skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a bit of difference between asking a medical professional in person and asking a generalized audience over social media. Asking "do we know if immunity from the vaccine lasts longer" that

A) can come across as a statement in the form of a question (e.g. "no we don't these vaccines are rediculous" etc)
B) even if it doesn't, if you ask that and no one knows and other people see that, it can cause them to have unscientific doubts about vaccines, even if that wasn't intended.
Yes but no because it is the law. It should be law that car companies provide a seat-belt but not that I wear one. Your one sentence straw-man wont suffice here. Again, it's all about personal risk. I could go climb a cliff face with a rope or I could do it without. I don't need GOVT to tell me not to do the latter.
If the errors don't matter & there's no real chance of returning an error, why use &with/1 at all? &with/1 has the quirky behavior in that the return value of anything that doesn't pattern match get returned. So if &call_service/1 or &parse_response/1 doesn't return an an ok tuple, you're increasing your debugging surface by having to track down where the unexpected result came from. Good luck tracking down that rogue nil!

Instead of this...

with {:ok, response} <- call_service(data),
{:ok, decoded} <- parse_response(response) do
decoded
end

Maybe just do this...

{:ok, response} = call_service(data)
{:ok, decoded} = parse_response(response)
decoded

Or even this...

data
|> call_service!() # don't bother returning ok tuples
|> parse_response!() # just use bang methods!
Send a mail to bob@bob.com with an image of eztrack.com/bob123.jpg

If it’s loaded from an Apple ip you know Bob has an Apple device.
This is the other half of that quote, if we want to take it in context: "Usually, they contain little to no proportion of real foods."

And those sentences were likely in a larger context but chosen by the author as a way to say something the reader could relate to.
They still know more than I do, an average Joe who makes and sells socks for a living, though.
> It seems useless for a link to point to itself

Hm. I guess the web has programmed me differently. Say I'm CTRL-F searching through the page and I notice an interesting bit of code and say "Hey I have a question about this". Then I start looking for a shortcut to that one file and assume that shortcut is the nearby <h3> header. I expect this because I've seen this pattern implemented a lot. You could have the <h3> be that local anchor and a short [top] link next to it.
Meanwhile the CDC to meet on rare heart inflammation following COVID vaccines
- https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-meet-rare-heart-inflammation-1932...
> the inventor if [sic] mRNA vaccines

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karikó

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Weissman

Patent filing: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC...
Have you ever managed a newsletter? Mail providers such as gmail use things like open rates to determine if a message should be in important, promotions, or spam.

Also, a sizeable chunk of people refuse to click unsubscribe links and instead hit the spam button. This can be a sensible response, as a lot of spam senders ignore unsubscribe. But it is also hard for legit newsletters.

So what is the best practice? Pruning your list of people who never open it. This improves open rates, makes gmail like you, and unsubscribes people who already would prefer not to read your letter.

Now it will be much harder to know who is inactive so you’ll end up sending more mail to people who don’t want it. And no double opt in doesn’t solve this.

There are other ways around the problem, but you seem to be in complete ignorance of what newsletter senders use tracking for.

Open rates also let you diagnose deliverability issues.
From what little I’ve heard, the NSA is not different from other public sector work.
Sure. But here we have a typical situation where the Go tools get it right by default, and of course a sophisticated engineer can achieve the same effect with non-Go tools even though those tools get it wrong by default
Why are you expecting your nurse and anesthesiologist friends to answer questions about mrna technology and then taking it to mean something when they can't answer? That's like reading a paper about an advancement in compiler parsing technology asking an average Software Developer who has spent the last 3 years of his career doing React apps to answer detailed and specific questions about ambiguities in the said paper?

This reminds me of my aunt who calls me about random issues she is having with her Samsung tablet and then is shocked when I can't solve her problem when I "do computers" all day.
Highlight of the reply

>But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me.

I dont know why I cant stop laughing.
> But COVID is so dangerous

It's only a little worse than the yearly flu, and heavily weighted towards old age (unlike the flu which badly affects all ages).

> and contagious

Yeah, that's much higher, which is why the absolute numbers look so bad.
No, he said that (in general) mRNA is flushed from your system within days and that (in specific) these vaccines don't permanently alter your DNA. That's nowhere near claiming that "mRNA can't ever do harm."
Not really, because your muscle where you got shot was mostly producing spike proteins. When you get the virus, it replicates in your lungs, immunity response happens there and if it’s too strong, it can destroy your lung tissue and cause death.
I'm glad Linus stepped in on this one.

Unrelated question here - how are people actually consuming mailing lists like this? I always find these links difficult to read and have always assumed there much be some superior format, alternative typefaces for one.
Will you share your sources re: "recent studies giving [HCQ and ivermectin] credit"?

