skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it's possible, but that means effectively that said person is now an undocumented trial participant. They have gotten injected with an unapproved medical product. That's a risk they've taken in order to get in early. The physician that administered it has also committed a crime that can cost them their license to practice.

There are easier ways for people in power to get vaccines. In China, the government has granted exceptional permissions to vaccinate a number of people with a vaccine that has not yet completed phase 3 trials. The list of people who qualify for that vaccine is said to be several million people long. It's much easier to get on said list in China than it is anywhere else. A number of other governments have also made exceptions for political leaders and such, treating them with non-approved medication or vaccines. For example, the sheikh of Dubai has been vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine before approval (in a very public display of faith in said vaccine, in order to promote vaccination to the population). Some countries are saying they won't bother waiting for phase 3 trials to end on some products and will make vaccines generally available based on current data. This is the case for Russia (with Sputnik-V) and Morocco (with the Sinopharm vaccine). I consider it highly likely that their heads of state are vaccinated under an exceptional authorization.
And the levelized cost of PV + storage as per that link is $250 to $600 per MWh. By comparison the cost of nuclear in that study is $130 to $200 per MWh. Thank your for providing this source explaining how the cost of storage renewables at a higher net cost than nuclear.
The FDA doesn't actually approve drugs, it has an independent group of scientists/professors that approve them.
People voting for NO, whats your main point?
You can slowly enable some extensions in Incognito until it happens again.
Which of the several vaccines?

Edit: original order was broken so removed number.

Edit2: seriously, which vaccine are you trying to poll for? Before most of us have a chance at whichever jab you’re talking about, there will be several vaccines available to most HN readers.
Ah, nostalgia. I bought a 2006-ish Mac Mini recently just so I could go back and play Ambrosia stuff. Managed to get Sketchfighter and Diemos Rising working, but not Gooball unfortunately - this was since the registration server went down, and I guess the DRM hasn't been cracked.
> it was super mild

It might be that weaker cases give less immunity. If you were exposed to smaller amounts of the virus in the first case.
Spike in October was back to school in September and wide spread reopenings and increased activity associated with these. I have no data, but the correlation seemed strong and I can't figure out why everyone is scratching their heads about it. Puts me in the "change my mind" camp on this linkage.
CDC best estimate IFR for COVID-19 is as follows:

0-19 years: 0.00003

20-49 years: 0.0002

50-69 years: 0.005

70+ years: 0.054

So only age 50+ have at least 0.5% chance to die from COVID-19. These numbers also include everyone in that age range, e.g. the obese, diabetic, immunocompromised. If you know you are healthy, your odds are better. As a healthy 27 year old and something of a fitness fanatic, my odds appear to be 99.98% of surviving at minimum. Due to the reasons I just mentioned, in addition to being on the younger end of the 20-49 age range, my odds are actually quite a bit better than 99.98%, although I don't know the exact number. I'll roll those dice over a vaccine that has been rushed, and will get the vaccine some years in the future if no problems emerge.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
I generally agree with this but YouTube is a communication channel and has a different set of expectations. Additionally they promoted themselves as an open forum in the beginning.

Ideally, discrimination should not exist in something that is promoted as a public forum.

If YouTube only wanted to serve a certain type of genre or they had the same censorship policies from the beginning then that is one thing. But they promoted themselves as open and free speech and then once they achieved critical mass they changed their mind to push their own agenda.

That is dishonest and an abuse of public trust.

As a contrasting example, censoring porn, while still not free speech, would be fine for YouTube to continue to do since they had this stance from the beginning and people chose to join the platform knowing this.
Same for me, until the last 2 months, now I know like 10 people who got it (including my step mother and step sister), and one person who died from it (step aunt). 3 mentioned to me the loss of taste. (These were split between Paris, Switzerland, small village in France, and Bucharest.)
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Could have run at 72hz (3x 24hz), a normal refresh rate for many video cards & CRTs of the day. The SuperMatch 20-T in the movie could do 72hz (why do I know this...)
Infections are highly localized.

I live in NYC and know about 25 people who had covid, myself included, from pretty much every community.
This is a great question, and I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was quite low. Not because people are against it, but because people don't make the effort to get it. This will be a big hurdle for the covid vaccine as well I think.

A quick Google search tells me that in the US, 33.9%–56.3% of adults get the seasonal flu shot (children are higher at 46.0%–81.1%).
Not the same. According to a former Pfizer employee, there is a ~70% risk that it could cause sterility in women. At this point (a) I don't know if this guy's a whack job or (b) whether he was implying permanent or temporary sterility. All I know is that I wouldn't want my daughter to take it until there's more certainty about the risk factors.
I wonder whether that could lead to a measurable decline in 101 commute time if some of their office space remains empty. Subjectively it always felt to me like some of the most congested stretches of 101 were next to Oracle building clusters, but that may be selection bias talking.
What, why would you need to do that? That's not how preventive medicine is tested.

