skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that you can make the case that proof of antibodies should be treated like proof of vaccination. I can't see the harm in that and think it's a point worth bringing up.
> If you look at the plans that most large employers have (Microsoft, Amazon etc) their total premium cost is still far less.

Is this data available somewhere? I cannot find anything specifically related to big tech companies, although I did acknowledge about there might be some slight advantage due to population. But many of these tech companies are huge with tens and hundreds of thousands of employees. I highly doubt Amazon, with 1.2M employees, most of them not highly paid software engineers that sit in chairs all day, has a risk pool that is materially less costly than any random healthcare.gov plan.

The only other way is if some people here employed by FAANG pipe in with what their W-2 says the employer paid portion of their health insurance costs were.
We’ve had nearly two years to expand our hospital resources. Why didn’t we do that instead of taking away bodily autonomy?
A realistic Medieval city game could do a good job of teaching key aspects of history. I learned a lot from SimCity about thinking in systems. I think well-designed games can teach quite a bit.

It would also be an interesting challenge to model the Industrial Revolution accurately. The Civilization tech tree is a good first approximation but in reading

"The Lunar Men" by Jenny Uglow
"The Lever of Riches" by Joel Mokyr
"Turning points in Western Technology by Donald Cardwell

you get a very different impression. This could tie in to "Science of Progress" thinking in https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-...
Id.me Says There Has Been Unemployment Benefits Fraud. Is This True?
Only safari on big sur has webp support.
When you say ”very very bad healthcare”, are you referring to the NHS?
With vaccinated people acting as asymptomatic spreaders - this is impossible to know.
I remember some finance dude handling excel like a korean gamer playing starcraft, it was as exciting as humbling.
I usually go for french style of breakfast during weekdays - coffee, cigarette and a croissant - but one of my favorite more "oppulent" breakfast options for days off is Shakshuka/Menemen. It is a pretty spicy pan of tomato sauce, onions, bell pepper, lots of garlic and eggs. Very simple to make, but definetely great to start a day.

The north-german Mettbrötchen is what I go for if I have physical work in front of me. It is raw ground pork on white bread with salt, pepper, and raw white onions... Weird acquired taste and you need to be sure about your meat supplier, but it gets to you.

A few years ago I bought an electric grill that can be turned into a crêpe maker (?). It basically functions like an 70cm diameter pan that heats very evenly. Crêpe are usually sweet (kids absolutely go nuts over them), but there's also a salty variant called Galette. A Galette with sour cream and shives is quite light yet absolutely delicious.
400 people died of Covid...out of 350 million yesterday.

How much do you think the actuaries would increase insurance cost for numbers like that?

Doesn't seem like that's a huge risk increase.

And 90% of those are in the above 75 years old age group with the highest maximum risk calculated in already.

I bet there's not a single actuary that is worried about Covid.
Nutrition Science is broken because of the financial incentives of companies to fund sham research to get their products sold.

I strongly recommend going to https://nutritionfacts.org/ for your information -- a nonprofit that never sells anything or promotes any products, just tries to distill research on nutrition in easy-to-understand videos and posts.

Here's an example: "How the Egg Board Designs Misleading Studies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s25RaOZsFM
Is there evidence NYC's hospital system could be overloaded?

UK just peaked (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/); Does NYC have significantly worse vaccine coverage in vulnerable populations or worse capacity?
I wouldn't call the campaign misguided, since recyclable paper cups would probably be more biodegradable than plastic-coated cups whether they're recycled or not.

Having a bottle deposit would surely be more environmentally friendly, but it would also generate more friction in the sales process and Starbucks would have to consider the business impact. Switching the coating of the cup is, according to the petition, "cost neutral" and there is no real downside to this change, assuming that the recyclable cups are of comparable quality. It seems like an easy and obvious change to make.

Also, switching to recyclable cups doesn't prevent Starbucks from implementing a bottle deposit, if they choose to do so later on.
Black Hat 2021: Zero-days, ransoms, supply chains, oh my
I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying
I see all these NGOs , nonprofits, the media, and academics as filling in a sort of role that the govt is unable/unwilling to do, by trying to hold such companeis accountable. What the government does is quite limited despite how much it spends,and with the exception of egregious violations like blatant fraud or discrimination, tends to take a hands-off approach.
It is very simple. If you suffer from high blood pressure (above 140/90mm Hg) and your sodium intake is considerable, your blood pressure rises even more. You can easily set up a study with a control group and test it repeatedly, the results will be the same.

However, the mitigating factor is potassium. If you consume an adequate amount of foods rich in potassium, the negative effect of sodium on your blood pressure is neutralized somehow. The exact behaviors depend on the amounts of each.

