skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just dramatically worse than their comparable neighbors who, unlike the rest of Europe, share the same cultural/demographic/socio-economic factors. Nothing screams denialist more than people trying to hand-wave the Swedish failure away by ignoring neighbors and comparing them to some other, bigger, EU covid clusterfuck.
Another reason why herd immunity won't work is because natural Covid-19 immunity seems to have a pretty short duration based on my own experience.

Source: Had Covid in March 2020, then again in December 2020. Only the second time was confirmed by PCR test (tests were not readily available back in March), but the symptoms are exactly the same so I'm convinced I've had it twice now. Immunity doesn't last 9 months!
Fashion design appeared (and maybe still appears) to be one those areas where one could easily gain transcending fame and notoriety; catering to elites.

Contrasting it to software or an app (design), the thing could be used by millions and barely anyone knows who you are.

Maybe because fashion designers themselves get to appear on stage and cement their face in everyone's consciousness? Imagine if your software or app would display you, the designer, each time someone starts it up...

Hmmm Mark Zuckerberg comes to mind. The default "friend" for each new facebook account...

I guess I answered my own question?
The older ones for sure, but all the modern ones have moved to ARM7-TDMI then to Cortex-Mx cores.
Brilliant write up!
You're just all over this thread spreading misinformation. Why?
There is quite a bit of emigration judging by the number of young Spanish people in the UK.

Another thing is that there is a significant "black economy" in Spain. I.e. the unemployment numbers do not exactly reflect the actual number of people who cannot find any work, which is less than the official figure.
> The 2010 episode of Futurama titled The Prisoner of Benda centers around a machine that swaps the brains of any two people who use it. The problem is, once two people use the machine to swap brains with each other, they cannot swap back.

> In this article, we present a new proof of this theorem and also a generalization of it to what would happen if, instead, the machine swapped cyclically the brains of p characters, where p is prime.
In the advertised forms, absolutely horrible idea, why would anyone introduce so much uncertainty in the monetary system is beyond me.

There are smart ways to do it though, such as doing it in a second-tier currency that buys only essentials or directly in terms of food, shelter and education. Just a free STEM/business education will go a long way if we can find some way to keep students engaged and committed to put the effort to actually learn.
what an oddly annoying manner of writing
There're so many ways to lie with statistics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-work_society
And then there's a fourth stage, where different proteins come together to from a complex.

The BioNtech-Vaccine accounts for this afaik, to prevent the spike-proteins from clumping.
Interesting book, can you share a specific passage that debunks the above?
60% effective but 100% effective at preventing severe illness. That's really what matters. It's not about making sure nobody gets the virus (none of the vaccines can offer that) it's about making sure we can live with this thing until it goes away.

I live in the UK and if they offer this, I'm taking it.
>If you're a shareholder and your company merges with one of equal size, your vote is diluted by half. It's true whether you own one share or a million.

This discussion wasn't about mergers. Amazon isn't merging with anyone. They're outright buying their competition.
I have never understood, why everyone brings up inflation as an argument against this, as if that isn't something that already exists

Inflation is only an issue if you spend money beyond what is required to achieve full employment in the workforce, since new money in the system is balanced with new wealth being generated through work

Inflation can then be controlled through taxation. Raising taxes pulls money out of circulation, thereby reducing inflation

Private banks already have the ability to create money out of thin air, but for some weird reason, that's apparently not really an issue for most people

I can't think of any small European countries that I can imagine defaulting without the euro. Could you specify which ones you think would have defaulted?
> mitigates poverty

I think that's the main point of the idea. It doesn't promise to make everything better for everybody just not horrible as it is now.
> I am sure no one takes joy in "destruction of civil liberties"

Sadly, I am not so sure
In practice places like the UAE are examples. Where there is severe punishment for theft. Diamond shops will leave diamonds in front of you while they tend to other customers.
In an unconstrained high incidence situation you need much, much harder isolation to reach a level of individual safety comparable to that of a lockdown that barely achieves an R value of roughly one. More like a space station than like a hotel.

And that level of lockdown you'd need at some point anyways, because even adults well within working age require intensive care often enough when infected to overload any health system.

And yes, despite all this, if vaccines were decades out (if you expect to be unable to achieve China-grade suppression) instead of months a path like the one you advocate might be the least bad. But "vaccines decades out" a counterfactual.
I would have gone for `sleep(1000)` and have it run in parallel with the actual function, so that every request takes 1000 milliseconds
O'rly? How much do you charge?
Collyw must be trolling.

