skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from ex-smoker. I think some people drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes to do something with their hands. For me quitting smoking was really hard but one technique I did was to replace it with coffee. So whenever my coworkers would go downstairs to smoke, I would get a fresh cup of coffee and join them. It felt natural and I was able to hangout with my friends.

I have been to parties where someone brought a bottle of some health drink like kombucha. A lot of bars also make fancy virgin drinks. You can also get non-alcoholic beers.

As for non-alcoholic fun:

1. You can join or start a running club. After running we used to hangout in a pub. A few people drank, most just ate food.

2. Join rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, stand up paddle, or other such groups. In my experience though, drinking is big in such groups but they don't pressure anyone.

3. Food/restaurants instead of bars. Drinkers can still drink and non-drinkers can enjoy food.

4. Dog parks. There are some fun dog parks with restaurants, coffeeshops, and bars. Everytime I take my dog there, I meet new people.

5. Coffee shops. For more low key fun especially if you are bored at home. I had a few coffee shops that were my homebase. There were other regulars, and it was easy to start conversation with them.

Now that I have kids, we just hang out in parks or town center/shopping center areas. They usually have an area where kids can run around. A lot of parents grab a drink or coffee while they hangout with adults. I see a lot of young people hanging out there too.
Old man yelling at clouds
My understanding is, there's a fair few people at hospital with "bad Covid" who aren't in Intensive Care. For example, if you have steroids and Remdesivir given to you, you already need to be hospitalised.

So there's at least three categories: people with really bad Covid, people with Covid bad enough they can't be at home, but not (at the time) awful, and people who don't suffer with Covid at all but could infect others, and something else is wrong with them.

I think they are all challenging to the healthcare system in different ways. Ultimately, if you project a complex situation onto R^1, it can't be too accurate.
woah, some of those are quite ugly, lol. Thank you, bookmarked
>Or am I missing something?

The possibility that a new variant arises that substantially evades both Delta and Omicron immunity.

But it will probably turn endemic after this. There won't be any virgin hosts anymore.
It’s just politicians trying to save face at this point. Trillions of dollars lost and total debasement of western currencies was all to arrive at the natural solution to a virus that was destined to become endemic from the very start: let it play out.

Two administrations, one from both parties. Same fed chair. Same people at the CDC and WHO. It’s not partisan. It’s institutional failure.
I honestly haven’t watched the rest of the channel, but the house tour of Binging with Babish’s home tour seems to fit what your looking for. Since the channel is named something to do with architecture all their tours might focus on the design and not the expense of it all.

https://youtu.be/ua0-5FZ2Eww
Or crabs. Not me, a buddy of mine.
Yes it is now endemic.
Where I work our team gets to review applications (pre-filtered) for candidates we are interested in. Those candidates are then given a general technical exercise. We get to review the results and ask follow up questions, but we basically get zero input into what kinds of questions are asked. I could 100% see a scenario where the people who manage the recruitment process replace that general exercise with some third-party online solution like hacker rank or whatever.
Yup!

I think the fact that the idea has been tried so many times though, its doomed to succeed one day ;)
There's no doubt of the value it would it would bring if it did take off; usually though after a spectacular release it just dies.

Moderation, timing, and marketing/presentation are the main ones that I can think of based on the predecessors that I have seen (Dissenter, Relay Chat, hypothes.is, etc). I'd love to hear your takes on what other reasons could be or what the biggest ones are.

I actually haven't heard of web tribes though, so I'll read up on it.
Right, but collectors don't play the limited edition vinyl pressing, or read the first-edition hardcover either. They "buy" it to "own" it.

You consume the more convenient/less valuable copies. The usage is commoditized, but the possession is exclusive.
A relevant read is "The Molecule of More ...", which explored the function of Dopamine in great detail

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38728977
No. Yes, he is generally what I would consider "anti-US" but Media Bias Fact Check reports no failed fact check in last 5 years. Also, before people label him as "left-wing", he was a very strong supporter of Kyle Rittenhouse from the beginning (even supposedly good sources like The Intercept lamented the acquittal). I have linked to his article on the day of the verdict below.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/11/kyle-rittenhouse-is-no...
You might make some valid points, but it's really hard to see them when you don't cite sources, and when you deliberately use inflammatory language like "cronies" - and that's against the spirit of HN anyway.
My 2016 XPS 13 had all sorts of issues that really soured me on the brand. USB C port didn't work half the time (and when it did, it only worked in Windows, not Linux), trackpad stopped clicking, insane amounts of coil whine, and the only thing that made me finally buy a new laptop was the RAM went bad shortly after the warranty expired. My next laptop, a 2017 MacBook Pro, had all the usual faults, but I ended up liking it enough to keep buying Macs...
How is this a failure? They are evolving with the times. Longform served their users with article recommendations for nearly 12 years, but times have changed. Services like Instapaper, Pocket, etc. are no longer popular, and so they’re focusing on podcasting — which is basically the future of longform journalism. Kudos to them.
How much equity expect people in exchange for buying the domain name? Are you verifying they are accredited investors?
A house has intrinsic value. People can live in a house, store things there, or rent it out. Its value was not put into the system, it simply exists, period. Even if the market crashes, a house is still useful and can appreciate again. Its market-value is dependent on both demand and usefulness. The second variable doesn't change.

