skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Eliminated" was probably too strong, but here's some relevant scientists talking about how we don't understand why seasonal disease is seasonal.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/why-do-dozens-diseas...

>Even for well-known seasonal diseases, it’s not clear why they wax and wane during the calendar year. “It’s an absolute swine of a field,” says Andrew Loudon, a chronobiologist at the University of Manchester. Investigating a hypothesis over several seasons can take 2 or 3 years. “Postdocs can only get one experiment done and it can be a career killer,” Loudon says. The field is also plagued by confounding variables. “All kinds of things are seasonal, like Christmas shopping,” says epidemiologist Scott Dowell, who heads vaccine development and surveillance at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and in 2001 wrote a widely cited perspective that inspired Martinez’s current study. And it’s easy to be misled by spurious correlations, Dowell says.
Companies like tencent are very different to private companies in the West - and will much more readily do what the Chinese government tells them to do. Private companies in the west will collaborate with the government at all, but they complain more and keep it secret.

This move won’t be done from the kindness of their heart and to get kids to reduce gaming consumption - it will be a move they have been instructed to do from the Chinese government.

These companies can’t really push back either - if you want an example see what happened to Jack Ma.
Most people I speak with generally agree that after 2016 (Trump) it became way worse.
I posit that drinking a daily capful of bleach will purge you of past trauma and negative emotions. Your critique is irrelevant unless you try it.
It’s not about the content, it’s about the delivery. People need to be more respectful of others anecdotal experiences.
Evidence based Science cannot read between the lines all the time
Like the rest of the blockchain?
Hacker News crowd holds itself to a higher standard of _discussion_, than most other communities.
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Why would you need to quit your job to make a meditation app? Can't you make one in a few days? They don't have any social elements etc, just an app that plays music and notifications.
Of course not. But AAPL price futures satisfy the consumer desire here.
Evidence planted on laptops of jailed Indian activists, says forensics firm
My parents got a heat pump water heater (electric) a few months ago and it's great. Definitely the priciest option, but it sips electricity and also cools the area around it (basically operating as an "inside out refridgerator").

In this same remodel I also convinced them to get heat pump / AC combo unit to replace the old gas furnace. Again amazingly cheap (even compared to gas), but also higher upfront cost.

This is in a coastal California region, so I'm not sure how well these heat pump solutions will work in colder places (ice would likely form on the heat pump near freezing, limiting its capability), but if anyone is looking to upgrade either a hot water heater or an AC unit, I cannot recommend the heat pump option enough (if you can get through the higher up front cost).
Seems to me that the DoD should build a cloud agnostic solution.
would it still work though? Like if the mechanism is a relation between surface area and the water, you might not have a choice to just use less material? Unless your "strategy" is to, like.... just have a tiny flow of super pure water and then mixing it into untreated water.

(Your strategy might totally work of course, just might not be a given)
Amazing progress Wojciech, Sylwia and a great Luna/Enso team Bret Victor's ideas are Rare, unique and necessary, but technical implementations are Super Rare. I am very glad that Luna project is successfully developing and evolved into an open source Enso project :)

PS: I was in awe of Bret Victor's ideas when I got to know about Luna in 2016. I research such unique projects and create my own https://animationcpu.herokuapp.com/ since 2012 But it turned out to be difficult to find the right people, maybe we can cooperate to make the world a better place for developers and arrive the next Unicorn to the planet :)
People react strongly to such things because we’ve all lived long enough to see new powers targeted at bad actors eventually abused by law enforcement.
And for the flu it is about ~40 in 100,000 also: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/disparities-racial-ethnic-m...
I tend to see rights as temporary privileges.

A right by its name can be given or taken away. I feel the discussion about fundamental rights is moot as it always depends on the powers that be. In that sense I prefer dane-pgp's explanation of these being more foundational rights.

Your thoughts and beliefs and your actions are what you are and not a right.
Pentagon scraps $10bn Jedi winner-takes-all cloud contract
True, but the difference is outrageous:

> The price billed to Mr. Macias was roughly three times the best deal negotiated by an insurance company.
Thanks for the Information...

https://www.mcdvoice.app/
Like your parent post suggests, it's not really for that step -- you'd still need a filter for that. That said, in the context of camping.. because the need for sanitization is offloaded away from the filter, you're able to get away with a filter that has a much higher flow rate. Hand-powered sanitizing filters are an absolute pain to use and getting enough water for a meal is a.. process. So, it would be a welcome addition to camping setups.
Absolutely, and it also depends on enforcement.

