skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they're going to transmit it," Fauci said.

Fauci added that vaccinated people essentially become "dead ends" for the virus to spread within their communities.

"When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community," Fauci said. "In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community."[1]

This is more or less the messaging I recall seeing around the early stages of the vaccine being available.

[1]https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...
This article is written as though Linux isn't an open source OS. Basically every big player rolls their own kernel to get features they want. This use case here is pretty exotic and for 99% of people using Linux it's perfectly fine for their needs.
I wonder who that might be! :)

EDIT: Ah, I see you claimed authorship in a comment below.
Interesting! Thanks for the response.
The oldest surviving Linux distro is still kicking.
Link to original photos/post - a must see

https://www.tomhegen.com/collections/the-lithium-series-i
> all Apple has to do is give a >60% discount to their current prices.
At some point in that line of events, where do the bulldozers come out? Is the government obligated to preserve the condition of vehicles that are effectively a roadblock? (It probably is, but at the same time .... how far are you going to get in suing the government for siezing/dismantling/bulldozing your vehicle?)
Here's one example:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/new-data-on-vaccine-effic...
And kernel 4.4's upstream EOL was two days ago. Talk about timing.
Oh yes, that was an inspiration!

Re submission: The submit box says "title and link or text". Must be an inclusive OR, because it gave me no problems.

(I also have JavaScript disabled, so if they block it client side, I haven't noticed.)
I read this proposal of randomness often. It would work assuming researchers were robots, but I don't think it would really work with humans. It's just not aligned with basic human psychology and incentives. Why would a researcher strive to come up with a really good proposal if as long as it's somewhat decent, the outcome is random? Why would they strive to execute it well if it won't influence future outcomes? In fact, why would anyone want to be an academic researcher in the first place if funding depends on a lottery, and no matter what you do, you might find yourself without any funds to do anything meaningful?

I think a system where grants are only given to a small minority is defective and wastes everyone's time, no matter how the minority is chosen. The solution has to be to give some reasonable funding to anyone employed as a researcher - which, depending on how much you value science, can be achieved by increasing the funding or by decreasing the number of researchers (I'm an academic myself so I believe in the former, but I might be biased).
The standards are basically the same as for a commercial truck driver. The edge cases of what they're willing to accept are slightly different.
It's more similar to someone saying "That behaviour isn't rude in Scotland".

The store isn't running out of bread, bread-eaters are running out of money.
You don’t deposit any SOL to create wETH, you deposit ETH on the ethereum side. That’s what the name means, “wrapped ETH”
Same. I got Walmart plus for free as a credit card benefit and kinda rolled my eyes at it. But after using it a handful of times (for 2 day shipping and same/next day grocery delivery) I'm a fan of it. Plus it feels good to support small retailers (compared to Amazon). The reviews aren't very high-signal, but they do a better job handling compensated reviews than Amazon
You could but would it make enough of a difference? Having the structure remain standing, but the entire landscape be totally destroyed (including all major infrastructure like power) doesn't seem like much of a victory.

Not to mention a large portion of damage from wildfires is smoke damage, which your concrete house isn't immune to.

A fully concrete/steel home would likely remain structurally sound, but you're still dealing with intense property damage for everything inside and most probably uninhabitability due to lost infrastructure in the area.

Not to mention during a wildfire you'd still have to evacuate.
Could be ASN.1.
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Source of Apple giving out AirTag info?
Note that the government has actually likely pressured GoFundMe in this case, which is a chilling and tyrannical suppression of the right to protest, especially after how accommodating they were with mass rioting in 2020.

See https://www.foxnews.com/world/canadian-leader-deletes-tweet-... or https://www.newsweek.com/truckers-protesting-covid-rules-has...

> On Wednesday, before the fundraiser was suspended, city councilor and chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board Diane Deans said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson should contact GoFundMe and tell them to not distributed the money raised to the protesters.
The thing is many of these rankings put a great deal of emphasis on research program quality and impact. For IITs at least, the research programs are nowhere as good as many top western universities.

I studied undergrad in an IIT faculty that's considered the top in its field in India by reputation of the professors and I worked on two research projects with PhD candidates there. I also spent one summer working on a research project at KTH in Sweden. I must say the experience in terms of research quality, capabilities of the PhD students, facilities, support systems etc was night and day. Due to this in the IITs, the top undergrads leave the country to pursue post-grad and the folks left behind are often the ones who didn't get admits with financial support outside. Very often I observed the undergrad students assisting with the research understood things better than the PhD candidates themselves and all these makes a difference in the research quality and impact.

