skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy appears to also believe that the omicron variant is not a natural mutation but a lab-made version as well.

BLAST does not contain all genetic material from all viruses or organisms in all of the natural world. There are countless (really, impossible to count) viruses of all kinds out there dancing around in the bodies of all kinds of creatures. There are literally hundreds of trillions of viruses in your body right now (not different kinds but individual viruses). Each of those hundreds of trillions of replications was an opportunity to mutate. Now multiply that by all of the individual animals human or otherwise who could harbor coronaviruses and you have many hundred billions of trillions of chances to generate the gene sequences in question. If I could get billions of trillions of lottery tickets, I'd win the lottery, and here it looks like SARS-CoV-2 won the "does a gene sequence in the virus exist in a patent by moderna" lottery.
Just a reminder: JRE is entertainment. The root problem isn’t Rogan (or hundreds of talk show hosts like him), it’s the desire to consume entertainment instead of information, and the willingness to trust entertainers instead of experts.

But while that’s a huge problem that can’t be easily solved, it’s easy to go after Rogan. After all, he started out interviewing with tons of curiosity, but since COVID/BLM/2020 election, his show has turned into an echo chamber where he willingly abandoned his curiosity and critical thinking and jumps on the bandwagon of whatever ideology he feels like promoting that week.

He was a Charlie Rose for the common man, now he’s more like a Hannity for the common man.
Having lived in LA once and escaped, I can fully support this comment with "no further explanation needed"
Sure, but that still means someone has to operate the website, and they still need to operate customer service when it doesn't work.
The question that should be asked is if the faults of the application is severe enough that its worth continuing burning fossil fuels until/if there is a new and better source of energy. That is the counter part when determining a balance between the need for strict regulation and risk assessments. The damage we know we are causing with known technology, or the damage we might cause with new technology.

We have this kind of cost-benefit assessment in other regulations. It is always a trade off between the benefit of having them vs the cost of not allowing it, be it a new food safety restrictions or building codes. A replacement for diesel generators might be worth a slightly higher risk given how much damage those fossil fuel generators do to the environment, and the global commitment to prevent climate change.
I realize you are trying to help, but I find this to be a very depressing suggestion. "Make things worse". Fortunately I do not need to care about people captured by these anti-virus cartel members so I will not do this.
The person who wrote the article is pseudonymous, so their credentials cannot be examined or questioned.
It's pretty clear that the causal explanation is the only reasonable one here. (Besides, at least for covid, not everyone who contracts the virus develops antibodies for it: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00904-21 )

There's a reason I quoted conservative estimates of long covid. The 2% is from this ONS study: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan.... The high end of estimates is 10-30%, which would mean the end of our current era of civilization.
FFmpeg 5.0
A collection of atomic, typed, tested and documented React custom hooks
I completely disagree with the examples. If I need to correct my self-driving car 20% of the time I'd rather drive myself because 1. I would not want to be semi-distracted and turn into a traffic-hazard which has been shown to be the consequence of these kinds of semi-working systems. 2. it just creates overhead for me to have to always be on alert when my car stops driving.

Same with chatbots. If the chatbot does not understand my command once, I'm already annoyed and losing time. Google's automated customer service is a notorious horror for anyone who has to deal with it.

If I had a code completion engine where a fraction of the completion is nonsense interspersed with valid results I'm losing my mind and turning it off. Which has been my experience with copilot btw.

These half-working solutions are good for exactly two things, the bottom line of companies that replace well-working but expensive human customer-service with a crappy automated solution, and frankly your bottom line because you benefit from selling these systems.
What if the cost of being in a position to access the 100k of debt is you have to pay 1k per year in additional property taxes, whether you use the debt or not. If property taxes aren't lowered to compensate for appreciated values, it starts to look bad for homeowners who live in their houses.
"People don't leave companies, they leave managers."
Present UK regs you can get out on day 5 if you do 'test to release.' Before that you are supposed to isolate at home. Though if he rented a home with a tennis court...
No generally there is no pre-payment fee. Although I'm not going to say it doesn't exist. I've only heard about it on the internet. The avg length of stay in a house is like 4-5-6 years anyway at which point you request a payoff amount and the buyers money is sent to pay off the note. You can also pay any additional principal amount you'd like and pay it off in full at any time. You can also refinance it at any time if the rate drops.
That some things are subjective does not make them without merit.
People like secret words that show they're in a certain group. It's called PLSWTSTIACG.
Verified links open directly in official apps in Android 12
I'd love to see ReFS, so I can finally deploy it for a >PB Veeam backup storages /and sleep soundly./
Because it is know that Russia looks the other way when dealing with russian ransomware gangs (as long as they don't target Russian business) and it is curiously convinient that it happens now?
> think rationally about the incentives and constraints that they face

The incentives never justify unethical behavior, ever.
Yes. Incentivising looking for other jobs instead of performing well.
Same. As an IC I like ownership. I'd be fine with most of that list assuming it was related to something I owned. I may not specifically like some task, but I'm fine doing it if it's because I'm the person responsible for something.

