’m a little curious how opinions could differ so widely.

Can you give an example of something from the film you thought was so cartoonishly stupid?
I meant as in any neurological impairment. Effects on cognitive functionality or memory retention. You know, the types of damage often reported over extended use of psychoactive drugs.
Autocorrect is very likely the culprit here.
Learned perl back in 2008 and I've written a gazillion lines of it ever since. This year was finally the year where it landed me my (I think!) dream job. The new work has forced me to learn:

- SQL and database integration

- Template Toolkit

- How to debug a very large and complicated web product; the dev/test/debug cycle is not like anything I've ever experienced before, writing libraries and cli applications.

- Javascript

- The concept of async programming

- That I can function together with other people at a physical workplace and that I might be better at what I do than what I've thought for these past four months since I started.
Although it's not a relational database, MUMPS is another example of a language where there is nothing special whatsoever about manipulating the database compared to manipulating the same data but stored in a variable in RAM.
Hey I’m from the UK. I’m talking about our lot just as much as anyone else’s.
The history and present of the au pair scam
Why Basic Jobs Are Better Than Basic Incomes
Art isnt meant to be reality. A lot of comments here seem to be reading its plot as if it was some kind of futuristic documentary.
> The disks "almost never broke and lost data," Yoichi Ono, who is in charge of managing public funds for Meguro ward, told the Nikkei.

This was not my experience.
In practice prints look good either way. I have noticed that the main drawback to the older lenses is the coma, not resolution. I routinely shoot manual focus Nikkors on digital bodies without significant artifacts from resolution...but astro work is far more challenging.
SF hasn’t had timely Walgreens booster appts since booster became generally available. I ended up waiting in drop in line at SFGH.
I would do this in Ansible.

I can't help you with the pretty GUI part, that's probably going to have to be written custom, no matter what you pick.
I know Don't Look Up was supposed to spur people into action, but I came away feeling hopeless, like the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
France tightens Covid rules, makes masks mandatory outdoors in Paris
Science like in peer-reviewed long term Randomized Clinical Trials? I couldn't find much, it looks like it is basically navigating from the seat of the pants and let's measure it later.
Don't EF-S lenses need to produce a smaller image in general? I always thought that if you somehow put an EF-S on a full frame sensor you would get a circle image similar to a fish eye.
My understanding as a layperson is that we're only just now (this week) entering the window for which Omicron cases should (in turns of trending with other variants) be turning into deaths.

As a result, we don't have a great deal of high-quality data on how short-term dangerous Omicron is yet, other than knowing that it's more contagious than Delta and that vaccinated (and especially boosted) individuals seem to have milder symptoms when infected.
Must just be your location. Here in suburban DC, shots are readily available at most CVS locations, Kaiser offices, and other places you’d go for flu shots.
> Why do lawmakers try to get bills through the legislature when these bills are against the constitution?

The real question is: why do political factions like to throw grenades that will just get thrown back at them?
For what it's worth, in digital communications, OFDM you could say "is designed in frequency space" and then passed through a FFT/IFFT and the output time-domain signal is what is sent over the air.
This article could have been good if it was serious, but it's presupposing you can figure out which sets will be discontinued and therefore appreciate more than an average lego set. Apply that logic to any other investment.

Anyway I would have liked to see them space and cost for storage of the sets, and time spent to acquire enough for investment purposes, and see what someone could really do if they were going to be an 'investor in legos'
I don't know how you can say this with any intellectual integrity. I suspect you either didn't read the Storms and Teacups article, or you skimmed it and recoiled at every word, refusing to consider any of his arguments in any capacity.

> It's like trying to talk about racism using only Candace Owens' talking points.

Are you so sure you aren't guilty of this yourself? How much Thomas Sowell or John McWhorter have you read?
Some of his writing in this reminds me a lot of David Foster Wallace (who is mentioned), in particular the way he is deeply concerned with seeming humble but feeling egotistical: self-consciously projecting humility but being aware of the humility as a kind of affectation in a recursive and tortuous cycle of self-awareness.
The lock analogy fails. First, the viewer was given the data. Second, obfuscation is not a lock.
> money-grabbing venue

What do you mean? The site is free to browse and what little ads there are, are unobtrusive.

Content-wise, I personally find his take of not spending time pixel-peeping refreshing, but to each their own, I guess.
It's not being polite in this instance, it's satisfying a law. We are not being "polite" to the French Canadians, the French Canadians consider themselves distinct.The Quebecers would not tolerate it any other way, and we'd go back to separatist conversations in Canada. This isn't being polite, it's politics and deep rooted societal issues (that should at some point be resolved imo, also imo, it's a total utter travesty we offer everything so strictly in French and English to preserve the culture, but screw offering it in Ojibwe for the natives, boils my blood, but that would be being polite.)
First of all: I don’t think that all accounts are affected. For example, my own account didn’t receive this message. Assuming that indeed a logging server was compromised, we don’t know under which conditions the password hash is logged. Maybe it’s only people who used the web interface to log in, or only people who changed their master password, or people who hit a particular error condition.

Second: People only notice the failed login attempts. I don’t know what exactly this attack looks like, but I doubt that the point is triggering these alerts for as many people as possible. They rather want to log in successfully, meaning without any alerts being produced. Who knows how often this happened without anybody noticing?

Finally: We only know about people who were concerned enough about these alerts to write about it on Hacker News (or in some cases Twitter). That’s a tiny fraction of all LastPass users.
I have seen this movie referenced multiple times over the last several days and all I can say is, while I understand the points that McKay is trying to make, it's not funny because it's not funny and it's hardly insightful because it totally lacks any nuance and isn't particularly original. How long ago was Stephen Colbert synonymous with "dumb conservative"?

Trying to claim that if you don't resonate with a film then you're a bad person is a mistake imo.
Vaccines.gov seems to be kept up to date for people in the US.
What religious exemption is the page referring to ? How are vaccines a religious subject ?
Nice! Great work!
I've seen tons of media coverage about oral and nasal vaccines, what are you talking about?