S/he also posted that we shouldn't be chasing vaccines when we have hydroxychloroquine.
All of these countries are not the right baseline to compare against. Funny, how positive shutdown results are hand waved away with population density and so on, while Sweden never gets compared against the other Scandinavian countries Finland and Norway. I know Finland is not technically Scandinavia, but a better to compare Sweden against than Denmark.
> is it because the work just isn't needed?

Well, obviously it isn't needed today but you can always change the economy so that it becomes profitable enough to hire everyone.

>Does spain already produce and provide services in a way that scale to all its population?

A lot of products come from China nowadays which means your domestic workers have to do high skill jobs to compete internationally or low skill jobs that can only be done domestically. You can also argue that environmental protections make it unprofitable to a lot of things domestically.
But note the correction at the bottom of that page:

April 27, 2020

An earlier version of this story said the Swedish government is pursuing a strategy of "herd immunity." Swedish officials say their plan was to impose limited restrictions instead of a lockdown but have denied they were purposely pursuing a strategy of herd immunity.
Damn it, now you guys are all on my website and the ogg-vorbis encoding (a requirement for the stream working in Chrome) crashed and I'm not at home!

Edit: I finally got home and restarted the ogg stream. Will have to find a solution for it to remain up...
They did find fewer asymptomatic infections in the half+full dose arm but the N is not large enough.
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> However this production has to exist in order to maintain a profit of a few and above all

And to keep the jobs of those doing that kind of production.
I read an article a few years ago about Spaniards living in small flats more than any other country in Europe.

There are a few features of Spain that can explain why:

- Spain is mostly empty space and population is concentrated in cities

- Spaniards spend a lot of their time on the outside, so they don't need much space at home

- There are 18.5 million of families in Spain, the largest group are families of two people (with children), the second largest are people living alone (4.5 million) that would explain why there are empty houses, many people living alone cannot afford or do not want to live alone and share an apartment.

> so we have to think of a post-work society

You mean the pre-work society, right? :)

Work as the means of subsistence is a relatively recent invention.

There are other factors beyond the economic value of work, most of them are non-rational.

Take for example Christianity, for Christians until 19th century work was a form of redemption and salvation.

The idea has never completely faded away among them.

Calvinists and Protestants still believe that "born of poor parents and made his way up the ladder by sheer ability, self-reliance, and perseverance in the face of hardship. In short, he had to be "self made." The so-called Protestant Ethic then prevalent held that man was a sturdy and responsible individual, responsible to himself, his society, and his God. Anybody who could not measure up to that standard could not qualify for public office or even popular respect."

Do you think that large segments of US population (just as an example) would believe that or what Martin Luther King jr. said?

> We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor — both black and white, here and abroad

More recently work for Christians has become a means of subsistence but it has become a way to express righteousness, as Weber said "Good works may express our devotion to values of care, compassion, or love for our neighbor, to a way of being that emulates the life of Jesus".

So in a way people go to work for reasons other than simply the salary.

To imagine a society without work one needs to also address the social and political issues revolving around it, it's not simply a technical solution to a technical problem, it's much more than that.
honestly what kind of gymnatics we have to do in order to just accept the fact that

windows is most popular os on desktop/home/work(non-server) PCs?
Good point on the monitoring requirement but not sure why you think this would need a prescription?

Normal vaccinations you just go through some questions on risk factors before the nurse gives you the shot, usually on egg allergy, any past reactions and the like. No reason this would be any different.
So you're advocating for stealing these empty apartments from their owners and giving them to the poor, obviously, for free?
The third phase trial was double-blinded and when they unblinded it, it turned out that of all the people (170 persons) who got infected, only 5% (8 persons) were in the group of those who got the real vaccine.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Does CloudFlare specifically matter? Most services you use are not SSL-terminated on own servers, so most of the time there’s a third party that can theoretically access your data.
I think this is a low-effort post that brings nothing new to the table and that it degrades the level of discussion. I'd like you to put more effort into bringing perspective to a discussion in future posts you make
Yeah give the virus the chance to mutate so that vaccines are ineffective or it starts killing young people. Most people in favour of keeping everything open ignore the fact the virus mutates so more people are infected the larger the chances of a deadlier strain or a virus against which the current vaccines are ineffective.
For crying out loud, nobody likes being at home for more than a year, but how can you make such claims? As of now, there's no way of telling whether there're no long-term consequences for young people. We're completely in the dark and you're suggesting taking the chances.
Office was and is so popular because it's better than the competition. Microsoft originally had hoped someone else would provide decent office type software. But it was crap so they wrote their own.
You do not need variadic macros!