Blorkchain "currencies" have no intrinsic value, because they have no other use than as tokens. Their market-value depends entirely on the market, entirely on the money pumped into the system.

In a way, blorkchain coins are a bit like overvalued stocks, the difference is, there is not even a company behind it, there is only the market evaluation.
No, you miss the point: what is the difference between a hobby and a job? You are doing something either way. I'm not the only person who likes my job. I'm not the only person with a hobby that sometimes gets frustrated with something in the hobby.
It doesn’t matter what the intent of the law was, effectively it created a worse experience for everyone.
Remember that the GP was about Bitcoin, not crypto as a concept. Most of the 'being worked ons' there don't apply, and in many cases, the community is hostile to things that may solve the problems (e.g. the debate/debacle around the block size limit) for selfish reasons.

Ether's ecosystem is a lot more promising, but still has a ton of rockiness. More specifically, I'm not confident in the core usability problems being UX implementation details. People don't want to have to think this much when making mundane purchases.

Also, I'd argue just being as good as the existing systems is mere table stakes. It needs to be better (outside of being a speculation vehicle). That is one I truly don't see happening. The anonymity/uncensorability benefits are questionable, the valuation problem appears to rely exclusively on fickle market whims or corrupt centralized entities, lack of refundability is an anti-feature for the mass market (and only solvable with centralized middlemen, which obviates half the reason to be using a crypto in the first place!)
You're welcome to demonstrate that I'm wrong, but in my experience, Uncle Bobbing this type of code doesn't make it much clearer unless you introduce so many abstractions you see significant penalties.

This is hot code with an invocation count in the billions, so among the requirements is that it shouldn't allocate objects while at the same time being thread safe. That's a tricky combo.
Thanks! Checking it out
In prison, a prisoner may trade packs of cigarettes and ramen noodles for favours. Those "commodities" to us on the outside, become "currency" to them, a medium of exchange; money.

So while it seems strange to refer to ramen noodles as money in some contexts, and especially from the outside, the economic behavioural context allows us to attribute monetary function to this commodity, and allows us to say it is being used as a money.

When I'm talking about crypto/bitcoin/money, I am using a global trade and historical context, the macro concept of money outside of any single government, currency, or system. I am using money in an economic behavioural concept; something people use to trade and save with.

I understand you're not willing to accept or trade with Bitcoin, which is why it is not money to you.

But there are those that do accept it, and every year the numbers grow. Thus it is already money, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes de facto "money"
No, the comment indicator would be the missing feature. But personally I would very happily skip that feature for the huge security and privacy advantage.

You could display the comments in-site but then you are bringing back all of the security and privacy concerns. (I guess you could have some middle-ground if the code to add the iframe is trivially simple?)
If I’m not mistaken they didn’t honor their email “unsubscribe”. I unsubscribed several times only to continue receiving their newsletters :-(
Wasn't the point of Dr. Strangelove a warning against excessive worrying about a theoretical future viz a viz the mine shaft gap?
A Transistor-Like Device for Light
Thinking about this from first principles;
1. Is there any evidence that leetcode style process is better at identifying better candidates than picking names from a hat?

2. Wouldn't copying FAANG hiring practices (if you are not FAANG) ensure that you will always get their "rejects"? Where you will always have an inferior talent?
AMOS BASIC would be the best choice surely?
I've been watching over both my parents the past week. Both Omicron cases.

"Very mild" is... not accurate. It hasn't hospitalized them, but even without quarantining, they'd be incapable of living anything like a normal life.

The common cold it most certainly IS NOT.

(Both are double vaxxed and boosted, btw)
It’s not a matter of taste. Websites with popups have worse user experience than websites that don’t have them.
Is the concept of a probation period not universal? I mean if a new hire is terrible, it will show in the first 2-3 months, and during this period they can be fired without any repercussion whatsoever.
I could be wrong but I infered on your other response you're ok with people keeping the fruits of their labor. If you're ok with them trading those fruits I'd call you a capitalist, not a socialist. Some of those fruits and some of those trades may be means of production, like a drill press or factory floor or whatever. Unless of course you're strong arming someone with violence to hand over some of those fruits.

