skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did a prospective study of vaccine effectiveness vs infection and transmission among vaxxed healthcare and frontline workers. Seems biased from the start. Won’t it be confounded by their tendency to wear (better) PPE?

Edited to add: I suppose it depends on their methodology. Quick glance at Thompson’s study, seems they compared vaxxed HCWs to unvaxxed HCWs. I don’t know if we would expect to see material PPE-wearing differences between those groups.
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I see a picture of a link with a "false information" notice. What are you seeing that I am not that causes you to interpret all of this ostensibly harmful missing context?
Sure, you can use this fact to make a misleading claim. But literally any piece of information can be used in a harmful manner.

That is the gist of the problem.

It's not quite entirely true, as taking a quote from an astronaut about how the ground on the moon didn't feel like anything on earth isn't going to convince anyone that the moon is made of green cheese who didn't think that anyway, but that is the general problem.

Disinformation is a hell of a drug.
I mostly agree. however: the turning off 2G & 3G : will free up frequencies to reuse in 4G which is more efficient (for the carriers) and better (for the users), no ?
I had the same idea! Except that I wanted to do it for Xenon 2 Megablast. It was a DOS game I grew up with and loved the intro music, so much that I wanted to play it outside the computer.

You can run it in the browser here to listen to the intro music:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Xenon_2_-_Megablast_1990

Thanks for posting this! I'll refer to it when I finally get around to making it.
...and therein lies the problem.
In this article, Vitalik argues that a high Gini coefficient is not a big problem in crypto because crypto does not measure life quality. Aka someone with only little crypto is not starving. They are just less invested.

I don't think most people care about the Gini in crypto because they are afraid of the crypto poor starving. I think they care because a high Gini means there are some super rich that could flood the market with their coins and make the price tank.

So the discussion in crypto about Gini is held from an investment perspective.
Yes. Those people buy multiple properties in an effort to launder their drug money. Just look at the situation in Marbella.
> If idiots want to pour their millions into worthless concrete to inevitably lose everything when the wave of free money from central banks recedes, leaving innumerous almost free homes in the market for everyone to buy - why any sane person should object?

Because everything you said is completely wrong and it takes the already extremely tight housing market to an absurd extreme where no ordinary person can purchase lodging to own. It would take a lot more than a monetary policy tightening to crash Vancouver or Toronto housing markets given how many people are moving in every year. Probably something quite cataclysmic
Pot piqued my interest for a CI workflow utilizing FreeBSD jails after seeing this 2019 FOSDEM presentation: https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/fosdem/pizzamiglio-ci_cd/

Glad to see that this approach is still viable.
Sad to hear. I have a Kindle DX Graphite (Int).

I haven't bought that many books anyway in the last 10 years. I mainly use it to read PDFs with the non-official PDF reader.
It's global warming. Same as New Zealand. Money is easy and smart money is flocking to places that will be survivable in a decade or two. This is very easy.
Restorative Justice seems based on the possible belief that someone who commits a crime is inherently good, but because of society or whatever you want to fill in the blank here, they just haven’t been given a chance.

To me it seems like a very philosophical way of looking at criminal justice, perhaps through rose tinted glasses. Mr. Boudin strikes me as someone who has a personal score to settle with the justice system, or perhaps society as a whole, and is willing to buy into this philosophy to achieve his goals. Regardless of its actual results.

I’m feeling a bit pessimistic about this, because I don’t think crime prevention, reduction, and the general protection of society, is something we can leave to a philosophical question. It requires direct action and fast results.
They certainly are a union and describe themselves as such.

For example, from https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/guide-to-the-guild

"We are the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), a labor union composed of the thousands of writers who write the content for television shows, movies, news programs, documentaries, animation, and Internet and mobile phones (new media) that keep audiences constantly entertained and informed. "
Search Tesla vampire drain, it’s a thing.

The calculation is muddied even more because the tesla odometer doesn’t monitor two important things: vampire drain, and charging inefficiencies. The odometer only tracks power while your butt is in the seat (so if you park the car and use the ac, it will track that). This makes long term cost tracking hard: you can only depend on the miles driven metric from the car. You’ll need a separate meter to track total energy used to account for inefficiencies (power lost to heat and conversion) and vampire drain.

The car shows kWH used since last charge, and it almost never matched what my smart meter measures if the car has sat for days.
Good call - appreciate the correction, forgot about House House
They could coexist in a world with unlimited time and resources. We don't live in that world.
The well-featured headset is out of my price range, but golly, it would be interesting to experiment with.
For another Easter egg: google “recursive’
Full frame lets you either collect more light per pixel, achieve a wider field of view, or achieve a narrower depth of focus (more bokeh!) for the same pixel density.

