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Businesses get preferential tax treatment because we want to encourage risk-taking. Yes, focusing on a handful of hyper-successful businesses make it seem like things are "not fair", but that's neglecting the much higher likelihood of businesses failing vs. a payroll employee getting fired. In most cases, even if an employee is fired, there are still labour law protections, social security, severance packages, and the employee has right to sue. When businesses fail, they fail.

If you want to get preferential tax treatment, go start a business! Go take risks, hire people, make money, pay other businesses, this is how capitalism works! If you can make it, by all means enjoy your tax deductions.

What can make this system dysfunctional is when you have corruption and cronyism that unfairly disadvantages some businesses vs. others. For example special access to loans, bailouts, or special tax deductions for meeting esoteric criteria. But this would a corruption problem IMO, rather than an inherent unfairness in the tax scheme.
I'm a bit alien to these kind of things and i cannot believe that a speaker could be limited in such a way. It's sole function is to play sound from a device and it utterly fails at that. Why do people put up with such rubbish? I get upset when i see a speaker without a jack port.

Also, the article is excellent but the title lets it down. Can i suggest it be changed to something like "reverse engineering SONOS to play YouTube". If deadf00d is still on maybe you should also rethink the title?
It sells new cars, and helps countries look like they care about the environment. The problems get dumped onto other countries.

Perhaps someone can provide a more charitable view, but that's my understanding.
This is one of those "pure HN" comments that you're almost guaranteed to find here.

How can we take a genuinely pleasant, analog human experience, strip all of the magic out of it, automate it, and make it remote?
"They are operating under the inevitably abuse-prone assumption that these offensive comments cause psychological harm to people."

I cannot wait for the day when Western society stops prioritizing the elimination of psychological harm, aka discomfort. It's a big world and there are bound to be some things and people out there that you react negatively to. If we just ban everything that people find offensive, we end up with a boring, homogenous grey blob of a world with no free speech, no culture, just awful woke corporate propaganda from cradle to grave.
They aren't - that's just journalistic hyperbole, relating to the very first patients.

CAR-Ts are now being tested in much earlier lines of therapy.
Could be worse. People don't ask me why I'm single which, in my darker moments, kind of suggests that the reasons are sufficiently externally self-evident to obviate any need to even ask. ;)
Because QE is an active tool to support credit liquidity and they determined that markets were liquid enough to remove that support.

EDIT: And just to be very clear to the 2 people who read this comment, maintaining a balance sheet is still market support b/c you still buy treasuries on the open market to offset the principle of your existing treasuries that reach maturity. So stopping the growth of the balance sheet just means you're not accelerating support. Tapering is the thing that you do if you're worried that your balance sheet is 'debasing' the currency.
The linked page shows 0.1 ms though.
China's video game regulator hasn't approved any new titles since July 2021. Sounds like an outright ban to me.
While this is just one part of the protest, but what is happening in Coutts is illegal. Alberta passed an act recently (2020) restricting where you can protest - https://www.alberta.ca/protecting-critical-infrastructure.as...

The Coutts border crossing and highway is currently blocked. This is in contravention of the Critical Infrastructure Act as highways are included.
I'm not talking about the past, I'm talking about now. Schools require vaccines, and required them pre-covid, and that has been upheld as constitutional. (In the US) From the perspective of law, it is not wrong. YMMV in other countries.

What are your goalposts here on "basic commerce"? School and many jobs seem like they should be included in that, which refutes your original comment on the topic of vaccine mandates for basic commerce not having precedent.
Asks workers to fall behind the companies they work for. Of course.
Kids shouldn't have to thank their parents for the basics. That's what we commit to when we bring them into this world (or adopt them). To use another Chris Rock phrase - "You want credit for some s*** you're supposed to do?!"
As far as I know there is no way to determine the owner of an AirTag.
>if one deep-dives into any kind of research one can see an ocean full of universities producing valuable research

This is simply untrue. When on deep-dives into any kind of research on sees an ocean full of universities polluting the sea with absolute crap. The more bureaucratic and government funded, the worse. For example, I know researchers who simply will not bother to read anything written by anyone working for a Chinese university.
You're conflating censorship and privacy here, in a somewhat hilarious way, because you get less privacy with cryptocurrency than you do with traditional banking.

You're also ignoring the censorship that happens through the exchanges when they blacklist wallets. Sure, you can send cryptocurrency from wallet to wallet, but if the exchanges blacklist the wallets, you can never get the money out to fiat currency.

