skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a policy failure. Government should've paid a parent to stay home and provide childcare for their kids until under 5s could be vaccinated, instead of what we have now, which is a broken, dysfunctional childcare system attempting to keep itself together (and failing, both due to wages being too low to make the work worthwhile, spread of COVID, etc).

I don't know how you convince anyone in the current environment to be a childcare provider or teacher, when there are robust alternative employment options available that pay more for a better work environment.
> These kinds of articles and anecdotes come up again and again

Don't articles and anecdotes also come up again and again of developers feeding bad happens to the database and cratering their performance?

And that wiki page... Very explicitly isn't a blanket ban? They straight up say that they're willing to consider the idea if somebody wants to say how to do it without the pitfalls of other systems. The only thing they say they're going to ignore outright is people thinking they should have a feature because other databases have it (which seems fair).
I am anti-military and vote to reflect that position. Last I checked, my tax dollars are still going towards the 700B+ military budget. How is this a consequence of my own voting choices?
For most of the pandemic in the US it's been about that easy, but right now specifically it's very challenging to get tests because of the Omicron surge
Software is a mess. Hardware now collecting dust.
Exactly, why is covid 19 still getting put on a pedestal? RSV is worse for kids than covid 19, yet daycare does not shutdown for 2 weeks because of RSV.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33015684/

Society's risk tolerances are being very inconsistent right now, and the only reason I can see is for political purposes (i.e. cover your ass).
The Liberal Democrats are anti-authoritarian, but our first-past-the-post elections don't give them a proportional number of seats :(

For example, they blocked the "snoopers charter" (digital economy bill) when they were in coalition; although the Conservatives, predictably, passed it after they won the following election on their own.
I worked for a payments firm that submitted transfers in bulk every day, but had a monthly surge day, and a late cut-off period to submit or cancel payments. It doesn't matter if you can do everything else in 15 minutes, if the query planner decides to take a 30-second query and turn it into a 4-hour nightmare because different customers are making different numbers of payments today, and it trips over some Postgres heuristic.

The Postgres query planner was, quite frankly, the enemy. By the time I left we were at the point that we considered it a business risk and were looking at alternatives. If you need queries to run in a predictable amount of time — forget fast, simply predictable — then Postgres is quite simply not fit for purpose.
> So there wouldn't be a need to issue 1099s when authorities can contact the bank directly.

It's so the taxpayer is aware of what to report on their taxes and is aware of what is already being communicated.

Just like a W2 employee get's a W2 so they can do their taxes. It's already been communicated to the government.

As a taxpayer in our system, these documents basically serve to say "this is what the IRS knows already. When you file your taxes, you probably want to do so in a way that they can make sense of and sufficiently validates your tax payment as accurate"
Apparently my address is marked as a business, despite specifying an apartment number like "Apt. 2". So I can't order the tests. Considering how many people are likely to have problems, I'm skeptical I'll ever receive these, but I put in a support request anyway.

I'm curious if this will be a problem with everyone that has an apartment? Or anyone who's residential address is shared with a business? If so, a lot of people won't be able to receive these tests.
I think of code as a series of nerve cells. Nerve cells have internal logic (the nucleus) and a connection to others (the axon). Nerve cells should all generally be about the same size; one being bloated is a sign of a code smell - an area that could be refactored into smaller chunks. Real nerve cells only have one axon but, in programming, a single connection to the rest of the code base just isn't always realistic. However, a spaghetti mess of interconnection within a codebase is a code smell too.
Thank you for that. It vibes with the people I know who likely caught Omicron, they all presented with sore throats.
>Why is it never a "wage shortage"

Wages don't occur in a vacuum. If people want more pay than can be made back by selling the products, then there is no job and no product.

How about instead on focusing on ensuring there are multiple companies competing for workers of every skill level (which there are), in which case the wages are likely close to what can be paid.
Both Mike and Metzen state in the own response that they didn't realize how bad it was and they only respond this way because this lawsuit got huge press.

Why is it so hard to believe that when you're running a company from above you have virtually zero knowledge of what's going on in the trenches.

And the people around you act as layers to insulate you to some extent. The only way you change that is by building trust between your peers and even if you go out to dinner together the topic of discrimination and harassment probably won't come up. Most people won't just say out loud what they think needs improvement unless you ask them.

You can fault them for not being more proactive but they most probably believed that the people they did trust to be on top of these things actually did what they said they would do.

