skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you vaccinate your kid he will still get it and spread it. I don't understand why this fact is just ignored by people. The vaccine is not sterilizing, it does not stop transmission, only lessens disease severity. The chain of transmissions will only be broken by natural immunity unfortunately.
Why Hackers love the movie “Hackers” (2017)
Those "stupid things" are often things you reminisce about with friends many years laters. Engaging in a bit of reckless abandon together makes you closer to people.
Because many people they knew didn't wash safely back on the shores.
1.) Tether and Binance have nothing to do with each other.
2.) The author correlates that Tether's market cap rose only because of Binance futures. Binance was a contributing factor, but it wasn't the only one. Tether was/is available on all exchanges as default stablecoin. All big exchages in 2018/19/20 used to only have USDT and still largely have. Recently more have startd popping up like USDC, BUSD, Pax, GUSD etc.
3.) Though, I might be wrong here.
Right. "Just learn k8s, bruh." It's like ok, maybe, but if the problem isn't so much a lack of work then you're really juat apinning your wheels learning for the sake of it.

Another issue is evaluating whether the juice is worth the squeeze. It's easy to say "learn a new skill bruh", but what happens when you spend the time learning something, you get hired at a new job relevant to that skill only to run into your original problem all over again? The risk of that is significant, and in the world of tech it's extremely difficult to know what a position at a company is really like because so many of us are kissing ass, and we are avoidant of any real criticism or confrontation.

None of the argumenta here are necessarily wrong, but speaking as if there are clear solutions that those complaining aren't seeing and calling this a first world problem is pretty dismissive.
Isn’t Golub and Van Loan more of a reference book? I think it would be pretty rough as an introduction to linear algebra.
It really depends on the subject. 1+1=2 according to the rules of arithmetic.
By telling them the president has lost his patience like a grumpy pater familias scolding children. That’s paternalism right there.

If the self righteous cared about peoples lives instead of pushing people with relatively lower risk to get a vaccine they would have sent those vaccines to the third world to vaccinate the vulnerable there.

Instead the WHO complained in early 2021 that we gave our vulnerable a double dose

In the summer of 2021 WHO complained when we vaccinating our healthy young

In the fall of 2021, the WHO was shocked when we rolled out boosters

By now, the WHO has given up complaining about booster boosters. Instead its become evident that the people working relentlessly to vaccinate everyone are driven by fear of, not concern for, their neighbor
He's one if the few big managers that managed to dodge the 1989 Japan bubble, the 2000 tech bubble and the 2008 housing bubble while still making money.

Mean reversion is a powerful force.
"Why don't you just not be sad?"
I was also sucked into Elm in 2015]/2016 and found it great in some ways but broken in others. If I were to start a new project and wanted that kind of front-end, I'd use Mint: https://www.mint-lang.com/
> If anything, Catalan is a dialect of Valencian since Valencian precedes Catalan. Source: look it up.

I had a quick look around, and most sources seem to disagree with you, with the first records of Valencian coming from circa 1350 [0] and Catalan starting around 300 years before [1].

If you have any authoritative sources to back that claim up, I'd be interested in seeing them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_language#Authors_and...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language#Middle_Ages
To add a fun story where Linux saved my live. Back in the 90‘ we had a Clipper / dBASE based DOS app used for capturing orders in a call center after TV commercials. In this case a prime TV show to generate donations. Full house with >100 agents busy. Then the Novell Netware server crashed, and was unable to mount the disks.

We managed to switch the users to an older server so they could continue to work.
But it first seemed the HDD and files got corrupted and unrecoverable by disk tools from Netware. We thought of using a commercial recovery service, but this would cause delay and cost $$$$.

So I removed the disks from Netware, fired up a Linux PC, connected the HDD to the Adaptec SCSI (Luckily install prior for a CD drive).
The file system was not mountable, but something like dd /dev/sdb1 |strings „JJJJMMDD“ discovered lots of salvage records.

