skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not making a case. I’m making a distinction which you seem to be saying I should not be.

Compliance rate is a very commonly considered variable in evidence based medicine - there is nothing confusing about considering it.

Compliance very much varies between intervention types and cultures. Also not remotely controversial.

Assuming compliance is almost always an error in considering the outcomes of medical interventions.

If we are going to reason about what kinds of coronavirus interventions are effective, we must consider compliance.

Whether something is mandated by law or not is definitely a variable in determining compliance.

If it were not, and as you claim, Swedes have been complying this whole time, why would Sweden have started using force of law recently?

Presumably they think it will increase compliance.
Is it common practice to measure effectiveness in this way?

They only evaluated ~90 of their 30000 test group, and out of that tiny sliver of the data there were more in the placebo group that got covid than the vaccinated group. My questions would be:

Does their small subset have the same number of vaccinated vs placebo?
Are the ~90 evaluated cases representative of the whole group, or are they only from one area or health profile?
How long have they followed this group?

It still seems like this early on in the study you could cherry pick the data to show any amount of effectiveness that you want. Am I missing something?
The point was to prove that math wasn't an arbitrary human construct, that it was rooted in the fundamental nature of reality.
Saw this earlier, likely related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839101
Friends don't let friends dial through Yelp ... seriously, this is one of a (growing) handful of companies whose web-pages I just won't visit.
No worries. While I can not speak for others, I am 1. not afraid of needing medical treatment, and 2. if I did, I am willing to not accept any life prolonging measures. The things I have heard from people in the past few months saying to each other, dropping democratic freedoms left and right, gives no real reason to want and stay on this planet. If it hits, it hits. I can manage dying, I have managed living for 40 years in this society. Question is, can you life with the comment you just wrote?
Italy, Spain, UK, Belgium, etc...are all able to be compared with Sweden, why wouldn't they be?
This is getting down-voted but it is something of a myth that Sweden ever had herd immunity as an officially adopted policy. Yes it was discussed at high levels but it is not true to say this was the strategy adopted and implemented by the government.

This is not a defense of the strategy they did follow, which appears to have failed badly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53498133

> Sweden's authorities never said achieving herd immunity was their goal, but they did argue that by keeping more of society open, Swedes would be more likely to develop a resistance to Covid-19.

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-coronavirus-didnt-see...

> Speaking to Times radio on Sunday, Torbjörn Sohlström said that Sweden’s maverick no-lockdown coronavirus response did not seek to boost the number of infections and reach a critical mass of infected to stop the virus from spreading.

etc.

(It might help to consider what a "herd immunity" strategy would actually look like, vs the extremely light touch they actually took.)

Final edit: this was a good look at the handling from a NZ journalist talking to a Swedish researcher from Lund University who looked at the international media coverage. Worth a listen if you want to understand how the "Sweden herd immunity" meme spread https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018769007... _and_ how that's hiding some of the negative aspects of the Swedish approach you might not have heard about.
I've had 2GB+, 4h long videos labeled in CVAT. What problems did you run into? Can you annotate at a reduced FPS?
How exactly would you do this?

> in an encrypted manner that has guarantees in place that only valid criminal investigations can decrypt

What constitutes a valid criminal investigation, who decides? Do you, does a prosecutor, a judge, the police?

Is it a valid to decrypt your data just see if you were at a specific location at a specific time? What about so the police can check a theory? How about to see if you joined an unsanctioned protest, smoked a joint, speed while driving, downloaded a movie?

Speeding and copyright theft are both criminal, are you saying that your happy to make it trivial to investigate you for these crimes an prosecute you for them?

It used to be criminal to engage in homosexual behaviour, and in some parts of the world. Once upon a time that would be a valid criminal investigation in the US. For a short while it was looking like abortions might become criminal in the not too distant future.

Privacy is a fundamental tool for allowing society to progress and change, and for avoiding totalitarianism.
Threat vector: Legacy static websites
Maybe they're hoping Beto gets a cabinet position?
Pretty much all existing incarnations of agile have a planning meeting. And an entire edifice around managing longer-term planning. (Stories. Epics. Sagas)

Sure, we can true-scotsman, but in practice agile asks you to estimate.

In the client-vendor context, you can sidestep that with a fixed price bid. Somewhat. If you're bad at estimating your fixed price, your business will burn.

In the employee context you can sidestep that somewhat as long as you consistently deliver more value than you cost, but even then, making choices requires having an idea of opportunity cost. If you can't give that idea at all, there are usually better uses of the money.

In almost all contexts, you are compensated for your time. Almost no one likes writing blank checks.
> I've been hearing a lot about anti-vaxxers lately. interesting bunch.

