skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since NYC was the epicenter of early Covid cases, it means a sizable subset of the population, especially essential workers, were already infected and recovered. These workers, who bore the risk of serving those sequestered at home, are now to be punished for their service? https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/558757-the-ill-advise...

> During the pandemic, the professional laptop class protected themselves by working from home while exposing the working class that brought them food and other goods. It is now the height of hypocrisy to recognize immunity from vaccinations but not immunity from those exposed while serving the laptop class.

https://brownstone.org/articles/forced-medicine-the-new-fron...

> Consider this from the Wall Street Journal. “Children under the age of 12, who cannot be vaccinated according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would likely not be excluded from the program’s outlined indoor activities ... So Broadway shows of children’s plays are permanently banned? Families cannot eat in restaurants? Kids under 12 cannot go to indoor events at all? Is this serious? Media questioned New York officials about all of this, and it truly appeared as if the geniuses running the city had completely forgotten to think about children at all. The question alone seemed to take them by surprise. If they exempt them, there is already a problem. Why include a 12-year-old but exclude an unvaccinated 13-year old?

> Regardless, this is an appalling and unthinkable amount of compulsion to impose for the sake of a vaccine that the willing have long ago accepted and about which the remainders have either grave doubts or hard-core opposition. People figure that it will be challenged in court but that takes time and money, and it is not at all clear how courts will respond. In the end, though lawsuits are fabulous and there should be many more, I don’t see how they stop this tyranny. I’m not sure what precisely does but I know this much: a people and culture that acquiesces to this level of imposition is not well suited for the preservation of liberty or civilization in general. This really does feel like a new chapter in the history of American rights violations.

There are some advocating to expand the scope of the No Fly list, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unvaccinated-people-belong...
The problem with highly-charged reporting like this is that anything other than carefully justified claims and technical jargon will immediately bring a torrent of complaints. Each group that has a conclusion without looking at the data will try to poke any hole in any aspect of the argument and staying dry and technical helps stave off this sort of criticism.
Edit: D+1 >= (40% of database)
>they're a third as likely to have it as the unvaccinated

In the week ending 07/31 MA was getting about 600/day, 200 of them are vaccinated. The number of vaccinated are 4.2M out of 7.1M. Thus according to that data the probability for a vaccinated is just under 40% of unvaccinated.

Giving that Delta is several times more virulent the current situation can be thought that way - the vaccinated facing Delta today is like unvaccinated facing original year ago (year ago totally unvaccinated MA had 400-500/day, and if MA was totally vaccinated today, 7.1M instead of 4.2M, it would as result be 350cases/day instead of the 200). I.e. these numbers also suggest that there is no good way to stop the spread until Delta capable vaccine comes.

That also highlights the propaganda spin of "just 125K breakthroughs out of 160M vaccinated since January", the widely tweeted 0.08% (especially giving that CDC hasn't been counting non-hospitalizations breakthroughs since May, and that number seems definitely incorrect as MA having 2.5% of vaccinated has 7K total breakthroughs - almost 6% of 125K) - the Delta is pretty recent and the total number isn't the point, the point is the current infection rate of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated.
>The U.S. only has around 600 deaths from TB per year. Covid was 100x more deaths with lockdowns and other restrictions factored in.

Actually, COVID has been 1000x more deaths, not 100x.
What is the damage? Telling people that the vaccine may help them not die is damage? Just look at the data, unvaccinated people are dying much more frequently than vaccinated people.
I suspect that there's a hidden epidemic of subtle nutritional deficiencies. Everyone just accepts the situation but widespread screening would likely pay huge societal dividends.
As a person living in Oakland: lots of homeless have sketchy (stolen?) bikes. I don't see that many sketchy white people on them. No one ever said that different populations in Oakland are comparable in the first place.
Articles like this are usually written by wealthy liberals living in nice suburbs.
Because cartel is illegal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Not an anti-vaxxer but I agree with you given we'll prob never get rid of covid, and if we somehow manage to mobilize the entire planet to support one unified lifestyle change in any meaningful timeframe, that'd be an extremely radical event in the course of human history, as far as I understand, so I'm not betting on that either. I think you're right to point out that society needs to support the existence of covid beyond vaccine mandates.
> Why? Partly because the Supreme Court has been very willing to discover hidden rights within the existing amendments, decreasing the need for states to go through the very arduous process of getting a new amendment over the finish line.

It seems far more likely to me that the arrow of causality goes the other way here, and that the actual difficulty of passing amendments has just gone up in proportion to the number of states admitted and the progressively worsening lack of proportionality of American legislative bodies making them more and more out of tune with what people actually want in their government.