I'm ok with socialism when it's done consensually. If a bunch of people want to go live on a commune, more power to them. It's when you come for the equipment and capital I use to manufacture things and feed my family, is when you're gonna start needing the commune comrades to enact violence if you want to steal that from me. And to do that seems.... coercive and non-anarchistic.
>Surely this is the end of the pandemic?

Yes, welcome to the endemic. Covid is here to stay, it doesn't matter if 100% of the world were vaccinated tommrow, covid would not go away. It doesn't matter if you get the vaccination or not, in your life time you WILL get covid (just like the flu, no one escapes it, you typically get the flu about every decade or so regardless of shots).

We need to just accept this and move back to "old normal".
You can buy goods from Amazon with crypto without even having an Amazon account.[0] You are coming off as a motivated detractor, but I don’t find your points timely. They are like 10 years out of date. Crypto works for many real world use cases. You may not know this or agree, but it’s the lived reality of others in this thread.

[0] https://purse.io
Covid has a death rate hundreds of times higher than a cold. Colds don't make healthy women in their twenties stay up all night coughing so hard their oxygen dips into the 80s. Colds don't cause lung, heart, and cognitive damage that is potentially cumulative.

If covid brain fog compounds over time there will be some serious damn consequences.
If I start a side project, I find myself wanting to work on it instead of my daily job. But if I make the project my daily job, I want to work on something else. So no side projects for me, please. And I know plenty of other people who function like that.

Also, if you work hard on your job/project/startup for 7-8-9-10 hours a day, that's probably already past the point of diminishing returns.
For those like me that know little about the placebo effect, there's a nice episode[1] of the On Being by Krista Tippett podcast where she interviewed Erik Vance on the subject. His book is also very interesting for the uninitiated[2].

[1] https://onbeing.org/programs/erik-vance-the-drugs-inside-you...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32944584-suggestible-you
> Fully vaccinated and boosted three weeks ago, caught it anyway.

Vaccines do not prevent contagion but reduce the chances of severe symptoms.

Also AFAIK vaccines do not lower transmission either.
Fortunately it's not an either/or choice. Python is easier to write, but JVM applications are significantly easier to distribute cross-platform. When you publish a Python game, compiling it to a JAR with Jython is far easier than figuring out x86 and ARM builds for Windows/Linux/macOS.
I can securely transfer monetary assets from one bank account to another as well, and be sure that said assets won't lose a lot of their value overnight because of some tweet.
There is an attack whereby if someone can record audio of you typing your password, they can get information helpful to cracking your password.
also in colorado. currently have O. the + tests from our (previously very cautious) friend groups are coming in rapidly. i was boosted in mid-novemeber. _physical_ symptoms feel like a bad cold (cough, congested head, sinus headaches) though i'm afebrile. the mental symptoms are definitely different/stronger. sleeplessness. auditory hallucinations. i'd say mental fog but i can't say that's not related to the sleeplessness.
IRC does this for you, if you put "/me" into an utterance.

[Edit] Several other chat services copy that behaviour.
This a parallel and independent ecosystem for numerical computing with equivalent libraries:

* pandas - explorer

* numpy - nx

* statsmodel - Not sure this exists yet

The article answers this pretty well.

However, our goals are also to:

* make Elixir a suitable platform for new Machine Learning developments

* fully leverage the power provided by the platform Elixir runs on, the Erlang VM

* provide consistency and stability, especially when working on a domain that is still actively evolving

For those reasons, we chose to invest on Nx as its own foundation, agnostic to any particular framework. The road is definitely longer but we also believe the pay-off will be higher too!
I vaguely remember going through a bunch of 5 1/4 floppies my dad had with our IBM PCjr and finding porn on them. That was the only computer we had with that kind of drive. Yeah you needed to go through two layers of DOS boot disks to get at em but there was nude lady pics.
I think hypothes.is has pulled it off the best so far!

It's just presentation-wise they've gone for academia and also not put much effort into aggregation
I made https://blogdb.org/ to collect blogs from around the Internet, it gets an RSS feed of the blogs. I posted a Show HN about it yesterday that didn't get much traction.

The code is all open source, at https://github.com/symkat/BlogDB/ and I wrote an article on my own blog about initially writing the software from design to deployment: https://modfoss.com/building-blogdb.html
Until iPhone, Java on Linux was the standard for smartphones. Was that Java Micro editon? I think the handset makers actually licensed Java/JDK/JVM, not sure it cost money or control or what.