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Is this less nice? I personally do not like dangling )'s [I did not have to write DOS batch scripts :D]
You could distribute it in limited batches to only the most vulnerable which should reduce any risk of that. I think the most vulnerable are in any case most likely to already be heavily using the health services anyway (and would be the ones engaging them the most if they caught the virus).
It means that it's double blind study showed that only 5% of those who took the vaccine contracted and developed covid19 symptoms when compared with the placebo group.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/learning/what-does-95-eff...
Why wouldn't any company of wealthy person just leave these countries. As these developing countries start to rise and compete. They get safer to live in. They built solid infrastructure. One may ask why live in these places
Not only that, but she could have been infected before she was vaccinated.
I wonder if she changed her behavior wrt corona precautions after she had her vaccine shot.
Spain had a massive property / construction bubble years ago. Wages grew substantially until 2008, when the industry crashed. It shattered the economy for many years until we started to slowly recover, in 2015 or so.

The last few years before COVID, wages were improving and things were looking a bit better overall. All of that seemed to vanish the moment lockdown started.

Regarding lack of skill, as a developer I notice two things:

1) Most young people seeking a technical position are hilariously unqualified despite having spent many years studying some engineering degree. School here has no connections with the real world and there is a lack of personal project culture.

2) Those who are qualified have to compete against hundreds of applicants for a position. Job scarcity is a serious problem for developers here, since it also means having no leverage to negotiate your working conditions.
I'm on state money right now, and volunteer to keep some sane life schedule. And going to a place to do things without thinking about salary blackmail is uplifting. You go there, see what's have to be done, do it, go home. Very interesting experience.

That said I wonder, if done globally and long term, I wouldn't fall into laziness or very low productivity life (stress levels would sure fall to zero too, which is good)
> In the 1970s there was a huge concern that if proper infrastructure was built, it would cause foot and mouth disease to make its way from South to Central and North America

That's fascinating!

Wikipedia shows that the disease is nearly eradicated in South America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-and-mouth_disease

I suppose there still wouldn't be an economic incentive to build a road when there are two large bodies of water on either side?
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they'll have a hard time, keeping up with the changing logo!
Let the tweaking of UBI begin!

Give it a decade or so and it will look like any other social program. An army of bureaucrats to manage a complex system.
ITT, lot's of anecdotal stories about people using map services and driving down crappy roads in the middle of nowhere. Here's some aggregated data to provide context on how road networks are composed and the changes they go through.

The road network in Sweden is comprised of 36 million+ distinct coordinates that form 3 million+ roads which are joined on 2.4 million+ nodes.

In the first half of 2020, 16 thousand+ class (funktionell vägklass) 9 roads were added to the network, consisting of 2,769 km of road. Class 9 roads are the highest classification of roads in the Swedish road network and is loosely defined as "where vehicle traffic normally doesn't occur but is totally possible". Class 9 roads compromise 38.2% of all road links in the Swedish road-network for vehicles.

This represents the lions share (64.22% number of road links, 75.33% km of road link) of the changes in the road network during the first half of 2020.

This data originates from the NVDB service of the Swedish traffic agency and can be viewed here on a map:
https://nvdb2012.trafikverket.se/SeTransportnatverket
Yes. Listened to one of the researchers talking about this. They said just that, this time difference here is almost all down to not waiting for funding or going through the usual grant process.
At the very least we shouldn't assume that immunity will last for a short period of time. It may be possible since we obviously cannot have the data on long-term immunity yet, but there's no evidence of any significant uptick in reinfection... yet, and for what it's worth, immunity against the previous SARS coronavirus was long-lasting, so some optimism is warranted.

Evidence is necessarily lacking, but at least there's no obvious cause for concern yet.
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Website nit: the "npm install --save-dev candymail" installs this as a devDependency which is normally reserved for development tools like TypeScript, linters, etc. Things which are not needed at runtime. Your library is definitely needed at runtime so "--save" is the appropriate flag.
As this is the internet, medical questions are answered anecdotally by randoms, like me:
I got COVID back in March. I'd say I got medium sick. Worst few days of my life.
In the last 9 months I have been in close contact with people who have later also gotten ill, but I have not had any effects myself. So either I'm spreading it or I am immune (or both?). So there you go.
In the Java stdlib, Set is implemented on top of HashMap. I don't see how the opposite is possible?
I'm not an expert myself, but I've done a lot of reading. I don't have a specific source at hand, but this is the consensus I've gotten from any interviews of vaccinologists or epidemiologists I've read or heard. Essentially that any side effects from vaccinations show up within a few weeks—that there just isn't a mechanism for them to appear years down the line if they haven't already been seen sooner, for the reason I described.