In general better glass is available on full frame since camera manufacturers produce pro full frame lenses, but infrequently do so with APS-C lenses. There are exceptions, such as Fuji, but in general the best glass is for full frame sensors.

Because full frame includes the high end, you can get features on full frame cameras that are not available on APS-C cameras.

APS-C's advantage is in lighter, cheaper glass for a given field of view. This is important when hiking! Another option is the m43 format, which has half the sensor area of APS-C, but in turn allows for even smaller and lighter glass and cameras.

It's all trade-offs. Full frame sensors will be less noisy and allow for wider fields of view with better quality glass. But you pay for that monetarily and in size/weight. Is the tradeoff worth it to you? Perhaps not. Or perhaps there is a killer feature that is only available on FF cameras from the manufacturer of your choice that you want, so you're willing to pay the monetary and size cost to get it. If you're really after narrow depth of field, low noise, or extremes of pixels, medium format is there and willing to suck as much money up as you've got available.
> A few years ago you just needed ~$NZ5m invested in the country and you get permanent residency. There is no way the prices are driven by domestic money.

In 2019-2020 just 38 of this class of visa was approved, which seems to be about the average per year over the last decade. It was just 16 in 2020-2021.

I don't think these people are buying decrepit Auckland villas, two bedroom semi-detached or tiny one bedroom apartments, given they have $10 million spare to invest.

Prices are also driven by cheaper interest rates domestically.
I was surprised to learn they took covid vaccine injuries out of the typical and long-standing compensation program.

It apparently is using an odd countermeasure payment program, which is not approving any claims. https://yourworlddaily.blogspot.com/2021/07/covid-19-vaccine...
SSNs used as IDs is terrible, but it’s a little glib to say we don’t have national ID cards because they’re “tyranny.” There are very real problems, like discrimination and degradation of privacy: https://www.aclu.org/other/national-identification-cards-why...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_concrete
"Acknowledge the war has changed"

Maybe it has? For example, DC has reported 11 homicides since its last reported COVID death.
"Higher than desired" is a given. Particularly the early WHO tests had accuracy and sensitivity problems.
A fraternity brother of mine used to do this too. I remember getting a full dissertation on why this worked (for him). He would go for a (light) run in the dress shirt he planned on wearing out later that night. shrug who knows if actually helped his dating life, but he swore by it.
I also get plenty of sun and eat well. But I happen work at a job that requires me to look at a stationary screen for much of the day, like I imagine most of us do. So I am choosing to not be as sedentary. But if you're suggesting that we should abandon working in tech because it's unnatural, I'm afraid you're probably talking to the wrong audience :)

You're not the first person to mention gerbils on wheels to me. I think it's mostly a reaction to seeing something unconventional, despite its health benefits. If you feel like you're not living your ideal life in this industry (assuming you are also in tech), that's fine, but don't project that onto me please. I enjoy what I do and how I live.
Slide 21

>Given higher transmissibility and current vaccine coverage, universal masking is essential to reduce transmission of the Delta variant

Well that's very sad, if not entirely unexpected. How long will we be living in a masked world?
You're not supposed to apply the Gini coefficient to a single asset. It's for an entire society.

Now, governance concentration, that's a useful metric for a cryptocurrency.
My father got me that book when I was getting more seriously into game programing and it's an absolutely wonderful tome. It has a lot of very good points about not just programming but also game design and how to achieve interesting and seemingly intelligent NPC behavior with a few simple tricks.

Parts of it may be a bit dated now, though.
> Platforms must be responsible for the content they are hosting, broadcasting, and publishing.

> One to one communications between two people exchanging ideas and having a private discussion is different from mass broadcasting.

The highway is used both by those visiting their friends and those doing mass deliveries. Is it the job of the highway maintenance crew to control for what purpose their network is used?

I would like to know if the above analogy stands.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27994831
Morlock's are also the creatures that manage the machines under the world in Well's Time Traveler novel. Though I guess they are known more for their dietary preferences.
We’re working on it :) [1]

The interesting problem is that it’s still kind of a developer experience mess. We can get pretty far with libbpf skeleton, libbpf-rs, etc, but I think we’re still waiting on the “killer” framework for this (or some other kind of language support).

[1] I work with Pavel, Jens, and Alexei
Good general rule. However, if you are doing some kind of general economic modeling, with estimated parameters all around, not claiming to represent anyone's accounts or ledgers, I suspect an exception applies.

"When you are dealing with things that are measured" ... or wild-ass guesses.

And I doubt demographers and actuaries are all using integer arithmetic for projecting technically integer-count human-life outcomes.

Calculating taxes: Be careful and conventional, as you say.
> People obviously do not like that, and argue making copies/backups is their right.

In some jurisdictions this is in fact their right by law as long as they own the original (the music/film industry of course used this as an excuse to slap additional fees on every sale of any storage medium). Redistribution is different however.
You are projecting. I referred to the archetype and trend and not you specifically.