Please explain how would your proposal be any more valid than a proper controlled study where you do the treatment on portion of your participants and wait how it works out for them.
The difference between resigned and fired doesn't seem that meaningful to me.

I don't see how one can say this. There's a huge, intrinsic difference between the two.

Is there an agreed on definition of the terms?

When you set the date - it's a resignation. When they set the date - it's a termination.

When a company says it was the former when it was really the latter (and pretty much obviously so) - they're playing with your head.
> I've been curious if the spikes we've seen since October is the flu season giving people with cold symptoms which get them out of the house to be tested and it caught many more asymptomatic people than usual.

You'd expect that to decrease positivity rates (by getting a wider pool of people to get tested), but instead the positivity rates --- the percentage of tests that are positive --- have been increasing.
Plays for me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o
Possible, and implemented in recent reactors - for the "corium". Though in that case it's for the extreme situations, since after that the reactor is completely done for.
I wait for backups because I do an incremental backup before I go to bed every night and I want it to be done quick so I can shut things down.
I'd argue that your sentiment is part of this alleged "victim hood culture". you're complaining here about people who feel offended and hurt on a regular basis. is that really affecting your life? would it affect you if _your_ personality would be what you consider the ideal - strong and unapologetic (as in apologizing when necessary but not just to please people)? you wouldn't give a f...
That doesn't make any sense. The worse the virus is the less you should need to "sell" the vaccine.

If it was a rushed vaccine to prevent you from becoming a zombie you wouldn't need to sell it.

If it was a vaccine for the common cold you would need to sell it.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...

I don't know a good national set of equivalent graphs, but in California the hospitalizations are tracking the case counts with some delay, as are the deaths (though those are even more delayed), so I highly doubt you're just seeing additional asymptomatic cases.

The curve of the ICU cases vs overall hospitalized cases is interesting - it's lower, so potentially that could be good news like we're better at treating it now, or bad news that capacity is already low enough (<%10 in some counties) that it's harder to get an ICU bed than it used to be.
>> It was no secret one of the strategies was to cut jobs in high cost regions (US) and hire in low cost regions

What exactly is wrong with that strategy? You would prefer to own stock in the company that employed people in a high cost region when they could hire someone with the same skill set in a low cost region?
I lived through that era and I’m pretty sure they launched with 400, 450 and 500Mhz. After getting back ordered and not being able to fill demand for the high end configurations they dropped the clock speeds to 350, 400 and 450Mhz. Imagine the shitstorm that would be stirred up today if Apple dropped the specs of a Mac or iPhone after launch.
You seem reasonable, so please help me understand the other side.

I’m a big fan of conservative thinkers like Milton Friedman and George Will. I’m against the left’s attack on free speech and find their obsession with identity, at best, perplexing. I prefer isolationist foreign policy and less military involvement from the US. I’m originally from a conservative area and have many conservative relatives I know to be good people.

And yet I cannot conceive of how anyone could support Trump or the boot licking republicans who enable him. He is incapable of telling the truth. He does not seem to believe in reality, science, or expertise of any kind. He does not believe in rule of law. He is an authoritarian and egomaniac. Even before the election he challenged the idea of a peaceful transition of power. How is this supportable?

Edit: And to be clear I get that we live in a two-party country and that a vote for a candidate is not a wholesale endorsement. You look at the options you have and choose the "lesser of the evils," as it were. Hell, I would vote for Trump if the other candidate was Stalin.

Edit Edit: I know it’s bad form to make political rants like this on HN. I had a moment of weakness :/
> It's a chat app

I think you are reducing my argument a little here. I mentioned in my previous comment there are other benefits to working with large b2b companies other than the raw merits of a single provided app by itself.

> I very strongly disagree with the notion that integration into a locked-in ecosystem is a legitimate reason and not an abuse of power.

I disagree with you here. There are many legitimate business (and personal) reasons to stick with an ecosystem. If that wasn't the case, then people wouldn't pick those products. Open standards with interchangeable clients and servers do exist right now, IRC for example, though nobody uses them because companies like Microsoft provide a hosted solution that provides more value.

> You can ask yourself this, if every software company waas forced to implement transparent protocols and APIs, so that clients can freely choose their end-user software, what would the market share look like? If it would look different than it does now I think you can make a strong case that consumers are being deprived of choice.

