skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me address all of these

different people will have different risk/benefit profiles: should be self evident

that these vaccines are still in fact experimental: all current COVID vaccines are still being distributed under a EUA.

that there is no reproductive toxicity report for these vaccines: I checked on the status of this again, so far this study [1] that will be published next month seems to be all we have. Note that the study is on only 44 subjects, all of them rats. Additionally, please try going to the VAERS database [2] and do a query for “Spontaneous abortion” grouped by year, notice that out of the last 22 years, 48% of such events occurred in 2021 (which we are only about half through). Surely this needs some sort of follow up.

there is data showing that the lipid nanoparticles from this vaccine accumulate in the ovaries: [3], this is in rats, this should be followed up, especially when taken with the context VAERS data above, but the only follow ups I can find are hot takes from non-experts.

the rushed COVID vaccines are responsible for more all-cause deaths than the last 30 years of vaccines combined: [2] again, you can build the appropriate query yourself. I can’t draw a definitive conclusion here, but it’s rather scary that this is being mostly ignored except by right-wing media who are quick to draw their own possibly wrong from-the-hip conclusions.

that people with natural immunity have no evidence based reason to take these vaccines: here’s what The WHO has to say about it [4]. In general it seems when we are about X months past feb 2020, there is evidence that natural immunity works for about X minus 2 months. Which is to be expected as we are collecting data in real time. However the public is being constantly misdirected about this. The party line is that “long term immunity from natural infections is uncertain, but from vaccinations is certain” which cannot be a possible real conclusion because this virus has only been around for less than 2 years, and the vaccines for about half that time. If anything, we obviously know more about the long term immunity from natural infection, than the vaccine. And that WHO report sheepishly admits as much.

that mass vaccination during pandemics create evolutionary pressure for immune escape variants: feel like this should be a no-brainer, but here’s one random article that goes in depth about it [4]

there is now data showing that antibody-dependent enhancement is a real possibility due to these vaccines: there was an NBC report 2 days ago that showed signs that this might be the case, but it got memory-holed [5]. Here’s another symptom of ADE [6]. This (and all the other points) should be talked about, addressed, followed up on. Not condescendingly swept under the rug as conspiracy theories.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8163337/#!po=0....

[2] https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

[3] https://byrambridle.com/docs/bio-dist.pdf

[4] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathog...

[5] https://luis46pr.wordpress.com/2021/07/29/usa-today-deletes-...

[6] https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/07/26/covid-vaccination...
Unfortunately it remains unexplained (by the article) why this is considered a bug. It would be unethical to test, but this seems like perfectly cromulent behavior one might actually see in real life.
Well, there is always stuff Google thinks you shouldn't read about. Try these (both are first hit on ddg.gg and nowhere on google):

- Politics Influences the Science of COVID-19

- Ten elements of false covid narrative

- Josh Mitteldorf unthinkable thoughts
If I look at the state of health care, education, and prisons in the US, the population seems quite suppressed to me even without any warfare.
You don't have to be the recipient of bad behavior to sympathize. I, for example, have never worked for Blizzard, yet I find these allegations to be appalling, and would not want to work with Blizzard until I knew the allegations were false or that the problem was properly dealt with.

Influential people can dislike the culture, and leave so their reputation is not besmirched by the much Blizzard is currently being dragged through.
I have a second-gen and was offered $50 off a new one + $15 kindle store credit.
This is just a random comment with no substance but provocating a wide spectrum of responses with no coherent discussion.
Supergiant makes really awesome and highly acclaimed games.
I already heard several lead devs have left + took their teams with them to start new studios.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jul/29/covid-v...
From the outside this seems like some inner tension's already in place.
I wouldn't expect less of Amazon - that's why they are where they are.
And the passports have photos, right?
Not sure what's in the code, but I think each cat (which is some sort of entity by itself) is composed by body parts, which at the lowest level owns a bunch of attributes/components. Would that make sense?
Why would influential people leave as a result of such scandals? They built that culture and will benefit from its proliferation.
there's hundreds of fun games made by smaller studios

you can avoid EA, Blizzard and Ubisoft very easily these days
Home broadband connectivity was only about 2/3 of where it was today. The iPhone was just rolling out.

As much to the point, Amazon was also very much aiming for the use case of the business traveler who wanted to buy a book before hopping on the plane in an airport that probably didn't have WiFi and almost certainly didn't have free WiFi.

I won't say 2007 was the stone ages. But a lot of things we mostly just take for granted today didn't exist or were relatively nascent.
To folks intimate with the situation: what's the likelihood that they weather this storm like recent, similar industry kerfuffles in companies like Coinbase or Basecamp, that they implode under bad PR, or fundamentally change culture?
> - Cathode material: Prussian white

Ferrocyanides — not the cheapest compound to synthesize
Good point.