The biggest issue I would have with that list is the description of the scrum setup, and being directly assigned tickets. I find it more engaging if I'm given or find bigger problems to solve, completing individual tickets isn't as interesting.
The "best default" way of instantiating is

Foo foo(args);

Sometimes an object has to be on the heap as its own separate allocation (rather than on the stack or as a data member), but I notice that some new developers who come to C++ from some other language use the heap way too much.
History suggests the culprit is capitalism, not NIMBYism.

Before capitalism, peasants were unlikely to ever face homelessness, even in the span of many generations. Capitalism forced peasants off their land into cities for jobs on which they would have to depend, and this problem has never been solved. It is really incredulous to speak of it like some ornery homeowners started it.

Of course, anecdotal evidence of capitalistic societies housing its population are just that. Political economies have waxed and wained, clashing and falling, since the beginning of history. But, the problem of mass homelessness of working populations did not exist prior to capitalism, and it has become even more pronounced post-industrial revolution, and proportionally more so in the most capitalist societies.

Rent-seeking is fundamentally inhumane, but even if we were to accept the effort to blame NIMBYism, we would still be grappling with the contradiction between capitalism and the possibility of a democratic society insofar as those without a home cannot vote or reasonably be expected to make voting a priority. (even if voting were a path for political change in our society, and there is ample evidence that suggests it isn’t)

If we are in fact as modern of a society as we’d like to believe, we would have learned a thing or two about these matters by now, and it’s not clear that we have.
A book that has guided my approach (just buy an index fund) is A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel. It goes over the history of stock markets and stock picking giving evidence that very few people are going to beat the average, even those paid to do so.
You are correct. I should have stated furin cleavage sites have not been observed in another beta coronavirus. (Cold, MERS, SARS) I corrected my statement. Thank you for pointing that out.
Monitoring Startup got bought. New owner has no intentions of keeping the wheels spinning. Brain drain follows. :shrug:
Yes no encoding so unsafe to render, therefore Firefox blocked it. Wasn't implying anything else.
Here in the UK, as far as I can tell, your lender can't sell on your mortgage. It's a contract between you and them.
I wonder how many countries do allow that.
Apropos of nothing, I name all of my plants at home... my personal plants are all named after Hellenistic historical figures (Democritus, Herodotus, etc),

but when my girlfriend decided to grow an avocado tree, I named him Maximilian I....
Uh... bodycam footage is somehow different?
I think this is kind of an example of the cyncism the parent was mentioning we can't conceive of the idea of people who places a higher import upon their honor and their good name than upon their needs. It is then further pushed along by the cynical and jaded ridiculing people of principle as suckers, and to be taken advantage of.

I for one would not rob someone or still, even to save my life because my integrity is worth far more to me than that.
If they started an ML company that applied for grants and failed to supply the required information, it would be acceptable to inquire about their expertise.

Academic experience does not equal Industry experience.
> How do you motivate kids, if they rather play games rather than coding (and they even ignore in-game scripted coding such ad Minecraft or Roblox coding)?

Do such kids need to start with regular programming languages? Wouldn't visual languages be a simpler starting point for them to get motivated?
You know the wings double as fuel tanks, right?
The perfect language for Plan9
If you were so happy why did you start looking for another job? People don't leave because someone gave them an offer out of the blue. They have to start looking in the first place and whatever triggered that search is what's important.
While viruses do mutate a lot, if the sequence were that labile, then you would expect there to be a lot of divergence around the furin cleavage site. We don't really see that, so the site is stable. So, is there something special about that DNA sequence (including the synonymous wobble pairs) that make this a random walk gradient descent minimum? Or is the mutation rate lower than you think.
Brazil has a lower obesity rate and much higher fatalities. It's a multifaceted problem and I think it's irresponsible to paint this as a "if you die from COVID it's your fault because you had comorbidities". That's eugenics. If you're drunk and get into a car crash the ER is still going to treat you. It's a shame governments worried so much about messaging instead of sending free PPE and paying people + small businesses to stay home for a month or so and actually enforce it.
This is because FF is enabling better privacy controls, and so many sites these days are designed to run in pants-down mode.
Anything with lithium-ion battery can’t be shipped via air due to FAA regulations.

