skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if you look at how influenza stopped spreading almost completely the last year and a half you have to conclude that either unfit masks with gaps do help significantly versus respiratory viruses, or, sampling for influenza cases has been borked due to the overloading need to test for sars-cov-2.

I think it's three effects:

(1) Acute infection with respiratory virus X is protective against respiratory virus Y. This is because of the cellular interferon response (see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/778995/); basically the non-specific component of the immune system gets "revved up" and thus subsequent pathogens don't stand a chance. This might be further accentuated by the fact that SARS-2 specifically can acutely downregulate interferon response (see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.16.252973v1), presumably to suppress the immune response against it, which would/could lead to a rebound upregulation in interferon after the initial phase of SARS-2-mediated interferon suppression

(2) Some people who actually had Influenza would have tested for COVID first, and been PCR positive because the PCR tests in the real world can stay positive for a couple months after resolution of the infection (due to the absurdly high cycle threshold that is often used). This is what you said, I'm just elaborating a bit more on how it actually happens

(3) Influenza spreads less easily than SARS-2, so it's possible the NPIs had some effect. This is my least favorite theory because the NPIs were so poor against SARS-2 and measures like school closures haven't been shown to reduce Influenza. My guess is stuff like people avoiding family members during 2020 holidays etc did decrease the connections between social nodes a bit, so there was some effect but not a huge one from the altered behavior
The first version of .sigs that I ever encountered were on BBSes that allowed ANSI codes in posts. I'm not sure which BBS software it was, but on at least one it was common for people to create fairly elaborate animations, slash-spinners, character flourishes, and other backspace-driven sequences for their message signoffs.
OTOH, YouTube happily hosts propaganda like lies about the Pfizer vaccine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3g0jCO6v8

They keep spamming me with that kind of fake news
In Australia half of the content is not available since there are also local competitors. I use Disney+ and Netflix, but I’m tired of wasting hours to find out if that particular movie streams in my country or not.

At first we were progressing with online streaming but now movies are streaming across Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Binge, Stan.

I can’t be bothered to have that many services, VPNs are getting banned for paying customers due content rights, so I may as well just go back to Torrent/NZB, or
don’t watch and read a book instead.
Going off the Fortune 500 earnings listing. Market cap is an indication of valuation, not an indication of how much business a company actually does.
There in-lies the problem. "Hate speech" is just speech you don't like or choose to be offended by. You have no problem with "hate speech" that suits you and your political worldview.
sigh You’re right, my back of the envelope dropped a zero so yeah their plans had better be a tad more ambitious.
I said nothing about governments, just that the pandemic is not ending any time soon. It will be with our grandchidren, and theirs.
Not objecting to or defending the policy, just pointing out that Rounding 99% down to “doesn’t work” is a common disinformation tactic to be aware of when you hear it.
It's your job in interviews to accurately describe your abilities and talents. It's the company's job to determine if that's the right fit for them.

If they sent you an offer, I'd just assume I don't have a clear enough picture on what they will expect of me and when, and just trust that they did their due diligence in my evaluation.

Of course, if it doesn't work out, you had three offers so you'll likely be able to get a new job no problem.
Yeah, I can happily pay 5%, even 10% to Apple for that. But 30%? Sorry. I would rather pay directly to the developers to support longevity of my favorite apps and games.
That's a common misconception. The DoW was just the army, and the navy was a separate cabinet department, until the National Military Establishment was created in 1947, and that department, not the DoW, was renamed to the DoD in 1949.

The DoW became the departments of the army and air force, inside the DoD.