Reason is not a universal attribute of human beings. Some of us have it. Some don't (they just simulate it more or less successfully).
You may have composed something you need to provide to classic musicians to perform
Very true. A risk-based analysis is the proper approach.
Your conceptions of what is good and bad are not everyone's.

When a potentially important email dump is leaked individuals will use any reasonable means to gain information about it's authenticity.

Knowing that DKIM headers are on those emails and that the service provider hasn't published those keys changes the question from:

"Did you send this email" to "Was your email address compromised at this time?"
One thing that has been known for a while is that there are allocation patterns where LibC malloc doesn't give back a sufficient amount of pages even when the pages are clean.

See for example https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-03-14-what-caus... . In the end I think the consensus was that jemalloc was just better than invocing malloc_trim, but invoking malloc_trim now and then can certainly be a lot better than using neither malloc_trim or jemalloc.
> They're very focused on mRNA.

Turns out, that was an extremely good bet.
Is this because of the breach during the summer?
From Wikipedia [0]:

> The proof constructs a particular Gödel sentence for the system F, but there are infinitely many statements in the language of the system that share the same properties, such as the conjunction of the Gödel sentence and any logically valid sentence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
if P is (this statement cannot be proved), then you can't prove A && P for any provable A, either. There's an infinite number of statements that can be proven (1=1, 2=2, 3=3... for starters) so there's an infinite number of statements that can't be proven.

There are less trivial classes of statements that can't be proven. For instance, there's an infinite number of statements like "bit N of Chaitin's constant is 1" that cannot be proven (only a finite number of those statements are provable).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant#Incomplet...
There is a valuable lesson here for all entrepreneurs: always make sure you are in direct contact with the customer! Have their email address, etc.

If not, someones else will control the stream of inflow, and you are at their mercy.

Getting the customer is always the hardest part.
Technically, DKIM probably shouldn't take away deniability. But to be fair, this discussion doesn't exist in vacuum. Requesting that Google publish private keys is inherently politically loaded, given recent events. (and it's was neither goal or anti-goal in DKIM design, so it's not that there is mistake in protocol or something).

If some provider decides to implement this proposal, I don't think they should do it retroactively and publish old keys. It would be just inviting additional political shitstorm.
See also I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, and The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
I edited my comment, as I intended to say "The people who need repudiation already have it."
> (am a pro-vaxxer)

You mean pro-reality.
I think this partially answers your question: One thing people try to do to "fix" the incompleteness is to just add the Godel sentence as an axiom of the mathematical system. However, each time you do this, you can create yet another new Godel sentence for the new system with the new axiom. Since it's a diagonalization argument, no amount of adding of new axioms can permanently "fix" the system and make it complete -- there will always be new Godel sentence that is true but not provable.
Boy I remember doing this when I got my Gmail invite around 2006, those files are still retrievable today!
As a former YouTube TV user who switched to Hulu a few months back, I'm frustrated I need to switch again.

When YouTube TV upped their price, they brought a few more channels on board (which I had no interest in), so it kinda felt like they weren't just doing a money grab.

There are about 5 channels I care about at all. We're going to switch to Sling. We had Sling back in 2016 with alright results, but weren't impressed with app stability and the frequency of steaming issues. In practice, using any steaming provider login to the network-specific app gives good results.

Cutting the cord was a great proposition 5 years ago, but it has been so painful to get consistent service at a price that doesn't make a basic cable package look competitive.
We have daily updated stats for everything related to Covid-19 in most major Swedish news sites like dn.se and svt.se.
> Predictably, not many people subscribed.

How do you know this? I don't believe I've ever seen them (or anyone else) publish actual subscription numbers... closest thing I've seen is some statistical analysis done by a VC way back in 2015.
This perspective you mention is exactly why I made a video on the subject:
https://youtu.be/A-2XQQDD6QQ

It seems so simple to me now!
Germany is basically the best case for Europe and had 199 deaths today, with a quarter the population of the US (who had 485 deaths).

* 506 deaths in France (a fifth of the US population)
* 213 in the UK (equiv. to 1000/day in the US)
* Switzerland tracking at 100 deaths a day, equivalent to over 4000/day in the US
* 162 deaths in Czechia, equiv. to 5346/day in the US

Look it up yourself:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/switzerlan...
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/czech-repu...
Do you trust all future governments?

Germany 1933, Donald Trump today, far right extremism in Europe are all examples of how trustworthy governments become evil governments.