"5" == 5
"⑤" == 5
"⑸" == 5
"⁵" == 5
"𝟝" == 5
"𝟓" == 5
"𝟻" == 5
"V" == 5
"Ⅴ" == 5
"𝍸" == 5 # https://unicode-table.com/en/1D378/
"𐄋" == 5 # https://unicode-table.com/en/1010B/
"৫" == 5 # https://unicode-table.com/en/09EB/

If you think the first should work, you should justify why the others shouldn't.
I find branching useful whilst working on my own, I certainly wouldn't want to go back to CVS/SVN.
"Tesla almost had a very different name—until Elon Musk and his co-founders bought the rights to “Tesla” for $75,000"

https://fortune.com/2018/12/09/tesla-name-faraday-elon-musk/
"I'm happy with my Kindle 2 so far, but if they cut off the free Wikipedia browsing, I plan to show up drunk on Jeff Bezos's lawn and refuse to leave."
As far as the CDC goes they have pretty extensive powers, but they are limited to extreme situations. Having huge population evicted during a serious pandemic or disaster could make things significantly worse.

It's not like the CDC uses these rules all the time.
To be fair, "5" == 5 is true for Awk, Perl, and Tcl. All of which were pretty popular at the time.

Not discounting other implications of a 10 day design period :)
> Talk about moving the goal posts!

Nope. My original response addressed your bizarre and irrelevant comparison with "elemental lead". You wrote a whole paragraph downplaying the risks of elemental lead. When it was pointed out to you that environment contamination doesn't involve elemental lead, but rather compounds that are much more dangerous, you pretended to know that, but then kept on saying that they're "not that much worse than elemental lead from a mobility or toxicity perspective." If you would just do a bit of reading about this stuff, it would be clear to you that you've been talking a lot of nonsense.

> So we agree that leaded gasoline in common use for aviation is not a significant contributor to lead poisoning in the population?

I have no idea. I never mentioned avgas in this discussion, and I'm not informed enough about it to have an opinion.

> And perhaps that whoever hasn’t red tagged the houses sitting on a well know multi hundred year old superfund site should do so, or is being negligent?

Um, yes... these are superfund sites. By definition, dwellings at risk have been identified and remediation has been ongoing since the 80's. That's like, the whole point. So again, who exactly do you think should be going to prison for this?

> And that said site is not representative of literally any other type of situation?

No, a lot of non-industrial contamination is even more hazardous. As I said before, the vast majority of lead poisoning is due to lead paint and PVC miniblinds. Again, you could easily educate yourself about this if you wanted to.

> And that eating paint chips is indeed bad for kids - even if they aren’t sweet?

Nobody here would argue with that.
I’m all for advancing machine learning but given how much big corporations aggressively defend their IP, it’s a hard pill to swallow if someone shrugs off a potential misuse of open source code. The law is the law and if it’s ok for Microsoft to defend their copyrights then it’s ok for the FSF to defend my copyrighted code too. The fact that I licensed it GPL was intentional — if I didn’t give a crap what happened to the code then I’d have used BSD or similar. But I chose to place restrictions and I’m very much interested to see if training proprietary AI models are legally covered under those restrictions.
We have no money to spend! How is it extremist to prevent more spending when we are borrowing to even cover the existing budget?
Any good stories you can share?
It probably depends in some part on the replaceability of your workforce: Burning your workers isn't a big deal if they're cashiers. But if they're software engineers, burning the company's reputation with them may not be in the company's best interest: You might end up with a company that has no unionizers but also lost all its key talent.
That's not true. People lie all the time to prevent backlash against them.
Covid spreading twice as fast in Republican counties than Democrat ones: report
Agreed. Passive aggressive approaches like this app should be left to fantasy.

If you have a problem, learn to handle it like a professional adult. Talk it out. Propose alternatives. If you find yourself in a 127-person Zoom call that isn’t relevant to you, just leave and send a note to the meeting organizer that you’re not available for such meetings and ask them to please let you know if anything comes up that is specific to you.

Making a scene by holding up an app and being passive aggressive about the point you’re trying to make is not a productive way to communicate. It likely won’t have the intended effect, either.
> Making it harder to evict drives up rents and worsens the housing crisis by restricting supply

Restrictive zoning and bespoke, political hurdles against development do far more to restrict supply. I'm not understanding how housing that is in use can be considered supply available for others. Say we make it easier to evict and change nothing else: one family is evicted so another can take the unit. I don't see how that improves anything if the goal is to get both families housed. All it seems to do is enable landlords to play arbitrage and charge the highest possible price.
yeah they're just biglaw, any biglaw firm does everything
I think the CAP theorem is a bit overstated. It’s not, “You can’t have a perfect system,” but “You can’t have a system which is both available and consistent during a network partition.” True, and interesting, and useful to know, but if “100% available” is in your requirements to begin with, you are doomed to fail and the CAP theorem is just more nails in the coffin.