I haven't seen anything positive about those drugs in COVID-19 in human patients. For example, the RECOVERY trial showed no benefit (and non-significant numerical harm) for HCQ: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2022926
Any GOOD manager. Probably in collaboration with the team and possibly a PM
Yes I want one of those.

I did not know till you said how much effort Skoda is putting in.

My next car is in that line up...

(Prefer level II to level III automation tho)
I know a former NY Daily News and Village Voice writer and merchant mariner in Palo Alto/Campbell/Los Gatos, CA who is disabled and has no money except the paltry Social Security. He's perfectly sane, well-read, highly-intelligent (law school dropout in the hippie era), but lacks the funds to miraculously "pickup himself up by his bootstraps." A person can't get anywhere from nowhere without some sensible help like every other civilized country does. America is great if you're rich but it's like Brazil if you're not. European countries tend to be great if you're poor or middle-class, but not as great as the US if you're rich.
Something's not adding up here
I couldn't find a link to the original paper, if any. Could someone assist?
It’s a starting point though. How often do you get to your answers immediately without having to go through some dead ends and wrong turns? That’s how learning works.
It's also not like this is the first vaccine, or even the first mRNA vaccine. So we have analogs and precedents we can use. My understanding is that was heavily used in the clinical trials before roll out -- an understanding from previous vaccines that if someone majority were to go wrong it would go wrong in the first few months, and not 5+ years later.
I don't think there's much of a doubt. For a great overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsERRF39YiM (edit: oh and the follow-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZ4v2-XynU)
You can make a case for it not being tracking if it's not a link masked behind 2 or 3 redirects through ad or link tracking services.

You can just have a link that you could log and rewrite in nginx/apache/caddy -> https://mysite.com/mailer/thepost --> https://mysite.com/thepost

Or just forget about all of that and just _ask_ people and make your decisions on that instead of extrapolating meaning through espionage.
I’m sorry your family member had this serious but exceedingly rare reaction to the vaccine, but here’s the thing: when, exactly, do you propose making the call to go ahead and get your family vaccinated? When vaccines are provably 100% safe? Probably not. So how about five nines, 99.999% safe? Well, no, apparently that’s not good enough for you, because that’s roughly what we’ve got. When it comes to fatal reactions to the vaccines, it’s past six nines. And of course, that still means that out of 330 million Americans, we could expect 33 to die from the vaccine! That’s dozens!

Compared to over a half a million dead and still counting from Covid-19.

Again, it sucks that serious, life-threatening side effects from the vaccine are possible, and sucks more than you’ve been personally touched by them. But the chances are still literally orders of magnitude greater that you will suffer serious, life-threatening side effects if you get Covid-19. Including blood clots. More people have been hospitalized by or even died from blood clots caused by Covid than they have from the blood clots caused by the vaccines. By a lot.
Nice! Any plans to provide some kind of orchestration of dbt activities or CI/CD?

Orchestrating incremental models requires some kind of scheduler like Airflow, dbt cloud, etc...
One does not mess with The Linus :)
Everything you say is true, but that wasn't my point. The OP said

> ... how pathetic it is that we limp along with bloated Unix and other accidents of history that were never retired.

So, why single out Unix? Is Unix more bloated than Windows? I doubt it. Is it more of an accident of history than Windows? No. Is it more in need of being retired than Windows? I think it would take someone with an axe to grind to say so.

And that's what my comment was about: Trying to expose that axe being ground.
Can we have freemium CAAS? )
Let’s not forget microchip tracking and Jewish globalist overlords.
>Wen didn’t have any money of his own. (This past January, he had a balance of negative sixteen dollars in his Royal Bank of Canada savings account.) But his mom had some bitcoin, which she’d bought a few months earlier after hearing about it from a friend on WeChat. She lent all of it to her son, and he then converted a hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of it to bitclout.... We spoke on April 30th. At that point, he owned multiple BitClout profiles, which he told me had reached a combined estimated value of half a million dollars. Today, he’s grown that figure to approximately $1.7 million, or nine thousand and four bitclout, or sixty-eight hundred pairs of AirPods Pro. “To me, it’s just numbers,” Wen said.

Wow, the article read like it was written by BitClout PR. Stories like this with no balance are incredibly irresponsible.

Glosses over the fact that its closed source and anonymous founders. Towards the end they also mention that there's no official way to get your money out:

> When he discovered that there was no official way to get his money out of BitClout, he saw an opportunity.