Democracy doesn’t offer a defence against “evil” governments. Only that you need a majority (and frequently not even a majority) to vote for one.
This was a "class" compliant sound card we are talking about here.
Yarn 2 has significantly faster fetching times, has a Plug 'n' Play module system, and caches much better. See [0], [1] for more details.

[0] https://snyk.io/blog/yarn-2-intro/

[1] https://dev.to/arcanis/introducing-yarn-2-4eh1
This makes me feel somewhat better, honestly. The fact that packet-level firewalls work is reassuring.

It hadn't been clear from previous reports that they all have to do with content-level filtering and VPN's. In that context, it seems to make more sense for Apple to exempt its own critical services (like malware detection and security updates). Kind of the same way applications can't overwrite system files either.

I am curious though: can anyone think of any real-world scenario where it's a genuine problem that Apple traffic isn't routed through the VPN?

When I think of normal uses for VPN's -- security for online work and communications, evading censorship, bypassing geo blocks -- these would all seem to be entirely unaffected.

Is there anything at all an ISP or attacker could snoop on outside your VPN that could ever be genuinely threatening or privacy-invading? Or is there a worry that we don't have a definitive answer to this because nobody's catalogued everything Apple sends and looked for privacy vulnerabilities?
I better throw out my web browser then. It is circumventing YouTube DRM by opening those URLs.
Good philosophy!

> Every application comes in its own directory that can easily be “managed” using the file manager, no need for package managers

Didn't catch just how it works, but makes me think of GoboLinux [1]. (Oh, there's a 2020 release of GoboLinux.) Is it not a bad idea to use .app when macOS already does? Perhaps .program would fit. Or could they be compatible so one .app runs on both operating systems?

[1] https://www.gobolinux.org/
400 is recommended for dark winters, don't take more than 4000.

Source, UK NHS

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...
Depending on your objective, noisy data might be useful.
I'd like LibreASR to also work in noisy environments, so training on data that is noisy should already help a bit with that.
But yeah - stammering and delays are present not only in Common Voice but also Tatoeba and YouTube.
This is pretty leet.
Key phrase being "dedicated" amateur.

I bet 2 years of daily effort and study would get most people to 1500.

How many people play for years without actual dedication, or join tournaments before they're at the 1500 level, or quit when they keep losing a lot to higher level people in tournaments, or whatever?

My definition of "dedicated" probably removes at least 50+% of the pool right away.
Possibly of interest to the HN crowd, just before this Mudge was (and I think still is) involved in a non-profit named CITL that focuses on performing static and dynamic analysis (eg fuzzing) to evaluate hardening measures in consumer software. For example, their work on browsers: https://cyber-itl.org/comparisons/comparison.html?comparison...

It's very interesting work but I haven't seen wide discussion on it so far.
Yep. There are multiple companies that build those blogs en masse. It's called Content Marketing. Those companies are always on the lookout for popular keywords (they use SEMrush, MOZ, etc) so they can build extremely shallow 1000-word blog posts around them for their customers.

They pay peanuts to freelancing writers that don't know much about the subject, and the only "references" they give for the article is from Wikipedia and other similar blog posts. Since some of those companies have control over thousands of (seemingly unconnected) customer blogs, they can link from one blog to another (and from social networks) to increase their PageRank score.

Some of the larger ones are even starting to employ machine learning to write articles, so expect even less quality from now on.

And Google doesn't care for one simple reason: search keywords captured by Content Marketing blogs are worth way more as AdWords.
Lenses absolutely get cheaper if you look at the lenses that are actually bought and sold in any number. The number of people using a 500mm f/4 is vanishingly small, and wondering about their price is a bit like asking why Ferraris still cost a lot.

For comparison, let's look at the most popular lens in the world, the 50mm. I'll focus on Canon's f/1.8 series of the nifty-fifty, just to keep consistent.

1975: $79.95 ($386.95 today)

1978: $67.95 ($271.37 today)

1986: $102 ($242.33 today)

1992: $44.95 ($83.42 today)

2014: $125 ($137.49 today)

Today: $94.00 (discontinued) or $125 (new model)

While the list price of the 50mm tends to sit in the $50-125 range, the inflation adjusted cost of this lens has dropped fairly consistently over the years. And remember that this is covering a pretty massive range of lens technology; a modern 50mm f/1.8 is lighter, focuses closer (0.35m vs 0.6m), has an extra diaphram blade in it (7 vs 6), contains several multi-coated glass elements, and has an auto focus motor built into the body of the lens. The value per dollar of a modern photo lens is genuinely massive compared to what was available in the past.
Obvious how? It does not logically follow.
Bravo :)
Europes daily deaths per head of population are currently much higher than the US. See my comment & links above.
Adventurasturess Game Jam 1
Trivium: Rus itself seems to have been the Finnish name for Sweden, meaning "land of rowing" (as in boats), carried by Swedes to Kiev in the 9th century.