To me, the “you can’t have a perfect system” is really just, “You can’t have 100% availability, and you can’t have 100% durability either.” The hard part is then convincing the users of your system that even though your system seems perfect, they should be prepared for it to fail.

IMO the backend API solution is somewhat easy. 503 Service Unavailable. Then the front-end needs to somehow present a meaningful error message to the user, with a plan for how the user can accomplish their desired action or at least save their state and try continuing later… which can get insanely complicated…
I think it's OK as long as they feel it's OK. We can say that his mother "sponsors" the project.
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If I remember the analysis of Matt Levine correctly, they have a lot cars, and even if the beginning of Covid was rough on them as ppl traveled less, the price of 2nd hand cars went up 6 months after the that and they were able to bounce back.
ISS loses attitude control after Nauka module docking
Not sure what the usage rate was. But the devices saw pretty wide support. For example the Roland was supported by 900 games, same with the Soundblaster

Roland: https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/dos/tic,1/ti,35/

Soundblaster: https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/dos/tic,1/ti,40/
I don't believe the CDC has this authority:

> On Thursday, the White House confirmed it would let the moratorium expire because the supreme court said it would block additional extensions unless they were authorized by Congress.

The Supreme Court did vote 5-4 to leave the moratorium in place, but this NPR article provides more context:

> Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who cast the fifth and deciding vote, wrote in a concurring opinion that he voted not to end the eviction program only because it is set to expire on July 31, "and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution" of the funds that Congress appropriated to provide rental assistance to those in need due to the pandemic. He added, however, that in his view Congress would have to pass new and clearer legislation to extend the moratorium past July 31

(https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1003268497/the-supreme-court-...)

It sounds like the Supreme Court would block any renewed attempt to ban evictions, unless Congress was behind the attempt.
You're referring to JavaScript whereas the post is about R
Union busting behavior is not that surprising, but talk about awful timing. Do the people at the top not consider the PR implications of this stuff?
This is awesome! It works on more than just the latest macOS, is free and open source, and is only 6 MB.

A commercial alternative for $14 https://ixeau.com/keystroke-pro/
This article summarizes my thoughts extremely well, thanks for that! I would throw in food and drink delivery with scooters, so!
They even named the company to evoke Tesla and form an impression that they competing with them. This is a pure scam but now they have enough money to legitimize themselves. This is actually a great outcome for their investors, the CEO takes the blame and the company becomes legit. Just sad that this is accepted as normal. I will not be surprised if the stock sky rockets tomorrow.
On Earth, things evolve into crabs–could the same be true in space?
The Verge really fell off a cliff after the first year they launched.

I guess that's too tangential for this post, though.
IIRC the actual bug was that cats licking their paws made them consume an entire tankard's worth of beer with each lick, which made them drunk (and dead) with just a few licks.
Several courts agreed that the CDC does not have that authority (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/05/05/federal-j...).

However, the Supreme Court decided to punt and leave the moratorium in place since it is set to expire at the end of the month (https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1003268497/the-supreme-court-...) but warned that further extensions would need to go through Congress.
It's quite telling how long did this gas last while still being capable of powering engine. Modern gas won't last a year with or without stabilizer
Check out this itch page for some suggestions:

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2020

Scroll down to the " Help—I’ve never created a game before!" section and there are some suggestions like Phaser or Godot.
> There is no line

You are missing the point of the complaint, which is that it's a private decision to hold that policy. Maybe it was a bad idea to use the word "line", but the intent still stands unadressed.
Sure. While we're at it, variable assignment should not be "=" in the first place.
Even then, Epic Games will promote the heck out of a small indie launch if it's exclusive for a year. Many of the developers they've worked with are one or two person shops.

The days where being buried in the bottom of Steam listings is gone, as long as you aren't insisting on launching via Steam.
Cell's sense of starvation triggers TDP-43 misfolding
No. Suits over compensation are common in Hollywood.
Yeah I got that, I just didn't quite catch the "Launch HN" instead of "Show HN" prefix on this post at first glance
> IMO, any language with a type system should enforce comparisons only between those types (or derived types)

There are languages with a type system that have universal type (and all types are derived from it), in these languages it make sense that "5" == 5 is defined and false.
sure introverts are great for being a minion and completing tasks. who is leading the project?
I've been writing Elixir since 2016 and I don't see myself switching anytime soon. It's a beautiful language to use, just nice and lovely. The functional aspects mean every function has no side effect. It's very very liberating.
I think you're saying the purpose of regulations should be to hurt the stock price of companies. That's seriously crazy. Why not write a regulation simply outlawing public stock markets?

