skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper's abstract:

> ... For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination. Conclusions: This lack of clear benefit should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy.

Besides the flaws pointed out by the article, the paper also linearizes the effects of vaccines, i.e. they estimate "how many people need to be vaccinated in order to avoid one death on average". This estimate, multiplied with "how many people died after being vaccinated", is how they arrived at their main result cited above. But we also know that the effects of herd immunity and spread are not linear when a significant percentage of the population is immune.

TFA:

> [The paper] makes the (incorrect) assumption that all deaths occurring post vaccination are caused by vaccination

> None of the paper’s authors is trained in vaccinology, virology, or epidemiology. They are: ... a clinical psychologist and science historian by training who describes himself as a health researcher ... ; a physicist who studies ketogenic diets ... ; ... an independent data scientist

> The three peer reviewers on the paper, two of them anonymous, did not offer any substantial criticism of the authors’ methodology in these brief reviews. One of them ... wrote that the authors’ analysis “is performed responsibly … and without methodological flaws … and the results were interpreted with the necessary caveats.”

> One of the anonymous reviewers wrote that the manuscript “is very important and should be published urgently,”
My workflow these days is to use WSL2 for everything. It even handles CUDA now
I think I use the scientific method a lot, and dismissing a possible theory as "extremist conspiracy" before having all the answers is very unscientific, especially if the other theory (zoonotic spread) doesn't have bulletproof evidence yet. The fact that some scientists signed up to the zoonotic theory and dismissed the lab leak theory is weird, and the fact that social media banned the links means their censorship is flawed.

Then again, too many idiots think proof means "The CCP notoriously likes to hide stuff, therefore they're hiding the lab leak, therefore the lab leak theory is real, QED". That sort of disinformation does deserve a ban.

Now watch this comment get downvoted for... not following the herd?
The fact that people are barely talking about this and everyone just accepted it as a new way forward makes me sadder than anything else regarding the future.

I'm starting to think we are the odd ones from the bunch for questioning total state/corporate control over our communications/computation.

I am honestly worried.
Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals starting to post fees
Would you like to edit for formatting, just in case the searchers miss it.
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About page says 2014.
"“Welfare makes people lazy.” The notion is buried so deep within mainstream political thought that it can often be stated without evidence. It was explicit during the Great Depression, when Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration) was nicknamed “We Piddle Around” by his detractors. It was implicit in Bill Clinton’s pledge to “end welfare as we know it.” Even today, it is an intellectual pillar of conservative economic theory, which recommends slashing programs like Medicaid and cash assistance, partly out of a fear that self-reliance atrophies in the face of government assistance."

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Curious, how do you find these kinds of correlations?
But... I could also fish for valid addresses by trying to send an email and waiting for a bounce...
Because it also hit the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Where would the invader come from? They were also dying of it too. In China alone there were about 40% dead according to recent estimates. The Black Plague was not restricted to Europe, it came to Europe and it wrecked nations everywhere. You can't have people invading, if these potential invaders are dealing with the same plague.
"An Efficient Representation for Sparse Sets" by Preston Briggs & Linda Torczon dates from Rice in 1993 covers the case where the index can be a direct map (for small key universes - like, say, the range of `char` or `short`, where one can be sure of no collisions/need to handle them).

The idea is simple enough that it could have been a subsection in some seminal early database work, but I also lack a reference for that.

Storing some (or all) of the hash code in the hash index part as this article mentions is a good idea I had independently. This is especially true if you do linear probing on the hash table part and care about worst case latencies. (You will basically never have > 2 full cache misses if the CPU BP/prefetcher can recognize a linear scan.)
You can clearly see this in the Dances of Udaya Shankara. I also remember attending a few Rabindra Sangeet dance ceremonies from the Mamata Shankar's dance group which were filled with this kinds of metaphors.

And just because you are an Indian classical dancer, does not make you the authority on it. Everybody on HN is a programmer, but not everyone's talent, expertise, and knowledge are same.

Have you studied about dance theoretically? Or the books mentioned in the post? Do you hold a M. Muse or PhD in dance?