This would be nice but I don't really think things would change that much. As I mentioned above, open standards already exist. We have email protocols, IRC, RTF, LaTeX, etc and people don't use them (with the exception of email). Forcing companies to open their APIs wouldn't force them to integrate with each other and, if they did, imagine being Slack in a world where Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, etc all had different APIs you had to integrate with and their products were already integrated with each other? That would be pretty expensive to implement and maintain and would definitively put you at a disadvantage due to your relative lack of resources.

Also, if all APIs were forced to be transparent, companies would still be able to build ecosystems that are more comprehensive and desirable than a patched-together set of disparate clients and hosts setup by some IT admin. A company which does one thing well, even if compatible with all other, like services (which would be an incredible feat) would never be able to ensure that their product would integrate better into every major company's ecosystem, putting them at the same disadvantage.

Additionally, there is real value with consolidating your software services under one company. You only have to manage one account, you might get a better deal because you are buying multiple services at the same time, all support would be centralized and bundled with other services you are buying.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-18/japane...
Okay so first of all I'm almost certain no approved vaccine existed in October, the first one started rollout this week, can you back this up with a source?

Maybe you knew someone participating in a study but that's not queue skipping.

Don't get me wrong I hate billionaires but this just seems like it can't factually be correct.
Good point on the consoles. I'm just thinking about my office and seeing thousands of new PCs bought every year. We're now getting more terminals and virtualized PCs running on servers. There isn't much reason to stay x86.
Yes if you are running an app development studio where every app looks and functions mostly the same.
Because he demanded twice the salary?
What is a social network? What makes Facebook different from Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, or Linkedin?

Basically if you define social network as something exactly like Facebook then, of course, that's what it is and everything else is excluded.
People don't just end up that way, they choose to live in these homes.
Not covered in the article, but in another demo the company says that they’re going to have a cart for bringing out new batteries and that you can change them out in the field. So if you need more than 10 hours, you can get 2 batteries and have it working 24/7 with minimal downtime.
> Our free market trades on the assumption that good, innovative products will prevail over less effective ones released by entrenched firms like Microsoft.

What a bizarre statement. The only think the free market assumes is that the market decides. Nothing else.
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Do you live in the middle of nowhere?
You don't need connections, it can be done with a simple metal coathanger and pliers in 20
minutes. There are instruction videos on YouTube.

It's a federal felony, however, good for the better part of a decade in jail.
They are actively testing self-driving combine harvesters in Russia, which makes perfect sense: large fields without too many random objects and mind numbing work for a human pilot.

https://www.foodandfarmingtechnology.com/news/autonomous-veh...

Also big-ass mining trucks:

https://techacute.com/zyfra-huawei-5g-test-autonomous-mining...
I have 4 family members in trials (2 Moderna, 2 Pfizer). I would volunteer for challenge trials if given the opportunity. I got the swine flu vaccine in 2010ish.

I would take basically any covid vaccine in a heartbeat. Personally, I see it as a moral obligation, since it is a necessary step to end the pandemic, and avoid impacting those that cannot take any of the vaccines.

Historically, vaccine side effect profiles are at most as bad as just getting the disease itself. There are early examples of contaminated vaccines (polio with SV40 in the 50s), but we’ve learned a lot about vaccine production since then.

I don’t expect to have the chance until ~July or later.
As a fellow young millennial doing red team security stuff professionally, XP is different from the others for a few reasons.

The first is that XP has a tendency to, by default, open a lot of forward facing holes and services that to my knowledge most other "old timey" OSes don't. I'm not familiar with riscos or amigaos, but I do know old versions of OS X ship with basically no attack surface, while XP (IIRC) will enable SMB and guest access automatically.

The second is that unlike those other OSes, XP was and is very widely used, and there are exploits which target XP and a range of other commonly used Windows machines. Unlike basically any other niche retro hardware, Windows is both 1) pervasively networked and 2) very widely attacked, and lacks basically any modern mitigation for exploits, so a simple buffer overflow in a networked service can easily become a RCE.
> Fully automatic weapons are not currently manufactured in the U.S.

This is a false statement. Only manufacture of automatic weapons for civilians is banned in the US.

Many automatic weapons are manufactured in the US for police/military/law enforcement.
Nationally, the number of deaths is going up pretty rapidly too.
From what I'm able to gather, a COVID infection produces robust immunity in most people, which is expected to last several years.

Having recovered completely from such an infection, I should be fine without it, and vaccines generally don't feel great and are not, in fact, without risk.

I think vaccines are a wonderful technology, to be clear. I'll get one for COVID only if it's standing between me and, say, getting on an airplane or entering a foreign country, which, let's be real: it probably will. States see like a state, after all; you can't just be immune to infection, you have to be legibly immune.
The browser primarily exists to address Windows's deficiencies in smooth package management for installing basic apps - that is, for "downloading" basic "webpages" - by simply clicking on the link.

