skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norway has ~10 deaths from Covid in the <60 age range throughout the entire pandemic, and 3 deaths from AstraZeneca-related side effects in the same age group.

But only a small minority of the <60 population has been vaccinated; almost exclusively healthcare workers. You would expect the deaths from side effects to eclipse the number of covid deaths if vaccination continued.

So it's a pretty safe assumption at this point that AZ is a bad option for younger age groups in countries with similar numbers, assuming that other vaccines will soon be available (they will)
> Why do you think more transparency would lead to noise and speculation?

Because of the current situation: people argue about whether Moxie lost it, if Signal is still the right solution, etc.

If the feature had been implemented in the open, this debate would have taken place since the beginning, again with little benefit.

> maybe even gotten help from the community at implementing their payment feature.

Signal does not have an open development model. They're a small team, and most things beyond bug fixes are done by them. You can debate whether that's the most efficient approach, I'll just say it's an open question, and that's the model right now. So contributions to this brand new feature by the community would not have been possible.

> But the way they did it they left everyone wondering whether their server is now spyware

If people misunderstand that most of the security guarantees come from the clients, there's little an up-to-date repository on GitHub can do. I think the noise and complaining that has been happening for one year about the closed-source server is still negligible to what's happening now.

I would have preferred if they had kept it open, but I can definitely understand why they thought it was a better course of action.
The point of the trolley problem is that it’s hard to make the right decision. Yet apparently anyone who doesn’t make a decision based on the move naive application of utilitarianism is a coward.
Not being en expert in the place where you make your largest investment and commit your life to seems a bad idea. What is more important?
Because they may see that reducing the J&J supply to zero doesn’t meaningfully change the time to fully vaccinated.

Because they may see that clotting worries would harm public trust in vaccines, delaying or preventing us from getting to herd immunity.

Because they may see the number of people tested for blood clots, indicating the number is much higher than 1 in a million.

Because they may see that trading a week of paused administration at this point is a reasonable price to pay to ensure we get to herd immunity.
Fractal just switched to matrix-rust-sdk, which supports E2EE - but they are currently switching from GTK 3 to GTK 4, which is delaying things.

Nheko is certainly usable as a daily driver. Haven't tried NeoChat yet, but it looks good. However, everyone's thresholds are different.
No. ADHD does not work this way for me, or people like me who are inattentive . This article is the equivalent of the time my primary care physician said, “just use a calendar”. You want me to maintain a set of documents? Buddy, without meds I can’t remember to brush my fucking teeth. I’m not exaggerating. ADHD is a spectrum, articles like this paint everyone with the same brush, which furthers many people to feel like complete failures.
I've been using this with a modified version of the example passmenu script, enhanced with:

* ability to store/retrieve additional YAML metadata like username, e-mail, etc.

* pre-selection of entries by looking at URL and focused form field (this needs the add-url-to-window-title browser extension)

So in most cases I press a keybinding which invokes passmenu, and then just press enter as the correct entry and field (password/username) is already selected. Quite handy.

Source here if anyone's interested: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/passmenu and https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/.passlib
On their older models, the webUI did something funky with LUKS encryption passwords meaning you couldn't actually just mount the disks in another Linux computer as you coukd never unlock them.
I have memories of us having to do the encryption setup and unlock via ssh so we could mount the drives in something else in the event of a failure (though we retired that box over 5 years ago so my memory might be rusty).

edit: my memory _is_ rusty; it was a QNAP box we had to do that with not Synology.
So assuming all this happened exactly as Zhang says: how big a deal is this really? We aren't talking about mobs of fake accounts creating false content; we're talking about a bunch of pages "liking" content by various politicians. It's analogous to the applause at a speech by a politician: does anyone really think, "Wow! Everyone is clapping; this person must have the best ideas!" Nobody could really believe that the number of likes on a politician's Facebook post is indicative of anything meaningful.

Sure, it's better to have what a person sees accurately reflect reality, but what she's talking about is insignificant. It's a thumbs-up icon with a number beside it.
Maybe this will change post-Covid? In my city (not-US) you can order an STD test kit online, provide a small blood sample (pin prick and then fill small tube from finger) + urine sample, post it back (free), and get the results texted back to you (or on your online account) in a few days. It's 100% free. Maybe governments will see more value in catching these things and stopping them before they spread further.
You can set up GitHub actions to do the deploy on every push

I personally use an action that (1) builds a docker image, (2) ssh into my vps (3) run 'docker-compose pull' and (4) run 'docker-compose up'
Are you sure you understand the content of the link you shared? It’s talking about a hypothetical legal framework, not actually concretely descrambling the input and outputs of a mixer service.
Comparing apples vs container ships.

