skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert but I'll share what I've learned so far, YMMV.

>Can someone help me understand the difference between this and other vaccines?

Here are the traditional vaccine types: https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/types

COVID-19 vaccines are all (to my knowledge) a new type called an 'mRNA vaccine' - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

These are basically the same as the 'subunit' type of vaccine, with the difference being that your body produces the subunits directly through instructions in the mRNA that is in the vaccine. In this case the mRNA in the vaccine instructs your cells to create copies of the 'spike protein' portion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. After being created by your own cells, these proteins enter the blood stream, trigger an immune response and ultimately immunity to viruses having that spike protein.

This is extremely targeted immunity vs. natural immunity generated by an infection, in which your body will create antibodies for all sorts of proteins in the virus. The broader resistance from natural immunity sounds good, and does have some benefit, but it also increases the risk of making your body react to its own tissues, creating an autoimmune condition. On the other hand, one potential downside of the mRNA vaccination is that if the virus mutates the spike protein sufficiently to resist the antibodies generated by the vaccine, you're back to square one.

> From what I know, the COVID-19 vaccine is only effective in reducing symptoms for those who get inoculated. Is it accurate to say this vaccine does not prevent infection or help develop an immunity?

As others have mentioned immunity does not mean 'zero infection', it simply means that your immune system is primed to stop the infection quickly by having antibodies for the spike protein.
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I think it is much higher, if you consider all the asymptomatic cases not counted.
There's no decent or indecent wine.
Nobody can tell a $500 wine from $10 wine in a blind tasting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting
This is a pretty good resource: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
> In the 4th quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.45 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.05 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.27 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 484,000 miles.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
I don't know, I just don't see the point of essentially killing another person.

Is the point revenge? To make sure this doesn't happen again? Is justice = revenge? Questions...

Like I guess my point is someone who is driving drunk is already not thinking logically. You could execute drunk drivers and the rate of new drunk drivers wouldn't change.
I don't think CBT or BJ Fogg's methods are a useful source for understanding how the mind works. I have limited exposure to CBT, but I used to do research for BJ Fogg. These models are descendents from behavioral psychology, which isn't all that great.

If habits work as an abstraction for you, great. But in general, it is not a good way of thinking about your mind as a bunch of random and temptation-ridden space that must be controlled. If you really understand a habit, it will no longer take any effort to choose to stop (or continue) it. Real change from A to B doesn't require consistent effort to stop being A (which is what all these habit-based models are about). It means you are B now, as if you have always been B, etc.

Check out Andre Kukla's The Mind for more info and stuff on memory reconsolidation/focusing.

EDIT: Real change isn't you are addicted to video games, and now you set up a really rigid schedule and regiment and discipline to stop playing video games, even though you REALLY want to. You still want to play videogames. It is not the mind that changed, but rather the circumstance (and some periphery of the mind that suppresses the temptations). Real change is actually you now being a person who never really liked videogames in the first place. So bunch of your friends are playing videogames in the living room, and you are more 'tempted' to study for the exam you have tomorrow.

Not that this is easy, but looking at habits won't get you to this place (given that you want this kind of real change). But the problem is people think habits are the only solution, and they dominate people's minds on how they think about themselves.
That will depend heavily on what state you are in. Dining in is fully open in some states with only masks on entry/exit. Mask usage in some areas is vastly different than others.

Its likely that a some places will heavily ease restrictions as soon as next month.

Will that be too early? Depends.
> every other self-driving car group is incorrectly deploying an expensive hardware solution

Given that Tesla are the only company to have put something approaching autonomy into the hands of customers, that does seem to be the case.

What happens next in this thread? Someone points out that Tesla's solution is still far from perfect and claims that they're being highly irresponsible by having shipped it. Then I'd ask how many accidents have happened as a result of FSD beta having shipped to some customers already and they assert that Tesla isn't transparent with the data so we don't know. I'd point out that if we don't know of a single Tesla FSD accident so far, it can't be that irresponsible to have put it in the hands of a few customers and that it's been rapidly improving in the weeks since. It's the same thread, repeated over and over on here, Reddit, etc.

Tesla was the company that made electric vehicles successful. To your point about groups taking different approaches, I think Musk & Tesla do take approaches that will differ from others, and succeed partly because of their approach being better in some important way. I think they had a bit of an unfair advantage when it came to autonomy. They needed hardware that could be shipped on vehicles as soon as possible, which meant that it needed to be cost efficient & energy efficient. LIDAR's energy efficiency doesn't get talked about much, and I don't mean just the LIDAR itself but also the subsequent processing power required to make sense of the resulting point cloud. Each Waymo vehicle is an expensive tech demo. It's a very good tech demo, but over the years it's become evident that they're very hesitant to scale it up right now. I'm sure they'll eventually get there, but they are not a company focused on getting this done ASAP. Tesla are getting autonomy done with urgency.
Absolutely. I'll even go one further: we won't actually know the exact moment that Level 5 arrives.