It's the hardest thing to build and maintain a delicate culture. It takes just a few rotten eggs to ruin everything.
Interferometry isn't convex, even the kernel trick won't save you. I don't think...
Modern journalism consists of looking at today's trending topics on Twitter, then finding a few related anecdotes about it to turn into a "news" story that pushes the publication's preferred narrative. Those articles aren't false per se, but they do nothing to help readers understand what's really happening.
They wouldn't accept my .pizza e-mail address as valid though, so there's still room for improvement :)
The difference is that Sony was the original publisher behind many of the studios they have acquired. Presumably these studios wouldn't have gotten traction without Sony backing to begin with.
Not only that they've removed the page OP linked.
For comparison:

In the UK (which has lower per capita healthcare spending than the US), you can pick up 7 or 14 tests from your local library or local pharmacy, without any appointment, pre-booking or ID.

Just go here and enter your postcode:
https://maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk/
I've looked into this. Unfortunately, most commercial book printing services don't offer sufficient quality for the binding, paper quality, or image duplication. Or, some things will be good, and other things will be bad. Apple's old photo book service (discontinued 5+ years ago) had fantastic photo reproduction but the bindings were terrible.

If you are making a book for your mom, pay for the higher quality options if offered, such as hardback with a dust cover over paperback, and the heavier paper if offered.

The U.S. Library of Congress recommends acid-free paper for archival storage (https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rt/perm/pp_x1.htm...) but AFAIK this option is not available for commercial photo books.
I'm not disagreeing one iota, Australia could hardly have made a worse job of COVID than if it had deliberately tried with Victoria, NSW and the Prime Minister being the prime culprits. Reckon there's little point in regurgitating the crap all over again as we both know exactly what's happened/happening. Nevertheless, read the section of my reply to Ls15 (below) about my hapless efforts to get vaccinated (it'll be all too familiar).

I'm damn fed up with being constantly lectured at to get my booster shot and the message being made worse—rubbed in like salt in a wound—when in the next breath I'm then told that the State's vaccination centre had 50,000 spare places or whatever the number was which were not taken up—only to find that I'm still ineligible because of the ridiculous four-month rule.

Any other time a four-months interval is probably OK but not with Omicron on the loose. And having only AZ shots with Omicron about is essentially equivalent to being unvaccinated. (No doubt you've likely seen the HN story where Israel has said that with Omicron four shots doesn't seem to fully to the job.)

Stupid bastards, some of them (the decision-makers) couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag on the deck of a sinking ship. That said, many of those who are trying to pick up bits are not only working overly hard to do so, but also their situation means that they are often overly exposed to the virus. The people I really feel sorry are the overworked medical workers. I'm damn glad that I'm not in that profession.

"...summarily for 5 or 6 months out of the last 20. I'm sensing that you may be familiar with that."

Right, I do, the only effective outcome of your incarceration seems to be that you'll get into the Guinness Book of Records. Not much of a compensation is it?

Your sense is correct, I'm from the Emerald City, but it's been anything but emerald over the past year or two.
Don't say sorry, you're 100% correct. The article has the basic bias that labor supply is a right of business and anything that disrupts the supply of labor (at their collusion-rife wage depression) is the fault of the "lazy US worker".

Is there any mention of hazard pay, investing in more safety measures aside from a plexiglass screen, or anything else worker-focused?

No.

And this is NPR! NPR!!!!
Keeping things grounded, fatalities prevented by a policy are indeed lives saved.
What percentage of those paid no payroll taxes?
Sorry, I should have been more clear. In Confluence you can highlight content and create a ticket - it just prefills the title of the ticket to be the highlighted content. You still have to fill in the description. Then after pushing it to Jira there's no ongoing sync.

Fable has a true push + sync, where the live content in the editor is continuously sync'ed with Jira. This means you can keep editing product requirements in the place that your whole team lives (marketing, design, sales, of course eng) and not worry about tickets going stale
For what it's worth, I used xcloud for the first time on iOS this morning, where it runs entirely in the browser. It actually wasn't bad! I had to close out the browser entirely and reopen it to fix issues with the streaming, but once I did that it was much smoother than I anticipated, and jumping into a game was quick.

It was absolutely unplayable without a controller, mind you, but it worked.
I think it stands for "Nice, Polite Republicans"
Are you serious with that ?

Slower ? Maybe. But definitely more reliable. I definitely won't miss flash ads, Silverlight shenanigans, the latest Java security hole and browsers filled with memory leaks. Not to mention stuff like jpeg-ed text to make it "safe" from encoding errors.
USPS infrastructure has a long-standing role in civil defense. https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/postal-serv...
Kakoune is gimped by the fact that Mawww had children and cannot dedicate nearly as much time to the project as they had planned to. The idea was to have monthly releases, but that quickly fell by the wayside.