With bank ledgers, the computation energy is a minimized side effect that does not even show up as a rounding error in the financial reports of companies, and they do tens of thousands of transactions per second.

For cryptocurrencies, burning the energy is a key feature - 100% correlated to the proof of work and increasing by design. This achieves handfuls of transactions per second with energy burn exceeding that of nations.

Children's cartoons make better representations of the real world than that post.
And there I was thinking it couldn't get any worse... I should know better by now.

EDIT: It is close to impossible to find accurate delivery schedules for the EU. I hate that, if the answer to "When will how much be delivered?" is a "Enough by Qx" I always assume nobody has the slightest idea how much will be delivered when. Doesn't help to build trust. Statista has some numbers fr Germany by Quarter, no idea how accurate those are:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1199643/coronavirus-covi...

Based on these numbers, kicking out J&J and AZ Germany will loose 27 million doses in Q2 alone. With another 55.8 million in Q3. That's roughly one months worth of deliveries in Q2 and Q3 each. i really hope that decision is thought through and Moderna / BioNTech-Pfizer are up to cover the delta. Only last week I was so sure in June the EU would be through with almost all first shots, now not so much anymore.

EDIT 2: They are ending these contracts after expiry, end of 2021. So no short term impact, if true.
You know what's even easier than becoming a real estate agent? Becoming a programmer. No training or certification at all!
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I mean that many laptops (especially thin ones) have batteries glued in. For modern form factors, an easily removable battery is a no-go, I get that. But there are things designers can do to make replacing the battery easier or harder. Making the housing very difficult to take apart, using lots of glue, etc. should be avoided. If at least a technician (like people who repair phones) can easily replace a battery in a few minutes, this will extend the lifespan of laptops.
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I agree. It reads like those GPT-3-generated articles from a while back that were spread on HN as an experiment[1]. They also tended to be (IIRC) self-help style blog posts, and we're about as substantive as this one.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/16/21371049/gpt...
So more vaccines for the third world. Since this seems to be a regular talking point - if the Europe governments don't want them they could be shipped to poor countries - and since contracts are probably take or pay - this can be done for very low cost.
Sweden’s numbers are illustrative here, with COVID cases rising steadily since January, but deaths are going down.
I think it won't be long until this tech will be used by banks because it seems to work rather well.

As for a benefit, if you consider crypto as a mode of protest alone it has value.

People are allowed to smoke and destroy their health (and of those nearby), people are allowed to gamble, people are allowed to buy to biggest truck that pollutes to no end. How is that legitimate and how does that benefit more to society?

It's a weak system one that works only when it has no competition.
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Another apathetic holier than thou post about humanity destroying itself.

be best hn
Genuinely curious: How did you figure it out?
I didn't mention, nor did I refer to any issues, so whatever you are stating here is none of my concern, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with anything I wrote about, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with me.

I also did not talk nor did I write about any efficiency of any public system, so that does not concern me or what I wrote about either.

"If the banking sector is corrupt - there can be no real economy."

There is no economy in Croatia; it has very little industry of any significance, with tourism being the only significant influx of funds into the country.

"Mortgages enable people to spread payments out over time and are a fundamental artifact of affordability."

SIGH Sir, how do I explain this? You are so deep into classical economy thinking, whereas the reality in Croatia is one of tribal mentality. People take on debts from friends and family, and nobody worries about making payments the way you understand them, because the money owed is paid back in cash, with physical bills, in person and in one lump sum. Cars, condominiums, houses... it has always been this way in Croatia, for hundreds of years, and will be that way for a very, very long time, possibly the next hundred years, if not longer. It's Croatia: that is the only way that people there were able to come up with which functions reliably. Ergo, nobody gives a flying fuck about a mortgage over there, that's just something one reads about on the InterNet. No Croat will trust themselves to apply for one after all that corruption, and even if one did, nowadays the banks are reluctant to lend money to consumers. So the chances of both parties coming together to consume a financial transaction are zero. It has effectively become a cash only economy, and even though kuna has been a stable currency for almost three decades now, every Croat will convert their excess cash (which they hide at home) into euros, cash again, the first chance they get.

When a Croat goes to buy a car, he or she will literally walk around with a small sport bag full of physical currency. There was a period of people going deep into debt with consumer credit to buy cars, of course that has failed spectacularly with most being unable to service their debt, so things are back to the usual - cash.