Is it just me that sees all these things as red flags? The article compares the founder to Bitcoin's founder, although they do mention the possibility of "the beginnings of grift"

> It is unclear why the main founder insists on anonymity, though it may have something to do with mimicking Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the unknown founder of Bitcoin. Whatever the reason, diamondhands runs the risk of creating a kind of Elizabeth Holmes effect: like her Steve Jobs-inspired black turtleneck, the BitClout founder’s mimicry of Nakamoto may appear less like a signal of validity and more like the beginnings of a grift.

> (On June 12th, the supply of bitclout will be capped at fewer than 11.5 million coins, at which point the price of the currency will be determined purely by supply and demand.)

It's no coincidence this came out 2 days before the advertised "deflation bomb". What happened to journalism?

[EDIT] I think the prices are made up... Someone is "worth" $1,000, but you can't get your money out and they mint new coins. Every account has a different amount of coins associated with it. So if I want to buy a share, they (BitClout) just pick a price, they mint new supply and that's the new price. Again, you could have coins "worth" a lot, but that doesn't mean you can get that value. I tried checking out BitSwap, the exchange mentioned in the article, but there's no market, just a button to "Get Priority Access". It seems incredibly scammy.

Its unfortunate that there are a ton of articles on how Bitcoin is a scam where (despite its flaws) it has potential to transform the world, but an obvious scam like this gets glowing press.
Time for them to agree to our terms (2016)
I bought a car with an aftermarket radio that has a DVD player in it, which I've never used. When you turn it on, it displays a message warning you not to watch a DVD while driving. Sure, whatever. While the warning message is up, you cannot adjust the volume. I have to make sure to turn down the stereo before parking otherwise there's a solid five seconds on startup when it can't be turned down. Insane.
There are a range of anti-vaccine opinions from idiotic (the example Linus quotes) to more reasonable. The way this issue has been handled is emblematic of the way many such political issues are handled: fringe views are promoted and "debunked" while more reasonable views that go against mainstream narratives are ignored. This is amplified by various high profile personalities in the media who shape the views people are presented with, so that all critics of the mainstream narrative appear to be lunatics. Thus stigmatizing anyone who has a more reasonable objection. This is not a new phenomenon but has played out much more frequently over the last year or so.

Also, I got the vaccine, so if you interpret this as some sort of veiled anti-vaccine comment you are part of the problem.
> prevents serious illness and death

Only in 60+ patients with co-morbidity.
I think the quality of the speculation you'd get from a random software developer on the design of GPU drivers is, in fact, probably a good model for the quality of vaccinology speculation you'd get from a random anesthesiologist.

But a neat thing about HN is that there are people here who've been to med school and can presumably chime in.

What I can tell you personally is that vaccinology seems to involve a lot of centrifuging of rabbit poop, which is something I don't think they do a lot of in med school.
Do note that this isn't just a short link like with, say, bit.ly, but a vanity link like https://www.gov.uk/brexit-eucitizens , which means you actually need to check them for validity before assigning them.
That's fine- whether or not their question is disingenuous, it's almost always a reasonable question that has been asked and answered by researchers, or that has been asked and not been able to be answered (e.g. what are the long term effects of mRNA vaccines?).

It's perfectly fine to say, "we don't know what are the long term effects of mRNA vaccines but we can guess they're unlikely to be worse than the long term effects of the thing they're vaccinating against, which you're almost certain to catch sooner or later".
Back in the day it was special keyboards. (Source I had an internship in 1984 or so, and at night I could use the mainframe for fun. I wrote a calculate digits of Pi with APL program. I had a slowly converging algorithm and the machine despite being bad ass was quite a lot smaller than my iPad, but it was awesome. I did have a deep maths background so was used to at least all the Greek letters).
> If that's the case, could the proteins coded by the mRNA potentially have kicked off such a response?

Why would they?

And more specifically, why would they cause lung issues? Because that's the main problem with COVID. The virus like to bind to cells that have a specific receptors, with the vast majority contained in lung tissue.

You would expect to see major damage near the injection site if your cytokine storm theory had weight, but not much else.

If there is a mechanism that will cause side effects on mRNA vaccines, then such mechanism will also be presented in the virus. Except it's a localized, self-limited amount, as mRNA cannot replicate. Viruses can.
Right, using structs for things I'm doing have been extremely painful, to say the least. Let's say I'm trying to create a module that represents a European option and I want to encapsulate things like "strike price", "expiration date", and the various Greeks in a way that are subsequently modifiable (FWIW, it would be perfectly fine to then just respawn a new proc to have the new data if that is absolutely necessary...). I haven't been able to identify a way to even reference other PIDs that exist which might be able to (with some wizardry) solve some of these problems.

Right now I'm basically wrapping basically all my data in Agents with maps inside, but that is so lame.

Thanks for the quick response. Maybe I'm trying too hard to use a saw to hammer a nail.

