skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> once they realize Omicron isn’t that serious in vaccinated individuals

They already do. And more than one public figures of ChinaCDC posted "we had to live with COVID eventually" online.

This is not what Xi is trying to do though, at least for now.
> Last Friday there were about a 1000 new daily cases nationally, higher than at the peak in 2020

In the last 7 days the city of Vienna alone has reported over 50k additional Covid cases, Austria as a whole reported 284k.[0]

We're long past the point where we should be counting and worrying about daily new cases, at this point it's just not helpful.

The virus has changed, our treatments have changed, our ability to vaccinate has changed. When will our thinking change?

[0] https://covid19-dashboard.ages.at/
Someone else already mentioned overcounting and you are just ignoring it.

https://m.dw.com/en/belgiums-coronavirus-overcounting-contro...

Read up about it, before saying they did "terrible".

Statistics in this case are a simplified form of complex policies, ... Countries overcounting vs. undercounting should be the top 1 variable to be aware of.

Ps. I'm from Belgium, I'm very much aware of all statistics and the controversy overcounting causes.
For a booster (3rd shot), the UK only uses mRNA vaccines.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccinat...

Edit: changed my ambiguous wording
You might be interested in EMDR. There is still lots of debate on it, but it's used in psychology and you might find some actual research.

I don't think it has much to do with stage hypnosis though, which I would say is just entertainment. Similar to spoon bending, fortune tellers, mediums and similar. It's an illusion.
While I don't disagree with the article, I don't fully agree with it either.

The article cites a study on (USA) GDP as a metric measuring of productivity, however, GDP is a poor proxy measure of "things being produced". USA GDP includes financial services and consumer spending, so using debt to pay for things vs. producing more, can still boost GDP.

In the United States, pre-Uber around 2010, it was very hard to find cabs in certain cities and even neighborhoods in those cities. New York City had no problems, but as I had lived in Chicago and San Francisco with lower population densities compared to top tier cities in the world -- the only way to get cabs even a few miles outside the main downtown area, was to call taxi dispatch, if you knew their number -- it was even hard to look it up online -- and schedule a pick up, which usually took 30min+. The US taxi system was stalled at the time, and Uber forced it to start adapting to the smart phone era. The tragedy is that the people investing in and also running uber had their own pyramid scheme instead of pricing out the business correctly. They also didn't consider the social/gov implications -- places with good taxi systems didn't need them, as you alluded to with the UK, but they shoved into it anyways.

So Uber was an innovation, one that is trying to find its financial balance still. I'd never care to schedule another taxi pick-up for next morning, 16hrs in advance when I want to go to the airport.

But the article saying that uber innovation and having others try it on other industries is stymying productivity isn't completely correct either.
AZ is adenovirus vector (like J&J, Sputnik), SinoVac and Sinopharm are inactivated.

> if is China is willing, it can go down the same path of vax-and-let-it-rip

Many many fewer Chinese have immunity from having had the virus than Brits
Every customer support script ever: Thank you for sharing your concern. Let me look into the details for you so that we can work towards the best possible resolution.
If you can build things with code and talk about them, you have the applicable skillsets. Lean into that! For application development, CS is definitely a relevant background discipline but not the only background discipline.
When we had Uber in Oslo, they were safer than taking a taxi.
off the main topic:

> The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.

It's funny because the embedded twit causes major flickering and jump-around to the page if you use an adblocker.
Myth1:

Sometimes it feels like I’m the only person tendering that the initial betas for .NET were available on FreeBSD
Leave the cart, full, in front of the fridges. They’ll understand soon enough.
I can't help but notice that instead of condemning Azov crimes and recognizing that they too are a terrorizing force in the region, you conveniently blamed their existence on Russia. The hypocrisy here is blaring. We are now at the point of tolerating, hiding and in some extreme cases even justify the crimes committed by these people. All the while forgetting the fact that the US has provided them with military training, money and weapons.

In fact, if the US can interfere in a country that's thousands miles away by funding extremist military groups, I find it way more legitimate for Russia to fund Russian separatists in the Donbas region, which has historically had strong ties with Russia and whose population would rather stay there than join the "Western" side. It's also interesting how everybody always talks about self-determination, but only in the case where people want to "self-determine" themselves in the right direction. I would be interested in knowing why it doesn't apply in this case.

To conclude: the Ukrainian army along with this these neo-Nazi groups (that have been effectively integrated into the army) has destroyed several hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure and killed more than 3000 civilians since 2014 in the Donbas. Ignoring this situation and blaming everything on Russia is one of the reason that we are in this situation right now, and surely one very myopic way of assessing what's going on.
> I'm not sure what their "peace with honor" exit strategy is.