And here's the problem: in salt, sodium is very concentrated. You would have to eat a large amount of foods considered rich in potassium, such as tomatoes, in order to neutralize a teaspoon of salt.
Another Libby idiot
A remarkably fun and educational medieval city-builder game:
https://scriptwelder.itch.io/waterworks

It's an absolute gem.
1. The Israel study was the only one I have seen so far. Thank you for linking to the other one. It seem these two studies pretty much contradict each other. Do you happen to have links or can point me in the direction of the other data you referenced?
Edit: I did some more research on the UK study. It appears to be outdated and does not use the June and July stats when Delta actually took off. If you use the last two (18 and 19) UK governments technically briefings (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-...) you can calculate the efficiency rating. From my understanding you do this by calculating the infection rates in the vaccinated and unvaccinated, then divide the infection rate in the vaccinated vs the infection rate by the unvaccinated. You then subtract this answer from 1 to get the efficiency. It varies with the age groups but for 50+ I got an effectiveness of about 17%. I could wrong in how I am going about this though. Please let me know if I am

2. I have to disagree here. The CDC report is dealing with Massachusetts residents infected (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm...). It did not include out of state infections. So I would say comparing the state vaccination rate to how many vaccinated state residents got covid is a valid comparison. In fact from what I have seen this study is being used to justify the CDC recommending masks for all again.

3. Thank you very much for this link. I keep seeing a study referenced but was not able to find it. However it has not been peer reviewed yet so we don't really know if its accurate. Any chance you have a study pre-COVID that show this?
I don't actually know, but it seems unlikely that illegal immigrants can get an ID from the government?
It’s like buying a municipal bond with no interest payments and infinite expiration date.

One could argue that these have an advantage, since technically, there is no counter-party risk!
I constantly see people suffer through painful cramps after exercising because they refuse to replace the salt they lost through sweating due to salt being bad for you.
I believe the 2.0 standard does support rng, but I;m not sure of the specifics. there might be some hashing functionality but the interface is going to be too slow for large data. I think it;s there to do integrity checks for bootloaders and such
Lol. Terrible idea.
Yes, and more. See Levels.fyi
GitLab and GitHub predate the trademark, and were explicitly granted an exception when the trademark was approved.
> Ok nvm idk what I’m talking about

I think you do, at least as much as anyone who doesn't have a knee-jerk reaction and sees it as a binary issue. I believe it's a tough question and you can think of arguments for and against on many levels, and there isn't a perfect solution that doesn't have massive trade-offs and large side-effects.

On the one hand, I agree that public services with forced neutrality might be a good approach, on the other hand I'm not sure governments should get involved in something that is already a mess. It might become a larger mess, that also works slower and would look more and more like something out of Kafka's nightmares.
For a targeted attack with a hacker remotely or physically controlling the client, I agree.

However I think an automated attack would be difficult, especially if the VD sent its data to the client as a video stream, and only recieved keyboard and mouse inputs. Now maybe there's some fancy computer vision that could handle this (and all without the employee noticing)...
Except they don't want it.
How much waste is generated by the drive through windows? Let’s say for talking purposes all fast food places you had to dine in, no drive through. Would this reduce single use packaging and all that goes with it?
Being off-the-shelf is an added bonus, but not a requirement. This website is called Hacker news, not Bestbuy news. As long as someone else can replicate the results from what is given in the post, I do think the post has enough merit.
Louis Rossmann, owner of Rossmann Repair Group, released a video attacking this new policy - and he is pro-vaccination and encourages his family and employees to get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3roD8cKdJlY
I wish Americans had more of a revolutionary tendency like the French do. Instead of rioting and pissing off the government at its doorstep, we head for the hills, hoard guns, and dare the government come get us out there.
Ugh, what ?

I love seeing the Jeff Geerling posts and his blog is great!
You can put arbitrary type-level restrictions on any argument in a function's signature. You can also interleave runtime with compile time to restrict things based on value. Julia's type system is fully parametric and allows values in the parameters.

If I write

f(x :: Number) = x + 1
f(x :: String) = x * x
f(x :: Int) = x - 1

this defines 3 separate methods for the function f. The Int method is actually more specific than the Number method because Int <: Number, so we get the following behaviour:

julia> f(1.0)
2.0

julia> f("hi ")
"hi hi "

julia> f(2)
1

Regarding this part of your question

> when you're looking at the signature, does it ensure that the operations performed on values inside are going to work?

I guess the answer depends on what you mean. Julia's interfaces are somewhat implicit, and we do not do ahead of time checks by default, so if I define my own type that is a subtype of Number, but that type does not have methods for addition, then f will error on that type.

However, the static checking package JET.jl will easily detect that this will happen statically at compile time.
"we dont know how long antibodies from having already contracted it lasts for"

1) You could say the same for the vaccine. We dont know.