This literally saved my ass and the company.
The ICUs are full. Millions have died. Millions more have long covid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
What?

There was no attempt to replace Objective-C with Java on OS X.

Apple was unsure if the strange look from Objective-C would ever appeal to the Object Pascal/C++ communities of Apple developers, thus they used Java wave as plan B, in case Objective-C was rejected by them.

As this did not happen, there was no reason to keep plan B around.
I was vaccinated. Almost everyone will catch Omicron.
The grass is always greener on the other side. I'm sure more solitary individuals will regret not being more socially active and having fun. On the other side though, you will also definitely regret partying too much if it impacts your life outside of it. I would guess that moderation is key and not being too far on one side or the other could optimize for happiness (but it's a guess.. I was too far on the partying side of the spectrum for a good portion of my life and then I over corrected to the other end.. so there are regrets on both ends).
> this is what's wrong with the internet today.

This is what's RIGHT about the internet today! Anyone can create a website and put whatever they want on it. You may have a specific vision for what makes a "good" website, but you don't get to control what other people post. If you don't like it, ignore it! The internet isn't meant to be a homogenous bulletin board, it's meant to be a way for everyone to share whatever information they want to.
Spain plans to treat covid as endemic after 6th (current) wave is over, and it's already peaked. Rolling out vaccines and paxlovid is a 'science win'.
He also missed out big time on tech companies’ growth after 2008, and made some bad investments in IBM and Kraft Heinz. Seems like the biggest thing propping up BRK returns is AAPL, which is currently 25% of BRK (by market cap).
Time will tell, but I'm not convinced! One third of our employees are parents.

Money isn't everything and there are more ways to be family friendly than offering the highest salary. For example, we offer 1 month of paid parental leave (at 75% salary) for all genders.

We're possibly the smallest startup in the world to offer something like this. But I think it's morally correct, not damaging from a business perspective (employees aren't focused on work anyway with a new child), and it certainly helps us compete with companies that are much bigger and even give higher compensation.

*Depending on your country and your gender, you might get better benefits for a longer period of time. This is the minimum you'll get (at our expense)
Working in a bar is a great way to understand how annoying drunk people are.
In autovectorized loops, the generated code typically needs length checks (or static length proofs) to handle tails of vectors. But yes there are still cases where the cost can be measurable.
Here in the UK all too many of them taste like Horlicks (i.e., very malty), but I'd recommend Adnams Ghost Ship alcohol free[0]. There are one or two others that are palatable, but I'm struggling to remember their names: I had one last Friday that I thought was good so if I remember I'll post the name here.

One slightly annoying side effect is that I find non-alcoholic beers tend to make me very bloated/gassy/windy. I do not love this, and I don't get this problem with alcoholic beers, or at least nowhere near as badly.

(Btw, I will say in my group of friends, nobody seriously questions it if somebody is choosing not to drink alcohol, even though many of us do. Still, even amongst the drinkers, there are plenty of occasions where they might choose non-alcoholic options.)

[0] Which is actually 0.5% abv, I think, but I worked out you'd have to drink 15 or 20 pints of it in a fairly short period of time to be over the limit for driving which... well, it's not at all feasible for me.
STK is cool! I'm building a synth plugin, so that's why I'm in JUCE...

I want to hear more about the remote visualizer! I was using Jim Credland's buffer debugger (again, JUCE)[1]. It pops open a window, making it fairly easy to visualize buffers with one caveat: you actually have to tell it about the buffers you care about visualizing and then recompile. This means debugging can't really be on the fly (unless you only always care about the same buffer or two).

The other issue I ran into was viewing audio from my tests. I'd love to hear about the shared memory approach — real waveforms would be ideal!

1. https://github.com/jcredland/juce-toys/blob/master/jcf_debug...
I've found it so much easier to make a life changes for health reasons than for other reasons.

I think you chose the right reason to quit drinking, for health reasons.

