skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccine also reduces the symptoms of the virus and so a carrier of the virus may seem well but actually transfer the virus to someone else as they are less likely to quarantine if they are not tested or showing symptoms.

The vaccine also gives one a sense of protection from infection and so they are more likely to attend mass gatherings. where the virus can be transferred.
Is that vaccinated in both cases or overall?
... deities. No disrespect intended.
Structural basis of Omicron neutralization by affinity-matured public antibodies
So can we just do away with the show your passports nonsense then? Think of the tax that adds up every establishment.
I don't think it's useless. I think it's a pretty good indication that there are many multiples of actual cases for every confirmed case. If covid cases have risen 5,000% in 30 days, but hospitalizations have only risen 100%, that's an extraordinarily positive outcome.
The only thing I wish to see before I die is at least a way to communicate faster than light. Something instant like quantum entanglement would be ideal or if that is too much to ask at least warp like communication.

I'm currently doing software engineering but when I retire I'll dedicate all my free time for this. If at least 1% of the population follow this route someone will come up with a solution eventually.

Imaging exploring the near galaxies with a probe that is capable of displaying real time video of whatever is out there :)
Except Java never truly threatened the Windows OS. Nathan's reply back was on point: Java expanded into some voids but didn't kill Windows.

Android beat Windows mobile because MS pissed away their advantage (they had a mobile OS before either Android or iOS but it sucked) and Windows mobile was too little, too late. Nothing to do with Java really.
Airlines really frustrate me when they behave this way, yet see no problem packing 180 people into an aluminum cylinder, as if that magically makes us all ok. I can't tell if this is just the airlines covering themselves from liability, or a vocal group within the industry demanding it.
Is it worth noting here that GPT-3 isn't a chat bot? It's intended to complete writing prompts.
The expectation seems a little harsh for the setup. GPT just generates acceptable text. You still need to model and verify object relationships, use facts from a knowledge base and discriminate the generated responses at the very minimum.

Any GPT model is just one component inside of a chatbot, not a chatbot itself.
The lesson here is not that chartered party flights are evil, but that posting about it on social media is stupid.
Mackerel may be money in prison but we’re not in prison are we? It’s broadly accepted there which is why in the context it is money. Gold is not accepted anywhere broadly and therefore not money anywhere.
They do directly compete, this s
Is why delta is shrinking in these places.
When I buy a CD or book I certainly care about lifetime performance. That's part of the problem with overloading words like "buy."
He later did the exact same thing during the Bosnian war and the Srebrenica massacre in particular (where Chomsky among other things defended a publication called "Living Marxism" which published a completely made up article alleging Western media turned a a "refugee center" into a concentration camp including faking photos including that particular photo that looked like a KZ you might remember from that war. Chomsky has defended and assumed the position of LM on this into the 2010s).

Now you might say "surely he has come to his senses", except Chomsky went on to spread lies about the Sarin gas attacks in Syria.

There's probably more.
There is a strong "inflation" of interviews. Because it's a zero sum game, people try to game it. 8 years ago I was asked 1 medium/2 easy questions, now it's 2 medium/1 hard with follow ups.

Where does it end?
Nice! I've been looking to start using Kotlin for game development, and this seems like an awesome starting point!
I think this is a great idea. I don't have much time to commit right now but I'd love to stay connected with your efforts. Do you want to put up a quick google form or similar to collect emails of people like me who are interested if you have relevant updates?
There's no reason to believe that we'll achieve herd immunity to anything beyond Omicron. There's a reason Flu vaccines are a thing you get every year, even if you've had the flu.
I think that may be a completely rational perspective from within the United States... however, from the perspective of countries with effective containment strategies, that sounds prematurely defeatist, and also ignores the vast good that comes from containing spread for mutagenic purposes.
Nah, probably sold when it got to a dollar.
In 1993-1994, BBSes started carrying GRASP and FLICK animation files. Bsically CGA, often 16-color grayscale (laptops and luggables were still mostly monochrome/grayscale) and loops a few seconds long. GIFs were around but always stills, rarely animated because JPEG was just beginning to proliferate.

I'm always surprised I don't see more pervs reminiscing about these, but maybe I'm just an edge case (pun intended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Animation_System_for_...

Some SFW(!) GRASP and FLICK examples on this Web1.0 page, but the GRASPRT.EXE in the juggler.zip is 16-bit and is looking like a journey to get running itself.

http://www.juggling.org/animations/old.html
The masking thing has a subtile but real cost. It works great, I have (apparently) high natural charisma, it allows me to mask my peculiarities somewhat easier - but at some point when I'm tired enough, or hungry enough, or stressed enough, or some combination of those thought enough, I lose that ability to mask - then all hell breaks loose.
If something's a one a million event, happening billions of times per day, it'll happen pretty much constantly.

