skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"vaccine hesitancy"

Is that anti-vaxxers / laziness?

Also, the US still has a very poorly designed system to promote herd immunity. Basically, you are charging people to contribute to herd immunity, rather than paying people to contribute to herd immunity.

COVID isn't even some "perfect bug" that maximizes the strategic/policy failures of US healthcare and preys on our self-interest. It's a very very mild pandemic compared to 20-40% death rate pandemics of yore. Maybe a death rate at those levels would spur "healthcare consumer self-interest" to vaccinate... but if there was an outright 3% death rate, would people's behavior change? 5%? 10%?

And for god sakes, stop letting perfect be the enemy of good. "Herd Immunity" isn't necessarily 100% resistance. We can achieve a great reduction with vaccinations even if it isn't perfect.

Edit: I was reading that I would be charged a 40-100$ administration fee. I guess that is being charged back to the government.

... this time.
Skara Brae was occupied as early as 3180 BC. Egyptians didn't finish the first pyramids until ~2600 BC.

It is truly a wonder - especially given the different circumstances than a fertile river valley.
Continue to cower inside.
Utility is compared against other choices of vaccine and how much more time it would take to distribute those instead, or compared against not giving it to certain groups that are susceptible to the reaction (and the time it takes to find those groups), not against doing nothing.
HCoV-OC43 is an endemic betacoronavirus very similar to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). We don't have significant herd immunity to it. Instead most people get infected as youths and develop a level of immunity which protects against severe symptoms during subsequent reinfections. But it still kills frail elderly and immunocompromised patients.

We don't have proof of when HCoV-OC43 first emerged but circumstantial evidence indicates that it probably caused the 1889-1890 pandemic and killed about 0.06% of the world population. If we allowed SARS-CoV-2 to run it’s course without vaccination then the outcome would probably be similar or a little worse because the population today is on average older with a higher incidence of co-morbid conditions. (I am not suggesting we follow that approach.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/#!po=92...
I can attest to that, I just bought Luigi Ballabio's book on QuantLib [1] and the quality is very decent.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Implementing-QuantLib-Quantitative-...
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Counter argument: the evolutionary pressure that makes a species smart enough to colonize a planet (say, earth) doesn't make them smart enough to colonize space beyond their solar system.

Since there is no evolutionary pressure to increase intelligence further, the species does not leave the planet.
Wow! The 3D-Sim of the nuclear envelope at the wikipedia article was amazing but seeing the structure in the neuron is astounding. Do you know how long imaging takes for this? I assume the post-processing is slow but will video be possible someday?
>hes a clotting expert, not a COVID expert. So of course he sees clots everywhere

and while I'm sure that a cancer expert has a tendency to see cancer more than your average guy, I'd still rely on a cancer expert for an opinion on cancer

this is a weird take. A clotting expert is supposed to comment on clotting issues, that this is a covid vaccine isn't even really relevant.
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Ok that’s pretty far removed from a prosecutor relying on that image though
A new paper estimates the economic benefits of the first billion spent on vaccines at $17 trillion, and $1 trillion for each of the next few billions spent. We should have spent a lot more money on vaccines.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/bi...
First and foremost, don’t panic. Certainly don’t shut entire industries down for a whole year.
The other part of this is that it can't be contained, either. Very recently, Auckland had a lockdown because of community spread. It could be from animals, or it could be a handful of 1% events happening, but New Zealand tried really hard to prevent this and wasn't able to.

Like that article suggests, it's likely that we'll have to learn to live with it. The interesting, open question right now is how various mitigation measures, everything from quarantines, masks, work from home, lockdowns, vaccines, will impact the evolution of the virus.
https://www.who.int/csr/don/06-november-2020-mink-associated...
That is in theory. If BTC becomes legit one fine day, what percentage of the world owns BTC and what percentage of the world's wealth will they own? If that doesn't scare you I don't know what will..
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When you compare for price, they are not that slower.

I have 3 1TB WD Blacks that reach 300 mb/s, when I was shopping for my drives, similar SSDs were either crazy expensive (10 times are much for example) or they were tiny, or the ones with "use-able" size and reasonable price, were SLOWER than the WD Blacks in sequential writes and reads (they were still faster in random access, for obvious physics reasons).

To be honest I am perfectly happy with my WD Blacks and never felt the need to switch to SSD, usually my speed bottlenecks are somewhere else (often network speed! it is surprinsingly hard to find good network hardware, all I find is random cables, adapters and routers, that shops don't even know what their speed limits are, asking if a cable supports gigabit ethernet just get me confused looks)

EDIT: This post score is fluctuating, suggesting to me people are sometimes downvoting it. I wonder why... I mean, I posted some anedacta, but why the downvote? There is not even anything to disagree with on my post, unless I wrote something very wrong, but nobody replied to say what is wrong...
If Hikaru and Magnus played just another game, we wouldn’t be talking about it. Doing something unusual, funny, unique, draws attention and helps chess develop an audience. This was a low risk, higher profile situation to do it in.
Specify the platform and that you want it precompiled for that platoform?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotne...