Helix is interesting, and built in LSP and Treesitter is really cool, but it feels like it's missing some of the core principles of orthogonality that Kakoune has. It has the potential to overtake Kakoune very quickly simply due to how active its community is.
I think you’re reading too much into the headline. In order for workers to call out sick they must be sick. I don’t perceive any negative connotations to the phrase “calling out sick.”

The article is about employee shortages due to sick workers. I don’t think the title is misrepresenting that.
Does every submission related to covid have to be an opening for a HNer to recount a personal anecdote about how a thing being done to try and reduce covid spread is questionable?
For low-volume use the cost is a noticeable percent. If the lost business due to not taking cards is less than what you would pay in transaction fees it's the right decision.
Tencent and Sony have investments in Epic Games, not sure if either party wants to start selling to Microsoft.
This. Plus, you can use temporary tables, which limits the amount of application code you have to write. Put your intermediate results in temp tables, and build indexes on them if you have to. It's a cheap way of forcing the optimizer to do things your way.
It means a much higher volume of change-of-address requests and mis-delivered mail.
If your device runs a somewhat modern browser and you have a reliable internet connection you can just stream from the cloud.
edit: I was mistaken, see below for corrections

~~https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/presidents_fy_2...

the military budget is 50% of the US budget for FY22
I'd like to think email, irc, and bittorrent will still be around far into the future, at least.
Strange. I filled out all my info but says tests for my address have already been ordered. Only other person that lives with me is my wife and she didn’t even know this existed.
My local libraries did that, they just couldn't keep them instock.
I can understand that people wants to get absolute control on their queries sometimes. I never used hints so I shouldn't even write this note but IMHO that page has a quite balanced view of pros and cons of existing hint systems.
I don't know about that. They gave it like four years and spent a lot of money promoting it and it was still microscopic. They could have tried other things, but if Ninja couldn't draw viewers, do you really think a bunch of obscure streamers nobody watches having drops would have made a bigger difference? At some point you have to stop throwing good money after bad.
idle power draw on desktop isn't a major concern. When people talk about power draw in a desktop context its really an indirect way to measure heat. Managing thermals at heavy load is the most important consideration. And if your chip manages to win benchmarks by creating massively more heat in the process then that is worth noting.

In laptops idle power draw and heat are far more important because they effect system endurance. In fact most gains in mobile device power management are with lowering idle consumption not load consumption.
And if you look at the list at the end of the article, X-Road isn't just Estonia anymore.
A one time grant of 4 tests for a family of 5 is better than a kick in the shins, but it's not really going to make much of a dent in the frequency that my family can test.

Also there was a lot of talk about getting these out for lower income families - guess what, they're more likely to have multiple generations living under one roof, so limiting this to 4 per house is even worse for them.
I like this idea much also I would say that Ben Eater also deserve such a prize if one will exists
That's where a fab goes to die. It needs to be fully capitalized at that point or else you don't have the money for R&D on leading edge. Intel going this direction is the direction of GloFo and no longer even attempting leading edge node production in the US anymore.
I like it. It's clean, simple, and has just enough features for most people. The pro (or wannabe pro) photo editing crowd won't like edit.photo because it doesn't do everything and more, but they're not the target audience are they?
In my state, we have a reduced "hospital capacity" because 3,000 nurses and other HCW were fired for not getting sufficiently "vaccinated". Now our governor (Inslee) is calling retired HCWs back into the workforce. Complete madness - not rooted in science, but in political science. Our country is due for a talk about natural immunity, especially when most of the people I know who've had 3 "vaccine" shots and still got covid. Are they now immune?
Peloton hires McKinsey, may cut jobs, close stores
Eggplant parmesan.
$5 domains, $70 in ethereum gas fees
It could happen with penalties.
>Why...

Because lots of people don't want to learn git. They want to bungle through it the same way they bungle through most of the software they touch. People who work with software professionally are very adept at bungling. Even through complicated professional software that other users would need training for. But git is resistant. Even rote memorization won't let you hide completely from learning git. There's a steep learning curve before you can half-ass it.

Depending on perspective this is either a damning indictment of git, or just another day at the office.

I've been helping people learn git for over a decade now. Unironically the easiest to teach are interns.
I'm happy to see representatives from both the matrix and yjs communities interact more directly.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

> an API that others can use to efficiently store shared data

What would you expect this API look like in a bit more detail? Would it be able to abstract any of the underlying CRDT logic? Would it just be a raw stream of authenticated messages with partial ordering? Something in-between?
Is that some sort of advertising? What is there to discuss?
> Tillage tractors are pretty much fendt/challenger, NH, deere, case.