No longer in tech.
Perhaps they don’t want you to contact or question the federal employee that wrote the document.
Fourth Suicide at the Vessel Leads to Calls for Higher Barriers
Check out www.glocalme.com

They sell you a hotspot that works in 80+ countries with an eSIM. When you land you top up 500 MB of that countries data for a few dollars, which is usually enough to get me to the hotel and then out to a shop where locals buy SIMs. Depending on the device they have 1-2 extra SIM slots and you an hot swap between them.

There is an upfront cost and it doesn't quite meet your price point - but it gives you the flexibility to do a bit more shopping past airport rates.
It is annoying, but the various MVNO options recently have largely mitigated this problem as far as I can tell. A single line can be had for $20/month with most everything included, or cheaper on promotions (down to around $8-15/month depending on GB of data). That seems comparable with the western European countries in which I've gotten a SIM card, at least.
Last time I checked React happens to use OOP concepts from JavaScript, do you want a lesson on which ones?
Considering this revenue is entirely made up of donations I feel it's actually quite impressive.
I’ll also add that some people ignore this (or are obvious to this) because the car has 300+ miles of range. What’s a few miles lost the next morning? /s no big deal.

I’m a big tesla fan. But, sometimes the math doesn’t work. Especially if you aren’t driving it everyday.
Because that’s the way it is currently.
This virus will be here for eternity. It's a plot point in our story.
Did you mean [Recursion]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion
I know I'm tired now. When I read your "masked world", I heard it to the tune of REM's "Mad World"
A 16-year-old Taiwanese student (Tseng I-ching) discovered that meal worms can digest styrofoam:

https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=15307
Big Tech Has Outgrown This Planet
Bed. Meh.

I love the water. Last time I worked from home (a couple of years ago), I built a custom desk/rack that suspended over our big bath to hold my laptop and mouse. I coded for hours in the bath. I had to be careful on the Skype calls though.
If someone who knows me is asked to define me, there will be none who says 'shy', then again the same person would likely tell it's been 2 years since we've spoken.

I was the CEO a startup which I had to close due to my health issues 2 years ago. Since then my social behavior has changed polarity, I have nearly stopped any real-time communication(live meeting, call, chat).

I think it was caused by the trauma from events associated with having to explain the health scenario to half-dozen visitors every day over a year(social construct in India), then going through the pain of closing the startup of 5 years(in which I was on phone every hour) and again having to explain it to everyone I know.

This might sound extreme it is, but I've never felt peace like this before. The obvious victim is my business ambitions, There's only few things you can do as an indie who communicates only via email.

Since I've been at the both end of the spectrum, I would say if you're an introvert CEO then you need to have someone else i.e. 'a people person' to do all the extrovert things required for a business. I believe many successful business are run like this because the CEO can put their energy where it matters the most i.e. making money.
this is so good!

I wish the author would also put up a purchase page on https://themeforest.net/ . I dont mind optionally paying for it - especially a nicely packaged starter for nextjs, etc
If you know the effectiveness of PPE vs no-PPE, and the effectiveness of PPE w/ Vaccine vs PPE w/o Vaccine, you can estimate the effectiveness of the Vaccine alone, even if you don't have statistics for it by itself.
At this point I always check, just because. Such a common failure mode.
> Picture tech people walking on their treadmills for compensation and then picture gerbils running on wheels for food. Picture tech people drinking Soylent and then picture gerbils eating pellets. The world is whack.

A bit much? I'm not sure where you get soylent from.

Nobody is substituting here, I didn't get that from the OP at all.

Another commenter mentioned that working from home allows for asynchronous tasks, the OP merely stated that means he can work and work-out on a treadmill. He is neither being compensated for or replacing going out into nature.
Just because you make an analogy doesn't mean it's valid lol.
Like there's obviously an entire category of differences between a person consciously choosing to use a treadmill desk versus a captive pet gerbil on a wheel.
> Unions definitely have incentives which hold back innovation and productivity increases (in the economic sense).

I happen to see it in other way.

Then again, I surely wouldn't like to be on US during the McCarthy era.
> Presumably all older media will eventually get updated to whatever contemporary standard exists.

I'd rather something come out than can turn 4:3 into 16:9. This article explains why even with the original film that's not really possible now without remaking a lot of scenes.

https://treknews.net/2017/02/02/why-ds9-voyager-not-on-blu-r...
Forever, or not another day. Depends on how we want to fight this.
"It is not possible to spread this virus when people aren't around each other!"