Now again it is possible that side effects could still be discovered in patients with complicating factors that weren't represented in the trials (like pregnancy or other known or unknown pre-existing conditions). Or just because the effects were too rare to show up significantly in the trials. But again these would be expected to show up quickly as widespread vaccination begins, as did the few severe allergic reactions that have occurred.

Of course as with anything, especially as charged an issue as vaccines, if one goes looking for it one can find plenty of purported evidence that long-term side-effects (by which I mean here side effects that don't show up until long after the vaccine is taken) are possible or even common. But the expert consensus based on the totality of evidence appears to be that this is not a serious concern.
>I want so see the effects on the total economy. If for example UBI leads to massive inflation it would completely nullify the UBI.

Actually that would be highly desireable because it would mean the UBI acts as "employment of last resort" rather than free money, except you don't have to do anything to keep your job. It also means that every job will pay more than UBI which means there is no incentive not to work. Considering the financing challenges you want as few people as possible on the UBI.
Somehow related. Post-Brexit, many young liberal europeans I know suggested stripping older UK nationals of their voting rights. Just like that, you'd be amazed how far people can go with this.
> All new inventions come with some degree of this bullshit. I'm no longer excited about any new technology - because the businesses productizing it will almost surely ruin it.

Then you could consider company Purism, https://puri.sm/products, who offers lifetime updates for their devices, FLOSS, no DRM.
It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a very real thing that all the major players do and a bunch of 3rd party startups as well. Logging in from same browser, showing similar habits on the same IP from home, etc. it’s typically part of data enrichment. I worked on a project that tied into a system like this about 5ish years ago and it was fascinating how deep this goes. I thought I was just not on top of things but now I see a google employee also in the dark about it. This feels like one of those things 5 years from now will create a scandal when a journalist wraps their head around what it is
> 3) Inequality is very high, with 10M+ people struggling to make ends meet

Whatever people mean when they say inequality, I don't see how a UBI can help. If some people are not working hard enough to justify their existence to the economy without a UBI, they are never going to be even imaginably close to equal with someone running a big company.

The only way for the economy to recognise someone who is only sorta-working is equal to someone who is devoting their life to running a successful and productive business is to bankrupt everyone. It isn't going to happen, and if it does happen it will be worse than the status quo.

Inequality isn't a problem. Low living standards among the poor is a problem. Conditions at the unhappy end of the spectrum is more important than both conditions at the good end and the gap between the two endpoints.
This is as suprising as the amount of comments assuming the nurse is female.

Edit for those who just comment after reading the headline: The article clearly states the nurse is Matthew W. and uses the he pronoun in the following sentences.
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Well, good news is they are standard issue in the jail system so you cant hide contraband in your radio or tv set.
Curious as to how your claim follows?
Not sure why you’re downvoted. Completely reasonable question.

Not everyone has the same needs. So UBI either has to be so high that everyone can have a basic standard of living (e.g. a nurse for a disabled person) or you retain a plethora of other social programs to address those needs.

And I always ask - what about the drug addict that blows through their whole UBI on day 2? What then? Let them starve in the street? Of course not, there will be a separate social program for them as well.
I dislike UBI a lot. (coming from the left side of the European political spectrum for what it's worth) for a few reasons. The first one is that I think work is a fundamental aspect of personal life and people feel deeply rewarded for being compensated for it. UBI is underpinned by a sort of Wall-E philosophy of human nature. It in a weird way presents itself as humanistic but is deeply apolitical and anti-social.

Secondly it creates dependency between receivers and givers. I'd rather empower workers collectively than make people dependent on welfare. This, in contrast to UBI is I think viable across the spectrum and actually what people want.

I think UBI rests on a sort of naive utilitarianism that overrates material equality and underestimates what's wrong with the system as it is and what really makes people angry and pessimistic. For that reason I also don't think it's ever going to get a political majority.
Art (if one consider fashion art is debatable, but it entails artistic qualities, aesthetics, impressions, emotions) appeals to different part of humans. Or if you will Pierre Cardin's and peers effect is more around what Steve Jobs / Apple was in the tech world. Not utility first .. but something else.