Long history.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Russia
https://fee.org/articles/how-finland-and-norway-proved-swede...
Honestly, I am not sure why this study is noteworthy. As you pointed you, the evidence is weak. Plus, we have the results of a good randomized controlled experiment. I don't think we need anything more to make up our mind (yes, vitamin D3 works very, very well): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

Note: The study link is for treatment, not prevention.
Such a quality write-up, I understood the topic easily ! Thank you :-)
You've just cited the overriding mantra (for everyone) of our times.

"Everyone I disagree with is either acting in bad faith and trying to manipulate people or is a rube who's being manipulated. All of my opinions come exclusively from rational philosophical means achieved independently of any external media influences."
I don't know why you are being downvoted, this is the most on topic comment I've read so far.
How do you decide which one to use when? I mean for all intents and purposes you basically have two legal names, right?
Personally, I think every object can move 1 quantum unit every tick of the universe.

If all the motion of surrounding objects is in one direction only, then no time passes.

https://youtu.be/A-2XQQDD6QQ
Constant 2.8 is faster than the variable aperture lens you posted. It is equivalent to the GMaster 24-70 or the canon L 24-70 at less than half the price. Its not on the same level as a Tamron, it’s made of machined aluminum and feels solid. Tamron is made out of plastic.
Easy, tiger. So you meant to say 15% of cases were primarily caused by diet? That's a much more sensible statement.
twitter.com/JamesElijahMill/status/1327234821513482241
It's a silly question because if the virus was 90% lethal, people wouldn't just walk around. It's a self solving problem. We wouldn't be discussing lock downs, because everyone would lock down without being told they should lock down.

The virus we are talking about, COVID-19, is incredibly low risk for 90+ percent of the population. I don't think we should enact policy that infringe on freedoms, so that vulnerable people can move around freely. Or rather, it's important to balance the two. Mask mandates are a reasonable compromise, but an immunization mandate isn't. Focus policy making on vulnerable people - give them wage replacement to not go out in public or to their job if they are overweight, have diabetes, if they are elderly, immunocompromised, etc. But, don't mess with our natural rights. Do not trade liberty for safety, do not build the social will and legal foundation for future erosions of liberty, regardless of the purity of the motive today.

Edited to clarify mask vs immunization mandate above.
So if it's not your problem it's not a problem at all?

Nth order effects will make it your problem pretty quickly.

Many are blind to exponentially growing phenomena.

One good example is that a several degree increase can melt the Siberian ice and release methane stores equivalent to 100 years of maximal human CO2 footprint. That's already a massive nth order effect.

Sometimes problems are not that simple.
This was Target not Walmart and I say that not to nitpick but rather highlight that arguably Walmart is somewhat an upper tier tech company.

If this is what Target does in 2012, Amazon in 2020 not only inserts plausible deniability to optimize for lack-of-creepiness factor. They're probably running AI bots on forums and social media injecting seamless product placement in commentary you see in your browser.
The fact that you use an Apple device is readily apparent from these traffic patterns - that alone seems worth hiding with a VPN.
That discussion was in an email conversation with, among others, Finland, where they stated that they've had the same thoughts about herd immunity. All countries have discussed herd immunity at some point.

However, herd immunity was never the goal, as you can read from the email exchanges in the original source the article links to. It was merely a discussion about a possible side effect of the actual goals, which was to prevent a collapse of the Swedish healthcare system, and to prevent side effects that lockdowns have (because they're not a silver bullet either).

Now, if they were successful is another question. I'm a Swede and I do not agree with our strategy.
No reason to be downvoted that I can see. I checked your comment history and see a fair amount of on-topic constructive comments that were also downvoted (some you probably deserved).
Campaigns seem to have a bad rep among most gamers online, but honestly they are the most satisfying aspect of strategy games. One of my favourite games growing up was Rise of Nations and its Conquer the World maps - remove that and you get a worthless husk.
Receipts can be signed with gnupg, it actually provides non-repudiation guarantee you want, DKIM doesn't provide that, it's only for journalists.
How the Netherlands became a plant-based protein powerhouse
Yeah the man-off-the-street expects that if you have an email in your inbox it's proof positive that it was received like that. They don't know that you can upload counterfeit emails using imap or anything like that.

Introducing non-repudiation would violate everyone's expectations and create a total mess.

I'm saying this as someone who often and deliberately uses deniable messengers.
Probably the via the Great Lakes and then St Laurence seaway - seems quicker than the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico but probably overall colder.