Except that it is in the cat populations worldwide. We dont have to like this fact, but ignoring it leads to safetyism that doesn't work. Maybe when we get the cat population to 70% vaccination rate we will be safe.
Ministry of truth
Anyone with experience using Tailwind UI want to comment on how this compares?
If I recall correctly, Nikola Tesla died in a boarding house. When I looked up boarding houses it reminded me of what they called pensions in 1960s France. low cost, no frills housing for people on fix, limited incomes.

If all you need is a single bedroom, shared kitchen and bathroom, a la hostel, communal living sounds like a very good idea to bring back.
Bitcoin reduces the number of coins mined overtime, and after a certain number of coins are mined they will stop being produced. That's almost the definition of deflationary.
That is a very good question. Currently effects are outside the typesystem, but I'm planning on adding an algebraic effect system similar to the one used in Microsoft's Koka language.
"Tumblehome is a term describing a hull which grows narrower above the waterline than its beam", with "beam" being its width at its widest point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblehome
I would second this and highly recommend using the Starter Pack[0] previously known as the Lazy Newb Pack. It contains DFHack, tilesets and just really streamlines the user experience.

[0] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.0
More often than not, they aren't "lying". It's presented that way, but there's a real challenge explaining policy to a hostile audience. I mean, that's the job, so not much pity for them, but most of the time is an oversimplification (a classic form of propaganda). Their incentives are such that it is way easier to tell the truth.
Bankruptcy and Elite Impunity
> Blockchain furthers this, unlocking the ability to have a referendum on every issue, which maximises consent.

If you mean an open ballot: hard no! It’s much too easy to coerce, bribe or intimidate voters.
Reminded me of this nice piece in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/love-the...
Coral's Hidden Surprise
what's wrong with masked world? it helps stop the spread of other airborne diseases as well, it filters out (to some extent) the smog, facial recognition software has more trouble, so we regain at least some privacy...
> housing has been traditionally an investment to earn a living when you retire, whether individually …

Do you mean that people are expected to buy additional houses to make money from, after retirement? I don’t think that’s ever been the case.
This is an unfair comparison because covid death reporting lags far behind other data
>How long will we be living in a masked world?

We won't be. People will simply be unwilling to do so long term and what doesn't get prevented by vaccines will burn through the population until everyone has antibodies and the disease weakens and "the common cold kills people" becomes the new normal.

There have always been diseases around that killed people, we were lucky for quite a while because the rate was fairly low and now it seems to be permanently bumped up a bit again. Eventually the disease is going to run out of people to infect the first time.
> magically delivered to your device.

Huh! I thought they would use wifi for that. I guess "magic" works too.
Then again - if people are moving in to already tight place, who is to blame? What are the probable ways of "tackling" it you suggest? Soviet-style "closing" of a place where the Party will decide if you are eligible to buy? This is how they prevented Moscow from overpopulating in the Soviet Union, resulting in doubling the population in the decade once barrier fell with the end of Communism.

If anything, it's a source of free money for the residents: sell your current house for millions and move out somewhere cheaper, maybe retiring early as a result.

If you don't want to people to move, analyse the reasons that push them to move and see what can be done about it. Real estate prices are just an indicator. It's stupid to "tackle" indicator rather than underlying reason.
Oh I don’t know, crushing depression, psychological atmosphere of fear, no biggy
I think there's a pretty clear explanation, when you look how this link and the information within it is being used in the anti-vaxx/covid denial groups.

1. People post CDC link out of context, and claim how all the numbers of infections from previous year are inaccurate. How testing is useless, covid doesn't exist etc.

2. Facebook fact-checks this, and marks the content as "False information"

3. The link gets marked as false information in the system, and regardless of the context that popup shows up, as they can not check every single comment written around this link and even if they could it would delay marking it as false information substantially.
The optical abilities of a real camera are just leagues better than those of a phone camera.

I used to save raw files, but that’s just so much more work. Every photo is essentially only half done when it’s shot. With JPEG, the shot is what it is once it’s done. You can make some artistic changes in post still but you can also just send the damn pictures to your friends and family.
Use this date instead — the epilogue link fails in 2009.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080408110250/http://www.geociti...
Have you tried setting alarms on your phone and when you start/stop go for a short walk?

One thing I do to separate work from home is to get changed. Wake up in underwear, lounge until work start alarm then get dressed/go for walk/start work - end of work alarm go for walk/get changed - helps me with the mindset of what is work and what is not.

I don’t always need to do this, just when it starts to affect me.
Drug firm fined for price rise that hit NHS
Well it’s a good thing homicides aren’t a contagious disease then right? If not it might be under the jurisdiction of the Center For Disease Control.
Agreed. While i strongly disagree with the parent of my post, there was no reason for flagging it.
Document databases are very convenient for modern application development, because modern application frameworks and languages are also based on semi-structured objects instead of tabular data.

Citation needed.
Sorry, what did you say? I can't see through these fogged glasses.
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