Cars with level 4 + remote assistance will be driving people around for a decade or more, phoning home less and less over time until one day someone notes that no car has phoned home for an entire year. Then maybe a car will phone home and the clock will start again. Decades from then, people will shut down the last remote assistance center.

But at that point, nobody will care about declaring Level 5 because we will have been riding around for decades in cars without steering wheels that we don't have to drive.
Ask HN: What are the best tools for extracting tax data from a W2 form?
I'm working on an open source tax filing web app at https://ustaxes.org/ and https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes

Any ideas on best practices for extracting tax data from a W-2 form? I've looked at Microsoft form-recognizer and AWS Textract, but I haven't been able to get good results so far. (caveat I haven't tried either with custom training data)
I’m not sure your reading of the political climate is accurate. A lot of places have already reopened schools, and I’ve heard a lot of politicians explicitly say that they’re willing to pay the price because it’s not a big deal if kids get it. Maybe they’re wrong, but if you expect that there’ll be public support behind keeping things closed when the death and hospitalization rates start plummeting, I think you’d better readjust.
Exactly what I've been looking for, thank you!
Vaguely curious why this is the case, if people are respecting the pandemic.
I think the poster above you was talking about the chances of death from the virus, not simply the chance of infection.

I think it's pretty well established at this point that the case fatality index for children is vastly lower than for older adults, about 0.1% for people under age 29. [1]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518649/
Or worse—僕はうなぎだ!
sudo apt-get install nginx

Check where nginx puts the www directory by doing a google search, "myos version nginx default directory".

cp index.html /var/www/
cp latestphoto.jpg /var/www/
# or use your OS GUI file manager

Set up the port forward from the router to localip:80 and you're done.

You're assuming you need HTTPS but it's a personal static site so no letsencrypt is needed yet. You're assuming they need to configure nginx, but they don't the debian/ubuntu defaults are fine. You're assuming they need to learn version management for some unfathomable reason but I can't even understand that. You're assuming people need some sort of 'sync' but they don't. That's what an OS file manager is for.

It's really not that complex unless you make it so.
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are consistently fall short of promises
Of course! Anyone can grab something from the ocean floor (~3000m deep), especially something as easy to find as a lump of glass. Glass is also totally easy to melt on your kitchen stove and adding radioactive glass to the bomb you have lying around anyway, turns the bomb from a harmless firecracker into a totally menacing doomsday machine.

Yes, that's the first thing a terrorist would think of.

Seriously, dirty bombs are a red herring. It's the "bomb" part you should be worried about, not the "dirty" part.
Think, for a moment.

Let’s all think.

Are we saying it is tragic for smart and young people to be in prison but not older or less intelligent people?

I’m not messing with you or being snarky. I felt your sentiment keenly and then wonder what exactly I’m agreeing with.
That's how you know he's a physician and not a politician. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/fauci-says-us-has-independen...
Your impression of Delhi and Agadir doesn't seem right to me. By the numbers, Delhi has the highest crime-rate in india, but it has a 5 times lower rate of crime than San Francisco does.

And also, self-driving cars will all have enough cameras and be constantly connected to a server that theft will be far less likely for them than regular cars... and regular calls already seem to get by just fine without people stripping them to the bolts.
But you're stuck in a world where apps are segregated that way. But if I were Google, I'd change android to make their messaging app backend-agnostic and able to send information to any app with a unified frontend. I'd ban from the store if not.

Done, nobody cares anymore, for real and features will come from Google :D We're so stuck on using 2 apps instead of 2 networks we forget mobile phone providers had to agree together to do SMS decades ago, and it went fine with dumbed down feature.

And let's be honest, the only killer feature that made me finally adopt whatsapp like 6 years ago was that it used the data plan that works on WIFI rather than the phone plan. We were all fine with SMSes before.
Well if you’re the guy buying and managing wine for AA, maybe you have some extra time on your hands and some extra pallets of wine given the circumstances. So rather than be axed by management, why not propose a wacky wine club promo? This article alone could have saved a couple of people their jobs. And honestly, rightly so. $50k is not a lot in the grand scheme of things for an airline, but it just may patch a hole in the budget of ‘wine division’ of the AA catering subsidiary, or something to that effect. I’m sure it’s a modest coup for someone. I doubt it was dreamt up by the CEO and discussed at board meetings as a way to save the company or anything.
I agree. I've been using Telegram for quite a few years, and back then I used to be more of an early adopter and tried to make my social circles to switch to Telegram and one circle did, the tech circle. The other circles didn't care much about the features that Telegram had as much as the contacts they had on Whatsapp.

