skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if a lot of vaccination fear is because the problems associated with the vaccination are a lot easier to relate to (in a society that doesn't often anymore see outbreaks that do a lot of damage) that the problems vaccines are claimed to cause. Like, we all know an autistic kid, or the idea your kid is getting "injected with mercury" - foreign things in your body could cause death, right? That seems easier to relate to than measles or polio - because we really have no idea what that's actually like anymore.
> whether it escaped from the lab is a bit of a whatever

It's actually a big difference:

It's the scenario of accepting a statiscal misfortune from mother nature versus the scenario of a lack of duty-of-care from a public institution, closely followed by having to pay reparations to a very long list of countries.
Where does the website say this? It is quite vague about implementation details, at least from what I can find.

Closest I could find was a conspiracy theory linking a separate study into using quantum dots to record vaccination.
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/523/eaay7162
> I understand the point you're trying to make, but a small amount of proof is necessary to verify such claims.

I wasn't trying to make the point, only to emphasise my grandparent's point.

But, for what it's worth, I agree with that point: the journalists probably needed to see the video footage as proof, but there was no need for the journalists to publish the video footage. If I don't trust reporters when they tell me that they've seen the footage themselves, then why would I trust them when they show me footage that could have come from anywhere but that they say came from a data leak?
> Huh? How does that figure? Hand washing will means less (or no) virii in your nose/mouth.

If you make "first contact" by inhaling tiny droplets it's possible that they will make landfall right down in the lungs, whereas an infection from dirty fingers is guaranteed to start in the nose/mouth area and will already be an immune system project while it works it's way deeper down. Still worse than not getting infected at all, but if you assume that it will eventually hit you anyways, easing into the infection via the nose would surely be preferable to starting in the lungs where it's actually dangerous.

The reverse of this would be accumulating an infective dose from the leakage amount allowed through by PPE while working in extreme exposure. I doubt that there is empirical data regarding viruses, but everything we've learned about particulate emissions suggests that smaller particles reach deeper into the lungs. So it seems quite convincing to me that people who do fall ill despite PPE fall ill harder. Might explain the prominent medical worker deaths.
There will be $400M or so more in the US budget.
there’s using it deliberately as a tool, and running into it unexpectedly and doing absurd things to work around it like it’s an obstacle to overcome. i see much more of the latter than the former; squarely i think because most css is written by people who don’t know how to use specificity - so they come up with things like BEM, or css in js frameworks to force specificity away like it’s a flaw in the system. all this work goes in because module scope is an easier mental model to grasp than specificity, which i suppose works more like traits. but, having been in this web making game long enough, it seems like a return to table based design and font tags. just with different syntax.
How would you create a representative sample for the whole population if all your samples are from a sub-population with a known cluster of cases?
That was actually my reaction, too. But I don't think that will go through any ethics commission. Also the immunity will also last for about a year he said. Which is mind-boggling in itself.
That's not grey. Not signing a binding contract saying you need to keep your mouth shut is everyone's right.
Thanks again Peter.
For me, it's actually the exact opposite. When I use scoping like that, my normal expectation is that I'm saying "Only style .me if it's in a .tells that's in a .something". I'm doing it for selector behavior. I don't want to have to consider if I later scope a

.something_else { .me: content 'we don't' }

it won't work because it's less specific, meaning cascading isn't working as expected. It isn't SOLID
Isn't the whole point of the apparatus we are discussing to create a better seal with a surgical mask? The study another person linked to here hot-glued the masks being tested to their testing appliance, which does seem to create a seal.
They flattened the curve during the 1918 Spanish Flu
There are so many unknowns from this report that it is hard to make much from it. Some of the major questions.

1. How many people in this town ended up in hospital? How many are still in the ICU and likely to die?

2. Is the population sero tested representative of the town population? Was this population sampled biased by those who had obvious symptoms being more likely to participate?

