skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear about your troubles. Everyone is shouting in the media (including here) Omicron is upper tract instead of lower so I had hoped you wouldn't get oxygen drops that low or lung related chest pains. Maybe I misunderstood what these things mean although some renowned newspapers here explained it like that.
You realize that in the United States, the so called “freedumb idiots” are not the bulk of the unvaccinated right? And you also must realize that Omicron did not start among a population of “freedumb idiots” right?

Leave the straw man out of this, disease is not a reflection of character.
Nod - that explains why omicron grew so quickly but why, in doing so, does delta not persist?
Very cool engineering. However, it’s sad that this is the direction we are pushed towards, rather than finding ways to live with more space. We have plenty of space.
I've never had a good experience with a chatbot. They're the equivalent of waiting on hold on the telephone with your bank and the recording asking you over and over if you know that you can accomplish some simple and completely unrelated task on the web site.

It's even worse when chatbots pretend to be real people, though I've seen less of that lately.

The Apple Card chatbot is one of the worst I've used. This is an actual conversation when I tried to dispute an unknown trasnsaction (I screenshotted it for posterity):

Apple: I understand how frustrating this could be for you. I'm going to connect you with a specialist that will review your account with you and provide more specific details to resolve this inconvenience.

Apple: Hello, I will be glad to assist you with that today. Allow me a few moments to review your account.

Me: It's been 15 minutes. Are you still there?

Apple: Welcome back. Let me know how I can assist you further.

Me: What do you mean welcome back? I've been waiting for you.

Apple: Sure thing. I will be here when you get back.
Plus, to preemptively address any assumptions that Dr Jetelina may have an optimistic bias, compare her "There is good news" article from 5th January, which is based on what we now know, with her article from 26th November when Omicron (initially called "Nu") was first detected: "New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529" https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-concernin...

At the time, little was known about this new variant except that it was extremely different from all that we had seen before, which would very likely result in escape from prior immunity, and may even lead to more severe disease (or not?). The only definitive silver lining that she found at the time was that 1) the variant could be quickly detected with PCR thanks to its S-gene deletion, 2) it was detected early thanks to South Africa, and 3) vaccines could be quickly adapted if necessary, thanks to mRNA vaccine technology. However, in all other regards, the variant was still very concerning.

In other words, do take her cautious optimism seriously. She's not a wishful thinker. Rather, she is a specialist in the field who works with the data as it becomes available and knows how to interpret it
I'm not sure the distinction you are making here. A flat tax is called that because it is flat in percentage not in nominal value. Yes, debtors will benefit more than creditors, but that doesn't mean it isn't a flat tax. Also it doesn't just impact cash which should be obvious from the last sentence. If inflation decreases the real amount owed by debtors, it also decreases the real amount that is owed to creditors, and therefore decreases the value of their investments.
This seems like intentional obfuscation to make it harder for others to understand. I would stay far, far away from it.
> My kitchen is fully equipped, there's no want for tooling or space. I more or less never go grocery shopping, and when I do shop it's for whatever snacks and fruits I might want at home. Sometimes I buy bread and other things to make sandwiches, but that's maybe once every couple of months and it's the extent to which I shop for groceries.
> But when I go to my summer home on a small island with no grocery store, I cook every single day.

The incentive to cook yourself instead of ordering food is multi-factorial, but a significant part is financial. People who only cook "touristically" like you describe are people for whom daily food expenses are a rounding error, whether ordered or cooked by themselves. This could include single well compensated people or very wealthy families. This is further amplified by the fact that food consumes a smaller portion of household income than it has historically.

In contrast, when working and middle class families decide that they need to save more, the first place they usually economize is in their restaurant expenditures.
Sounds like my physics degree.
I used a PC setup with MDA and CGA back in the day. Was spiffy and seemed futuristic and powerful.

A Hercules card would be superior.

Maybe the BNC one was the Professional Graphics Adapter.

Amazingly, IBM did setup things to allow all three devices to un together and offer independent addressable displays!

Someone showed a setup like that at the Midwest retro computing show last year.
> Though culturally he was eerily correct re: State-as-family

That's not particularly surprising as it was one of the key philosophies of the age: the Russian revolution was only a few years old (and didn't spring from nowhere) while some of the competing philosophies, like anarchism and bimetallism, had burned out.
> I have plenty of real world experience.

This discussion suggests otherwise.
I will take a look for sure. I didn't knew they actually got inferno running on a browser. Probably some of you can help me understand better on how to implement certain parts of the OS.
You would need a monetizing option for RSS Feeds, but is this really something that we want?