Certainly it's not inherently "good" for law to come from the bench in itself, but it seems likely enough that the US would have fallen apart long ago without it happening.
for all the talk of musk being nothing more than a salesman, con artist and charlatan... i desperately want a truck that is all stainless steel. the salt is brutal where i live. and almost everyone i know wants a truck that wont be hobbled by complicated emissions equipment. try driving across Nebraska in a snow storm when the engine shuts itself down because a diesel emissions sensor, totally unnecessary for the actual operation of the truck, stops working correctly. for all the mud people sling, hes offering something that a lot of people desperately want and that the established players refuse to deliver.
I'd extended a concept of Charles Perrow's a few months back on determinants of simplicity vs. complexity in systems, generally. See: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/97208f300fc4013901a3002590d8e...

(I think I may have swapped the ranges on "Threshold sensitivity", which seem more reasonably to be "low/high" than "high/low".)
Airyx OS
Wow, you weren't kidding. I like a lot of VGM, but this was unexpected and probably the most minimal and beautiful VGM tracks I ever heard. If you know any similar ones, post em
I wasn't talking just about the US, I think we need very high levels of vaccination everywhere to make it statistically not a threat. We need to control the spread of the virus to levels where it's not mutating at evolutionarily scales, _everywhere_, and the only way to effectively do that is vaccines.

It's not a threat at this very moment, for this very point in time, but since we're allowing the virus to spread at such evolutionarily scales, inside and outside the US, a new variant popping up that evades vaccines is statistically very possible, and pose a significant threat to my own and society's well being.

I'm trying to argue that this is not a personal choice issue, rather a public health one.
Also available free on her blog! (But definitely buy the book too, there’s a lot more).

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...
The only reason trait objects aren't subtyping is that impl trait is not a first class type in Rust. They behave like subtyping in this context.
Yep, that is exactly my point
Post-quantum chip has built-in hardware Trojan
I’d argue it should be shiftBy rather than advanceBy to deal with negative periods, but yes. The issue here is the conflation of summing periods (commutative and associative) with shifting a date by a certain period.

None of the proposed names in the post actually clarify anything - they merely make the behavior seem more confusing.
Nope, it's really not enjoyable. To me it felt like fighting the car. I much prefer the "co-pilot" style of openpilot and most other lane assistance systems. Until you can trust your assistance system enough to not want to make minor corrections, Autopilot is always going to be an annoyance.

This is fundamentally where Comma and Tesla differ in approach. Comma's goal is to build the best possible level 2 system that makes driving relaxed and comfortable, and delivering good intermediates in the process. Tesla's goal is to have full self-driving, and any releases on the road to FSD are going to be a compromise.
I program with a Magic Trackpad 2. There's not too much I can't do with gestures vs a keyboard. It's much faster than using two hands. I also set it up for 3-finger drag and that's the killer app within the app. With that, moving windows around is dramatically faster than a mouse. I can select text with 3-finger drag and then two-finger tap for the context menu to see: definitions, copy/paste, delete etc..). Navigating my laptop is more enjoyable when I can use all five fingers for different things. Apple should take this feature out of the Accessibility menus and put it where it belongs with the trackpad prefs.
Weaponized Health Communication (2018)
I also tried to explain one of the formula soup I found for converting numbers like 98 to 3 months, 1 week and 1 day.

https://davinder.net/excel-convert-days-to-years-months-week...
Allocator efficiency was the primary concern in the past (both speed and packing), which is why there are several things in malloc which is obviously bad for allocation safety.

The allocators in the past have tried to use the space it is not currently using for user code for its own book-keeping, which is very efficient when it comes to usage of space. So the free-lists are interleaved with the actual allocations to be as cheap as they can be (not in a different page).

Oddly enough, packing all the metadata in a single area might actually be faster though at lower scales might be worse for the data itself.

I've used talloc[1] in the past, which traded some of the efficiencies for safety (I have my own sins trying to copy, but simplify pool based allocators for PHP apc with some tricks[3] borrowed from xcache).

If the author is reading, the missing magic I've always missed with jemalloc are the .gdb macros for walking the allocator and do things like print the allocations by size/content [2]. You can write them in python now and that can let you print them out neatly in a graphviz dot structure with linkages, which is the sort of project which you hand out to an intern who just joined.

[1] - https://talloc.samba.org/talloc/doc/html/libtalloc__dts.html

[2] - https://research.nccgroup.com/2015/08/11/libtalloc-a-gdb-plu...

[3] - http://notmysock.org/blog/2009/Jan/08/
I'm amenable to the appeal to common sense for an exception for good faith behavior, but the Cambridge Analytica scandal quite literally resulted from an academic sharing data they promised they wouldn't.