3. Are the 15% positive representative of the German population or is it skewed to the young?

4. How was the accuracy of the serology test determined? >99% is impressively accurate if true.
> founded and quickly after conquered the internet with its search engine and internet browser

Google didn't release the first version of Chrome until 2008, 10 years later.
If you stick your unwashed vingers in your nose a few times a day then maybe that will cause you to get sick instead of someone sneezing in your face?
I suggest listening to the podcast "Oh No! Ross and Carrie" if you're interested in weird claims that people make.
The controversy was that they presented results before even a preprint was available. Even worse, the presentation was done together with a state governor and the preliminary results were used to push a political agenda, mainly the loosening of the current COVID19 restrictions, although it is very clear that Gangelt is not representative for Germany. The dubious PR firm that heavily publicized the study on social media was just icing on the cake.
Prof. Drosten has said for quite some time that he estimates the fatality rate to be well below 1%, so the 0,37% from the study are well within his estimates. The real question is how far we are w.r.t. to "herd immunity", and if even a heavily hit town like Gangelt has only 15%, this means that we are far, far away from it.
The cluster thing is obviously hard to remove. But the population.. that should be very doable. You'll just have to adjust the people you chose according to the general population. Not sure exactly how that goes down in practice. But in the press conference he stressed multiple times how this was representative and was done in cooperation with statisticians etc.
It's still going to be a giant number, but I recommend including the fraction estimated to catch the disease, in this case 0.7 because diseases with an R0 of 2-2.5 typically infect 70% of the population.
Viral load V, dV/dt = rV. This loosely solves to V = a*exp(rt). The bigger your V0, the faster the initial rate of increase.

The Vmin to be detected by your immune system is small. You want the most time between Vdetected and Vdanger.
It also assumes that commuting costs and rent are not in the picture, which, for many of those who need it the most, at least one still is.

It further assumes that a) enough cereal, pasta, and canned whatever is available to purchase for everyone and b) that everyone is easily able to plan for exactly enough of all of it to get them through.

I do not find any of these assumptions to be terribly credible.
Your awareness needs some work.
> There are all sorts of real-world issues that you can't handle on-chain.

There are definitely a lot of issues that aren’t working in the ICANN system as we all know [1][2][3].

What are the issues that can’t be handled in the Handshake blockchain ecosystem?

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/we-need-save-org-arbit...

[3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/symantec-issues-rogue-...
Which is already better than Paypal. They don’t support USD account in Canada. That’s the main reason I’m using Stripe now. But seems like Braintree support USD account in Canada. Anyone can confirm?
Twitter has famously done the same thing a few times as well.
Seems it's less a 'party' and more a networking event where I'm sure your competitors are not invited. Also less 'your own dime' and more a business expense that helps Bezos skirt even more taxes. I can't see it as an investment in the city.

Maybe if he bought and renovated an apartment building. Held events in a top floor space. Transformed the lobby into a community business and tech center.
The light on the Kindle does not come from behind the text. The lightguide is in front of the text. It directs the light from the edge LEDs down, where it reflects off the text and back up through the lightguide out to your eyes.

Here is a detailed tear down of the Kindle optical system: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05174
On the flip side, none of the games I play are available on GFN. It's incredibly frustrating. I've moved on to Shadow where I'm not subject to the arbitrary whims of publishers and developers. I can install any game that I own and nobody can do anything about it.
It is possible to confiscate physical wealth if it's "assumed" to be obtained by illegal means.
Maybe it's just the fact that this theory perfectly aligns with the current west-based propaganda effort that seeks to demonise China? Dismissing information as a conspiracy is a common strategy of autocratic states, as is seeding the internet with lies that align with their own interests.
Not everyone is convinced that this study is accurate.

"It is important to understand the sensitivity and specificity of the serological test used in the German studies to be sure the test is not picking up antibody to other corona viruses (4 different common cold causing coronaviruses have been isolated in humans during the past years and 3 more serious ones (SARSCoV1 and 2, and MERSCoV)." [1]

It would be good to see more of these studies conducted in different areas by different teams to see if they come to similar conclusions.

[1] https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-unpubl...
One of my rules of thumb, is that “!important is FAIL.”

If I find that I need to use the !important modifier, I’m usually being lazy.

Where I do tend to use it, is in print media styles, to force a style over CMS themes, which can be notoriously bad (for example, one of the themes I have used spews out multiple duplicate #ids. When I reported the bug, the response was basically “shrug Sucks to be you.” That was the least of the issues with the theme, and I was forced to use !important a few times).
I couldn’t get tested so not 100%

In Bavaria they are only testing people with symptoms and the positive rate is around 10% [1].