I'm positive you're going to next say use monero or zcash, but then you're limited to using shady exchanges, and if you want to have your fiat bank accounts flagged, there's a great way to do it.
Nice fun toy - had a good click around. Looks like we killed the websocket server though?
My son did this to a book he wrote. Something about a moose... He slid it onto the shelf at the school library, and found a year later that some employee had put on a library sticker and a checkout card. A couple people checked it out; it was still on the shelf a few years later.
What is the burden that would make this a problem? If the typical narrative is to be believed the unvaccinated are in a much worse position, facing the dangers of terrible disease and death!
Yes - you can! Feel free to shoot me a note and we can chat more about this: kaveh@usage.ai
As an American citizen living in Hong Kong I see more and more every day why an American citizenship is so desirable.
What we call the flu also includes a wide variety of viral illnesses better known as the common cold, which includes some coronaviruses - the flu shots offer no protection against most of these different viruses

What medical practitioners call the flu is a small subset of influenza viruses common in humans, each with a high potential for reinfection, including reinfections within a year (as well as constantly evolving variant strains, just like COVID)
Possibly, I can't find an easy source of spot price over time.

https://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/pages/supply.html is pretty good for total energy used and sources. In the Summer 3-5pm could be demand peak, but looks like the total energy used is high over a few hours, even after sun down.
>you can get a lot more done in any given day with a car.

Yep. But the cost of personal ownership is unnecessarily high when most cars sit around unused most of the day and all-night. At a high cost to the environment.

And in-city mass-transit doesn't have to sit still. If the Cruise robotaxi concept (being tried out in SF now) works out, mass-transit could do likewise. That'd get cheaper faster than personal EVs will. Ten cars or one bus?
The tactile experience of a library or even a bookstore cannot be replicated by the internet or ebooks.

It is indeed something wondrous for little kids... and adults.
This women deserves a billion dollars
Be surprised: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/renpre-inst... https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/85089... https://www.ecofield.net/Legales/precur-quim/res535-14_SEDRO...

They reformulated all the nail polish removers using ethyl acetate instead of acetone.

That said, the listings I'm finding on MercadoLibre right now don't have the requirement that you send them your DNI or your Sedronar authorization that I used to see, so maybe the policy changed recently?
> Should they should magically cause the number of doctors and hospitals to double inside two years?

It's not even magic. It just needs to be done. Find a way. There is an emergency. You don't just get to whine and complain that it is too hard. Your solution doesn't need to be perfect. Far from it, in fact. It just needs to patch the issue so we don't need to do restrictions of any kind.

Anybody that claims it is impossible to double or even quadruple healthcare capacity specifically for covid just isn't being creative about it enough. It's not magic. You just make it happen. You have almost infinite resources to do it even up to and including relaxing licensing laws or removing any other political or bureaucratic hurdle.
Move to Cayman Islands or Monaco and convince the company to keep you on their payroll.

https://nomadcapitalist.com/global-citizen/countries-no-inco...
Thanks for the link, bookmarked!
Yes, JSON or XML would probably be overkill. How about a simple text file with a sequence of 8 '0' or '1' characters?
"Code colocation"?

>Turns out that "where to put code" is one of the hard things in software engineering and there are no silver bullets. That's part of the reason why there are so few easy tutorials on this subject.

This is called modularization and there are lots of papers and books that discuss it in decent detail.
I mean I said I didn't want to get into the weeds here, just wanted to make a meta point. But if we must, then perhaps this is a bad criteria to use:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/la-hospita...
It baffles me why people continue to judge movements they don't like based on their worst members and movements they do like based on their best intentions. I don't agree with their position but most of the truckers aren't Nazis any more than most BLM participants were looters.
Somewhere in the afterlife, Harold Pinter is cursing.
Blocking access to a hospital is illegal.
Amusingly, I put UBI near the top of the list in part because I thought it was one of the less controversial points.
Rioters should be and were arrested.
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> they've been told it's simple: get vaccinated/boosted

It is that simple.

90% of the people in the hospitals are unvaccinated still.

Cut the unvaccinated fraction of the population down by 1/3 and you cut the hospitalization rate for the next wave by roughly 1/3.

Instead people are doing T-cells/B-cells and affinity maturation the hard slow way.

If we had a 100% vaccination rate we'd be done.

Don't know why everyone so desperately needs to look for counterintuitive ways to approach the very simple problem that when there's a global pandemic you mitigate it with vaccination. Any other result is intellectuals thinking too hard to try to impress themselves and probably missing basic facts in the process.
Data rétention directive, France does not want to obey the CJEU ruling because of 'national security' jocker card. And they make fuss about Poland not respecting EU law.
HLS automatically will download a smaller res chunk if it can’t keep up. Video players (and some formats) react to strangled bandwidth
> I am, or at least I was, going into the pandemic, a left liberal

What's that got to do with it?
Your comment made me sad to read. I don't really feel like that's a fair take at all.

I love libraries and the experience they provide. These memories are core to who I am today.

For me this is about access. I want every kid who doesn't live near a library or who's parents don't have the time to take them there to have something more than nothing.