This one, omicron, seems to mostly infect nasal passages and upper respiratory tract. The next, maybe after spending 2 years spreading across all the weasels of upper winchester county, may affect the lungs again.

This is a lottery that's less fun to play...

(edited for clarity)
Gee, 8 days is a lot, yeah that feels like worse than a flu. I hope they both feel better soon.
> wouldn’t that reduce transmission?

Lowered symptoms on droplets would be better, but a lot of in-person workplaces have a "do you have a fever?" check before they issue you any sick leave.

Not having a fever and looking like a mild cold in winter would cause at least my cousin's employer to ask her to come in and wear a mask at work (manufacturing, so she wears a P100 respirator anyway).
Added!

This reminds me I should make it more clear which one is which haha

The point being that you can have a username that is unknown to your friends on the very same platform.
Similar story - boosted mid Nov. Travelled over Christmas. Have been wearing K95 masks as properly as I can as often as I can when out in public. No real symptoms to speak of, but took a PCR just to be sure. Bing! Positive.

Not sure from where I got it, but the contagiousness of Omicron is impressive.
> i can imagine using a devalued crypto currency for things that are useful to me.

What are examples of these things?

Something which has no use other than as a token of value, once devalued, can no longer be used to exchange value. Sure, one could still transfer 100000000 whatevercoins to whoever after they are devalued, but what's the point if there is no value to them any more?

> People can use Crypto to exchange or store value bypassing dangerous intermediaries and structures of control.

EUR, USD and CNY wont suddenly lose a lot of their value overnight. They are tokens of value as well, with no use other that to exchange value between people. In that regard, they are similar to blorkchain "currencies". The difference lies in exactly these structures of control. They are regulated, and powerful actors (states) have an interest in their stability.

Its a feature, not a bug.
> Plenty of unvaccinated (the vast majority, in fact) also experience mild symptoms.

This is true of essentially all diseases except some very very rare exceptions that also tend to burn out very quickly. That's just how disease spread works, mild cases help the virus propagate. It's not like the virus is a mustache twirling villain that wants to murder you, it takes a fairly specific balance to obtain long term survival.

> It's almost like you've got an unfalsifiable way to always say "it worked!"

There's plenty of evidence to support the idea that "it works", and actually quite a lot of evidence to contradict the idea that "it doesn't work". Severe outcomes are blatantly more common, per capita, in people who are not vaccinated. The only way you get to any other conclusion is if you just plain don't trust any evidence presented, in which case there is literally nothing that is falsifiable for you and you may as well believe covid-19 is evil unicorns or something.
Yeah Prime Minister Trudeau shouldn't have even commented, it was a private flight, who cares... they weren't wearing masks it's not like they were wearing blackface, oh wait.
The recreational consumption of content of all sorts is, I suspect, at a historic high. We watch hundreds of hours of movies and limited series and shows, watch YouTube and Twitch and TikTok, and browse Facebook, Reddit, and Hacker News for hours a day. Even the most active programmer -- if they're being honest and not just preening for hopeful bosses to nod in praise -- spends a significant amount of time not programming.

Yes, most people have enormous amounts of discretionary time. Long form content has a pretty large base that enjoys the content, and it's some of the best content that appears on HN.

To condense, I find the notion that no one has time simply ludicrous. As otabdeveloper4 mention, it's remarkable how content has grown and grown rather than the opposite.

Having said that, I don't understand the site. By appearances some people post some links of some content that they enjoyed? What is there to "shut down"? Are we to believe this was some sort of business or something?
Not that I disagree with the underlying ideas, but I'd argue we're not slaves. I'll concede that in practice we can definitely be thought something more akin to peasants, but what we live in today is not slavery.

Now, is being a peasant, with all the concomitant limitations on one's livelihood any better than being a slave to the mental health of the bright and ambitious? Perhaps not, but it would be significantly more deleterious to their physical health.

I also understand that reasonable people can debate whether physical or mental health is more important.
I have a decade of writing code for various organizations and glowing recommendations from bosses and coworkers throughout that time. I don't know why a company would insist on me proving my worth in a worthless waste of time except to prove to me that the culture in the workplace is bad. I can understand it for hiring juniors or even mid-level positions thou.
Rubbermaid tub will NOT cut it for that purpose. You really need a pelican case or similar.

But... you'd be surprised, people are lazy.
The racks I've worked with have the slots labelled already, starting from 1.
Ask HN: How do you do tax planning?
About a year ago I started putting tax money into a tax account throughout the year, to avoid any surprises come tax season. This has greatly reduced my stress level when I needed to prepare and pay tax. I'd like to continue doing that.

However, one problem is I need to figure out what my tax liability is, and how much I've paid/reserved, up to the current date of the tax year. Since I do my own accounting, all I'm missing right now is plugging in the numbers into form 1040, and get a number out. Ideally I can automate this process so I don't have to fill the form twice every month. I can probably write a program or create a spreadsheet, but I'm wondering if there's an existing solution already.
Britain’s shameful slavery history matters
The DVD is $150 because it contains updates to the mapping software and the latest maps available.