The purpose of regulations are to make people's lives better. That could mean protecting them from harms, or preventing other undesirable outcomes. There should be a cost benefit analysis applied there. Of course some things are hard to measure so there will be arguing on the margins.

The place I do agree with you is that if a company's business is doing regulation compliance (see: Intuit), then their viability shouldn't be a factor at all.
If you can't be friends with someone without alcohol, then you might need some help.
When you accuse someone of being wrong, it's helpful to provide justification, not insults.

Y: How do I strip unnecessary symbols after a decimal point?

X: How do I round a number to a desired precision?

It looks like the perfect example of XY problem to me. Please tell me how I'm confused.
What does any of that have to do with whether or not the firm is notorious for union-busting? Representing a polluting corporation against citizens suing it for making them sick is 100% compatible with busting unions.

[Originally I had gotten this backwards and stated that WilmerHale represented the citizens]
Reminds me of the time I asked "How can I do this Python feature in one-line because I'm writing a to-one-line Python transformer".

Still got idiots replying that I shouldn't be doing what I want to do in one line.
>So many times it was 'go stand at the end of your driveway and try'.

Like my dad's house in Maine today :-)

In the early years of the iPhone in the US, there was--including on this site I imagine--much wailing and gnashing of teeth over AT&T's coverage.
Knowing nothing at all about the industry from an insider perspective, my outsider surmise is maybe a lesser star in this situation would be.

But Scarlett Johansson is the highest grossing female 'bankable'[0] star and as such even if Disney might not want to work with her, I doubt she will ever be wanting for work.

>Expect her ROI to jump after the box-office takes of "Black Widow" are tallied.

ope.

I think the dispute over compensation is likely fair, and will be settled out of court.

[0]https://www.workandmoney.com/s/most-bankable-movie-actresses...
Appearance of forward-thinking and actual boots-on-the-ground situation can vary widely. Especially with governments - you might be suprised how many things are just held on stilts behind the scenes. When it comes to security, I have zero trust in the government ID programs.
I think this is as much "if you want to do this again you need better guidelines / legislation". Rather than "you can't ever do this".

I'm threading the needle here, but that's what SCOTUS does.
I assume this is a comparison to duolingo, not Nikola.
I know I will regret asking it… but what’s the modern way of starting playing DF?
I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other.

I haven't purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and quit playing Hearthstone at that time. However I had still played some of my other old favorites, reasoning that I was not providing them further financial support. The recent announcements about their terrible, sexist culture had challenged that notion for me, and I was not sure what to do.

This news is the straw that breaks my back. That Activision/Blizzard would double down on their despicable behavior and stance in this way is completely beyond the pale, and I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much.

Thanks for ruining that for me, Blizzard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy
Germany had a similar situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter#Currently

"Temporary" workers tend to turn into permanent immigrants, and we should stop pretending otherwise. Either grant permanent resident status at the start, or forbid entry entirely, instead of this "guest worker" farce that always turns to emotional blackmail to let them stay, as if no-one could predict they'd start families.
I3 or Sway? Why not both?
100%. They definitely take customer service seriously.
Not enough people are going to unsubscribe from WoW for it to make a difference, enough of the public is anti-union and many of the rest don't care.
"It's priced in"
I’ve learned to cast a more cynical eye towards companies claiming to be accomplishing grand, ethical aims. Sometimes they’re right, of course, but it’s also a phenomenal way to sweep abuse and fraud under a rug.
It seems like a wild and possibly inaccurate speculation on the use of quantum effects for communication.

Before we start speculating how aliens communicate, we need to have some idea how WE can communicate via the same means, even in a most crude way (like sending one bit of information few feet away). Otherwise saying "well aliens maybe know more so maybe they can do it" could be used to submit a paper about just anything at all we fancy. Say time machines.

So far, measuring the properties of entangled particles has not been demonstrated as capable of transferring information faster than light. You can only do the math and conclude what happened when you have BOTH RESULTS. And to have both results, you need to communicate them via traditional means, like giving the other team a phone call, or, you know, walking there and asking them.
They add friction to any outgoing payment because some proportion of customers will walk away and then they will have more money.

Other organisations (especially banks) will collect far more information than is legally required for KYC because they can use it for marketing.

But why does a 50 cent SIM card need a security deposit?
You get a $50 coupon towards a new model that can download your new purchases, and you'll continue to be able to access everything you've already downloaded on your old device. And you get a heads up so you have lots of time to download stuff before service ends

For anyone who doesn't have an anti-Amazon agenda, this is either a non-story or a model example of how to gracefully and professionally handle a transition away from obsolete hardware