So, laptops and phones all travel on trains and trucks.
Will big helpful warning labels as well.
How are you calculating those odds? And then once you have calculated them, what are you using to determine your threshold for "low" odds? The odds that a bunch of atoms ended up turning into you and me and the rest of humanity are extremely low or extremely high depending on what your criteria for "low" odds are.

Given the number of bats in the world, the number of human hosts, and probably most importantly, the number of individual virions within each infected host (and therefore the number of replication cycles) is...astronomically high. There are somewhere between 1 and 100 BILLION virions of COVID in each infected person. Now imagine a few thousand bats infected...we are already talking about maybe 1 QUADRILLION different virions (1,000 trillion). It only takes one virion to incorporate some very handy and fitness-increasing HIV-1 RNA into its genome and it is off to the races.
No, times have not changed. People are still human, employee problems are the same as ever.

HR was never good at dealing with this, that’s not a new thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_L.A.
Thanks - I wasn't aware of yours, last time I looked I just found a couple of abandoned and not very user-friendly versions for AWS.

I'll take a better look at the DO version specifically as I'd like something equivalent for Vultr and Hetzner.
Me neither. If they resist like Poles did they will die like Poles. Either in Ukraine, or in Russian concentration camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre No one will help, not UN, not NATO, and especially not US.
I've always considered surgical masks to be partially pandemic theater, particularly once we discovered how aerosol driven SARS-CoV-2 is. Great for preventing the exhalation of fomites, but not particularly guaranteed at anything airborne, such as Omicron. So much air moves around the edges - There is a reason why medical professionals don't rely on unbraced Surgical Masks for personal protection in an airborne respiratory ward.

My guess, based on what we know about low-micron aerosol transmission, that anybody walking around with a valved respirator/surgical mask and infected with Omicron, is potentially infecting anyone unmasked around them.

But - with that said, I did learn from you that valved respirators aren't horrible - but I should look at someone wearing one in the same way I would look at someone with a surgical mask.

I'm also dubious as to whether N95 masks are doing as much as people think they are - breathability is key factor that needs to be considered - unless all of your inhalation and exhalation is passing through the mask, once again it's not doing/protecting what you think it is, despite how tightly fit it is, and the fact that on a NaCl 3 micron bench test it's rated at 99.9x% effective.
What is interesting is that Epstein-Barr has been reported to be related to Multiple Sclerosis since the early 1980s.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=epstein+barr+multiple+...

It is great if there is new information and if this leads to knowledge on how to reduce the chance of getting MS.
I don't see how you're going to legislate for people to weigh less
Seems like my story. Also being in a country (middle east) where you are dependent on the employment visa gives you little room to experiment or take chances. One wrong move and your life changes. You'd have to go back to your own country and start over again. Nevertheless the fault lies with me for not trying as well.
WOW. I envy your position and am happy for you. I miss that so much. Only thing keeping me around is flexible hours, but even that wears off when the meaning of my life’s work looks: purposeless.
This is great. You should consider team version where everyone shares their accomplishements and you could have a joint team accomplishements table (manager or individuals could tag some of them appropriately). I would implement this with my team immidiately.
How about not wearing plastic clothes at all?
Ah, yes, I saw that only after posting here. Thanks! :)
> are incredibly hard to weed out of a population, once it has taken root.

Is the root of this issue really "in" the population? Or is the population merely responding to a set of external circumstances?

I'm uneasy when someone says something like "weed out of a population." Many dark journeys have started with this idea.

> However, a 2 year period of cultural erosion can lead to this regression getting cemented as a modern cultural identity of non-elite US.

From my perspective, this erosion started showing itself during Occupy Wall Street. Our entire economy was set on fire and very few, if any, people were actually held responsible for that. They were bailed out, and everyone was expected to move on.

If I had a sense that something needed to be "weeded out" of my society, I know that's where I would start.
I don't think there are any Mortgage Collectors that do not allow you to send a physical check that needs to be processed. Of course they'll encourage you to set up AutoPay, bank transfers, etc, since it makes their job easier with no benefit to you (same can be said about "paperless").
There was a similar debate in the 1880s. Dr. Robert Koch claimed some diseases were caused by bacteria and developed a procedure to prove it. The germ theory of disease was controversial until then.

Its suspected several diseases without known causes may be caused by a bacterium, virus or protein. But lack the evidence to satisfy the Koch postulates. These diseases include some cancers and many human nervous system diseases.
I don't know much about this particular topic at all -- but your Ockham's razor point is a really bad one; history is replete with instances of "very simple and also correct answers/solutions/theories" that are considered quackery or wrong at the time.