I don't think that we can make it remote without taking a lot of the magic out of it. But I don't think it's a bad idea to talk about what we might do to try.
But it’s not Facebook size yet
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I don’t get it, there was some hope that vaccines could end the pandemic. They didn’t. But they still help, at least by making people much less likely to die. Is there something to be mad at? Hell, even if they ended up not helping much, I wouldn’t be mad at governments for trying. I must be missing something.
From above: "Instead, Fauci said, scientists are hoping for a vaccine that is 75 percent effective — but even a 50 or 60 percent success rate would be considered a win."

The number 50 was mentioned in passing, but it doesn't sound like he was predicting any specific efficacy number, only that it would not be as high as the rosy 90%+ that was shown by some data. To me, parsing these words is a little nit-picky, since we are talking about a 2 year period during which multiple new and unexpected strains have become dominant, and vast amounts of new clinical data have been published.
In Seattle, the average sale price per square foot is $535 [1] while in Paris, the average sale price per square meter is 10208€, which is twice as high.

Prices in Paris are pretty much the same as the prices of SF, but the salaries are way lower (3x lower, and the taxes are almost as high as the ones in California).

So yeah, I'd say you have it pretty good in the US :-)

[1] https://www.noradarealestate.com/blog/seattle-real-estate-ma....
Feel like that's a bit of a rude question to ask.
As an outsider this movement looks mostly peaceful and legit. Sometimes you have to endure some protests to get an idea/movement through. I respect them and hope their voice is heard. Canadian truckers are fighting for Canadians rights and freedoms.

Still, violent rioters are everywhere. Sadly, in Europe we're already used to them. Any excuse is valid for them to destroy public property. Some of them are "professionals" and travel to any protest in Europe just to vandalize and destroy. Some of them get detained and identified.

Even if GoFundMe don't want to support this campaign they should refund all the unpaid donations back to the respecting patrons quickly with an apology.

In Europe several countries are already removing all restrictions and allowing people to live like it's 2019 again (Denmark[1], Finland [2], UK[3]...). Even in my southern European country are slowly removing them.

COVID-19 is evolving from a pandemic to an endemic disease. Stop pretending that countries will be able to remove all traces of it. We'll have to live with it from now and on.

Things like vaccination passes have been proven useless against the latest variants (Delta, Omicron). Vaccinated and non-vaccinated spread the virus the same. And also both groups get sick of Omicron (even if this variant is "milder" I don't recommend going through it).

Outdoor masking makes no sense since transmission at open spaces is really low. Only indoors or in dense crowds (concerts, really busy streets) masks make sense and work. But... Only the FFP3 or FFP2/KN95 [4] have a good protection (cloth, surgical masks have only a little effect). And that protection is limited in time.

Oddly enough, countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand instead of removing all measures seem to double down on them.

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/denmark-eases-c...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finnish-government-remo...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-johnson-drops-covid-1...

[4] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/q-a-what-...
This is true in all fields. I was playing with an idea that factors of Fermat non-primes (2^{2^n}+1 for n > 5) could be expressed in terms of products of the complex factors of the polynomial x^{2^n}+1 with x=1 with the idea that it might lead to a proof that for all n > 5, F_n is composite. I spent a bunch of time working out the exact expressions for these roots and playing around with their products (which ended up having a connection to Chebyshev polynomials), and then it occurred to me to try exhaustively trying the possible products of the complex roots of x^{64}+1 with x=1 to see if it turned up the factors of F_6 and it turned out it was a dead end. A compilation of false hypotheses in different fields of mathematics could make for interesting reading (and perhaps lead to eliminating multiple people getting stuck in the same cul de sac).
I am not disagreeing with you... but PIP on iOS is in beta as we speak. I happened to be asked to test it (or maybe everyone was?).
You want healthy mobile games? Emulate console games from before consoles were online. There you go, thousands of games created purely to be games.
Prior to this pandemic, I've never needed to reveal private medical history to go to a kindergartener's birthday party at a venue. Have you?

(and the kicker was we all still needed masks anyway... "science"!)
Could be useful with home assistant in a lot of ways, though your use cases kind of cover them.
If I knew that my outcome and experience would be identical, I wouldn't have the CAR-T therapy. The chemo (DA-EPOCH and methotrexate) gave Mel a few months of life with decent quality, but then things got very very difficult. The question for me would be, how do you determine when to stop treatment? The therapies keep improving, so that keeps hope alive.
Oh oh oh.