Take one look at acetaldehyde to see what you've saved yourself from. Alcohol is a systemic poison. It affects every part of the human body in very dramatic ways.
I'm in the US and have gotten Xanax a few times from my doc. Xanax has nothing to do with opioids. For that matter I have had no problem getting opioids when they were indicated (from the Emergency room physicians after getting an acute injury.)

(The combination of BZs and Opioids is not always dangerous in people who are experienced with the drugs, but can be a dangerous mixer for people who don't have tolerance.)
source for your claims, please.
> Queen Elizabeth ... has never granted an interview.

I or II?
Nystromformer: A Nystrom-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention
If you marry somebody who doesn't drink alcohol then that helps immensely.
The clinical trials for Pfizer and Moderna were testing for severe outcomes, not transmission. The vaccines got emergency use authorization based on that.

Some non-clinical studies suggested a drop in transmission (e.g. CDC study in spring 2021 which examined healthcare workers who got the jab early and were tested weekly), but it's clear now they were just picking up a transient effect, months long but wearing off thereafter.

So the mRNA vaccines are doing exactly what they were trialled to do 1.5 years ago. What your local politicians and public health authorities misunderstood from that is their problem.
If I have inflation fears, and I think we are in a stock bubble, where should I put my money. It seems like whatever you do there's more risk now than in the past.

I'm genuinely asking. It seems like I'm being forced to make bets more so than 10 years ago.
It depends. I just asked and he gave me 90 days be plus multiple refills

While people react differently Xanax scared the shit out of me. I would never touch the stuff again. I have a friend who got off Xanax and also heroin...Xanax was way harder to abstain from

It is noteworthy though to not buy them on the darkweb. Fentanyl is now tainting that stuff
Have you? You’re just regurgitating right-wing talking points, conspicuously short on sources or demonstrated understanding.

When you do read the lengthy material at https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro... note that the approvals are based on fighting the disease. Reducing transmission — at which the vaccines were clearly highly effective prior to Omicron — is one part of that but an even more important part is preventing severe outcomes. Even with Omicron, the vaccines are highly effective at keeping you out of the hospital and even better at keeping you out of the ICU.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
Even though this post may seem funny to some, I can underline what OP wrote. I used to drink a lot. Usually went out for drinks 3-5 evenings a week. Always social drinking and never missed a day at work, but it was certainly too much. The birth of my son changed everything. Not only have I been barely drinking for the past two+ years, but drinking is making me quite hanxious the day after and I‘m suffering a lot more than I ever used to in the past.

I don’t miss alcohol, but I do miss the social part. Having kids is taxing, but also incredibly rewarding.
"profiteering".

Are you suggesting that most people don't think that businesses that use public assets like the sky shouldn't be able to make a profit?

Airlines, Airports, Cell Phone companies that use public radio waves, Farms that take water from public water ways, factories that cause noise and light pollution.

Most people don't want those companies to exist?
That's true, but that's like saying that french people don't call themselves "french", but "français".
Interesting to consider the downside of making divorce easier. There seems to be an implicit purpose in marriage of making breakup difficult: we know going in that difficult periods can occur and to better assure we will make it though them we agree to enforcing a harsh penalty to doing this. presumably we do this because we expect most tough periods to eventually end, allowing the relationship to be positive once again.
How about this -- a jumper to update the firmware keys. System ships with third party certificate(s) (similar to the well-known certs your browser ships with). But with physical access you can update / supplement / remove keys as needed.

Now that means normal users and IT depts can do all the updates they need, but if you have a need for your own private key you can do that too (after physically touching hardware).

Oh and for bonus points, a motherboard switch can enable the keyboard on a physical designated USB slot to be able to authorize a cert modification. So you get convenience of not having to open the system, or if you want additional security then open the case and remove that jumper.
One of the (many) things I don't really understand is why whether the fed will raise interests rates or not is somewhat of an open question - Does anyone think these psychological games end up helping the economy long term?