Or did you just enroll yourself in one of hundreds of dance school available in every neighbourhood of India's cities and small towns?

> Lol what?

You don't seem to know much about dance.

A coder making buttons bigger or changing background colors with CSS is not an expert in all things programming.

Just because you are "Indian classical dancer here", you are not an authority.
My guess is that they get 3.85 times as much water evaporated as the energy used to just normally evaporate water. They did that by also using the energy from condensation to be put in the process again.
I like Uniqlo these days. But they don't have a shop near me which is a big shame
This morning Evan You tweeted about a new side project (does this man sleep?): https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1410759893359874050

A 5kb packaged VueJS without component and 2 new directives to make it easy to sprinkle JS on top of server-side served website.

I use Vue often like this, since you always were able to put the template directly in the HTML like in AngularJS 1 with this lib. But petite-vue improves a lot the ergonomics of doing this. It seems also great for prototyping, and feels even more minimalist than svelte (which the new Vue 3 API already compete with).

Now, with coupled with projects like htmx (http://htmx.org) and tailwind (http://tailwind.build), you can create quite a serious reactive website with minimal JS needed. Or create a huge unmaintainable mess, since not DRY mechanism is present by default.

Between this and the fantastic ViteJS (https://vitejs.dev/), Evan You seems really committed to giving the JS ecosystem a boost in usability. I'll stop now, I'm gonna sound like a PR piece. But as a python dev, anything that makes JS more fun is an absolute win.
"He said he didn't play it for himself or the the other officers."

1) He didn't indicate that he was not playing it for himself.

2) He definitely didn't indicate that he was making a public performance, nor was he playing it for the benefit of others.

3) The point is moot: this cop may have said one thing or another - but otherwise cops cay play this music for themselves which is obviously within their rights.

Your claim is nowhere near the statute, and you have nothing remotely near this in case law.

This isn't about laws or copyrights, because the arguments are ridiculous and embarrassing for these people making them - it's hardly worth pointing out.

It's about bias and populist delusions of the people who for some reason 'hate cops'.

It's really embarrassing for HN to see all this mental energy steered into anti-intellectual arguments and bigoted posturing.
Towards richer colors on the Web
They compete as team GB, further demonstrating the madness of trying to define a nation
The article reads more like its a pat on the shoulder for general cleanup work on the Chrome render pipeline that's already been happening since 2014 and that's now nearing the finish line. Also exchange of implementation ideas is more important than exchange of code, especially for implementations of web standards. Microsoft reusing Chromium is already bad enough for the web as a whole (as a counter example, AFAIK the WebGPU implementation teams have been working closely together, but each on their own implementation, which sounds pretty much perfect to me, healthy competition, but without reinventing the wheel).
tldr They created a DSL (domain specific language) that specifies their UI layouts and the actions that can be triggered. Each platform has a little DSL interpreter.

This is a good idea since it raises the abstraction from ui frameworks that work differently on each platform, to a common DSL everyone now uses.

The absence of any mention of UI tooling to make it easy to view, edit, diff and do all the project management stuff with these DSL files makes me very nervous, since that's the problem they had in the first place - keeping track of whodunnit, wheretheydunnit, whentheydunnit and whytheydunnit :)

It seems like they did a cool programmer thing, while not addressing the management problem that started this whole thing in the first place.

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As a larger point, these rich VC backed companies seem to hire people who are capable, but then they get tasked with 'create some CRUD for us' which is boring, so they end up over-engineering and trying to use 'crypto', or 'blockchain', or 'functional programming', or 'new language', or 'create new framework'.

I know the type because I did it when I worked for big money douchebags and uh, you just need to be working somewhere else, on something else instead :)
Can you elaborate this setup a bit more?
The capillary wick is literally a paper towel.
Do you need to set up each *@my.tld address manually, or can you just seamlessly reply to emails send to neverusedbefore@my.tld?
There are a lot of quite liveable islands that are deserted only due to lack of fresh water. This could change that.
She did not plagiarize in her book. The guy who "broke the story" has a blog with the last 8 stories about how the Greens would destory Germany. He is properly obsessed. Here's a law expert of our public broadcaster explaining how much there is to the story: Nothing. [0]

This is a predictable campaign to prevent a centre-left coalition.