Now, if you rank university programs in terms of % change in life circumstances, IITs will very likely come at the very top. Because the entry is entirely meritocratic with minimal reservations and even reservations are held to academic standards - seats go vacant rather than being filled with less qualified students - a lot of students from poor families get boosted solidly into upper middle class with an IIT education including many of my own batch mates.
I'd say that the inflation mostly went not into the price of groceries, but into the price of realty, the stock market, the cost of education.
How on earth do they have enough capital to replace $320 million? I seriously doubt it was entirely replaced.
The data points on pay gap by gender and ethnicity are ones I’ve not seen before and it’s great that this dimension is visualised.

A surprising finding here - that doesn’t match what I would have expected - is how Engineering is compensated 90% in cash. I would have assumed equity is pretty heavy for software engineers, especially in senior and above positions.

I do wish there were more takeaways to what seems to be data confirming these:

1. Compensation is going up, and especially software engineering compensation.

2. Startups are starting to compete stronger on cash compensation (thanks to a strong funding environment, and the market).

3. Remote work is slowly eroding regional differences in the US (and, as a note, globally, as well).

Sadly, there’s no data on remote work here, nor is there anything on what % the market moved up the last year in various disciplines. At least for engineering, the past year has been a major jump upwards in compensation.
It would be neat to see the same study ran against Omicron with people who were vaccinated 18 months ago. You know, to mirror actual reality.
Although everyone shoulders a loss, it does give one slightly more confidence in the decentralized half of the DeFi equation.

Compare this Wormhole example to what happened with the Ethereum DAO attack that was "reversed".

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-ethereum-reversed-a-50-...
Reminds me a little bit of a mobile development class where the teacher had everyone post an app on the play store. A few of them were pretty good.
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tl;dr is that 1) It's a competitive domain, so we felt we needed to grow our team quickly to stay relevant
2) There's a lot of technical challenges with video editing in the browser + cloud, so we needed to be able to hire talented engineers to scale and
3) I believe there's a huge business in empowering creative teams, so we think we can get to venture scale and needed the capital to support that.
No need to require vaccinations for a flash in the pan event. These things come and go. In the grand scheme of things, human civilization, this will be quickly forgotten.
Your math is wrong, Paris is still twice as expensive
> stand on the sidewalk with a sign

> legal ones who get a permit have their route planned out in advance

So the kind of protests that don't matter ?

A protest, by definition, is meant to display discontent from the masses because conventional means have failed. If a protest does not hit where it hurts, it isn't an effective protest. If shouting loudly worked, then twitter outrage would have been sufficient for pressuring the Govt. into accepting their demands.

A slight tangent, but this is exactly why I dislike 'permitted' or 'side walk' protests. You're walking down a pre-cleared street supporting an already popular movement with institutional support to show what exactly ? It reeks of the kind of slacktivism that has been memed to death over the last decade.

The people are clearly expressing their disillusionment with the overreach of the Govt. in terms of the intrusion of privacy permitted to the Govt. by law. If you are disillusioned by the system, of course you'd just extra-legal means to display your discontent.

Now, the Govt. ofc is allowed to react with force. If anything, I support removal of actively destructive protests with force. But, the current Canadian Govt. has supported far more egregious protests in the other nations (specifically the farmers protests and 2020 riots). So, I am enjoying a bit of schadenfreude seeing Trudeau get a piece of his own medicine.
They talk al ot about "coding" at primary school, but what they mean is making the turtle follow simple instructions - inputed via tablet. These lessons are teaching children how to use technology, not how to be coders, makers or engineers. We will end up with a lot of kids pushing buttons, not with a lot of engineers. IMHO teach kids to use a keyboard first and get them out of these walled garden button pressing labyrinths.
You'll note that there's never ever a culprit in a single one of these stories, and nobody ever successfully carries out the crime by actually showing up to an apartment or cornering someone in their car. It's classic urban legend stuff.

Would you expect people to sometimes get away with committing a crime like stalking? Yes. Would you expect every single person who commits stalking in this way to always, without exception, get away with it? Of course not. The parsimonious explanation is that the vast majority of these stories are simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere.
Someone I know is expected to be dead by the end of the year. How do I go about to get this to her?
For viral diseases, especially coronavirises. Source for the explanation of the myth/urban legend?