If you know there is no punishment for circumventing controls, then you would do it, however if you thought that circumvention might result in the CPP knocking on your door you would think twice.
Thanks for information..

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Spores are legal to ship and buy in most states but not to grow. A paranoid person might expect you'd end up on a police watchlist and they'd get a warrant to search your house to see if you ever grew the spores.

What's people's comfort level on this?
Shouldn't this be about knowledge and information, and certainly not architecture? The test should be "If I have a need for obscure knowledge on something, how much help are they able to give?". Otherwise what are libraries for anymore?
That is awesome. So obvious when you think about it, I wonder what practical applications it has. Do photographers know about this?
> Reject all is pointless. You can do it in browser already.

No, you can’t. You can block cookies. GPC enables the ”I reject” signal, so websites that honor GPC don’t have to ask you (i.e., no cookie banner)..
Seems like it has been a bit longer than I thought, also these kinds of laws seem to pop up every other quarter, making it near impossible to find information on a specific event. Most I can currently find are sources on the Zugangserschwerungsgesetz which was partially driven by the same Politicians trying to install an EU wide blocklist. While the source does not mention the blocking of political activists (a change that the content of the list would be confirmed by an independent board is mentioned) it does cover the success of deleting over blocking and lies like "India does not have laws against child pornography". [1]

[1] https://netzpolitik.org/tag/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz/
I sincerely hope that she’s able to get the vaccine somehow. I hope that we can convince people to get vaccinated too. I hope that we can stop the pandemic with as little loss of life as possible. I really personally hope that your partner stays safe and isn’t infected throughout this.

That being said, many people are treating it as a political issue, or feel the risk is low enough for them that they don’t need to get vaccinated. Many people have never taken the pandemic seriously, and still don’t.

We need solutions that either inoculate people who are eligible or can convince people to voluntarily get inoculated, because the economic effects of lockdowns and other pandemic controls are far too destructive to apply unequally or over a long period of time. The efficacy of things like lockdowns also goes down over time. If we want these tools to work for future outbreaks and pandemics, we can’t always use them.

I sincerely hope your partner is able to stay safe. I hope that you can find a way through this together. Unfortunately, it’s just extremely difficult to get people to collectively work on this problem.

In a way, news articles like this don’t help. We should really reserve alarms for quantifiable metrics and risks, not hypotheticals. It just adds fuel to the fire for many, and that isn’t helping get people vaccinated faster.
Anyone remember those old DooM novels? Not exactly fine literature, but I did enjoy them as a kid. Resident evil had a cheesy but fun novel series too
People who fix themselves are a danger to the cathedral.
You are free or not, regardless whether you have a right to liberty or whether your are enslaved or free.
Materialists, physicalists, or naturalists[2] might scoff at such explanations (especially if they've never had strong psychedelic experiences, though sometimes even then), but I believe that it's likely that a great religious revival is heralded by the renewed interest and widespread use of psychedelics.

Is it not more likely that these substances just happen to match the knob labeled "profound" in our brains and crank it to 11? I hope these studies move very cautiously but optimistically, because as someone whose life was deeply damaged by a religious upbringing, the prospect of another psychedelic religious revival concerns me. Religion and mysticism tend to diverge over time, leading to conflict. Scientific knowledge tends to converge over time, suggesting science is a more reliable means of acquiring knowledge. So I hope a primarily scientific approach is taken with psychedelic research.
One of my predictions/hopes is that part-time work becomes far more prevalent. In addition to the benefits already mentioned here, it would be great for people who want to be e.g. entrepreneurs or independent researchers. Wrote a bit about this here: https://jacobobryant.com/p/what-im-trying-to-do/#1-help-buil...

Also relevant: https://sahillavingia.com/work. I'd like to make a collection of part-time success stories like this.
So stocks are randomly awarded to miners? Like any stock or each stock is its own chain?

The stocks are not backed in any other way?
Oh I see, so you are saying that these crypto assets are primarily traded in the third world?
There is also the fact that the uninsured are less likely to pay, so they jack up their prices again to account for that. It’s all really just lots of insanity.
Yes, I think. Depends on their management of the crisis. Hacks are part of life nowadays and it takes several examples of negligence before disengaging your users.
I really enjoyed Cards ender sequels. They really start to convey a deep empathy for other human beings as they go along. There are no pure villains that you can fully objectify, even the worst of them are people with feelings. No problem if you didn’t enjoy them though, just wanted to say
Harmful to your circumstances. I don't live with someone who is immunocompromised and I did my part by receiving the vaccine and wearing a mask in areas of high density. As a result, I'm going back to as normal a life as possible because I enjoy living. And again, I acknowledge the risks, I lived a few blocks from Mt. Sinai West where a literal semi-trailer was used to contain dead bodies.