Look at past wars Russia was involved in and you'll see a clear pattern. When things get tough, they first try to split the enemy internally so that it gets help from inside (which is probably what Putin expected would happen eventually, but so far has not happened except in the separatist regions in the East)... and if that fails, they bring in the big guns and wipe the enemy off the map, quite literally. See Grozny and more recently, their Syrian campaign. If anyone thinks Russians will leave Ukraine humiliated after they run out of cash, they are dreaming.
> Hopefully WFH gains acceptance and becomes normalized

Would you expect this to continue being the new normal?

From what I've seen in the US, it seems big companies are eager to have people back in offices, and the NYC mayor really want people to come back, because coffee shops suffer.
I would only take an Uber as a last resort - even the few occasions I’ve used one it was flaky. I’ve tried another few times but there was never a driver near but and the one who accepted just didn’t show up, carrier on driving around doing their own thing.

If something was critical I would never use an Uber - I’d rather walk, or cycle if a traditional taxi wasn’t possible for some reason.
It's literally an advertisement, not a walk-through video. The whole point is to show you the features your app has for someone who is evaluating whether they should download the app or not. That you learned a bunch about things the app can do shows that it was quite effective.
> It’s mostly done with the hot air that rises up the side of the wok.

I am not a cook, but I find it difficult to believe that the heat going by the sides of the pan is cooking the food, rather than the heat going through the pan and heating the air above the pan.

This is because where I've seen someone cooking on a wok, the food barely goes past the edge of the pan.

A sufficiently wok-shaped induction stove will induce the same heat as that going through the pan.
In 2000, Bill Clinton has banned the use of Selective Availability. Newer satellites, decided in 2007, first launched in 2018 don't even have the capability anymore.
Thanks for the context, I appreciate it. At the time I remember the concept of running PHP on Windows/IIS did have this air of 'hmmmmmmmmmmmno' associated with it.

In my experience it ran fine, but for obvious reasons when shipping software that might make or break their company I can understand Joel preferring the familiar territories of ASP/IIS/Win or LAMP.
Safer in what way? A real way or a manufactured way created by Uber to scare you away from traditional taxis?
I thought other way around: Bitwarden UI is simplistic.
You said "Sweden has more crime than the US." and as evidence you linked a ranking of countries by reported crimes. Not all crimes are reported. So your "objectively quantifiable measurement" doesn't support your claim.

Hence my statement: there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

> Your argument seems to boil down to... <strawman>

Not at all.

https://bra.se/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics/inte...
There is a button, you click on it, a few minutes later someone comes to pick you up. Like seriously, what the hell are you talking about?
In a major departure from previous GPS designs, the M-code is intended to be broadcast from a high-gain directional antenna, in addition to a wide angle (full Earth) antenna. The directional antenna's signal, termed a spot beam, is intended to be aimed at a specific region (i.e., several hundred kilometers in diameter) and increase the local signal strength by 20 dB (10× voltage field strength, 100× power). A side effect of having two antennas is that, for receivers inside the spot beam, the GPS satellite will appear as two GPS signals occupying the same position.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_III#Military_(M-co...
If you put a paper towel right under the fan you’ll see the paper towel get sucked into the fan.

Right under the fan. Yes, they are useless.
The one time I wanted my code to speak for itself, I was also willing to speak on behalf of my code. I brought my whole project (laptop) to an interview and was prepared to walk some interviewers through a full-stack app I built.

They wanted FizzBuzz.
Its the same in the UK. A couple of weeks back, just before the invasion, someone posted a link here to a British Government statement which effectively said that any proposed sanctions on Russian gas wouldn't affect the UK, as we don't buy any Russian gas. And that the UK is pretty much self-sufficient in gas and oil, thanks to North Sea supplies.

Fat forward a couple of weeks and the same government is telling us that rising energy prices are because we're at the mercy of global markets.

I may be economically naive but I don't see why the government of a country with its own oil and gas supplies can't mandate the price for said oil and gas when sold domestically but, instead, have to follow global market rates. If it's OK to say "Thou shalt not buy from or sell to Russia" why is it not OK to say "Thou shalt not shaft thy domestic market"?

BTW --the price of diesel where I live has gone up from £1,56 / litre to £1,80 / litre in the past couple of weeks. I don't know what that equates to in whatever groats or hogsheads you Yanks buy fuel in. But I reckon you're still getting a bargain, compared to us.

As a comparison, the price is usually around the £1,50 mark and, during lockdown when no-one was driving to work, it was £1,13 at one point. I wish I'd stockpiled a tanker full then!
Erle Robotics: Python Networking Programming
The major con of induction though is the very poor energy efficiency: 15%
That's on par with a typical open fire.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-c...
here is the new UI for hackernews on 17th birthday of Y combinator.

hn.devss.io

It says I can't post to hackernews so if somebody else can post it for us it will be great.