Enjoy your new RSS Feed about Quantum Mechanics, featured by BIGCOMPANY, we sell the shitty products you like.
I assume you are typically hired through network?
>It's a negative tax on debt, which poor people tend to hold. It doesn't apply to assets.

Thank you!! This is the first time I've heard someone acknowledge this since the "inflation crisis" started. Inflation is good for student debt holders.
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There's always ng+!
This comment adds nothing to the discussion, and hackernews isn't the place for comments such as these. If you disagree with the ideas, elaborate and disect those you take issue with. Additionally, please keep the tone civil, disagreeing and adding nothing more that saying "hah" is not really the maturity level expected in debates on HN.
Pretty common in Japan too, despite all the money spent on infrastructure.
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You have to pay more for fully refundable whereas all tickets are refundable by the airline if they don't feel like holding up their end of the contract. :-)
Has anyone tried the password 1,2,3,4?
I think you will thoroughly enjoy Adam Savage's (of Mythbusters fame) recent video on measurement.

https://youtu.be/qE7dYhpI_bI
My understanding is that old school physicians (maybe about 100 years ago or more) didn't consider themselves the agent of healing, but rather, assistants in the healing process. It was a part of the care for their patients, helping them with the continued will to live. Our modern medicine with its metrics measures clinical outcomes as if consciousness plays no part in outcomes, and our healthcare policies are all formed around this.

The other questions that came to mind ... at the risk of starting up something controversial:

- How much, if any, of the covid-19 deaths are co-morbid with dysexistential syndrome?
- And how much of the perceived risks to vaccination and boosters with covid-19 lead to psychogenic death?
- How much does the will to survive play in both effects from covid-19 and taking vaccines?
Most people don’t use RSS because most people don’t prefer to consume the web that way nor that sort of content. They are scrolling social media and aggregators, not pruning their long form content subscriptions.

Even in the heyday of RSS how many of us just had an overgrown 10000+ unread RSS reader that we simply stopped using?

Promoting RSS seems backwards to me because that ship has sailed. Like promoting IRC when people have chosen solutions like Discord and then refusing to acknowledge why people prefer Discord. RSS (and IRC) didn’t just fall out of favor because people refuse to see how amazing it is nor is it just because of ads.

The answer to the post-RSS world is something more like a better, polished Fraidycat that can track content on any website. We can do better than RSS: a solution that doesn’t rely on everyone implementing it.
it's not traditional masking for me when i do this, i find it to be more of a limit to my ability to control the abuse responses I have. i'm not trying to 'pass' as a normal person, i'm trying to prevent myself from being the monster that raised me.

when i get exhausted by it, i too can crack! luckily it's gotten better, and i now just kinda sit in my abuse response. knowing that keeping my cool is the only thing that can prevent my parents generational trauma being passed on.

it's exhausting, and you're doing a great job to be able to recognize it! i too started my journey with a list of situations in which i got shitty like you have, and ended it realizing i just need those in my life to give me the same pass i give them if i regress. good luck to you on finding a solution that helps!
Google made Hangouts the default SMS client for several years and there were obvious benefits to sending Hangouts rather than SMS messages with it. Few people did.
> People have been talking about how hospitalization numbers are lagged since before Thanksgiving

People have been saying that since 2020, but if you're talking about the current variant, omicron wasn't even given the omicron designation until the day after Thanksgiving.
> Totally agreed. Lucky it’s opt-in and voluntary! You are welcome to earn and spend money in whatever currency you wish.

The environmental effects are not opt-in, they're externalized to everyone else living on the planet:

* https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
Let's take this nation wide. Why was everyone's time and interview hoops for jobs that don't pay competitive rates? Why should loyal employees stick with pay rates that are less than new hires?
Britain's shameful treatment of the Irish matters too, but I don't see the need of ruminating on it.
but it's still a plus for all the megacorps that have presence in NY, right?
Because firing people (and hiring them) is expensive, so companies are risk-averse. Combine that with many people who can talk a good game but can't actually build stuff and we get the current system we have today.

I've interviewed many senior engineers who can't code, and worked with principal engineers who can't design/lead. It's painful and hurts the whole group.

The solution is to make the process of hiring/firing "cheaper" so that companies are willing to take more risk, but I've not seen a process yet that is fair to the candidates.

If we had UBI, it would help a lot - people could quit jobs that suck, and companies could more easily hire/fire people without destroying their lives.
RSS and ATOM are completely interchangeable, the format does not matter here imo. If ATOM had completely took over and everyone used it now instead of closed platforms, I'd be happy. As it is my message would be "Use one of the two, these are the technical differences, in practice it does not matter as all readers support both".
Wouldn’t your life be worse off in general if you had to walk for those extra 90 minutes and had fewer things done? If you thought otherwise, why couldn’t you walk now, even though cars exist?
The protection of the law with the freedom to contract completely protects people from the oppression you speak of. That is why black Americans, as a demographic, saw crime rates, wages and educational attainment levels rapidly improve until 1960.