So now with that amount of people switching trying out Telegram, could mean that at least 2-3 people on a non-tech social circle might be using Telegram which might end up convincing the whole group to switch because of features (polls? utility bots?) or any other benefit they might find.
> ongoing vaccination (after herd immunity is reached) is irrelevant to the herd immunity calculation. Is that what you meant? Though we'd obviously still need vaccinations

Yeah, exactly. Depending on other model factors (like ongoing vaccinations, relative mortalities, economic costs etc) the best time (and degree) to open up may be earlier or later than the technical herd immunity point.

To make an unfair argument: is 65% vaccination the end of WFH, or just when we should open up outdoor dining? If we vaccinate the youngest 65%, clearly we'd have different restrictions than if we'd vaccinated the eldest 65%. Etc.
It's the Musk pattern. For every single company he's started, people are always 100% confident it won't work, and also (somehow) a bit offended that he's trying.
Send him the Holy Bible too, in addition to the math papers.
Peering agreements between Backblaze and Cloudflare
Seriously, this video made my day and I am searching for more. I basically think of it as a "how computing stacks should be" talk. Also just launched GNU Smalltalk on the side and looking for a good tutorial, by the way.
Easily the best project I've seen over last coupler of days. Will definitely follow and may be contribute, if i can
At arm's length, you're also describing the average middle-class midwestern conservative, except we rely on religious organizations, there's winter here, and the harassment isn't allowed to get that bad.
It seems like an extreme different from the current one. From the post: "In short, without direct access to the internet or fellow researchers [...]" - that seems like a really stupid limitation for someone who wants to be productive. Many countries could start with prisons which are not pure punishment. We even have "open prisons" in a few places.

Once we stop over-punishing, it could be easier to imagine plan for what no-prison world would look like.
You’re not wrong, but the right people cannot profit or accumulate power via the spread of natural immunity, and not at all coincidentally it is unpopular to mention.

“But the risk is far too great not to pay trillions and surrender our freedom,” retorts a frightened chorus of people.
He killed 2 people.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/06/man_sentenced_1...
With feedback hub, the reports along with any diagnostics get routed to engineering teams assigned to the feature.

The only downside imo is we (engineers) cannot directly respond to a end-user feedback.
In larger cities, yes. In midsize cities, unlikely. The walkability score in my neighborhood is not very good. If I want to go to the store, I can hop on my car when and be there in 10 minutes. If I had to wait for a car to come pick me up everything, that would be annoying.

Not only that, but lots of people’s identities are grounded in the type of car they drive. You’ll never pry that away from those people, you’ll have to wait for a new generation who haven’t formed that type of bond to an vechicle.
Python Notes for Professionals book would have been perfect five years ago when I started my programming career

Link: https://books.goalkicker.com/PythonBook
It depends on who gets vaccinated. For example, Israel focused first on the 20% of the population (largely elderly) who drive 95% of deaths.
I for one expect this initiative to be thoroughly misused in pursuit of elitist ideological and political objectives.

Keeping record is the most basic function of journalism. Without that, then what's the point?
Social credit is different. Social credit imposes penalties for deviating from the norm or even associating with those who do. This is more like feeding apple health and google for data into IBM watson and getting personalized recommendations out.
Yeah he's been all over the place since day one. I don't really listen to the guy anymore.
To be fair, communicating medical information through some channels is illegal due to privacy/security concerns. However I know that Kaiser in particular does actually email you to say "you have a message", even though it won't say what that message is.

When you're at the hospital, you might be able to pop by the administration office to make sure that the email they have for you is correct... you know, for when the next pandemic comes and you have this problem again.
‘Alcohol has ruined a lot of lives’

True. True fact.

You don’t know that this is that.
It can even happen without cycles. If object A contains two references to object B and you want to read A back into memory the same way (rather than have it contain two different but identical objects B) you have to deal with the issue of referential integrity. No cycles needed.

If your domain model is strictly that of rows in an RDBMS, there's no problem. Otherwise you're not storing objects but graphs of objects and overlooking that simple fact is the source of many serialization problems.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/06/man_sentenced_1...

Alcohol is the worst drug in the world.
I've worked in environments using the exact approach you described, and it definitely seems like the prevalent workflow using these CMSs.