<RuntimeIdentifier>linux-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
<PublishReadyToRun>true</PublishReadyToRun>

It will still Jit after 30 calls to refine further; but should start at a higher level of optimization.
Thank you! I really have no idea, sorry! The beginning is influenced a lot by `she`, but the second half dips more into post-rock than EDM.
> What I think you mean is that communication needs to be either really fast, or at least a lot faster than the travelling.

Precisely. Messengers wouldn't cut it. Ancient empires always struggled to maintain control of their edge territories, because communication was too slow, even with messengers on horse.
The culling of the Mink Farms in Denmark should be evidence enough that it can travel through animals.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/pollution-fear...

The fact that it already mutated going through a bat or pangolin before going back to humans suggests this is based in sound evidence.
> Neal Stephenson published “Fall” last year which treats this as a purely technical problem. Once our scanning resolution is good enough, he supposes, we’ll be able to create perfect digital replicas of brains

That's...not at all accurate.

> How much of the universe do you need to simulate in order to accurately simulate one human being? All of it, it turns out. And even then, there’s no reason to believe that human will be or feel the same as the meat substrate from which it was copied.

That's actually much closer to the premise of Fall than your summary was.
The first one is only true for a solo founder. Given that they said "we", the company's money is still the company's money.

Also, it's not clear to me that avoiding accountability is really a plus for a startup. Basically the first thing I did when I was exploring a solo founder/bootstrapped thing was to hire a startup-focused coach to serve as an accountability partner.
> So you don't have to be convinced that any given species will expand, just accept that some might.

You'd have to accept the other assumptions that the authors make as well. One is that the grabby species is capable of travelling at a significant fraction of lightspeed. Another factor is unlimited lifetime of civilisations.

> Expansion is selected for in biological evolution, so it's fair to assume that most pre-civilization species are expanding on their planet.

Hm. I'm not sure that biology is the right angle to approach this. There are plenty of examples in human history (and even today) where expansion was not at all favoured by civilisations and human communities.

Isolated tribes on islands and in rain forests are a counter-example, as well as isolationist phases of civilisations such as feudal Japan in the Edo period.

To me the model is basically just another hypothesis based on the Spherical Cow.
Can you tell me a bit more about this? How does it work? Do you have to subscribe to hey.com? What did you like about this approach? Is it a free service?

I’m asking because I too made an email->blog post service for myself and I want to see if this is productizable.
I was curious on that too, but from animation there seems to vertical effect, just horizontal
Even if Applets are no longer used in the browser, they are a good candidate for a plugin system. That's what I did in some of my software: just provide a file or url and you have another software running in my software.

Searching for "extends JApplet" returns more than 50,000 results on github.com. SwingSet2 for example is also using the class JApplet.
Removing the 6 classes will break some stuff, including all my desktop apps.
You start with an empty cart, right?
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>but I pity the ones they go first and suffer from overzealous cheerleading of a particular vaccines efficacy

Given the incident rate and the growing COVID swells in a few european countries (France and Italy especially), the slow vaccination progress, not helped by hesitance over AZ and surprising prevalence of vaccine hesitancy in general, you could just as well argue the opposite. Nations that are overcautious may lose far, far, far, far more lives thanks to covid infections than an extremely rare handful of blood clots which haven't even been tied causally to the vaccine yet. The risk reward narrative on this topic has been really bizarre so far.
I'd argue that the 147 named CSS colors are still too many (but definitely better than the ~16.8 million sRGB colors). Regardless, since hex codes are used in practice, they would still need to be dealt with.
They started their model with RAW format, so the model should encoded some interactions between red / blue / green light sensors and that can help generate genuine sub-pixel details. OTOH, this is machine learning, unless you specifically has some discriminators (just an idea) to counteract, you don't really know how much these are genuine sub-pixel details and how much are hallucinations.
“Don't think I've seen a data error like this before”
Rather, "improbable" denotes a wide range of probability where the likelihood is less than 50%. "Probably impossible" denotes likelihood much closer to 0%.
The specific framing of founders buying capital (dollars) is super helpful in understanding VC behavior, which is nearly are marketing.

VC’s sell a commodity product, money. In order to sell it, they add marketing, branding, and freebies - a bit like buying cereal with a toy inside.

Understanding that is the ultimate mental shift in raising money.
Is it? Most nat's are built from zero and succ(n) in my experience.
A few years ago my local government installed lighting over 14 miles of highway only because they could get federal funding to do so. There were 0 light related accidents and 0 crimes that would not have occurred without lighting. Now we get the privilege of some of our taxes going to maintain the lighting and pay the electric bill.