If you believe in all the conspiracy theories, you're a sucker, but if you believe there are ZERO conspiracy theories, you're also a sucker.
If their house were 100B that means similar house nearby is also 100B and one still needs a place to live.
That would be iamthatis. Both on Reddit and on here apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamthatis
They are presenting verifiable evidence are they not? Why do their credentials matter outside of ad hominem attack?
Other:

Because I fucking hate the interview process. Video interview, phone screen, take home test, management interview, team interview, dozen technical interviews. It's a full-time job to look for another job. So the slightly annoying job I have is way less annoying than searching for another one.

Rant over.
if the mutation rate is that high, then why don't we see a ton of sequence variants around the wobble pairs of the furin cleavage site? (Or for any parts of the coronavirus, for that matter?)
> Trump tried to secure the capital with troops,

No he didn't. (Unless by “troops” you mean the mob that he sent to the Capitol, but that really doesn't help your case.)

> only to have Pelosi etal insert themselves into the chain of command and directly contact military leaders to block it.

That also didn't happen. (The only documented contact I am aware of between anyone in congressional leadership and anyone in the military chain of command during the event that I am aware of is between the President of the Senate—the Vice President of the United States—and the Acting Secretary of Defense, and that was requesting assistance, not giving orders, as is appropriate for someone not in the military chain of command, but no one in any position to know has even claimed anyone outside of the legal chain of command inserted themselves in the way you suggest.)

> The police/security force for the capital building itself btw is not part of the executive branch (for this exact reasoning) and answers directly to Pelosi.

No, it doesn't. Each house has its own Sergeant-At-Arms that answers to the leader of the house, and the Capitol Police answers to a Board consisting of both Sergeants-At-Arms and the Architect of the Capitol.
> The implication is that your property (aka your wealth, in whatever asset form it lives) is not yours to dispose of as you choose.

That's a bad interpretation. I said is no one should be allowed to accumulate that much wealth.
I think 2 things here: people today seem much more likely to relocate due to work and other preferences...in 2018 the median duration of holding a personal property is 13 years, hardly a lifetime. But lets say that someone buys a house and owns it for a lifetime...eventually that will be passed down to the kids or whomever, and they may want to liquidate in order to move somewhere else. Although in 2008 and also today much of what was/is happening in complete speculation, which upends the market for many people.
The poll seems to make the assumption that you're currently employed and presumably wouldn't leave until you had another offer.
I have this pet theory that CFS/ME is what a lot of long-covid patients are suffering. I knew a few people who have been affected by it, and it really limits them. Just as long-covid seems to.
> family that depends on my income to get by

I doubt they depend on your income as much as they are used to a certain type of life. Do you think your family could get by with less in exchange for a happier family member?
My impression is that a rotating wheel space station, while theoretically well within the grasp of current engineering ability, would be extremely expensive given that we've never done it before.
Sorry I mean it is unclear what the price of ownership being correct means.

Yes I absolutely agree, the greater extent "homeownership is a middle class right", the more housing price rising just is an across-the-board inflation. To the extent that the poor / non-whites are not involved, it is stealing from them.

This is why fixed asset ownership is just a rotten scheme, inflation or theft, nothing good comes from it.

"store of value" is highly overrated. Public goods and infrastructure are what materially derisks the future. Not some bidding rat race.
Right, I'm rather experienced and make many multiples of 50k/yr, so its not really a compensation thing.

It's more that it feels very ephemeral / tenuous as none of it is in an org chart or official. It is basically what problems management has to solve and what seniors are available at the moment.

I am, officially in title and org chart an IC. In reality 10-20% of my time is IC dev work. 6 months ago it was 50%, 6 months before that it was 0%.

Further it feels like too much of a time split to really get any better at any of the aspects - software dev, tech lead, product, people management of this role.

What does this look like in FAANG?
Isn't this just what Electron provides?
You're misreading the claim. It's not that they have not given any approvals, it's that those reactors did not go on to reach operating status. That means these are more likely to be business problems, not regulator problems.
No, Firefox did not block anything.

Firefox contacted the server, and the server sent back a 7–byte text/plain response containing “Blocked”. Since no encoding was specified, Firefox guesses and displays “Blocked” on the screen. Hopefully it was in an encoding you could read, but in case it shows up as mojibake or something Firefox also put a warning in the dev console. The warning isn’t for end users, it is for the developer of the site who is wondering why their site shows up as mojibake.
Possibly a co-factor, since many get EBV and few MS.
I'm absolutely god-awful at technical interviews. Avoiding many hours of tedious interview practice is the one and only thing keeping me from finding a higher paying and more satisfying job. Which is too bad, because otherwise I am a fantastic interviewee and I'm very eager to dive into a new role somewhere interesting.
Yes LA is a third world country, please leave.
Yeah but it is the domestic extremist terrorism that is the real threat to its citizen. Got it.