2) Almost certainly no shorter than getting the vaccine. Both trigger roughly the same immune response and building of antibodies.
Terrible name!
Two New Datasets for Conversational NLP: TimeDial and Disfl-QA
>to Americans this probably all looks a bit tame.

Americans talk a good game when it comes to riots but if they took their rhetoric about "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants" seriously every election would wind up with the Capitol looking like it did on January 6th.
This seriously needs a cite. First time I've heard this claim.
They got in trouble for lock in. Their integration of Internet Explorer practically made out the de facto implementation and made Windows the de facto operating system on machines.

But again, Sign In with Apple sits in addition to the other offerings, it doesn’t replace them, and in no case are developers expected to be unable to offer regular sign in with email.

To my mind, you’re not wrong, but making a rather different argument.
I believe this tweet has been twisted from the original tweet, which is that _cross origin_ alert (e.g. from an iframe) is the thing being removed. Using alert etc from the main frame will continue to work.
Excel[0] has this functionality built in via Plaid[1]. There are other solutions like YNAB[2] or Wealthfront[3]. I agree with you though. I have a nice python program for understanding my finances, but I still have to manually update bank/credit card/loan balances.

[0] https://plaid.com/blog/microsoft-announcement/

[1] https://plaid.com/

[2] https://www.youneedabudget.com/

[3] https://www.wealthfront.com/
> If they're able to know that everyone inside a restaurant is vaccinated they'll be more likely to visit.

This is why I argue with some fellow libertarians on the idea of private company vaccine mandates. There's a place for it, such as this. Restaurants could differentiate this way. Different people have different needs. A government level mandate like this is insane.
They brought it back[0]. I remember getting discounts for lattes and mochas.

[0] https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2021/starbucks-brings-...
> If cases keep rising I don't see any reason why hospitalizations and deaths won't follow.

They already have. Hospitalization rates have multiplied by a factor of nearly 4x from the 12,000 COVID hospitalizations in early July to the 40,000 COVID hospitalizations today in early August.
Relevant Scientific American article about the dubious scientific foundation the general vilification of salt is based on: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
>Self correction was fatally weak. Challenging norms had a higher burden for proof than the norm had faced.

This is the biggest problem, in my opinion. People don't want to look foolish, so it's difficult to change. Doubly so if you made it part of your identity, as diet so often is. It's also why obstructing progress is much easier than creating the conditions for progress. If the status quo serves the powerful, it's going to be difficult to change, because they have more to lose by looking foolish.
"Join in, or the debris we take down might be your satellite."
In 2000, WHO declared measles "eradicated" in the United States [1]. Of course, that's no longer the case thanks to those who have decided their feelings and watching an unverified Youtube video trumps science.

Requiring vaccination is not new. As a matter of law in the US the issue was settled by the Supreme Court in Jacobson v. Massachussetts in 1905 [2]. Mandatory vaccination has been used to effectively eliminate smallpox and polio, in particular.

We've now administered billions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines. The idea that we're somehow missing side effects is quite frankly ridiculous at this point.

That idea also shows a basic misunderstanding of what's going on here. Immune system responses to something like a vaccine are actually extremely quick. This is not the same as, say, other drugs or compounds that live in the body for a long time. The body's response is known very quickly, which is why the very slight possibility of a clotting issue with AstraZeneca, for example, was identified extremely quickly.

Vaccines just aren't a personal choice. If it was, nobody would care what individuals did. The idea that someone's baseless opinions should trump public good as a matter of principle is sad, false as a matter of law and baseless as a matter of principle.

Contrary to the opinion of many (sadly) absolute selfishness isn't a virtue, it's just selfishness. And it's the latest iteration of the underlying anti-intellectualisms in the US.

What's especially disappointing, even worrying, is just how much traction these baseless ideas get from those who allegedly have a science education.

With NYC's mandate (which I support), it still doesn't mean you have to get vaccinated. It just means there are consequences if you don't. We already have this with schools. While we're at it, it's time to stop this nonsense of vaccines being against one's "personal beliefs" to get an exemption.

If you want to live in a society that benefits from mass vaccination you should be prepared to do your part, particularly when that part just means getting an extremely safe needle. If you want to opt out of that, you also opt out of the benefits of that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_resurgence_in_the_Unit...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
Ivermectin has shown great promise not only treating symptons of covid (5000% reduction in viral load in one paper) but also as a prophylactic. The small studies released recently suggest up to 83% effectiveness as a prophylactic. Of course larger RCT will need done, but fat chance of that with the economic incentive for big pharma and their politcal cronies and the weird political push to get EVERYONE vaccinated.

Getting downvoted by the hive mind so here's some links to a paper and offical news sources-

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2021/...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.31.21258081v...