Still doesn't help that most WP sites I've ever seen inevitably were those huge card castles just waiting to crumble at the next plugin update. Cause of course, the remarketing plugin the client needs/wants installed just introduced some weird edge-case bug when used in combination with the latest version of the forms plugin you use. Or they ask (demand) administrative privileges "cause they're paying" and proceed to start messing with the configuration themselves and destroy everything. All the local development copies in the world won't make it less temperamental and brittle.

Its success - IMHO - doesn't have much to do with its technological merits but familiarity. Most "content" people know how to use WP, so companies like to have WP for their content management.

Or maybe I'm just bitter of my time working in the kind of environments that tend to focus on WP. Although last news I got were they were starting to use it more as headless CMSes.
Would you consider putting it on the App Store?
Any talk of magic when it comes to money reminds me of the vague, hand-wavy claims of people peddling pyramid schemes.
My understanding is "anything not new might be modified". It's not specific to books.
This paper seems really interesting, and it’s geared towards applications I guess

For more fundamental material I like the CS231n course notes [0] and Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville [1]

0: https://cs231n.github.io/

1: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
It’s prison, I’m sure there are lots of bibles.
You didn't talk about action sports cameras...
Renesas has own fabs in Japan and car manufacturers and Denso tend to order and use their chips at cheap.
That's not an assessment of the heat pollution tradeoffs.
This is great! If you're not a Delta Chat user and someone tries to message you, can you receive and respond to it as an email?
Seriously, it has been a while since I have seen a comment as uncharitable as that one at the top of the HN comments.

This move is simply a recognition that many of these stories about minor crimes can have a long lasting impact because of the SEO of a site like The Boston Globe's and the power of Google. That negative impact likely does a net harm to society as a whole as it actively works against rehabilitation efforts by serving as a scarlet letter for this person's entire life. Working to reduce that by removing these pages when they are no longer newsworthy isn't censorship, affirmative action, or anything else that OP it stating or hinting at. I truly don't understand being against a decision like this on the merits.
"You won't be required to login to your Occulus Rift"

"You won't need Facebook to use Whatsapp"

"You won't need Facebook when I'm president"
I'm beyond disturbed that you think a suggestion to proselytize your religion without any other discussion or interest in this person's life is a useful and empathetic action here.

Please don't do this. Think more before you speak.
Wikipedia is actually talking about real laws there. If I have a basketball, and you complain to the court you have a better proprietary right to the basketball than me and then I stole it, then they can order me to give it back (specifically, award a constructive trust over the ball in your favour, so if I sold the ball I have to give you the proceeds etc), but it’s hard to argue that without evidence of your own possession of the ball. Fortunately contracts cases literally all have that evidence, because being owed something under a contract IS a better right than possession, and lack of evidence of possession is never the problem. This is why it is silly to be talking about possession dominating these disputes — your point about multi-jurisdiction FOSS arrangements would be better if you identified conflict of laws and other jurisdictional issues as preventing people making claims at all. It is merely coincidental that the people who currently have it retain it, it is not an instance of the possession dominating phenomenon.

Edit: to be clear, people don’t shy away from prosecuting a valid contract claim simply because the other party currently possesses the item in question. “The other party has my stuff” is on the contrary very motivating to a lot of potential litigants. It is not a “barrier”.
On the extreme end, consider someone on a spotty and slow mobile connection going through Google results to find what they want. They're only going to give you a few seconds before they hit "back" on your site and try another. The round trip for the browser to fetch the CSS file after the HTML file arrives can be enough to cause that delay.
edit: this was a comment on what I would do but getting downvoted trying to have a conversation about this is demotivating
I'm pretty sure mobileye has demonstrated their FSD solution without lidar as well. It seems like they are treating lidar as optional.

They have many more cameras than Tesla to support the camera only approach, though.
There were some compelling new EVs and price drops around the pandemic time frame. For example we bought a Model Y.

A pandemic is also a great time to get a car, because prices had dropped with many incentives, but also driving to go on socially distant hikes is a great way to stay healthy and break things up.
Why not just export as png then let the os print it.
According to Elon, phantom braking was fixed in October: https://twitter.com/EVHQ2/status/1314287584105779200.
You can however stop punishing drunk driving and watch the number of drunk driving incidents skyrocket. The punishment is designed to act as a deterrent.
What do you think about how members of the last US executive administration should be treated? Should people give them jobs?

Most people are in favor of punitive justice, but for the "right" wrongs.
If they want liquidity, sell 2/3 on the open market. Allow NVIDIA etc to buy up to 10% with their own stock instead of cash. Softbank isn't going to clear regulatory hurdles in a monopoly premium sale.
Whenever public resistance becomes inconvenient enough that the media are forced to change the narrative.