EDIT: I don't care about type signatures on functions. I'd just like to be able to have a real time system that updates based on ingested values, that I can distribute easily. It seems like it's possible, even close, but the structs just don't get me quite where I want them to be.
I've been exploring building my own car from scrap. This wsj sort of motivated me (1). The ideal would be no electronics at all. An issue I have with new cars are monitors, I hate them they are distracting. My eyes are pretty sensitive to computer screens etc. Maybe, I'd settle for just a radio. "Maybe" because you then get looking at a cd player then all the sudden you want the further desire to control what you listen to and before you know it you are talking about mp3/digital and more computerization/softwaring of the car.

The first question is... what do I want? The second is the more complicated issue of getting it done. However it has always been a dream of mine since being a kid and watching the Home Improvement sitcom in the 90s.

(1) https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-odyssey-to-recreate-a-rare-j...
You would need to consult with the original poster to be certain of that. What Linus posted included important facts such as the large number of lives saved and the shared nature of viral immunity. You are reacting primarily to tone as if health in a social context is purely about good feelings.
Yes, I'm aware. I have about six years of college. I spent nearly six years homeless.

I still write about it sometimes on various blogs of mine, like Street Life Solutions.
I am eagerly awaiting my vaccine, however we are all alpha/beta testers. A real concern is about safety of those vaccines as typically they require ~3 years of testing and a single fatality aborts their use.

Would you give alpha version to people you love? Why is this concern downplayed? I understand statistics but we have no clue what could go wrong in an early version of a new technology and no data on long-term impact. It's all a big experiment.
They are all over the web. But clearly if you take them all in, you come away from it with the impression that he really pushed gain of function research and hid the fact once this took off last spring. Most of what he said in hind sight and with these emails seems to be more about politics and less about science and educating the masses.

The messaging on masks should have been that only n95 or better are worth the time. One email to a friend pretty much said that.
If I told you I had a solution to your problem that would save you $50,000 a year, but it would only take me 20 hours to build it, what should I charge you? What would you be willing to pay for that? Would you care if it didn’t take me very long to build it?
The past year has been very instructive (and slightly scary) in revealing the sheer staggering depths of lack of scientific knowledge, and respect for the scientific process, among a vocal but aggressive small percentage of the population. These people truly have no idea of how much education is involved in getting a doctorate level degree in virology, epidemiology or genetics.
I take the Bible and related texts to be the key document(s) upon which the religious beliefs in question are ultimately based. For believers, the Bible/Torah/Koran are of more importance than the institutions, the priesthood, etc... If you want to talk about religious beliefs you would do well to focus on the scripture.

Why are my personal beliefs relevant?
> Which is of course the economic incentive that a company like Apple has to introduce these measures, it creates an asymmetry where Apple has all kinds of user information, but competitors don't.

It's completely fair to speculate that this is Apple's true goal, but I actually do feel a little bit better about Apple doing this than, say, Facebook, or Google. The reason I feel a little bit better is that Apple at least still has an actual business model where people give them money in exchange for a product. I'm willing to be charitable and speculate that at least some of the reason Apple releases services like this is that it will cause people to continue to buy iPhones (which are wildly profitable).
IIRC Hardware was broken and unserviceable (at least the ones I was given).
"Needing to return home to your family is no longer an excuse to stop working because you can be with your family while at work."

If you have young children or infants you can spend your time caring for them and worrying that those with older kids (or no kids!) will judge you.
They are getting messages on their email inbox?
If anyone is wondering why it takes two, part of it is suspension trauma: https://ohsonline.com/Articles/2017/01/01/Suspension-Trauma....
There is no such things as "The Linus". He's just a man.
Most of the times I've seen those ~6 months numbers being quoted, they were lower bounds. We have 6 months of data saying that immunity lasts at least this long.

One reason to expect that immunity might last a long time is that people infected by Sars-Cov-1 still have plenty of antibodies 10 years later.

That said, when it comes to reinfections there is the big problem of variants of the virus. Immunity against one variant might not protect fully against another variant. It's very possible that we'll need to get yearly COVID vaccines, similarly to Influenza. But right now, it's still too soon to worry about that; we're still trying to get everyone vaccinated for the first time.
> That being said, the effort to prevent vaccine hesitancy has suppressed media reporting on these events, understandably.

This works with toddlers, but not with adults. Suppressing information ultimately leads to less trust, more hesitancy and more conspiracy theories (they were hiding X, what else are they hiding?). It'd be better if they would just be be transparent and upfront from the start.
If you are pricing based on the value to your customer, you do not charge an hourly rate. You charge a project rate. It is none of their concern if it takes you 100 hours, 10, or 1, as long as you deliver the value you promised, and they cut the check.