You take it as a matter of faith that a free society does not work, and the evidence shows that it does.
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C++ was quite common back in the day. Amazon began as a C++ monolith (obidos).
That paper has been widely misunderstood in these discussions. Both groups were given the same whiteboarding questions. The only difference was whether the interviewer was in the room.
Reminds me of how I used to occasionally see people on the bus shouting into their phones "OP-ER-AY-TOR!" "REP-RE-SENT-UH-TIVE!" "HUE-MAN!"
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> no set policy one way other the other

Isn't that the idea of liberty though? No central authority deciding what is a "good thing" - just keeping the peace.
Lots of people are saying it's a collective nostalgia or a blast to the past to consider using RSS. Even in my daily life I hear this from other people. It's not just nostalgia, I've been using it since my last year of high school as a gen Z. I don't see how people can repeatedly check websites or put faith in twitter or whatever non-RSS users do to get their new information. RSS is very practical, it's just a server/app repeatedly checking websites for me, in an XML document that fits a standard. Use createfeed.fivefilters.org to make given HTML conform to RSS with CSS selectors if need be. Why check websites when this app can do it for me?
I saw an interesting stat on this, in an article looking at 'which bullet caliber has the most stopping power' by looking at data from real shooting incidents (mostly police records).

If I remember right, the conclusion was that 50% of the time, it didn't matter what the caliber was. The person got hit, realized they'd been shot, thought they were supposed to fall down, and then did.

The other 50% did come down to the bullet caliber, lining up pretty much as you'd expect, along with some interesting stories of people who took mortal wounds from high-caliber rounds and kept fighting for a few minutes.
Agreed, but I also wonder whether the couple situation increases survival because they've got someone to watch their back, e.g. if one has a fall, the other is there to call for help.
I'm not trying to be mean or break any HN rules, but did you read the article? It basically covers what you asked and was quite a revelation to me. Others in here point out that GPT-3 is not a chatbot which is good info, but I also wonder if there is anything out there that can even "remember" the context of a conversation it's supposed to be having.

Particularly interesting is the question from the article, "who is the current president". Seems like a slam dunk but it could not be answered. Interestingly this is a common question paramedics will give to people who have suffered head injuries to assess consciousness.
I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but the current thinking is that new variants are most likely to evolve in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. The vaccines aren't very effective for them.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...

It's also possible for new variants to evolve in animal hosts, then spread back to humans.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/some-experts-suggest-omi...
What happens if someone responds with, "No?"
I need more food data types in my code.
I go to work while the sun has yet to rise and when I come back home the sun is already away (at the peak of the winter, the sun is gone around 4pm). If I do go out for a walk, it's behind a heavy coat, scarf and hat. Often with sunglasses to protect against snow blindness and the wind.

This means that for about half of the year, my body does not see the sun. Glass windows will prevent vitamin D production so sitting by a window during the day will not help.

Between 70% and 97% of Canadians demonstrate vitamin D insufficiency. It's also important to highlight that people with darker skin need even more sun exposure to produce vitamin D as skin pigmentation negatively influences vitamin D synthesis.

Contrary to popular belief, vitamin D is a hormone. It impacts calcium absorption, which is the most known side effect. But it's way more than that. Many of the body's process simply cannot happen properly without vitamin D and the only way to get it naturally is from the sun.

One relevant symptoms these days is a weakening of the immune system. Many studies already show that vitamin D deficiency is one of the main factor behind the severity of covid infections.

Other symptoms are bone density loss, muscle pains, cancer risks, heart disease, nerve issues, blood pressure.

Another very important issue related to vitamin D is Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is similar (but different) to clinical depression.

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Edit:

I was wondering when Vitamin D supplements and enriched milk came around, since the current conversation in the context of this 1992 event.

There's a nice goldmine of information here: https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_vitamin_D

"1930 - Drug launch: Vitamin D prodrug dihydrotachysterol is developed as a method of stabilizing the triene structure of one of the photoisomers of vitamin D. This represents the oldest vitamin D analog."

"1952 - Product launch: Synthetic vitamin D2 and D3 compounds start being produced."
i like that better than fighting with a bot to trigger an actual human getting online. However, a few short questions and connect to human sounds like a form and a submit button.
> Tell that to the numerous people who see an ad for something actually relevant to them instead of something only vaguely relevant to the site's primary audience.