Yes it’s overpriced, but it’s not $150 for a firmware update and nothing else.
The Role of Collegiality in Academic Review, Promotion, and Tenure (Preprint)
Having been on both sides of interviewing, I find that the majority of complaints about the status quo seems to come from people that haven't been involved in the interviewer side that much and consequently simply put forward their personal preference (e.g. some people downthread saying they prefer take home, and then subsequently being countered that take homes aren't ideal for various types of candidates)

No offense to anyone, but it strikes me a little bit as armchair expert hot takes saying "why not just X". Personally I think that rather than complaining about leetcode-style loops, it'd be more productive to think in terms of what the problem domain is: namely, many of these companies are typically large and want some level of standardization in the hiring process: you have to contend with things like some ethnicities being culturally prone to "hiring down" to inflate subordinate count, talk-the-talk-but-dont-walk-the-walk types, thinly disguised sexism/ageism/other biases that are excused under the "cultural fit" umbrella, mismatch in terms of desire to provide technical interviewing skills vs volume of candidates, etc. It's easy to attack any one methodology simply because if such a thing as a silver bullet existed, we'd all already be using it. All interview methodologies are flawed, and for better or worse, leetcode-style happens to predominate interview loops because it has a semblance of standardization (though ironically, IMHO a good interviewer ought to be looking between the lines more than seeking specific answers, and a lot of leetcode-style interviewers don't get that nuance)

If anything, my two cents is that leetcode ain't going anywhere, so the next best thing we should be focusing on is making it more widespread that memorization culture isn't and shouldn't be the evaluation criteria (this goes both for the interviewer and interviewee sides)
Muscle aches, chest pain, headache, and severe coughing fits that won't let her sleep and scare me when I hear them from the other room. After being awake for two days and one of them dropping her blood oxygen to 87 I made her go to the emergency room where they gave her prescription cough medicine that finally let her sleep.

Omicron is less dangerous than Delta. It's still dangerous.
An unvaccinated man with underlying health conditions died in Texas mid December after testing positive for the COVID-19 omicron variant, officials in Houston said, marking what is believed to be the first death linked to the strain in the U.S.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021122...
I'm lost on the "tooling to get it to deployment" test idea. Deployment seems both company (and industry) specific and trivially easy to learn compared to programming skills.
Short answer: because people upvote it. Long answer: because it shows the ubiquity and the power of technology in our lives. They were busted because someone had the stupidity of sharing the video on social media. They were blacklisted by other Canadian airlines flying to/from Mexico probably after the flight manifest was shared with them by Sunwing. Also, now this story is probably going to rank higher than any other press about them in Google.

I am not saying what they did is good. In fact all of the Canada, going through the brutal Omicron wave right now, is jumping on the scolding and memefication train. But this is straight up Black Mirror material.
Not ones that mutate this efficiently. Flu is the only example and we typically only manage to get high percentages of the vulnerable with it. This is what we want with these types of virus otherwise you risk Mariks scenario. (See the poultry industry issues)
I think people tend to underestimate the effort involved in curating content. Reading and assessing all of that stuff is time consuming. And there are a lot of complainers and axe-grinders out there who harass you when your curation does not exactly match their interests and values. People assume you linked to a thing because you 100% agree with it. People respond flippantly to the titles without reading the articles. People get mad because they hit a "you've read X articles" paywall. It can be a lot to deflect.

The other pain point in curation is the relentless poaching. If you find any success doing it right--by keeping tabs on creators directly--soon other lazy (often more popular) "curators" will be using your hard work as a major source of their own links, without giving any credit.
Knowledge is Bayesian, and while there is finite probability for what you said, the probabilities are very low based on real events.

Also, the premise that finance people are just naturally evil isn't based in reality, its just fetishism.
Definitely, but when almost every Java program I use has issues with performance and memory it suggests that the culture doesn’t value those things highly enough. The same is often true in the JavaScript world, which makes VSC interesting because it’s famously an outlier in the Electron world.
FWIW, the waitlist page claims that the form is private and can't be accessed.
Very nice! I did something similar with https://nightfall.city
> There is an obsession in knowledge work for productivity (output per time). The goal should be for efficiency (best output per time).

i've thought about this a lot. I wouldn't read a book about how to be more productive but i may read a book about how to be more effective.
Good feedback, I'll change it up. Since the content is being actively developed, I don't have a trailer end to end. What I can is trial period of what I have so far. I'm also open to hop on a call to answer any questions. Please reach out to me at zaid@learnly.dev
"There will still be republics and monarchies; possibly, in 2022, the Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Norwegian kings may have fallen, but for a variety of reasons, either lack of advancement or practical inconvenience, we may expect still to find kings in Sweden, Jugo-Slavia, Greece, Rumania and Great Britain."