> This is an extremely narrow-minded and potentially harmful view.

One could argue the same of your response.

> I have the vaccine but I'm still scared to go out without a mask on because I don't want to get it from somebody who isn't wearing a mask and spread it to her, so I'm not even able to "resume living normally".

Please explain how this is my problem or why I should be concerned for your irrational fear. This is a statement that appears to both highly entitled and rooted in emotion - not reason or evidence.

I wish the best for you and your wife. To be clear, I'm not a political person and don't intend any of my arguments here to be perceived as such.
Having known a large number of manual labor professionals my whole life, there is no difference between the good-at-heavy-equipment and the good-at-writing-a-crud-app crowd. You do get a wider variety of intellectual capacity on the blue collar side depending on the trade, but electricians, plumbers, heavy equipment operators, etc are all just as good at problem solving on average as any group of developers I know.

"Blue collar", "the trades" are just so broad in scope it's an unfair comparison. It becomes much easier when you look at specific manual labor professions and specific developer professions.
> Materialists, physicalists, or naturalists[2] might scoff at such explanations (especially if they've never had strong psychedelic experiences, though sometimes even then)

I've had strong psychedelic and dissociative experiences. There's nothing about those experiences that cannot be explained with materialism.
You're far from alone. There was an interesting thread on r/psychonauts recently about atheist psychonauts[1], and a lot of people identified as such.

Psychedelics clearly don't inevitably lead people to become believers... but still a lot of people do, especially when they have overwhelmingly powerful mystical experiences (which we know are pretty likely to happen on psychedelics).

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/oa6782/atheist_...
Could you share what you wish you hadn't found?
this isn't productive use of the shared space. All the write ups i see say it was driven by necessity not deep cynicism.

you're flaming from a young account, not discussing, and you ignored matters of substance I tried to bring to the fore, chasing wokism and Ayn Rand. Why bother?

> If I looked for a word to describe the other point of view I get to "collectivist" but within seconds Its descended into name calling around socialism.

to quote myself, this is precisely what you're doing.
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District cooling (as opposed to district heating) is fairly common in Gulf countries.
By "nuke their reactions" you mean heating things up... Usually when there is more heat chemical reactions are faster (higher energy means higher chances for the right stuff to bump into each other)
Or if it is a critical issue, just shut it down. We don't need to let someone ruin a lake to mine Bitcoin.
That’s not what the article says. It says the new method “shows the POTENTIAL for revolutionising water disinfection technologies around the world” (emphasis mine). It’s talking about a method of creating disinfectants at the source rather than using chemicals. How to scale this up, deal with degrading catalysts, handle electrical demand, etc are all beyond the scope of an academic lab inventing a new method. They just demonstrated the potential.
They know they won't pay anyway, so it allows them a bigger write-off of uncollectible billings?
Citation needed on the Texas leaving cities alone claim: Austin was very recently blocked from doing any significant rezoning due to state law

https://www.kut.org/austin/2020-03-18/judge-throws-out-city-...

Though granted this law was passed previously and wasn't a reaction to something Austin did a la TNC regulation
Statistically, a 60% efficacious vaccine, if the only available option, would have been a welcome sign of relief. Remember that the influenza seasonal vaccines are only about that effective, and they do a significant amount of good. 94% is more than we were asking for and expecting. Seasonal influenza is a big deal but not a total crisis for a reason. It’s reasonable to say that a moderately effective vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 significantly decreases the chances of an exponential growth fueled outbreak or total Wild West mutation.
Yup, always up for that. almost tempted to write some code to try automating it
Yes, modern wood fireplaces are pretty decent emission-wise when properly operated and maintained (the catalytic converters need replacing after a few seasons). But even at their best, they produce more pollution and particulates than natural gas [1][2].

Gas is cleaner, safer, and easier, so why use wood for a built-from-scratch model town?

[1] https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/frequent-questions-about-wood-b...
[2] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-4-july-august/ask-mr-...
I literally today just finished drying and capsuling my first flush of uncle ben tek grown cubensis.

Its really not a big deal. 100% comfortable.