Thanks
Sadly, I'm not that young -- I'm about 50.

Absolutely, older Russians ("The TV people" as we call them here) did support Putin before the war. However, I haven't yet formed my opinion about what they think now. Remember, they've been raised during the Soviet era, when Ukraine was considered one of the brother nations to Russia, who fought together with us against Hitler. And now we're bombing their cities -- we're the Hitler now.

Maybe they'll go into denial ("NATO hates us and forced us to do it"). Maybe. Also, their life quality will severely degrade in the coming months -- they'll have to spend much more money on food and medicine; and that would also be a factor.
Even though plan A (rapid victory) appears to have failed, there is still a rational plan B: carve out the eastern and southern portions Putin wants, leave the rest of the country a smouldering ruin which will cost the west $1tn in aid to rebuild.
Sadly recirculating vents are the new norm because of energy conservation rules.
Did 2005 think tanks even predict the iPhone?
https://clipperz.is/
I see you are planning to spend your golden years sheltering entirely indoors with others of the vast vast minority? ie. the over 60-70's.
Interesting move. Since it is a stable coin, the risk that the underlying moves against you is low. I am not aware of a stable coin that increased its price significantly vs the linked currency. But I do know a bunch of stable coins that fell to zero. I wonder how they setup their assymetric trade.
Some assignment clauses are absurdly wide like "any IP you create belongs to us". This would imply absurd outcomes like when a software engineer signed that clause as part of their work contract for software company X, but also records music on weekends or reads audiobooks for librivox or stuff like that, and it's now unclear whether the IP in that music or those audiobooks might also belong to company X.

I think it's safe to assume that any such absurdly-wide assignment clause would end up unenforceable in a court of law and can thus be safely ignored.
If that was a common experience, Uber wouldn't have grown to the size it has and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I don't doubt that you have had bad experiences with Uber, and also that other people have. But you would find it very hard to convince me that people have better experiences with non Uber taxis on average.
Pass and Keepassxc. I don’t trust online websites.
THe current report on Areva ability to build plants has been the object of a public statement by Bernard Doroszczuk, head of ASN (nuclear safety atuhtority) in newspaper Le Monde[1]

He basically says that France is currently or close to be facing a industrial failure for the whole existing nuclear plants which means the nuclear safety cannot be guaranteed. The ability to build anything nuclear is out of reach for France who lacks engineers and technical know how which is the consequences of decades old political decisions to outsource to China, there is a lack of anticipation and no plans which is leading France in a probable dead-end.

The current French EPR in flamanville has confirmed what happened with Okiluoto, hundreds of failures, lack of planning, huge delays, low quality with forged document, going over budget by several times.

You may be interested in reading Marc Endeweld most recent book "L'Emprise. La France sous influence" it covers the current state of nuclear in France and it depicts an even bleaker picture than what the head of ASN publicly acknowledges.

[1]: https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/01/19/la-poursu...
It would seem that many other folks in this thread disagree that Uber's service in the area you referenced is worse. I've never been to the UK, so I can't offer an opinion.
Any language that permits any style choices at all is going to be vulnerable to self-inflicted rules requiring bad style.
You do realise heat transfer works completely differently in each case ? Therefore you cannot possibly replicate what they do. They are not equivalent and yes there are things you can do better in induction but the opposite is also true.
Not true, Pfizer was used in the initial vaccination rollout too.
I never had an issue with taxis in most European countries I have lived on, so reaching 50 it is quite a number of taxis, and still manage to this day without ever having taken an uber, which I refuse by principle due to the way their treat employees.
_Every_ time I try to have a conversation with a Chinese person about Xinjiang, they talk themselves into a corner and then lamely point at “the West” and all its apparent sins and meddling, as if there’s somehow any equivalence.

There is a literal genocide happening in your country and you are complicit. Shame, shame, shame on you.
My Zanussi induction has physical knobs.

I haven't actually seen a stove in the stores that are touch only.
> If they are not generating profits then how come we accuse them of extracting rent

because those are not the same thing. Feudalists don't extract surplus wage labor, they extract direct tribute from their subjects, and just like that the entire value of Facebook say, is in what its users produce on its platform. That experience is the actual rent they collect. Ever wondered why all of this stuff is free?

And power is deteriorating. Away from the state, which played a central role in organizing and managing the traditional market economy towards these private spheres of influence of which the principal unit is the tech-firm.
Went with Brave, I like the effort of building their own index.
>Because it's not an argument against the action

Indeed, it is not per se.

>it's a complaint about the lack of other actions

No, it is not per se. It is a meta-level argument on inconsistency.

>The poster has not presented an argument as to why the sanctions are not a good response, or won't have the intended response, instead they have posted a list of other injustices to which we did not implement sanctions or otherwise take action.