Funny how among reasonable predictions this one is almost completely wrong, only 3/9 guessed right.
And Delta was something like 6% IIRC?
Are you in the USA? I didn't know you had curfews!?
Overall for the infected regardless of vaccine status.
I'm skeptical. The 2020 Winter wave started in October. But cases were decreasing of flat Oct. and Nov. with barely any mitigations in place. There was some sign of an increase in very late nov. and early december. Whether that is an early sign of a wave, a thanksgiving bump, or signs of Omicron spreading, it's hard to tell.

But it Florida and the South had a high degree of immunity to delta even pre omicron.
i think videos that arent about 10 minutes get downranked. thas why when you want to see which wire to connect to on your cars wiring harness you gotta learn about the whole history of the car first.

totaly sucks and something i really miss about having evwryone put these little tidbits in writing on a personal blog is that you can skim. even as annoying as recipe sites are, you can at least scroll down to the ingredients.

I absolutely hate video tutorials, it's a waste of so much time.
My favourite flaw of chatbots is exposed by ELIZA. Not chatting with ELIZA, (though, it does suffer this flaw) but using responses inspired by that program.

"Please elaborate on that" or "tell me more about [noun]" etc. Bots appear to have zero lines of short term memory, and utterly fail to pick up a reference to the thing that they just said. My favorite being

bot> [something plausibly human-sounding]

me> What do you mean by [noun in previous sentence]

bot> why are you calling me mean? That really hurts my feelings

It has been a few years, and I feel like a smart bot-writer might be able to leverage something like GPT3 to at least include a little bit more of the current transcript into the prompt to at least superficially address this gaping flaw. Have they?
"This topic is overvalued in the marketplace of ideas" is equivalent to "I don't care about this idea."

The problem with spam is that it is involuntary and fraudulent. The thing about articles on Rust is that participation is voluntary, and the claims they are only for clout are untrue, as I've argued.

I'd be curious what your answers to my thought experiments are.

ETA: I apologize for making you feel admonished, that wasn't my intention. I'm really not interested in criticizing you or anyone as people, but the behavior and the sentiment behind it. My intention wasn't to throw mud, but to hold up a mirror and show how this message is received; I did my honest best to compose a convincing counter argument, and the reaction I was going for was, "Gee, I hadn't thought of it that way", and not, "This jerk is calling me out."
Isn't it proprietary?
Eventually it’s going to do what all other viruses have done. Mutate into another flu or common cold. We already have l seasonal coronavirus outbreaks. We call it cold and flu season; except it’s numerous coronaviruses and influenza viruses and one or two “win” that year.
The Colour Maximite is a modern computer that boots into its own specially written Basic. [1]

I think using a Cortex M7 with its simpler memory model keeps it closer to the spirit of the 8 bit machines than is possible with a Cortex A series.

[1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
At which point you're back to where we are now - an issue of enforcement.

Which is what the orange jumpsuits + baloney sandwiches are for. See my other recommendations in this thread.
time limits put an upper bound on how long youre spending on it which is good for a lot of people. ive given take home tests and some people clearly put more time on it than we expected.

as an applicant, ive refused takehomes that were auto-sent on receiving the application, but if its after a phone call with the hiring manager or engineer its not so bad. but then, i did end up having to defend why i didnt do a bunch of parts ancillary to the assignment - 'why didnt you build a config loading system?' 'uh cause i timeboxed it and that gives you fairly little signal compared to the business logic'
Having worked in ML at two different companies now, I think that people interpreting model output as intelligence or understanding says much more about the people than about the model output.

We want it to be true, so we squint and connect dots and it's true.

But it isn't. It's math and tricks, and if human intelligence is truly nothing more than math and tricks, then what we have today is a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the amount of math and tricks in the average human brain, because what we have today isn't anywhere close.
Yes, COVID is finished in much the same way the Spanish flu is finished. Derivatives of it come up and smack us every winter but life goes on.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

The context of the conversation, however, was that people had children as a non intentional byproduct of having sex, which presumably people had more of due to lack of other entertainment options.

To which I thought it was noteworthy to point out that children are effectively no longer a byproduct of just having sex, especially for the demographics in which birthrates are declining. Hence, regardless of the amount of sex people are having, I would expect the birthrate to still decline.
Why not start incorporating Kotlin? It's basically what you want, is an easy transition and has JetBrains' backing so the tooling is there...
Reading articles I found on Longform used to be part of my Sunday morning ritual, the same way reading the NYT is for some people. However, at some point I found myself looking elsewhere: the quality of their selections went downhill, or rather changed focus toward politics during a time when I wanted an escape from that on a Sunday morning, so it no longer really fit my needs.