When a Croat goes to buy a house, he or she will literally walk around with a briefcase full of stacked bills.
Isn’t meth one of those things taken out of despair? Is there a root cause here that Isn’t being dug into?
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We just ran into this CORS Same-Site cookie issue and it is going to become much more common. If the original author expanded to include the Same-Site rules as it applies to cookies it would be great!
Hi. Gay dude here. Please don't silence the voices calling my community out for bad behavior.

There is a reason to have empathy for those who struggle with promiscuity and substance abuse. How long can you be told that your sex life belongs in the gutter and you don't deserve love, after all, before you begin to believe it yourself?

But there isn't a reason to ignore those problems. They lead to social isolation and death for countless of us. We need the social structures, social support, and social expectations of stability and sobriety. The lack of these things leaves a trail of STIs, T overdoses, and abject loneliness in its wake.
This is a regression. This was possible with "require" and destructuring assignment.
It’s worth noting that the article describes how syphilis is common in high risk groups engaging in high risk activities in a high risk part of the country, rather than the general population at large. However it seems inevitable that it will spill out into the wider population too.
The argument in your link boils down to: it will bring the economy down to a deflationary halt, so it's friendly to the environment. Great.
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Is the list of stations hand picked, can I access it outside this app?

When adding to home screen I get React app as title by default.
Apple reviews each app update manually. Not only each app, but each and every one of its updates too.
Seems recently the Gnome team have been too busy demanding RMS' cancellation to listen to their userbase. That's clearly more important work than, you know, actually writing good open source software.

Although I know some who would say Gnome has never been good. Opinions on DEs can be pretty harsh.
Can somebody give us ADHDers the TLDR?
+ most elderly have already been vaccinated or are in between shots.
Parent was talking about missed cancers and drug abuse, not suicides. Alcohol sales were up ~20% [1]—that too is hard data.

[1]: https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2020/11/16/nielsen-covid-bev...
> I have reloaded this thing from official image 3x and it will still randomly fuck up important things like hardware accelerated video playback and WiFi

Using a Surface Laptop 3 to write this, have had it since it came out (I guess maybe a little under a year now?). It's one of the most reliable laptops I've ever used.
Well, the silver lining, I guess, is that this appears to be the result of basically getting a handle on the AIDS situation to the point where it wasn’t a threat.
This is most likely because allocating typed arrays is really, really slow in JavaScript. IIRC it has to do with the fact that there is a lot of flexibility regarding backing buffers or something; each typed array object has about 200 bytes of overhead compared to a dozen bytes for a plain array or object (roughly).

Typed arrays are mainly faster in scenarios where you allocate one or a few large TypedArrays once and then re-use them a lot.

That also explains your experience with many small arrays. That's basically the worst way to use TypedArrays.
He's doing Gods work if he can get blacks to go back to Africa.
Can't argue with that. Everything about the AZ vaccine in politics and the media has been a shitshow so far. AZ themselves probably were caught off guard by the initial bad reporting and the wave of negative public reactions. They don't normally have to play the mass media game in their business.
I'm currently living in Denmark. They are performing 200k PCR tests per day, that's literally 1/30th of the population every day.

If they could source the vaccines, they have the infrastructure to vaccinate the population in a month.

Of course, Denmark is part of Europe and therefore bears equal parts responsibility for the EU vaccination program joke.
> most Americans have an AP provided by their ISP

Is this accurate, and is there some way to see statistics on this?

Based on assumptions, that the majority just accepts what the ISP sends them when they sign up, it's likely. But I do my best to make sure me and everyone who trusts me escapes the model rental trap, and gets set up with a router they own and completely control.

To reword this, I don't really want to put wireless access point responsibility on the ISP, because I don't want the default to be that you're relying on them. I just want them to provide "dumb" pipes to my house to shuttle data in and out.
With FLoC, can you find out what sites were visited? or the sites AND the users are semi-anonymous?
Nice! An other similar project I really like from another show hn[1] is https://lofimusic.app

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476641
I think you are getting close to an explanation. You "getting out" weakens the system. You must be kept in.
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Absent serious consequences (pregnancy, HIV) why would you regularly use condoms? The article covers what I consider to be the critical point. If you don't care about getting Syphillis enough to change your behavior then why should we care enough about it to spend public funds trying to eradicate it?

It is very unlikely to have negative consequences, and while they can be severe with things like blindness, so can downhill skiing and we don't spend public funds to remove the danger of downhill skiing. Hell we often spend public funds building skate parks which come with their own small risk of serious debilitating injury and we do it because the people who engage in that behavior are aware of the danger and don't consider it serious enough to abstain from the pleasure. And most critically those of us who want to avoid the danger can quite easily do so, as with Syhpillis.