Yes, I am bitter. A decision like that should be backed by evidence that it will actually improve something.
I hear, anecdotally(n<10) that things are very bad at analyst/associate levels at BB banks right now. They send surveys around about how much people are working(what they are actually writing down and reporting, though hours aren't actually billed anymore) and people are averaging 90-95 with >100 spike bad weeks.

What I hear is that revenue is at record levels, deal flow is so high they can't keep things staffed and are pulling in junior bankers from lower tier shops. Bonuses were reportedly bad(in spite of record revenue) because of the 'optics of bankers getting big bonuses during covid' which sort of breaks the bargain of working 90-100 hours a week.

I'm shocked at the attrition I've heard of. For being such a high barrier to entry club(MBA, lots of 'networking', a hazing summer analyst/associateism, etc) people are bailing in crazy numbers. I am aware of a group(an incredibly high performing group, tons of deals, tons of S-1s that hit HN this year) where 80% of 2nd year associates have already left(since the cohort started).

Everyone knows that "bankers work a lot" but even among a friend group of MBB consultants, medical residents, buy side folks, etc -- the bankers have it the worst, and the comp is not really better unless you stick it out a long time.
they are already making booster shots for the current mutations.
One can imagine a lot of future scenarios. In fact that describes is an entire genre of story writing known as “science fiction”
Very interesting concept and approach, mostly thanks to the very generic approach it takes. I wonder if one could implement something similar using some lightweight virtualization instead?
But it's not really up to each nation, because the EU is centrally managing the supply. If individual countries aren't willing to endorse the EMA's judgment here, it's likely they'll end up wedged in a state where they just can't get many vaccinations done over the next few months.
hey man,
thanks for replying I loved the product and I would love to try it out on raspberry pi and I will add that as a feature request
Citation? I've read over 50 papers in MISR and SISR (I wrote a lit review) and I have never seen mention of actual hardware that would shift the imaging system; indeed such a system would have been my dissertation topic if I hadn't switched areas.
I've used PluralSight for a Pandas/Python tutorial for similar data sci stuff. It was ok. I used WhizLabs for other stuff, which was good for certification practice. Splunk has user and power user certs if you're using that. I don't think I took any Tableau training, but that GUI is easy enough to muddle through.

I would highly recommend any type of business process mapping course. Far too often is this overlooked. The business brings us a broken business process and expects us to build a great technical system- sorry, but the business logic has to be sound first.
I was there before any of that and was working under Steve Benton, who was kind of a demi-God in holography (inventor of the rainbow hologram on credit cards today). It was a special place because of the kind of work we were doing, and I hope that memory survives.
The Fermi Paradox is not real if you consider the massive uncertainty we have on the parameters of the Drake equation:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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All of those got to herd immunity by vaccination, not by actually contracting the disease.
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Rabies infects animals and it's been eliminated from large parts of the world. Vaccinating animals is sometimes an optoin.

Not saying this is comparable, or that SARS-COV2 will be eliminated in a similar way. I think it's currently unclear what will be possible, but in the medium to long-term there are a lot of options to be explored. I wouldn't put elimination in the "impossible" bucket just yet.
TeXmac looks very interesting. I will maybe give it a try. But I must say that TeXmac workflow seems a little bit dependent on GUI. That is not a bad thing per se but seams different form TeX.

Thank you for bringing it up :)
If the factors that led to our current population slowdown are maintained over the coming centuries then eventually there'll be a time when population starts to go up again. Some personality traits like Agreeableness are both heritable and tend to cause people to have more kids. So the trend should reverse itself eventually.

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2018/05/falling-fert...
> What matters in the end is getting rid of negative thoughts that tell us we are not good enough.

Are you sure about that? What if we are truly not good enough? What if we are sleep walking into climate disaster and despotism? Life isn't just about feeling good. Life is mostly not about feeling good. I'd frame this as "What matters in the end is getting rid of our negative actions that harm ourselves and those around us". Negative thoughts are important and useful. We pummel ourselves with media, trash food and dopamine in order to suppress our negative thoughts, meanwhile multiple existential crises are unfolding around us, do you really think "getting rid of negative thoughts" is wise?
> The scientists told us that a vaccine wouldn't be ready for years, it was actually ready in months

I remember the messaging at the beginning of last year being to expect at least 18 months, possibly much longer. For most people, 18 months will be about accurate, for a few people, they will have beat the estimate, but that's not surprising - it's an estimate. It's a hell of a lot more accurate than a couple months.