Counterfactual are hard, but if you see browsers as a sort of "replacement OS as desktop application" then you can see why more competition among OSes would result in the browser being LESS important, not more!
> That's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous that you think it's ridiculous. No, I don't think Office should exist. If Microsoft had been forced to sell Word separately from Excel, we might all still have a choice to run Lotus123, or QuattroPro. There's nothing enshrined in the Constitution that says that companies have to be allowed to bundle whatever they want into their other products. I think it's the job of our government, in fact, to prevent it this sort of thing. Microsoft bought lots of companies during the 90's (good for them!), but ran a least a dozen more -- and prominent ones, at that -- out of the market by duplicating their software, and absorbing their business. Yes! Absolutely! Microsoft can make their own disk defragmentation product. Or antivirus. Or whatever. But put a price tag on it, even if it's $0, and let it compete with everything else that's already in the market. Don't bundle it. I mean, did the browser wars teach us nothing?
> which can be addressed by other means.

Maybe. Maybe not. If there was a good answer that everyone was happy with then I'm sure the democratic process would adopt it.

> The only difference between trying to prohibit supernumerary immigration of immigrants who aren't personally barred and selling extra spaces is that the money those people are willing and able to spend to immigrate goes to criminals, and the public foots additional costs of enforcement as well as dealing with the social costs of immigration and the additional social costs of illegality, instead of avoiding the last cost, mitigating the penultimate cost, and avoiding driving money to criminal organizations.

Again, just as with murder; the point of making it illegal is to stop it, and I'm sure the illegality cuts the rate at which it happens.
I keep thinking video games with a win/loss condition are supposed to make some kind of statement for my emotional tolerance and self-esteem. I was a scrub as a child a long time ago and could not handle failure. The "problem" is that I've since lost interest in games that are possible to lose. Winning now feels exhausting instead of liberating, and losing is only worse, of course. But I can explain away such a feeling by saying that not everyone necessarily likes these kinds of games. You can't just say that if you play a game, end up not performing well, and switch interest to other things, that you necessarily have serious mental baggage that you're leaving unresolved. People are too complex to make such generalizations.

But just for me, if I'm egged into playing a competitive game by someone else because they insist, then that is exactly what it feels like. I believe the only reason I don't press myself to best this person one day is because I'm a bad sport, not because I don't want to focus on the game because I want to do other things. I tell myself that I like creating things instead, and some other part of me won't have it, in order to capitalize on the feeling. I don't want to push myself to do all this training because I can't tolerate sustained amounts of failure and it's a lot of time to spend.

So even though games are not a significant interest to me, I am haunted by the notion that maybe if adolescent me had more self esteem, then that would not be the case, and that I've made some kind of mistake along the way. That I am just coddling myself, choosing instead to watch livestream archives where the win or loss was prerecorded, or selecting hobbies that are as easy to join as saying you watched something on TV the other night. People seem to agree that not being able to tolerate failure is not a good thing in general. And it feels like my tenuous relationship with games is somehow turning into a metaphor for the rest of my life, how I couldn't push myself to do better in other fields because of the same resistance to "getting good" not at fighting game combos or K/D ratios, but job networking or relationship building or taking constructive criticism to heart. The mechanism of failing, taking the fall, and doing better is the same. I don't need to play games and lose to feel that, whether or not I choose to turn off the console and leave, I'm still just a scrub at life.

I don't see games as a "superior" hobby to watching TV just because these problems come to light in the face of playing them. But I can never shake the feeling that I would be looked down on for them, by someone on an anonymous forum I'm unable to stop thinking about, or worse, someone who is the harshest critic and is also not possible to avoid: me.
> I've personally seen several people be priced out of an area due to this.

Ask a Californian about prop 13 ;-)
I think the longer term will come to pass faster than many people realize, like 2-3 years fast for new college grads and people moving jobs. Big companies are already signally they will adjust pay based on location, and it's a small leap from there to "fix the glitch"
And if it weren't for this endless river of fearporn I'd never know it.
I looked this up for a comment some time ago, and for someone in the 20-30 years range, the chance to die was somewhere aroun 1:10,000. That's still far above what you would usually expect for serious side effects of a vaccine (and I'm comparing death with serious side effects right now, so the actual comparison would be even more favorable to the vaccine).

I'm not in the risk group, and I would take the vaccine right now if it was offered to me. Even in the worst case the potential risks are below what a real COVID-19 infection would entail.
How do we decide what shared body of knowledge to pass on when, as you say, all the books give wildly different advice?