[0] https://twitter.com/fewizi/status/1409869123111342092
AirBnB is practically unusable so I'm not sure that's a great indictment of an over complicated technology to solve a non problem.
I enjoy eating, and always look for good recipes. But recipes on HN would be pretty weird.
I also enjoy sex. But refrain from enjoying it at work.
Moral of the story: there’s a place for everything
My sister used to work at Primark. Someone once urinated in the changing rooms... grim.
Neglecting the fact that this is only possible with market access of free countries.
Curious if there’s anyone here who doesn’t regard this as over-zealous selective prosecution of political enemies that makes the country look like a banana republic? Meanwhile MSM pundits running around talking about witnesses “flipping” as if it’s an episode of Narcos.
"Or if you’re insatiably curious, consider installing the beta version on an external drive and starting up from that volume for a little operating-system tourism."

Has anyone been able to install macOS on external SSD on MacBook Air M1? I tried installing Big Sur on my external SATA SSD, but it never succeeded.

I have to try installing Monterey, maybe they have fixed the installation. I don't want to install beta macOS on the internal drive next to Big Sur, because there has been cases where beta macOS versions have corrupted the entire disk.
If you ask me about literature, I can tell you more.

I am not an expert in Dance. I just happen to be a half-educated connoisseur.

If you ask more about the Sanskrit language and literature, I will try to answer.

And also I am irreligious. No relation to Hinduism or other religion. Sanskrit is an intellectual curiousity.
That's just the thing: "doing a good job preventing spam" means throwing a lot of stuff in the spam folder. I think everyone would agree that silently dropping emails is bad, even if you're really sure it's spam.
This should be opt-in not opt-out. Essentially the opt out process will be a way to harvest more information from people to fatten up there databases. Pathetic.
I just did this to success. My biggest suggesting in this copy-paste is changing "Google Auth" to "TOTP authenticator". Do not endorse Google products when the open source alternatives like andOTP and pass-otp are great. It's bad enough Schwab is supporting the closed-source Symantec authenticator whose application is not available on GNU/Linux or BSD.
Are you me?

I've found digital life is much better if you don't make the platform part of your identity. It's comforting when there's something familiar like bash or POSIX or your favourite open source software available out of the box. But it's better not to assume that when something's missing the platform is devoid of value, and to keep your vendor lock in as low as possible.

I've used macs because the frequency of terrible hardware is low (with huge caveat for og touchbar mbp) and work often requires targeting iOS. The unix bits help me get productive and the integration is good.

However I'm also perfectly ok with Windows. I quite like their text rendering and found powershell quite good. MSVC is very good if you want a heavy C++ IDE.

Also have had no problems using any common Linux distro - once driver stuff is figured out.

All the platforms have both ideological and technical problems, but I don't feel the need to rehash them here. What is most important to me is owning root and the trend away from that is disturbing. I'm ok with various sandbox and security technologies, as long as I have the master key when I really need it.
Salt release is already a huge environmental concern with exiting desalinization systems. Energy consumption and installation costs aren't the sole (and probably not the main) problems. Desalinization is inherently a pollution.
My impression is that macOS itself is mostly as solid as ever. But the built-in apps are, with a few exceptions, just not built for people like me anymore.

I'm basically fine with this for now. It means that as a poweruser I get a rock solid OS on which I can run all the third party software I need to make it suit my needs.