Everybody thinks they have it but the symptoms could also be down to a cold. I am not pointing this statistic out to prove you wrong -- I just find it interesting.

[1] https://www.lgl.bayern.de/gesundheit/infektionsschutz/infekt... and search on the page for 'Laboruntersuchungen'. The left axis is number of tests and the right axis is percentage of positive tests.
Specificity isn’t intuitive, and—especially for new developers—the results can often seem like a gotcha rather than the intended behavior. I’m also not sure there’s an equivalent in other systems or languages.

It is widely used as a conflict resolution strategy in production systems. I've never encountered a student who found specificity to be a difficult concept to grasp.
As i recall a demo scene event could be called a copyparty (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene), but that was before there was a focus on stopping pirated software.

Those demo scene events i attended was a mix of creating demos, but also LAN gaming as we know it today.

I do not remember campus party events that well, but i think the focus was more on gaming and hacking and not so much on presenting demos and having prizes for the best ones.

Talent land sounds like you want to reach out to a less nerdy audience, but for me the nerdiness is the charm of these events :)
Circumstantial evidence is what you use to support a theory you really want to be true but cannot prove. Direct evidence is what you use when you want to actually figure out what happened.
Rainfall will be different. There will be more or less rain, at different times of the year, with a changed susceptibility to droughts and/ or floods. So yes, there may be more rain overall but - just as some places may get cooler - local climatic changes will be in multiple directions on multiple axes.

It won't be a smooth change to the new conditions either; there will be centuries of instability and infrastructure and agriculture will have to adapt to obsolescence every few decades.

I'm not a climatologist but I do know some of the reasons why:

The thermal gradient between the equator and the poles (a major driver) will weaken - the poles will heat up more quickly.

Ice at the poles drives some ocean currents.

Temperatures at different heights in the atmosphere will be affected differently.

Increased evaporation from oceans but higher ambient temperatures will change cloud formation unevenly.

Nights will cool down more slowly due to the 'blanket' effect of CO2.

The overall effects are interconnected of course, which is why there is so much work on modelling and so much work still to do.

Edit: I forgot to mention the effects on vegetation and landscape that will also feedback unevenly into the climate. e.g. rainforests depend on and generate a lot of rain; a rainforest may hit a tipping point where it is no longer viable and rainfall will then collapse over a large area.
And if some people can be reinfected after one exposure, it's not necessarily a death knell for a potential vaccine -- you get multiple boosters for some viruses for a reason, and the vaccine just has to take in a large enough fraction of the population to protect everyone.
When will you bring back crypto payments?
The article states that while the virus could have escaped from a lab, there is no evidence this was intentional.
Phoenix is amazing. Having shallow experience in Rails, I found I can be productive in day 1. It just works, and solid, and fast.

Yet there are more brilliant things ahead like OTP and LiveView.

There are many other outstanding functional languages, and I like some of them more than Elixir, but none of them have any framework as solid and straightforward as Phoenix.
The Chinese government seems more than happy to exploit its people for western money, up to strip mining their citizens' organs.
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Is the Composition API going to be the only way to do things in some future version of Vue? I see why you’d want the elegance of it but also it seems to trade having to know which properties this has for having to strictly order property and method declarations. It’s like we went from declarative to procedural components and I am not sure I like it.
Static typing will create a lot of problems in a BEAM language IMO.

The distributed nature and ability to send calls to other nodes that can be running completely different code would throw it for a loop unless you had a way to get the types from the other nodes as well. And even if you could there are a number of synchronization problems that come from it.

You’ll end up getting the static benefits on your single node, but beyond that those guarantees will be gone just like interacting with a REST API.
Firefox supports this, go into Settings -> Search and set a keyword for the search engine.

For example, if you set the keyword for DuckDuckGo to "ddg" and Google to "go", then typing "ddg <your query>" into the topbar will search DuckDuckGo, and typing "go <your query>" will search Google.
And who/what created God -- e.g. who is God's God? And so on? It seems like humans trying to understand a hypothetical God are not unlike ants trying to understand quantum physics.
The battle for the post-virus narrative is on
Thanks.