I don't see a problem worthy of the publics attention here let alone the publics funds.
if the US starts to orient itself after third world countries, then you're correct: It's really going good. It's all relative. I thought the US would rather compare itself to Europe, Japan, etc. but okay.
It's all rainbows and pride until one catches STD...
I believe that those articles are unreadable for everyone. They are written for search engines.

I built a whole business around giving straightforward answers. I remove superfluous text, and I use formatting to make my content easier to skim. There's no clickbait, no cookie notice, no newsletter prompt, no author bio and no sidebar content. There's just you and the answer you came for, and it loads in under 500 milliseconds.

This is working so well that it makes me wonder why other websites go out of their way to hide their answers. When I have simple gardening questions ("how much sun does [plant] need?", I have to click 3-4 results and scroll a few pages to get the answer. Even with a finely tuned ad blocker, the experience is infuriating.
Your speculation is contradicted by thousands of open houses every weekend.

Seriously, go visit one and see what it's like. It's not the CIA Headquarters, it's usually a minimums wage newbie agent squatting in a house advertising for clients.
Nothing in the article states that double masking is not good. It merely states that the study doesn't give any reliable conclusions.
I’m sure it is but I’m not sure how much overlap there is between that group and the meth-fueled orgy group.
You must have listened to the wrong "experts" then. There was a bit of an initial, politically influenced confusion in the US at the beginning up until about June. However, where I live all experts recommended wearing masks from the start. They did say that people should not rush to buy FFP2 masks and chirurgical masks at a time when there was a shortage of those for health professionals, which was definitely the right recommendation at the time. The most drastic "disrecommendation" I've ever heard by an expert was to point out that you don't need to wear a mask if you keep proper distance and follow all other hygiene measures.

In a nutshell, they did recommend not to wear masks for a short time during the beginning of the pandemic but at least the experts I've heard always provided the right justification - to prevent shortage.
Has Facebook ever been implicated in helping elect anyone on the centre left? Or in promoting centre left policies?

Perhaps we could consider asking if "conflict of interest" and "attempts to drive engagement" are really the problem.
For anyone else confused, in this case DSM is DiskStation Manager. (I initially thought it was diagnostic criteria.)
It looks that at least one aspect could have a technical solution. I'm talking about this part: ""And if the sex didn't go well, then sometimes they will block the person from their app and they don't even know how to reach that person again."

It looks like the apps could have an emergency notification mechanism to help with that. Phone companies must implement 911, hookup companies should be required to implement an infection notification mechanism.
I think city design is one area where technology and data science is an underutilized tool. Comparing the answers to questions like:

- How far does the average household have to walk to a play structure?
- What's the median distance that a parent feels comfortable allowing their child walk at each age? 90th percentile?

And placing play structures in the areas that would most meaningfully move the latter number seems like a great way to make cities more livable.

(For what it's worth, I think doing the same for public transit could also be powerful.)

The big problem here seems to be figuring out a way to capture the value from doing such an analysis: lots of value is generated if smart actions are taken, but it's relatively difficult for any company doing a good job in the space to capture that value.
Nintendo is historically HUGE on being family-friendly and controlling their image.

Streamers telling raunchy jokes, dressing sexily and/or swearing while playing a Mario game probably does hurt Nintendo's brand, at least in their eyes.

There's a reason Smash Brothers Ultimate's online mode only has voice chat in private rooms through a smartphone app.
This is far from a workable solution. Syphilis and Chlamydia are showing early signs of antibiotic resistance.

Really, one has to wonder if an ultra liberal attitude towards sex (enabled by ever declining social mores and various "apps") combined with drugs like PrEP being handed out like candy to promiscuous individuals are not making the situation worse rather than better.

In earlier societies, these folks who repeatedly made bad choices would be outcasts and shunned. Today, not only do we enable their idiotic behavior but allow it to propagate and threaten the rest of society.

The biblical passages about Sodom and Gomorrah come to mind.
I’d suggest reading further into the article where they describe the problems with congenital syphilis, then.
It's just a normal blood test, routinely done as part of STD screening along with the HIV test.
Why on earth would the US export when it's supply-constrained itself? Of course, the US can and will export once it has sufficient supply. But countries exist in large part to look after the self-interest of their own population. It would rightly be a complete political non-starter for the US to start shipping vaccines elsewhere while it still needed more doses domestically.
Just the images?
The streams should also be linked to.