Immune system escape can occur, usually in adults, but generally not in children because their immune systems are young and not 'trained' so do a great general response effort.

Vaccines force a targeting of the immune system (e.g. particular spike proteins) that specifically leads to escape, as we're seeing with the vaccines being not only mostly useless, but potentially worse for Omicron.

Per capita not wrong, just not everywhere yet. Example:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/new-data-on-vaccine-effic...
Rather the environment they live in has no investment or opportunity and the people living their, being poor and dealing with the hand that local investment in education has dealt them have difficult times getting out, let alone just surviving
Well.. it depends. I'm not making any uncharitable assumptions about the author's intentions. The entire article could say "I bought a house near Vancouver" and you'd be expecting the person to be extremely well-off, because it'll cost $1.5m anyway. It's obviously a little disingenuous to call it a "modern home in the woods" because it's definitely not a humble bungalow, but whatever. I just find it a little silly to keep implying budgetary constraints and keeping costs as low as possible, but not providing any context for what that really means.

The house does look pretty nice, and while I don't care for Pemberton much, it's seems like a decent build.
IMO it was the 3G iPhone that was the one that mattered and that was only $199 with contract. The original iPhone was like a weird alpha prototype. There was no reason not to get the contract at the time because AT&T was the only company you could use an iPhone on anyways
It is normal if most kids have it. Not sure what you’re trying to teach them.
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Compare those who actually buy though. Comparing raw incomes and real estate prices doesn't make any sense either. Again - a bad comparison. There are many parts of the world that have highly inflated real estate prices compared to average incomes but no one in the median income buys them at those prices. Places like Taiwan and Singapore are even worse by those measures but clearly people can live there...

Do you think people in Manhattan on a $118k/yr income are buying real estate? (They're not)
Yep, I’d say we all can use some help, at least those of us not in a close-knit extended family/community that deals with stress in healthy ways.

I’ve been escaping to videogame-land more often than not during my limited free time, and now I know enough to know that’s a symptom of something I’ll later thank myself for digging into.

I’ve found The Blindboy Podcast immensely helpful in shifting my perspective. Not all episodes are directly about mental-health, and there are others who provide similar but from different backgrounds, like Jordan Peterson (who I found dissonant compared to Bb’s resonance; like with human counselors, it’s worth exploring to find a good fit for growth in the zone of proximal development).
French ocean institute goes public about authors who forged researchers’ names
Wow "freedom" sure comes with a lot of restrictions.
He missed out on the Hudson Yards scam where Harlem was extended to midtown so that investors could buy visas and fight urban blight with their own pied-a-terres.
> Apple has built a find-me network that actually works. Therefore it also works for stalking. Therefore Apple is getting the criticism.

Isn’t this criticism a bit like arguing that binoculars/telescopes are bad because they allow people to peep into other peoples windows or cars deserve criticism because they allow you to tail someone(or run from authorities)?

Tools can basically always be misused.
This is such incredibly disingenuous statistics. Of course there are more vaxxed with COVID than unvaxxed in a sample of 100,000 people. The vast majority of people are vaccinated!

You're comparing two entirely different denominators. This is just sloppy.

Edit:
Digging through the source data, I found

> In the last week from 08 January to 14 January 2022, in an age-standardised population, the rate of acute COVID-19 related hospital admissions in individuals that received a booster or third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine was between 2.3 to 3.9 times lower than in individuals who are unvaccinated or have only received one or two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine

Your own data is saying the opposite of what you purport it to.
It's a matter of resources. They literally do not have the time to track down every single theft. Therefore, they have to triage.
It's a good enough reason for me. My language is older than American slavery and it will probably outlive the memory of it; I am not American and I do not relate to the history at all. I won't surrender my language and speech to largely imagined grievances. My fear is just that, if I forbid certain words because of a rule that can be widely and arbitrarily applied, then I begin to surrender my thinking to outside arbitrary forces. It isn't worth it.

And I'll take the bait. We avoid the N-word because it is a pejorative, intended to diminish its subject. But no one uses "Master" as a pejorative the same way they might use the infamous N-word. The word has a much longer history, wider scope of meaning and wasn't invented as a pejorative (rather it is a compliment!). It is very possible to use "Master" in a sense that it isn't possible to use the "N-word".