I find it interesting that everyone just takes religion/fringe groups at face value. Are people really going to church because God or is it community and wanting to feel part of an in-group? The same seems doubly true for antivax: have people really honestly read all the studies and open-mindedly decided its a giant conspiracy, or are they just lonely and want something to make them feel smart?
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People have been freaking out about table-based design for twenty years. It’s a great foil, and much of the criticism is merited, but it’s not the end of the world.

You can fairly easily turn tables into blocks: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/stylist/another-reas...

Also, I use “display: table” all the time in my work. It’s the best mode for layout that fits content.
No. Their goal is to protect the children. They don't understand technology and do not care how many enterprises are destroyed by their clumsy fumbling. Stop trying to reframe stupidity as conspiracy.
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Your complaint about a login system is about its authentication, in a discussion on encryption and key exchange?

The obvious point being made is that going from SMS -> E2E should be as seamless as from telnet -> ssh.

SMS and messaging systems generally do require some level of authentication so you're making a ridiculous comparison.
I recall an Arthur C Clarke story (can't remember if it was a short or a novel) that touched on the same idea. In the story, the squid's imaging abilities were very advanced, almost TV like.
Sometimes the Western Governments test the waters during a crisis (or the threat of a crisis) to see if there is a public outcry.

Lots of people protested the Patriot Act and other post 9/11 stuff but the majority of people at the time were fine with it because it was to find the terrorists. Not sure if they ever found a terrorist on America soil but now we have TSA screens, Homeland Security, and a boat load of other extensions of federal power.
Of course, I'm only challenging the notion that there is complete ignorance about the need for action. What that action looks like is up to us. I would say we are actually already on the path for "a lot of bad things to come to pass under the guise of fighting climate change." It is the explanation for a lot of the trends we are seeing like nationalism, the strengthening of borders, and the weakening of labor representation.
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This South Korean COVID expert says people are contagious 2 days before symptoms show.

https://youtu.be/QwoNP9QWr4Y?t=97
Drought like this, driven by global warming, was predicted in the book Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, published in 2007.

He read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, one chapter per degree, with extensive references. Massive drought in the western U.S. was in his chapter for one degree of warming, right where we're at now.

Given what's in his later chapters, I'm not too happy about seeing him accurate so far.
Workaround: http://archive.is/hbzHu (archived copy)
Someone else suggested acme. What about SCEP (aka Microsoft NDES)?

There are a number of ways to cut certs internally.
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In Paypal you just create a subscription button and you are done. Paypal takes care of creating the customer profile, etc. In Stripe there are a few more hoops to jump.
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Trifecta: Taiwan reports zero new coronavirus cases for 3rd time - https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3918074
I'm not sure how it works with PayPal since I only had to do this for Stripe but:

First I reach out to the person over email and kindly ask them why they disputed the charge with a number of things we can do as an alternative.

If they don't reply within a few days then I contest the dispute with piles of evidence that the user indeed signed up to my platform and downloaded / consumed the content.
>power the laptop directly via the charger

Recent macbooks can't run directly from the charger. The charger is not beefy enough to provide power during peak CPU/GPU usage.
Isaac Asmiov's The Relativity of Wrong is a wonderful essay on this.

https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.ht...
Already from Who's responses about the criticism shows how corrupted whole organisation actually is. People do not need Who's forced vaccinations period. They should be procecuted.
A lot of folks here pretending that ssh implies ssh-keyex. There's also gssapi-keyex which has no such tofu issues.
Finally, Some Privacy: After 10 Years, Giant Pandas Mate in Shuttered Zoo -https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/panda-mating-h... lol
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> the anti-science crowd latches on to things like this

Dark ages are built on anti-science sentiment but we have all the means to counter and disseminate science results these days, provided that discourses are made simpler enough (without being shallow) to inform the general public... we need more and better scientific communicators, then, that’s also why the small content project I am recently pushing over here too.
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An extremely good point, we are all at risk of being vehicles of information wars.

However, information spinners still need to spread info based on reality or partial truth in order to be effective in their spinning.

To me the current volume of evidence for a 'lab accident/negligence' theory versus the volume of evidence for a 'wet market' theory sticks out like a sore thumb even if we account for information war effects.