You're not being subjected to some kind of torture; in fact, you are responsible for sending the HTTP request and executing it on your computer.
The rust belt solved their problems with homelessness by simply giving them a bus ticket to wherever else they wanted to go https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
I've used Atlassian's Status Page a lot and it has all the main features you'd expect from such a service.

https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage
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SA had very high numbers of previous infections, so there was a ton of pre-existing immunity.
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Even if .NET is technically a cost center, the reduced cost they get from optimizing it making things like Bing faster probably still makes it indirectly a profit center by saving them so much money.
Remember all the articles claiming covid gave you brain damage? What ever happened to that?
Most Bay Area homeless are from the Bay Area originally
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The moral trip is all yours.
Everyone in my house had COVID in September and now we all have it again. Vaccinated, boosted, prior infection - none of it matters when it comes to avoiding the virus. I think we’re at the point where the virus is part of life and the best we can do is get back to living.
I have this too.

Its weird, every time you start the car it goes back to Jan 1, 2002 5pm (my car is a 2010 element). The bug seems to effect cars with the gps navigation unit in the radio slot.

Attempts to override the time in settings show that the unit only allows you to "adjust existing time" by some number of hours or minutes. When you start the car, it seems to get the time from the gps again, so you can't just "fix" the time.

I used to work on systems that would work with GPS time and UTC time. Its always tricker than one would think..

I never realized how frequently I looked at the clock. If I get annoyed enough, my solution might be the stick on lcd clock.

https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Automotive-37003-Stick-Clock-Bla...
While the tech is constantly advancing, I have yet to use one in anger that fully solved my problem outside of giving me information that's already easy to find.

I think the only place it makes sense is in very very specific use-cases. Think about, say, a dental clinic. I would guess that if you put a human on chat support for a year in that setting, you'd see common themes emerging in customer problems. Maybe you develop a good library of canned responses and you find they work for 70 - 80% of queries, great. Then you could probably build a good chat bot to handle questions and handle cancelling/rescheduling appointments.
> some are lucky to be born in very vibrant, strong economies where things like these happen regularly.

You aren't alone. The envy is real.

And yet, some part of me strongly feels that the whole thing is flimsy - the result of economic engineering magical powers rather than hard won progress. It feels like a prosperity gospel megachurch and the altar is the Fed.

I can't really explain it well enough in my limited vocabulary.
Basically an arcade? I remember GameWorks was super fun in the 90's but they don't exist anymore
Congratulations.

Both my wife and I (double vaxxed for 5 months, not boosted yet although were just about to do so) caught Omicron-flavoured Covid in the lead-up to Christmas and it wiped us out each for 2-3 days each, with a combination of fatigue, aches, fever, and violent coughing. Certainly worse than any cold or flu we've had up until that point.

I still have a pretty nasty cough and a throat inflammation.

Aren't anecdotes fun?
One way I see it is: The software field is too lucrative of a day job for the majority of people to be motivated to work toward having a paying side project. The side project is going to be a hobby that maybe pays some small amount of money. Or the side project becomes a business. Or no side project at all.
For info:

As many websites are built by clever people and/or based on somewhat ready-made frameworks, when you DON'T see the RSS/Atom icons appear -> take a look at the source of the website and search (ctrl-f) for the word "rss" or "atom" or "xml" -> you might end up finding a surviving RSS link in there.
The amount of money that Youtube spends on content and copyright management will probably have to increase, and to be fair the cost might well be shared across the board evenly among all creators as a percentage of income. YouTube will also have to adjust its spending, the creators can't/won't bear all the cost.

That may mean that the present business model of YouTube isn't viable. If not enough revenue comes in to pay for managing copyrights, providing hosting, corporate management, marketing, etc then a new business model may be needed.

Or whether YouTube exists or not as a business may become a philosophical question - is it better to have a YouTube that is inherently unfair and suppresses small creators or to have no YouTube at all?

Personally, I think video hosting is the sort of thing that should be done by an NGO or non profit - one that has defined processes for fairness and transparency and which is required to be equitable to all instead of playing corporate favorites. Kind of like a PBS for the Internet.
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Thanks for the kind words!

I wouldn't consider it poaching for content I curate to appear here; to the contrary, I sometimes share relevant links on HN myself. I am mostly put off by sites that claim to be hand curated by a few people, and then a significant fraction of their links are clearly based on my efforts. I don't want to name names, but there was a very popular curated site/newsletter that was leaning heavily on my work for a few years. Fortunately someone there seems to have realized it was uncool, and they backed off.

Edit: To be clear, here I am discussing my site's curation of third-party links. We also create our own content, but I don't share those articles on HN myself, I would consider that gross.
> paper mache furniture

Wait till you find out what that Ikea crap is made of. :)
It doesn't benefit you. It might benefit them though. The "feeding the family" is speculation.