See third paragraph in that Wiki link, and second paragraph in this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th...
Killing your friends and family harms mental health a lot more.
To further your example, when the mentor gives the feedback that the programmer is _good_, they don't take it as evidence they are good, instead it is rationalized away. "The mentor only told me I was good because they didn't want to hurt my feelings, but of course she knows I'm really not," Or "The mentor only told me I was good because they don't really see how much time I spend googling things. Real Engineers should have their code jump from their heads like Athena from Zeus."
I hope a new hyperlocal startup disrupts this space. As is, things are way too broad. I want different content when I'm in my living room v/s when I'm taking a shit.
glad we sorted this out conclusively and I can be sure I'm not an imposter forever now. wait a minute..
That is what happens when people are involved.
I find mentioning dog whistles as an argument to discredit someone unconvincing. It’s a way to twist someone's words to whatever you want. Dog whistle = Someone said something but since I can read minds I know he/she meant something else.
The working/middle classes are getting screwed by housing, childcare, education, and healthcare costs that are a greater proportion of income than past generations. Avacado toast is not the problem.
His comment was on masks reducing the risk of you getting infected, not infecting others. Which is a selfish point, but nonetheless a correct one.
Pure solipsism.
:sigh: this is to close to home. Nothing like malfunctioning virus software + background screen recording to eat all your local machine ram and cpu cycles.
Wearing a mask is inconvenient and much of the resistance is just people being lazy and then rationalizing it. Furthermore, people who go for the same old talking points without acknowledging counterarguments are by definition ignorant.

I'm no fan of the democrats either, and I'd say there is a lot of lazy/ignorant campaigning on their part as well. But on this topic at least the democrats acknowledged the pandemic and aimed for some type of response. There are actually conservative approaches to many of the problems facing our society. But rather than adopting those positions and making public debate be about the merits of conservative/progressive approaches, the republican party has chosen a path of simply denying that the problems exist at all. This cannot stand.
I know exactly how to do it, I've tried out what has been described above.

I've got a lab for stuff I want to tinker with, but a password manager is seen as an "essential service" to me like e-mail and music. I'd much prefer to pay a bit per month and have a team of professionals deal with it if the servers go down.

If at the end of the day my home server breaks and I want to get on and watch Amazon Prime/Netflix/whatever I still can with a hosted password manager. I value my time and sanity a lot more than £2 a month.
I'd say DBM being PvE is a big difference. But WoW generally is a whole other beast just because of how addons are ingrained in it.
And this is an unacceptable tradeoff when we are facing a climate change crisis, unless the energy cost can be greatly reduced.
> You are actively spreading disinformation. SARS-2 ("covid") will never be extinct. It is completely infeasible to eradicate a highly infectious zoonotic respiratory virus w/ abundant animal reservoirs.

misinformation. Parent poster did not state covid will be extinct, they said, until it is extinct. If that is in fact never, Rand's words not being amplified around the globe for 24/7 access is still advisable.
I am pretty sure a large number of people on "your side" (for the record I am on Rand's side on this) want to prevent it

We have evidence of this

First you said "2 weeks to flatten the curve" we did that, and flattened the curve hospitals were saved ... but you were not appeased

then you said "a few months to reduce the deaths" we did that and death rate dropped... but you were not appeased

Then you said "a few more months to reduce the infection rates" we did that and the infection rate dropped ...but you were not appeased

Then you said "a few MORE months to the vaccine" we did that and got the jab ...but you were not appeased

We have now come the conclusion that you will accept nothing less than a complete eradication of COVID which by all expert account is impossible. I am unwilling to cede anymore of my freedom to your demands.
Growth usually means operating outside the confines of our previous experience to some extent.

Tech careers are, hopefully, about growing - yes using new technologies, but also trying out new roles like management, architecture, sales, building a company...

The more senior tech people get, the more they are doing outside the box they were initially hired in, until they are not doing that thing at all.

As a result, everyone is doing some percentage of things they have little experience or training in, while they try to backfill that experience and training. Often there isn't someone better at it around either - that's why they ended up doing it in the first place. As soon as they actually get good at it they are pulled and pushed onto the next step.