Without cloning the language, Alphabet would never have been able to standardize non-Apple phones under one advertising platform.
I agree. We are planning to launch a free edition with limited size and data retention. For users to try / play with before paying. It is in the works and we hope to have this out in the next few months.

We are also thinking about launching trials too.
If you have a systemic issue you can’t blame the issue, you blame the root cause. Here the root cause for all the popups is the law. Amend the law.
Sounds mostly right...
No, it's correct advice. I don't know how old you are, bu there's nothing hugely unconditional about keeping friends. Moving on from friends is a standard part of adulthood, and what OP describes sounds like such an occasion.
Head down to LA where you can navigate around human poop on the walk of fame. America is a wild place.
atoi and Trillions of Whales
Also in Vancouver and similar numbers. I know at least 10 people who currently have COVID, including myself and my partner.

It's not mild for all. Two people in particular have been brutally sick for over a week. One spent three days in a self-described "fever dream".

I actually don't know whether I have it, since I'm asymptomatic and can't get a test. But the four other people at my dinner party all got symptoms and two tested positive.
Literally everyone in these comments has an anecdote, but I remain skeptical. The jump from reduced-dopamine-production to heart-stops-beating is a little hand-wavy.

What is the concrete mechanism? For instance in the opening anecdote in the article, what did the girl die of?

Also I’m put off by statements like “this ability to construct a meaningful (or even possible) path into the future is related to our dopamine circuits”. This has the patina of science, but “is related to” is pretty nebulous and “dopamine circuits” are constructs of the scientists model rather than physical processes in the brain.
Can't say that 'it is the end' yet - but given that pandemics end when there is no more 'room' for the virus to move through naive hosts (places to infect). The fact that Omicron is SO contagious means it will effectively find any pockets of 'fuel' in the adult human population in the coming weeks and months. Everyone will be exposed.

It is probably more accurate to say it is the likely start of the transition between 'pandemic' and 'endemic' phase. We say endemic as it LOOKS like the gap between coronavirus immunity length to viral instability (number of changes) is longer than for influenza. (T-cell response still very strong, original SARS patients almost 2 decades later have cross immunity to SARS-Cov-2, Omicron immunity effective against delta, etc) That said - it is VERY unlikely to be eradicable at this point due to its ability to infect so many different species and circulate and breed in the wild (more so than even influenza).

So new variants down the line in the coming years/decades is more likely (not different than swine flu, bird flu, etc pandemic risks in the recent past). But, if longer term immunity holds up - none of these will have anywhere near the impact given the absence of billions of naive hosts to burn through.

So if we call the transition from pandemic to endemic the end (likely, yes) - then probably.
This doesn't make any sense, unless the variants directly compete against each other. But what we've seen with Omicron is that it can infect someone who just had Delta. So if there's a mutation that can infect someone that had Omicron, but is more severe that mutation can flourish, even if it is less transmissible than Omicron. It just flourishes in parallel.
The Solvespace project might like to look at joining CAX-IF [1], there are recommended practice documents and testcases that may make interoperability easier.

[1] https://www.cax-if.org/index.php
Multi-device [1] which is now in beta lets you use WhatsApp on the web without the phone connection.

[1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/download-and-installation/a...
Use of the idea that now is an opportunity to be seized I think dictates that it's a desire
The images passed around were her and her boyfriend eating ice cream out in the open. Regardless I feel it's naive to think that the politicians on only one side of the aisle are so fundamentally different that they don't have the same casual disregard for laws that they don't agree with that most Americans have.
What if I only accept stable coin?
I assume you are referring to the "There is no federal solution to covid" quote. But it was in the context of talking to state governors and Biden saying a federal plan wasn't being forced on them -- that the primary work is done at the state level and the federal level is there to support it.

https://api.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/05/save-ameri...
It honestly is such a small overblown issue
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There is at least one spot in the Gallic Wars where Caesar refers to himself with the first person pronoun. It really caught my attention.
Entering existing markets is not easy at all if the newcomers don't have significant advantages.
Do we know if a previous omicron infection helps confer immunity to future omicron infections?
FWIW, there is no ".NET Core" anymore. Now its all just ".NET", whether or not you're running it on Windows or Linux. Theoretically its all just the same from the application's perspective, there's no separate toolchain or library.
I mean, it's a rational position to want to defend the business you created or the market share you carved out. Every business has to do this to survive. The only problem is when a business resorts to unethical tactics.

Gates seemed to go through a bit of a transition sometime after this (perhaps after the antitrust case), where he seemingly lost his uber competitiveness and then stepped down from CEO position.