Note: am on the west coast.
Can Technology Help Us Eat Better?
https://archive.is/VoUBM
Yes, that's the point of the vaccine. Even if you get <insert variant here> you have a far lower likelihood of being hospitalized.

Check mate science, move on. Living in fear of the unknown is a fools errand.

This is how you play into the hand of the insane people who think covid was a "government plant" to sow compliance lmao.
The Peacock Feather Effect
For some places like Australia you would want to run it in the middle of the day when solar peaks and power prices go negative.
If you own a house that's become so valuable, you're already above the median. Exempting rich people from taxes so that they don't have to sell to even richer people doesn't seem like a good policy to me. Any kind of tax makes it easier to be richer than poorer, that's just life.

I'd agree that the agricultural exemption is perverse (as is the whole notion of taxing property value rather than unimproved land value - but ad-hoc exemptions aren't the way to fix that).
https://archive.is/gLzJx
The chinese app wechat already does this in private homes for the purpose of enforcing KYC and "misinformation tracking" - you are required to repeat after it, repeat every phoneme/syllable to form a voiceprint (and coincidentally enough to basically train something to replicate your speech), look straight ahead, rotate around your head, and follow its instructions to sign in again.

Also, asking two verified-ID mainland china users to "vouch" for you and be responsible for your activities if you are a foreigner.

Almost every service in China requires "real name verification" - you can't play games without it, for example.

This has been place for several years, https://i.imgur.com/FBrCwuX.jpg
They don’t need to check an id for that? Maybe Amazon does the ol take a picture with your id thing then hopes you were the one to provide the sample?
Because children under 16 are not people?

Long covid is a thing in children too.
The current vaccine is only 64% effective, but new safe and effective mRNA vaccines can be made on a very short timescale compared to other vaccines (as seen by the initial COVID-19 vaccines themselves).

The problem isn't having a vaccine available that's protective enough... it's getting enough holdouts to actually take it before another mutated variant takes over.
https://archive.is/qexaR
People don't have to "believe" in it. If what you're saying is true so easily, then it should be very easy to form a trial that proves it.
> ...just the idea of getting to Marfa hurts me to think about.

I suspect there are quite a few owners of that Marfa property are flying and not driving in. Marfa Municipal airport as about 20+ airplanes per day [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_Municipal_Airport
I’ve never thought like this, but I definitely acted like this.
Feels like these two approaches are both part of human nature. From what I understand before agriculture people actually considered themselves as animals, being part of the bigger system.
Digital is still primarily ERP in Healthcare
https://archive.is/0TdGj
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MS pays less than Amazon?
yup. The Stoned Ape theory.
This comment strongly suggests that you didn't watch the video and are not familiar with Curtis' work, considering he discusses politics at great length in essentially all of them. From ~7:00 in the video I linked:

"The problem for politics of the rise of individualism is that it can't deal with it. Politics requires you to say to people as a political party, come with me, join with us together and we will use that collective power to change the world. But to do that you have to accept that you are part of something, you have to surrender yourself to something. And for the radical movements, that was a disaster. But more than that, it was a disaster for politics generally. Because political parties fell away. So what then politicians they were then faced by is the fact that they didn't have mass support so they couldn't do the main thing that mass democratic politics rose up to do which is to be your representative, your bridgehead into power."

Later on in the video:

"I do think that one thing that's going to come back onto the table is religion. Because I think the real weakness of the modern systems of managing us as individuals is that it cannot deal with our own mortality... The sense that when they die something will go on and they will be part of something that's going on... In the modern rational, efficient, utilitarian, technocratic world of managing the individual - [the world] cannot give you any consolation."

I don't see how politics could answer that.
There was LoveFilm or something like that in the UK circa 2004 that worked like Netflix did (I think they bought them eventually).

The recommendations were pretty good, because I remember we mostly picked what was recommended.
For anyone else reading this and considering it -- you really need to be careful before recommending this for someone with depression. If they are not prepared for the experience it can be deeply destabilizing. Bad trips are real. Shroom tea is generally very strong too.

It absolutely can work for depression sometimes, just be careful and intentional, and don't just talk somebody into it who may not be ready for it.
An audit system? Presumably, regulators will require software and system and component behavior change logs.

Is this not already the case?
it's tencent, not China - tencent just find a smart way to collect personal data.

some giants like Tencent or Huawei or Alibaba, etc are always trying to collect citizens' personal data like your face id, your voices, you phone number, .... everything related to you.
very uninformed take, read like a script.