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-...

meta study - https://ivmmeta.com/

https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indian-ba...

https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/antiviral-efforts...
When Fairchild got out of the computing business (84/85 ish) it was the huge oilfield services company Schlumberger that bought the AI lab run by Marty Tenenbaum. IIRC S had some Crays and a Connection Machine. Schlumberger Palo Alto was across the street (other side of Foothill Expwy) from PARC. IIRC they had a lot of interesting visualization work; I turned them down (despite their excellent research staff) for PARC because I wanted to work on theory of computation.
An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos February 28, 2000 [pdf]
It’s different because you can’t actually use MIAMICOIN to conduct transactions. If they suddenly decided that, I dunno, sales tax could be paid in MIAMICOIN, I have a feeling the federal government would quickly become interested.
Why would you be opposed to a policy requiring everyone to jog three miles every day? Jogging is good for your health, its side effects are minor and benefits to the society in whole will be tremendous.
Awesome work! I've been using scalajs ad mid-sized personal projects and it's been absolute joy to work with. I use
https://laminar.dev/ (don't need no react)
and to interface with javascript world
https://scalablytyped.org/
- although I rarely need to use external libraries
> Whatever the numbers are, you are balancing a minuscule risk against another minuscule risk. That's not going to be a convincing argument.

The rate of complications from COVID-19 infections among people in their 20s is absolutely not "minuscule".
After the Black Death, many villages were too small to be functional. You needed a cobbler, smith, cooper, farmers, bakers etc. So Lords just moved peasants around like pawns and consolidated villages. Also they changed from farmholds to large grazing areas and obsoleted some villages. Obsolete villagers were just 'let go' meaning "Load up the wagon and leave! Good luck finding another home!"

The Scottish Highland Clearances resulted in the wholesale exportation of entire populations to Nova Scotia. At least they had a chance of finding some land to homestead.

These kind of arbitrary actions served more to sculpt the landscape of villages and towns, than all the Villager's efforts ever did.
They are planning to deprecate them from the platform entirely, this is the first step
The GP is about pipewire, and was complaining that it's "just another linux audio daemon". I concluded that it wasn't necessary to mention it in the context of my comment.
I was amazed in Berlin the recycling program that makes it very easy to recycle cans and bottles. People made it a job to pickup and search through trash so they could recycle. A can deposit would be welcomed, but maybe I’m old and just remember crushing cans to fill up trash bags to get $7. Sure was fun to get that money as a kid.
> the (IMHO) outdated layout->view model for displaying HTML

What is the modern model that you do use? Phoenix is very flexible and I'm wondering if it could easily be added manually.
Yeah I just genuinely want the option of no touchpad at all, the much loved X200 was the last mode that offered this.
They do a lot of seismic work to see what's underground (set off explosions, map the results) and need to crunch and visualize a lot of data.
It's mostly syntactic though, not semantic.
Kia Rio is #1 for fatalities. I've owned one, they're terrible cars. Drove one from Chicago to Seattle and back. Gotta crank the music to max to drown out the road and engine noise. It's a nightmare on wheels
I didn't back in 2020 during the most strict lockdowns, but afterwards sure, plenty of colds. And I hate to brag, but I have a (light) cold right now. :-)

For the record, there was nothing special about those after-lockdown-colds compared to regular colds.

Based on my own experience and that of other parents I know, I would say that we've sheltered our kids, but as soon as school was back on it was game over.
Keyri makes less sense for smartphone-only applications. The primary case we solve for is applications that have both mobile and desktop web interfaces. Phones are already essentially considered trusted devices, whether auth there happened via password, SMS OTP, OpenID, FIDO2, etc. Keyri bridges the "trust gap" between the trusted smartphone in the user's hand and the untrusted desktop computer / smart TV / whatever other screen they're sitting in front of via our QR + CV + HTTPS system.

Deploying WebAuthn / FIDO2 on desktop web/native apps is far more challenging given the standard's need for communication between the authenticator device and client device to happen via USB, Bluetooth, or NFC. USB is obviously out of the question for consumer-facing apps, and companies simply can't ask typical users to connect their devices via Bluetooth - setup and reliability are the UX issues with BT.
Don't put unvaxxed and these who were injured/became ill due to their own incompetence or recklessness in an ICU bed then? (as long as they are full that is)

> and someone is going to have to take up the work.

There is a lot of unemployment. This is also true for the paid and unpaid leaves btw, should we illegalise these?
10gbe can be done over RJ45 with a direct cable connection and is something I've done before in a pinch between my personal NAS and a client machine (just be careful about your storage protocol because NFS has its pros and cons just like iSCSI and FCoE, and with macOS as a client you're likely in for a Bad Time like I did).