Would you provide me with an objective definition of "problematic", and if I find other common words that meet that definition some point in the past, in any country between any group, will you stop using them?
By your logic they should just charge 80 or 90%
You can shut down a centralized system when all node operators agree to do so, which happened here.
its a strong benefit for the end user. There is prior to this little to no incentive for companies to do this, and arguably most don't want friction-less cancellation, or they would have built it from day one in the first place.

I don't bet on this sticking around if it can at all be broken.
I think the tesla "summon" (and probably the corollary I think should be "banish") would make a personal car even better.

summon car, go to front door get in... drive to destination... get out at front door and "banish" car (to parking space)
>What does FB bring to the table that Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, etc, would care about?

1. Identity management
2. Network management

But then realistically, are these really pain points?
If it's the type of video where cutting silence automatically is viable, I wish they would just write out the transcript.

You can read what they're saying in a fraction of the time it takes to watch a video, and often internalize it better.
This is a great example of misleading statistics!

This comment is saying that vaccinated people are more likely to die than the unvaccinated. Sounds like a lie, but nope! It’s true. Why? The unvaccinated population is much, much younger and healthier than the vaccinated. 95% of the above-80 cohort is vaccinated. Essentially nobody under 5 is. This is called a confounding variable, and is used to spread fake news.
Try visiting archive.org and looking up the CDC site, because we are almost a year removed from the "95% efficacy" propaganda they peddled.
The only downsides are an always-on microphone and a few GB of voice models and recognition software. I think a switch is preferable.
Yeah it seems to be more permissive
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@geerlingguy that would be a great video idea if possible
I'm sorry. Can you clarify what you are saying?
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Congratulations to the Slackware team
This. I’ll also add that the reviews themselves were a great resource when researching the a product space — 10 years back I’d use Amazon rather than google for learning before buying. Now both are garbage; I get some value out of restricting search results to Reddit and then filtering by time (past month, year, etc), but Reddit will inevitably destroy that once they have shareholders to appease. Sigh.
People rocking Robin Hood are not investing. Institutional investors are investing.

> Equating these two things seems fraudulent at worst and stupid at best.

Please.
Slackware was one of the first distros I used seriously. Five plus years between releases is an awfully long time. Glad to see it's still alive.
Because masks never really made any statistical impact on the virus spread, so requiring them at this point means you’re not following the data you’re following something else. (I was pro-mask for a while before we had data)
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Turn on the light in the room, your eyes will thank you for it.
Ha! Shrink the margins to enlarge their margins?

Nope, not intended. Good spotting.
You mean the CNN “Firey, but mostly peaceful protest” versus someone honking horns and articles published about “the threat of non-violence”?
I was hoping that a benefit of leaving Netflix is that I could finally start offering tips & tricks to people in public discussion threads... but perhaps that was a bad idea after all.

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Breast cancer immune microenvironment.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17864583/
Do either of your children have any comorbidities? That would be a strong deciding factor for me.
The healthy games column on this site actually has some good recommendations. Lara Croft Go is so good, it's sad they don't make them like this anymore.

Legends of Runeterra is really, really free to play. It has daily rewards, competition, and some other stuff this site calls dark patterns, but I've got close to everything (and there's a lot) in the game for free and never really felt pressured to pay money or even to play, which satisfies my personal sense of fairness. No ads either, they make their money selling cosmetic stuff.

My go-to these days is board game apps. For the most part, they're very free of all this crap. Some great adaptations: Through the Ages, Scythe, Root, Wingspan, Concordia, Galaxy Trucker, Railroad Ink, Spirit Island. Spirit Island is at a higher price point than the rest, and tries to get you on a monthly subscription. But it's a fantastic board game.
This is great. Well done. Thanks for posting it.
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I think this is a great way of putting it, because I think there's a real and necessary distinction here. The sophomoric relativism of "Gee aren't all games dark patterns?" feels like a smart thing to say, but is wrong for reasons that feel obvious but get kind of tedious to unpack.

As a different way of making the same point as you, I think critical differences are: (1) whether the compulsion to play serves you or the game creator, (2) whether the game mechanics serve an entertainment purpose or are grafted on to a game that would be just as fun without them, (3) whether it's designed around an "upgrade treadmill" as the core interactive structure of the game, as opposed to elements that have some degree of human craftsmanship to them (e.g. the mobile game Sorcery is fundamentally about the story).