Still I feel as though macOS is slowly degrading, whereas Windows has been slowly improving. Even basic stuff like window management is better on stock Windows these days than on stock macOS. macOS had such a big lead 10 years ago, but it's been decreasing over time for a while now. I'm still going to buy a 16" MacBook Pro as my personal device when they come out later this year, but I feel like at the current rate there's a decent chance it might be my last Mac.
I’ve used Migadu for about 3/4 years now to provide email for hosting clients. They’re good. They had a little wobble at the start of the pandemic but otherwise no issues. You get full dmark, dkim etc and autodiscover. Massive mailboxes. Would recommend.
And ironically we have no types for units in most languages. Instead we need to wrap numbers in objects making them extremely cumbersome to work with.
Experimental thermonuclear reactor for cryptomining and saving planet
Current energy crisis forces people to cut forests and turn them into "green fuel" pellets and ethanol. This induces drought and desertification. I propose building thermonuclear reactor which is simpler in design than current tokamaks and inertial confinement reactors. Let's fund it with crypto and fiat. If it works, it will return 8 million kWh per invested bitcoin.
Thanks, this makes the most sense. However, I do wonder if there is a difference between playing/teaching nieces and nephews that you can hand back any time, and doing it all the time. Kind of like the difference between visiting a place as a tourist and actually moving to live there.

I would probably want to 'borrow' some relative kids for 2-3 weeks while they go on holidays, and see how the whole thing works - not just the fun parts - before I would be willing to commit to it. I do not mean you here, but it always surprises me how lightly people - otherwise very careful and responsible - take the most important and consequential decision of their life.
Around the same time last year they also had a storage layer failure, and my catch-all rules disappeared. And about a month before that they changed POP3 address.

Both of these changes happened without any email announcement, only visible on their site. So effectively because I didn't login into Migadu dashboard, I was losing emails.
I think anyone remembering TVs from 1989 would in fact expect that.
I think the important story here isn't that some controversy addicts/anti-vaxxers wrote a bad paper, but that the review process at a journal called Vaccines let trough a 4chan level analysis. And this during a world wide drive to vaccinate everybody no less!

Sadly it's too hard to attribute the deaths via vaccine hesitancy that this paper will cause, so none of the reviewers can get charged with involuntary manslaughter.
> You should not need to worry about browser bugs making features unreliable, or breaking your site's rendering.

As long as Safari is still around to haunt us, I think I will :)
While slipping the quarter in this case means extending the contract with HCL ....
All of which you have to teach your kids anyway, and practicing with Alexa means you won't offend people as much whilst getting more practice. Win win.
It is protectionism of their business model for customer support, which is a profit center in many modern companies by now. They are not honest about that so you can call that fraud.
A man once said, "imagination is more important than knowledge."

That man's name? Albert Einstein.
Well, this is my new blog. Hope somebody likes it! Looks like HN formatting did a number on the title.

I'm planning a series of posts that simulate different concurrent systems. The memory model stuff is pretty much in the bag, and I'm working on simulating SQL transactions at different isolation levels, replicating read/write skew etc. Network and disk access come after.

I have no idea if any of this will ever be useful, but it's fun.
A little disappointed to not see Linux mentioned in any of the timelines.
The trick is to flow seawater past the still and take only, say, 1% of the water from each litre that flows past, which you can do with a still as opposed to a filter.

It's a bit like slingshotting a space probe past venus. Technically to move Venus a bit closer to the sun, but not enough to make a difference.
> This is clearly trying to solve a non-technical problem with technical means.

Isn't that the whole point of what most of us are doing?
How is Pizza Catering Business profitable?
pizza catering services in Sydney can definitely prove profitable only if you continue the business with proper planning as if its net present value results in a positive figure then you can think of pursuing this business. Meanwhile, there are certain other aspects as well that should also be pondered for knowing the profit margin and feasibility of the project. So, let’s explore:
I’m in the midst of people who essentially have had the same career trajectory, while starting in this country with debt and zero social capital. It’s not applicable to everyone, but it’s also pretty darn attainable - unless you’re convinced that it’s not/
Unless you ignore energy sources from the environment you cannot exceed 100% efficiency. And that would be incorrect, applying that same standard to photovoltaic panels would result in infinite efficiency. That doesn't make any sense. Edit: Also, when you take heat/energy from a previous step in the process, you also need to account for the energy put into that previous step. In the end that will again be <100%.

As someone else already pointed out, this would be called Coefficient of Performance. Efficiency is clearly defined and cannot exceed 100% without breaking laws of physics. Call it "3.85 times more efficient than before" or something along those lines and it won't sound like a free energy claim.
Assume they mean using a basic Office 365 plan. That’s cost per user though, not really a comparable pricing plan.
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