In retrospect, after realizing what their request was and losing some charity towards the argument, it also makes me feel weird that the first bulk of the argument is dedicated to they reviewed their own code and it totally checked out. Seems slimy, unless this blog post is by someone who is naive about tech issues
I sure hope the police have a better reason to stop you than a sketchy bike.
I recall back in the early 90s my buddy (who is now an EVP of games dev at blizzard) - was asking me why I didn't like playing masters of Orion- I told him "it's no fun to play a spreadsheet"

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Then I read this interesting article about a guy in SF several years ago and he was the key accountant, strategist for (whatever that massive space battle game is that was hyper popular with the russians) - and he didn't even play the actual game! All he did was manage the massive assets of their guild faction with excel and other tools and they were making hundreds of thousands in real dollars per year and that was his actual IRL full time job.

The one where they had that massive battle and thousand and thousand of real money was lost on the eradication of huge digital fleets...
I setup a landing page, posted on reddit and got 10 emails. I haven't started building yet.
The problem is, there are other possible outcomes for a COVID case besides death, hospitalization, and recovery. There is absolutely no reason to think that we understand 100% of what this bug can do. For every uncertainty one might perceive about the "unapproved," "experimental," "insufficiently-tested," or "novel" vaccine, that goes double for the virus itself.

Allowing the virus to propagate freely is asking for trouble in the form of mutations as well. If it had been possible to inoculate the majority of the population in India, for example, we probably wouldn't be dealing with the delta variant right now.

Edit: if a single assertion above is wrong, please reply with citations, and we'll all be that much better-informed for it. Downvoting something that's objectively correct just because it disagrees with your political agenda is the weakest of weak sauce.
NHTSA shot it down when they tried to launch 1st gen kits. Since then they don’t say “DIY self driving kit” out front.
The charts seem to show that the police are biased in favor of Hispanics and Asians, and against blacks and whites. I wouldn't have expected that result. But of course the only thing the article focuses on is black people.
Building something no one else can measure – sriramk.com
Cool, that led me to a really good article on Pixar's open source project: https://graphics.pixar.com/opensubdiv/docs/subdivision_surfa...
You're ignoring the 9th amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Essentially, the bill of rights was not intended to be exhaustive, nor could it be.
Can you find a reliable number to share on what the complication rate actually is? The best I can find is that the death rate in CA for 18-34 year olds is quite low - something like 0.07% [1].

[1] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COV...
Plaid Parliament of Pwnage was a ton of fun too. I wished I had joined earlier and participated in more CTFs with those folks. I only actively participated in one, but it was such an awesome environment.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the video either but it was fairly similar to the TED talk you linked (just longer and had slightly more "internal" details).
Maybe they just used a square (tool) or levels.

Geometrically the simpler and more precise way to make a perpendicular line is to mark two points an equal distance on the left and right, and then from them intersect circles of a larger radius above the line. Drop a perpendicular down to your starting point. That’s much more precise because you don’t need to have a radius 5/4 the size of another one.

But you can lay out rectangles on the ground with proper right angles with fewer workers if you use the Pythagorean theorem instead of trying to get a parallelogram out of ropes with the diagonals equal.
She is acting like a typical sociopath, and her behaviour throughout the whole scandal/affair demonstrates it.

My advice, when you meet people like this in real life, stay way as much as you can. Nothing good comes out of them.
Why should anyone be mocked for anything? How is that conducive to the conversation?

You should rethink how you convey your ideas, IMO.
>>> a supermarket selling only healthy goods !

I like that one - but could do better - a tax on unhealthy goods.
What Is Voice Marketing and Why You Need to Use It
> This is probably the most scrutinized vaccine ever

Not in terms of long term data, at all
CyberArk already does this... it's called Vendor Privileged Access.
I.e. a different study in a different location.
Interestingly, this thread has got me surprised that there are so many vaccine skeptics or people that have such a deep mistrust in these vaccination incentives.

You do have a right to choose. This isn’t a vaccine mandate. It’s the vaccinated asking to be separated from unvaccinated individuals in high risk places of recreation (restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, and large venues). Meanwhile, mask mandates will likely stay in place for places where it isn’t possible or important to separate the vaccinated and unvaccinated (grocery stores, MTA, healthcare settings, the great outdoors). To avoid antagonizing the unvaccinated and reducing spread for high risk individuals that don’t have a choice, grocery stores are requiring masks for everyone still.

So what are people so in arms about? Overreaching? This isn't (legal, ethical) overreaching, this is using data to drive the economy forward without killing people in ways that have been supported by the courts for almost a century. The more we reduce cases, the less likely we get a variant that’s worse than Delta.