I think you mean https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360054148012-Brow...
28000 ephemeral ports is enough for the c10k problem, but 100k+ seems a stretch. At what point is increasing the number of ports from 28k to a higher number the right answer? Reuse as described here sounds like a useful optimization but at some point (or due to pathological workload) even that will be exhausted I’d think? What to do then
They've done this a ton of times to any number of vaguely right-leaning causes (including legal defense fundraisers).
Okay? My question is for people who canceled their subscription and regretted it, not sure what your point is here.
Hmm, perhaps I should have denoted my sarcasm here.

AFAIK it is technically compliant, but I meant this in the same sense as the FSF did when they declared Windows to be 'malware'. Apple's BT stack is just somewhat of a pain to work with.
There's never been mandates that bar you from entering stores to conduct commerce, until now.
One would think so. Presumably they aren't going to scuttle the ship if a mast breaks, but remove and replace it.
Walmart only announced their prime competitor in 2020 (Walmart+) and AWS is absolutely ripe for disruption on many fronts, including bandwidth fees. If you look around at cloud providers, it is getting to be a very crowded space (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, IBM, etc.) and there is no guarantee AWS will remain the go-to for the low hanging fruit web hosting use cases which can be currently handled by virtually everybody.

If anything, I would point to Firebase and GCP as the tools that have driven the most innovation over the last few years, and AWS is looking more and more like a utility with a very big service cost (bandwidth) that can absolutely be disrupted.
like how Hollywood has a strong positive relationship with China until the censors suddenly deny all films access? Last year was pretty tough.. for example.

well, hope you get a few months of nice payouts! individuals don't need ARR :) one or two nice paychecks is good enough for lifelong success, so you only have to be right once or solve a market need once!
Honest question, who is still on bare ec2 anymore?
> - "only about 25-35% of CAR-T cell recipients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia experienced a complete remission"

Not sure why you picked CLL, which is but one of several diseases that CAR-Ts have been tested against, and which is so far unapproved.

Response rates do vary, but are higher than you quote in B-ALL and DLBCL (the diseases that CAR-Ts were first approved for)

83% in B-ALL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.196
82% in ref DLBCL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1707447
64% in DLBCL, 71% in FL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1708566
Flu vaccines were always described as a pretty stochastic thing and not a guarantee, though that may have been more for uncertainty of which strain ended up dominant.
It only notifies the target if they own a iPhone, or have downloaded an app specifically to do this.
> unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business

So every protest that has ever happened ?

If anything, the associated violence and demands of the protest are pretty tame in comparison to what the BLM or Indian Farmers protests demanded.

It is easy to dismiss the protestors because the reason for the protests sounds unimportant within our peer groups. However, a Democracy bestows equal rights onto people, and the validity of a protest is determined more so by its ability to be visible (the emotional fervor) than the merit of its points.

> Some groups can just do whatever they want apparently

Yep.
Yeah and both have now given up on lockdowns as the latest variant is too widespread. They were effective originally - and bought both countries time to vaccinate 80% of 16+ population, and I think if there's ever a new pandemic - this is the initial solution. But after 2ish years, it's time to give up on this.
I think my point is that private money already goes to diverse ideas. A system where the government will only provide money if there is already private money involved would work well.

e.g., the government will match any private money 2 to 1. Then, for example, the government can take a cut of patents that result (to prevent grants simply subsidizing research that would have occurred anyway).
They are up more than 1% of us GDP in after hours trading.

They are up half the entire value of Facebook in after hours trading.

They are up about the GDP of Finland in after hours trading.
I knew this kind of remark was coming, hence the smiley. ;)
Many of our customers are on EKS or ECS backed by EC2!
It’s true. If I won the (big) lotto I would no longer enjoy buying lottery tickets.
RIs like this are great, but the biggest savings we've found is moving everything we can to Spot Instances. We're hoping Aurora on spot becomes a thing as that's really our only remaining RI/on-demand cost.
Israel was one of the first place to boost (the first?) and I think the rationale there was not just about antibody levels. There were multiple factors. The emergence of Delta which to some extent bypassed the previous two vaccine doses. The decline in protection against severe disease over time (and specifically against delta). And yes, even temporary control of the community spread (which is maybe the more questionable aspect) to allow the country to remain more or less open while keeping hospital load and deaths under control.

In Israel I also believe there is different policy for people that have been infected. This varies from place to place. Determining whether someone was or wasn't previous infected isn't that simple. You can do it if you have good contract tracing, testing, and more centralized health services like Israel does. Also many places didn't have a large enough portion of the population get infected in the first place so maybe not worth worrying too much about.
> It absolutely is the case.

If that can happen, then that is a security flaw of the device and should be fixed, no?

I mean, reading a text could install a virus on iPhones last year, yet I didn't see people screaming that all texts should have to go through Apple to make sure they aren't a virus.
> You can't declare rental income as "income" to qualify for mortgage loans.

You absolutely can. I did that. Bank was happy to consider money i make from renting out one of my houses as income when qualifying me for a mortgage for another.