Yes, there is nothing fallacious about that.
If you want them to avoid lockdown you better fly them out now and not in two weeks.
The war is already happening; the question now is, who wins it.
True. Unbelievable but accurate.
… and sooner or later these 1000 runs will shrinkflate to 900, then 800 runs for the same price…
Just like any language used in enterprise shops is not free from enterprise space architects, and .NET is no exception given its customer base from Microsoft products.
I have friends in South Africa who built a small business similar to uber in 2004 on SMS and future phones. Worked really well, however, at the end of the day an idea does not build a business like uber.

Extremely well executed startups does, which of course requires a team in just the right milieu and timing.
>What is the point of these thinktanks

They create research that is used by politicians to justify them creating a policy they'd already decided to create for political reasons. They manufacture consent.

What did Chuck Colson want to do to the Brookings institution again?
Here's a post on GPS signal intereference by HawkEye360 a RF data analytics company that has a LEO CubeSat platform to collect data https://www.he360.com/hawkeye-360-signal-detection-reveals-g...
> they will still think "Putin good West bad". Don't overestimate intellectual ability of an average TV consumer.

Most Western world TV consumers are probably thinking right now: "Putin bad, West good". We blame others but we make the same mistakes over and over.
It's not that they are inefficient per se, rather they are taking the power generation losses into account, which will always be >0 when compared to directly burning fuel.
You click a button, someone comes to pick you up in a few minutes. You know exactly how much you are gonna pay. Even if you are just a tourist. Uber (and other applications like it) is so much more superior to taxis that you cannot even compare them (unless you want to frivolously whine). They brought insane amount of innovation and I am so thankful for that.
> The United States do not have the ability to degrade or deny a gps signal based on location

This was a feature designed into GPS from the beginning. They just stop transmitting the C/A code from satellites visible to the battlespace and a device can't bootstrap or maintain a location fix. Approved devices entering the battlespace (say a ballistic missile fired from a ship over the horizon) can continue to maintain high precision location using the P code.

Block III sattelites have also started transmitting M code, which is a second generation of military only GPS that claims to be unjammable and unspoofable.
IMVHO the article is just a bit of fantasy bolted with very superficial geopolitical analysis: China is clearly the winner so far, sanctions against Russia for China means far more Russian natural resources to them, far bigger access to weapons tech, far more negotiation power.

Russia is not Soviet Union, it's far less powerful and so need a partner. EU was their first and best bet, they try many time to offer the olive branch to EU but USA/UK/NATO always manage to stop accepting it, only EU biggest (France, Germany and Italy) have part of gov/business interest since they are not so blind, we are natural partner and needing each others make the partnership on par, while with the USA the partnership is definitively not on par. Anyway, since the west door remain close the other option was China, a historical enemy, but a stable partner that need Russia as much Russia need China. That's is. Since then China was the winner. Russian Far East/Siberia is already "substantially Chinese" without any special geopolitical maneuvering: Russia have not invested enough there, China have done, most local infrastructure are made by China to link China to Far east/Siberia, most locals buy and sell to China, go on holiday in China etc, China do not need more than that: they have full access to natural resources and thanks to the desperation of USA/UK that push the EU away from Russia to being able to still control EU they have secured the partnership for decades to come.

Consider a thing: now Russia probably offer China nuke tech, something they have NEVER ever do before, with China industry and Russian tech and natural resources behind, China can overpower USA in few years. They do not need more than that. What I do not much understand is how desperate USA/UK can be to choose a so suicidal course.
So remove your number from your voter registration.
One funny thing is that when this happened to me I'd just submit the exact same build again and it would magically be accepted...

Because of things like this I have no regret of using A/B testing as a way to slip features that were previously rejected for god-knows-why into the App Store. While this is obviously forbidden by the rules, it just seems like an appropriate way to respond to this shitty review system. As you mentioned, the worst part is that the comments section is completely useless.
NZ doesn't look like it has "ruled out lockdowns", considering your current "restrictions" (politically rebranded lockdowns, because lockdowns are extremely unpopular) are far more strict than most US states have ever had. [1]

It includes insane requirements like requiring face masks in certain outdoor areas.

Forcing children to wear masks in schools at 96% vaccinated sounds insane when vaccinations were pitched as a way to end lockdowns permanently. Did your government just bait and switch the population by keeping "restrictions" after a huge majority of the population got vaccinated? Sure seems like it.

[1] https://covid19.govt.nz/traffic-lights/life-at-red/
The amusing part is that most gas stations have signs asking you to stay with your vehicles whilst they're filling.

Given that being in the car is not the best place to be, I tend to walk 40ft away to get away from the insanely loud adverts.
Sure, I guess there is a chance that Biden knew that even Switzerland would abandon its policy of neutrality that it had been maintaining since the 1500's but it doesn't seem likely to me.