While we’re discussing gripes, the states that were in staunch opposition to mandatory vaccines (*and masks*) are the ones that reopened the earliest and with the highest cases. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Read stories from people who are on their death bed from COVID, some ask for the vaccine (it’s too late), others still deny that it could have saved their lives.
I found road building fun in KaM
It is weird that the general opinion of Comma on HN appears to be positive while the general opinion of Tesla's Autopilot on here is generally more negative. It seems to me that all the complaints about Tesla including marketing, safety, and technological feasibility apply as much or more for Comma.
Sweet! For payment and billing related webhooks, the total count of events tends to be relatively low. I can't help with an estimate per se without more context, but the team plans allow for 5 million webhooks, and the overage is 5$ per million. Does that sound reasonable? In any case, reach out to me, and I'd be happy to go into the details :) (contact in profile)
Calling this "a really great"web app is a significant stretch. It's an extremely bare bones clone of GitHub. Another case of over promising and under delivering from the V team.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I am doing the same.
The human expects March 28th. Ask any normal person and they’ll answer March 28th.
Maybe the paper did deserve a C when it was handed in. Maybe it was poorly written, too short, too long, irrelevant to the topic at hand or just about anything else.
Early (i.e. existing) Covid vaccines are NON-STERILIZING, unlike almost every vaccine given to kids. There are sterilizing Covid vaccines in development, e,g. delivered nasally directly to the upper respiratory tract, but none have yet reached the market.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243127

> To be sterilizing a vaccine must prevent infection. Since you never get infected you never replicate the virus and thus do not shed it. If you do not shed it the potential path of the viral life-cycle for that particular infection ends with you and thus you cannot pass on or cause a mutation. You are sterile against that disease; from the point of view of the virus you are a lifeless rock. Among commonly-used sterilizing vaccines are MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), Varicella (chicken pox), OPV (oral polio) and others. The only time that such a vaccine fails is when you do not build immunity (such as due to immune compromise.) This is extremely rare and the protection from such vaccines tends to be either decades-long or lifetime.

> A vaccine that is not sterilizing permits the virus to infect you and replicate and as a result you can infect others. Technically it is not a vaccine at all (which by definition prevents infection); it is a prophylactic therapy. Such a "vaccine" instead acts to reduce or eliminate symptomatic disease. You don't know you're sick and you don't get sick. You don't go to the hospital and you don't die. Unfortunately since you don't know you're sick but are infected and the virus is both replicating in you and shedding you are more-likely to spread the infection to others. All of the current Covid jabs are in this category and so is, for that matter IPV (injected polio vaccine -- the original Salk discovery.)

> During the original vaccine trials in the summer and fall of 2020 they deliberately did not test any of the recipients for asymptomatic infections. Only a person who developed a significant illness was tested. This has continued post roll-out with the CDC specifying that a close contact of a known case who was vaccinated did not need to quarantine or be tested until and unless they became symptomatic. They knew damn well, in other words, that the jabs were not sterilizing but did not want that data up for public debate because then those who have read history would be likely to make the connection to the present day and thus they did their level best to hide it. That has now blown up in their face with it being conclusively known that jabbed people in fact not only get infected but spread the virus to others.

> ... natural infection with Covid-19 is sterilizing. Being infected and recovering conserves the nasal and respiratory mucosal response which is where the virus enters the body.
Something tells me Elon does not want Tesla to issue more shares.
From cross origin iframes. This is a good thing IMO.
> so the supreme court essentially has no choice but to make stuff up.

Or the constitution can be amended.
> Are men reducing their interactions with women at work?

Yes - and thats also sexism.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/29/men-wom...
Is gitly supposed to be solid code?
I've had several conversations with younger folks about sharing data online. It's not a one time thing - there are plenty of news stories to spark more conversations... sextortion.. revenge porn.. teach about meta data in pics..
teach how you could use three different conversations in which you get one bit of info from each - and put together a pinpoint location of where they will be in the world at what time (school, grade, name) -

ransoms, ransomware - getting people to install malicious exes - there is lots to teach, sounds like you've found a place where it's time to start. Are ip addys showing up in firewalls when social scratching? another location finder.

the kids will always find loopholes to share / chat / pornify things.. we need to teach them the ramifications of doing such.

I recall when a little one I guard was playing minecraft on playstation one day.. I walked in and there was a giant tower, kind of looked liked bezo spaceship.. as I tried to understand what was going on - the other player added some water from the top and used a sign to write the word penis.

I mean - you can try to limit things a bit, but there seems to always be a way to do major things with small tech connecting - I think it's best to teach them it's wrong to cheat / share answers then to try to stop every version of airdrop /bluetooth mosquito ringer - all the things.

best to teach the ramifications of sharing certain details and know some warn words to watch out for then to try to block every social media thing, imho - and there are people who go the other way - disney circle can block a lot - and the amish have just blocked it all.
The problem is more the expansion of the government beyond what the Constitution allows not the expansion of the rights of people.
2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Preparedness for Pandemic