Versatile is making inroads again. Starting to see quite a few of them around.
Climate scientist on how greed and politics are slowing the switch to renewables
In the US this would be a bad idea if you wanted to try to claim unemployment wages.
To add an antidotal datapoint for the UK, 23 of the 35 kids in my daughters (7yo) school year tested positive for covid since last Monday. Both teachers and their two substitutes have also tested positive. I believe we are one of the worst hit years in the school but the others aren't that far behind.

My daughter tested positive today.

I believe the majority of parents are testing their kids with LFTs daily.

Until now we had maybe had 2-3 in total all pandemic in the year group.

The good news is it doesn't seem to be affecting parents much, even siblings don't seem to be necessarily going positive.

At the rate its blowing through our school/town right now I would expect us here to be well past the worst of it in about three weeks.
Infected individuals often have a period where they are actively infecting others but not yet showing symptoms.
Very difficult from my experience. 39 drug stores within a 50 mile radius of me were sold out. Had to buy a 2 pack online for $49.
If you are interested in Debian, look at: https://mobian-project.org/

I would call it....sort of official? It isn't Debian per se, but many of the devs working on it also are working with Debian to get as much upstreamed as possible (or are affiliated with Debian proper). It also tries to use upstream Debian packages as much as possible.

I run that (and develop for it!), and I have ssh on it.
To me it implies that they're actually calling out. Prior to 'rona it was normal to get sick and still go to work in many industries.
I imagine that if Facebook tried to buy Whatsapp or Instagram toady, they would be facing a different kind of a regulatory environment. It feels like the world has only recently awakened to how Facebook just tries to buy out their competition.
Seriously. Aella is a great writer, but she's also had among the most absurdly comfortable existences I've ever heard of.
The UK sees a strategic interest in ARM
There's sort of a requirement to lie/exaggerate some of the time. Voters don't want to hear that you won't be able to pass a bunch of stuff they want, because the other party has too much power in congress.
>What's the point?

Political points, and/or plausible deniability for leaders to be able to say they did something.
To be clear, there are plenty of virus vaccines that are lifelong.

It is unfortunate that the covid mutates as fast as influenza, but it was not a given at the beginning of the pandemic. Many scientists claimed that enveloped viruses were less likely to mutate, and that the covid vaccine would likely maintain immunizing effectiveness for years.

It was a disappointing outcome, not an obvious one.
> It rather directly faces a deontology vs. consequentialism question... if two different processes (distributing changed contents directly vs. distributing patches to an end user and providing combination software) produce the exact same end results, on what basis will the law decide that one is OK and the other is not, since allowing people to distribute change lists provides an effective 100% workaround to the existing illegality of distributing changed works?

You're going about the question backwards.

If we were basing things on reasonable consequentialism, then downloading a modified version of something you already legally possess would not be a copyright violation.
I'm told that they're quite hard to find and pricing is something like $50 for two.
My post was put in earnest because I am really trying to understand, I live in an area that is pretty much of one mind and believe that the best way to try and work through some of the division we are facing in this country is to understand and listen to the perspective of others. Even if I don't agree, trying to hear the other side may make me aware of considerations and factors I was unaware of before.
I too am beginning to wonder the efficacy of the tests, which if true may point to a higher infection rate, but, possibly, a lower morbidity rate.
AFAIR in 2016 pnafrost was inexistent or in its infancy. Considering the epoch you're talking about, I think your problems were caused by software rendering.

Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKULVvGSQD8
We could have had Windows 10X as well, but apparently the new blood on WinDev has lost track of what made Windows great, and are now as headless chicken running into all directions.
in this case, the "audit" consists of an automated letter sent to their mailbox requesting additional information. It's not an IRS attorney opening their books and going line by line.
AFAIK there was a week around Christmas when the whole country was low on stock, but the situation improved rapidly after that. What's the situation now?
In which way? As far as I can see, the size of M&A activity is only increasing
You don't need a direct democracy to reflect the will of the voters.
This argument has always sounded like a strange bit of gerrymandering of identity. I suppose for some definitions of the terms you used that 'your current state' could be different from the 'you' that is deciding, but I wouldn't call any of those distinctions intuitive.
Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?
I hear what seems many a valid complaint about Google's conflicts of interest in managing Google Chrome and how it has down-stream effects on Mozilla and other web browsers. What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?