> these institutions are powerful and need to save face

You just explained above that these institutions are not powerful, and that they have limititations. Which one of these are true?
> you are charging people to contribute to herd immunity

At least in my area (SF), vaccines are all free.
I already did a "guess the number" Basic game.
Next I'll do a mini GTA like Crime on TOPS-20,
but a bit more advanced. Yes, in Basic again,
I am that masochist.
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perfect and it totally makes sense
thanks for clarifying
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Lmfao, you assume that docker is easy to install
The entire reply is about how contrived physical closeness leads to emotional closeness so it seems out of left field to think this was a euphemism for sex.
> Basically, you are charging people to contribute to herd immunity, rather than paying people to contribute to herd immunity.

No one in the US is being directly charged for any COVID vaccine.
I don't really wanna be part of a society that sacrifices the old and unfit at the expense of the whatever point you are trying to make. 500,000 COVID deaths across the country shouldn't be taken lightly.

I am surprised if you are taking all "scientists" as a collective group that you are focusing on early attempts to create models rather than the delivery of a vaccine (by scientists) and overall improvement of disease handling by scientists.

What powerful institutions need to save face exactly?
> their hue and lightness values are almost same

Yeah? Well … you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. More specifically, HSL's opinion. HSL is a fine colour space for specifying CSS colours, but not so good for evaluating lightness.

If I use HSLuv instead, which is supposed to be like HSL, but more human-perceptually uniform and sane (basically a neat compromise between CIE Luv/Lab and standard HSL), I get a lightness of 61.2 for cadetblue and 91.1 for cyan.

My bog-standard image editor uses HSB (a.k.a. HSV) in the HSL-style mode of its colour picker (HSL isn't even an option); and if I measure cadetblue with that via the ‘eyedropper’ tool, I get a brightness of 63%, whereas cyan has 100%.

Those are obviously way closer to the truth when you just, like, look at the colours — it's totally plausible that cyan is about 50% brighter; “lightness values are almost same” is not plausible.

This discrepancy isn't a huge problem, because the main dimension by which this tool organises colours is hue, which HSL is OK at. Only the way in which colours with similar hue are laid out on the page is off. It would be nice to see a more appropriate colour space used for this purpose.
> many scientists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Forms
Builds don't "have" to start from scratch. If you're building in a docker context you can mount a volume containing build artifacts (target directory). Or `sccache` if you want those artifacts stored in a remote store such as S3. I'm sure there's other solutions as well, but not clearing build artifacts in between builds would be a simpler win over maintaining separate, shared infrastructure.
A startup-focused coach sounds incredibly valuable. How did you find your coach?
While we are arguing semantics (and I agree that improbable would be a better word for the title) there is a difference. Improbable refers to odds. Probably impossible refers to odds of some binary outcome.

My winning the lottery is improbable. We all agree I have a shot at it, but it's very unlikely. But it's definitely not impossible, assuming it's not rigged.

Solving an NP problem with a P time algorithm is probably impossible. Either it can be done or it can't be. We suspect the latter, but we don't know 100%. Once we prove it one way or the other, it will will either be possible or impossible, in a binary sense.
Hopefully Alexander Ginzburg is right: “Perhaps in this case an incomplete degree of purification was used and some products that could remain in the final product could contribute to platelet aggregation in some of the patients who received the preparation,” Ginzburg was quoted as saying. [1]

It would mean it was a production problem, not an adverse reaction to a vaccine well manufactured. AZ has been under pressure to deliver, but if this is the case would mean an extremely bad QA process, which for vaccines is probably highly unlikely.

[1]https://www.world-today-news.com/the-creator-of-sputnik-v-po...
Give me real money over potential maybe future money any day.
Full-parallax is currently a stretch goal for our Kickstarter.
"Therefore, the supply and demand problem that drives housing price up can never be addressed by simply building more homes, because they take too much time and any supply created will be very quickly absorbed by new money flowing into the market."

I really don't see how this is true and the author doesn't provide more evidence for it. If you want to make housing pricing cheaper for renters AND harm foreign investors the best way is to build more apartments. There is, in fact, a limited supply of foreign investors and they are not going to continue to buy into an asset class which is expanding rapidly. Building small apartment buildings can take under a year once approved and a few years tops for massive buildings - which is a very short timeline considering how long housing will be an issue if you don't build.

Of course - this hurts local homeowners which are politically connected - which is why it doesn't actually happen. But, if you don't weigh the goals of local homeowners much higher than local renters then it is pretty clear that building more would create a lot of jobs, a lot of housing, and stabilizing home costs.
It's very impressive that the developer made this work, but it seems it would always be outperformed by simply having a set of uniform Linux servers and common NFS mounts serving as a compute farm, which is how people currently solve the problem.
This was exploited by one team during an ML challenge (ai-han-solo) at Defcon CTF Finals 2019. Dropped a meterpreter every time you loaded that team's tensorflow model.