You'd think that in such a system stable planning & execution would one of the more important aspects.
Suggesting benzos is dangerous advice
Look at all the anti-vaxxers.
I'm not claiming it is universal advice and I think a lot of the other advice people are giving could be better for him.

On the other hand I think he should know that a 1-1 pharmacological substitute is available.
Hard level are really rare in FAANG, based on my friend who recently went through Google interviews. More like easy/medium. It actually sounded fairly easy to me, he only prepped for a month without any prior leetcode experience. I think finance tend to ask the medium/hard questions more so.
> For those of you who don't drink, how do you fill your Friday and Saturday nights?

As life-long teetotaler, I always had more things to do than time: hobbies, sports, or simply talking to friends and family. I might be workaholic, since most of time I cannot find time for those things because of work, but if/when I do have free time the possibilities seem endless.

It's Saturday evening where I am right now, I'm going to work some more and then do some chores while listening to an audiobook. But if I were not working, I'd be in the gym for couple hours and then meeting someone.
Hi, another Austrian here! As someone already mentioned, Plum Village is a wonderful retreat center in France. There are also groups called Wake Up (https://wkup.org/) in Vienna and Graz that practice the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh as a community. They are extremely open to guests and newcomers, so maybe you also want to check that out :)
Powerful forces drive Vulkan implementation. OpenCL is always an afterthought, where it even happens at all.
I go out regularly with a group of friends, they drink and become funny, and I'm sipiping orange juice while being entertained.
Vaccine mandates … everywhere have failed

Smallpox and measles mandates worked.

And which western/first world nations actually had COVID mandates? The US sure didn’t.
Rhesus Macaques, native to Indian subcontinent follow similar culture —- gregarious, matrilineal and unfortunately violent.
Yayyyyyyy... i guess. Now, everyone stop being arrogant and just emulate what China and the evil ceeceepee did about COVID. They did it right. You didn't. Now, get over your arrogance and do what is correct. When you are sick, you stay home. Stop coughing on everyone. Stop coughing on the world while investing in Moderna stock. Thank you.
The house is invested in keeping stock prices stable and rising, and it is not a good idea to bet against the house.
A few tips! A floppy drive emulator you can load with usb is available now. Pretty sweet device for something like your project.

The 36 pin connector on the sound card was probably a scsi cd-rom connector. They used to put them with the sound card :)
Yes, the antibody titer will be higher with vaccines no matter what, because the virus has some serious immune evasion mechanism and that the vaccine is much more immunogenic.

If you want to estimate the amount of spike produced by the vaccine, we can take the fact that we know the amount of mRNA in the Pfizer vaccine is 30mcg. The mRNA is ~4000 nucleotides long, which gives us a molar mass of 2000kg/mol. So the vaccine actually has 0.015 nanomoles of mRNA which turns out to be around 10^11 mRNA molecules.

Now we know COVID infection produces around 10^12 virions each of which has ~30 spikes, and there are certainly at least 3x more spike protein made that doesn't end up in a virion, so we have ~10^14 spikes from natural infection.

You would thus need each mRNA particle to enter a cell and be transcribed (impossible) and for each mRNA strand to produce 1000 spike proteins, which is very improbable.

So it is very likely that indeed vaccines produce much fewer s proteins than natural infection.
> as secure as PGP

Well, that doesn’t sound promising at all.

You can ask any cryptographer, they will tell you to not use PGP.
The wealthiest generation in U.S. history (boomers) are exiting the workforce, where will they park their retirement nest egg? Bonds and savings products (CDs etc) are paying historically low rates, and lose value as interest rates rise. There are few places for the typical boomer to park that capital other than the equity markets which have served them well for the last 30 years. It is unlikely they will exit the markets and hoard cash, especially with inflation fears.

Jeremy Grantham has a megaphone right now. Every single news site keeps repeating this. They also ignore the fact that the guy is a perpetual doomsayer.
Most anything from Athletic Brewing is good as well, although they do have carbs.
I find that a strong IPA that has no more than 0.3% alcohol really does a good job of filling the void.
My humble opinion,

To everyone who has commented here and even the OP.

You aren't really off the grid, imo.

Because you are still connected to the internet and writing comments here or blogs.

Go read Walden.
At more than 5v?
Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects [pdf]
1. Vaccination is not a hardship.

2. Reducing R flattens the curve, and pushing it below 1.0 ends the pandemic.

> vaccines have been shown to make anything else than a dent in the levels of infections

Oh?

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2022011...

This applies to all ages, but if I had linked to an ICU with adults I'm sure you would have blamed the pattern on old people.

Vaccines make a big difference, it's just that the vaccine doesn't protect people who don't take it. Even so, it kinda does: herd immunity and R are real. It's hilarious that anti-vaxxers seem to think that anything less than the vaccine somehow managing to protect 100% of people who don't take it is some kind of failure on its part.
The thing I find most baffling is that we have very good reason to believe [1] that HEPA air purifiers can keep the air clear of the virus, and yet they are barely talked about.

In the UK we're still waiting on results from trials in schools [2] and we've barely started running trials in care homes [3], and this is 2 years in. In March 2020 our government was trying to comission Dyson to mass produce medical ventilators of questionable use for emergency, and yet we never really tried to get them to mass produce something that is their core competency and put it in classrooms and care homes.

HEPA filters are unobtrusive and can be made quite silent by using larger fans. Its mind boggling enough that we're barely using them, but its even more mind blowing that we have no trial data for them 2 years in.

There is also reason to believe they would work synergically with masks. All masks leak [8], some more than others - portable HEPA devices should take care to limit the (cumulative) effect of leakage to a minimum. Especially in indoor spaces where people spend long amounts of time, and especially in winter as well as in these "modern" business buildings with windows that don't open.

So why does this matter? Mainly because we keep pretending long covid doesn't exist. In the UK, ONS esimates that a 1.3 million (2% of the population) [4] people report long term symptoms, of which 1/2 million (nearly 1% of the entire population) have had them for 1 year or longer, with 247,000 (20%) reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been “limited a lot”.

Information on vaccine protection from long covid has been conflicting [5], with some studies showing they enable return to baseline [6] while others showing almost no effect [7].

Additionally, since Omicron is so new, we don't (and cannot) have any long covid data on it.

It therefore makes sense to continue limiting spread and focus our effort on understanding long covid risk, prevention and treatment better, before completely lifting all restrictions. Especially if it can be done with the help of tools that are almost completely unobtrusive, such as portable HEPA filters.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02669-2

[2]: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-health/news/article/4953/can-ai...

[3]: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/october/airfilter-study....

[4]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

[5]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2

[6]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.05.22268800v...

[7]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265508v...

[8]: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/49/e2110117118#:~:text=Medi...
Ball valves for us - I’ve used off-the-shelf agricultural valves and a little wooden mount (for now - want to replace them with something more robust) with a solenoid and rod to open and shut them. Means I can also just do it manually if I want to. So far, so good, and if something fails open, I’ve an alarm set in openhab if there’s an unexpected delta in tank levels. Hasn’t happened yet, and losing all of our water isn’t too big a deal in winter - that’s happened a few times due to burst pipes, as it’s brutally cold here at the moment, and I haven’t buried everything yet - hundreds of meters over inhospitable terrain. We’re at 7 bar - 70 meters - so when something goes, oh boy does it go.

Fruit fly control - nothing. We’ve enough that we can share with the bugs and the birds, although fruit flies don’t seem to be a problem for us, as I think they’re getting parasitised by native ophid wasps. We also don’t have too many of the same type of tree near each other, which likely also helps inhibit pest spread.
Last year I finally ditched some spare i386 CPU and memory modules (sort of 1, 2, 4 MByte) after getting no response on eBay.