So, most people don't know what they are doing part of the time. I wouldn't want to label that imposter syndrome. We need to recognize our real limitations so we know what to learn and can control the risks.
Irrelevant in context. Priesthoods in the examples above are just structures to preserve and transmit the knowledge of their respective missions to future generations. However corrupted are real religions it can't be denied that they've been running under the same traditions and knowledge corpus for millennia, and that's the point.
I think it is possible, but not if anything goes wrong.

For instance, I used to live off of ~300 / month in the US by living mostly in forest. However, after having a kid my wife demanded regular housing. I could divorce her and go without housing again, but then the state would impute my income and order child support at 20% of the income I _could_ make (which is very high) even though the actual cost of the necessities for a child is minimal (maybe 200 a month maximum). If you fail to pay you will be charged a felony and go to debtor's prison.

So the answer is in many occasions you and your family could live a happy life on basically nothing, but you would have to live with the fact you will be imprisoned and lose all your professional and driver licenses and have all your land and assets seized because you don't earn at your imputed income.

For this reason I abandoned a fairly happy life living off almost no money and instead slave away at a keyboard dreaming of the life that once was. Just don't make mistakes.
If YouTube had been around in the 50s, they’d be banning kooks who claimed smoking wasn’t healthy for you.
It's strange, how did the copyright holders figure out this behavior was increasing or that it was a problem? What metrics are they looking at?
Loggers can be directly behind some fires also.

Is well known that loggers in the south of Europe had been caught starting wildfires with the goal to buy the logs cheaper later (still suitable for paper pulp) or to have an excuse to steal the oldest trees that were perfectly viable but slightly charred. The practice stopped by new laws regulating the sell of burnt wood, but it was popular once (and can be still active in other parts of the planet).

Anything that could be claimed as an excuse type 'this tree was ill so it must be taken down' is a temptation for promoting wildfires.

And these survivor elder trees are necessary also. Some caterpillars are borers and kill trees in mass, creating a lot of extra fuel. Woodpeckers are among the only animals capable to remove larvae that dig deeper in the trunks. Respecting a few dead trees (here and there) where woodpeckers nest can reduce the final amount of fuel. More dense population of woodpeckers -> less larvae -> more trees surviving the attack -> less extensive patches of new dead wood ready to burn. Another reason to be very careful with the idea of a free unlimited pass to logging after wildfires.
The series are also getting canceled after 1 season. I stopped watching Netflix originals just like you.
Microsoft does anything: "It's EEE"

Google does anything: "Whatever happened to Don't be Evil!"
Actual title is “How an Ontario man's forgotten email password resulted in a $6,255 Quarantine Act fine at the U.S. border”
There's more to choosing an editor than convenience. I learned a great deal about embracing free/libre software, learning new tools, and becoming comfortable at the command line by having my CS professor push us towards emacs/vim in school.

Nowadays with LSP there's even less of a reason to lock yourself into a editor as a service or paid editor. If you really love VSCode or Codespaces then more power to you, but I highly recommend giving something with a steeper learning curve a try for at least a few weeks to see what its all about.
The big question on my mind when reading and considering this is, who is this aimed at? Is it aimed at casual players? Is this aimed at those who want to improve or that play competitively? If it's the latter I can't imagine it being of much help in the long term. It's better to understand why things are a certain way than to have an AI tell you to just do a thing. And unless you're playing at a high enough level already, things such as synergy or composition don't matter nearly as much as comfort with a character and their abilities. And as someone who has played games competitively in the past, I never wanted something to help me with things like awareness, along the lines of what the Valorant functionality displays. Keeping one's eyes on what's generally going on in the game has become much easier over the years anyway, to be completely honest.

I think for general strategy or builds in games like League of Legends or Dota 2, written guides and/or thinking for yourself will still easily trump an AI and will further one's actual understanding of the game and it's balance a lot as well. At the last Dota 2 International tournament a team won by their player picking up a rather unusual item that surprised even the fairly knowledgeable commentators. I think these sorts of AI or data based things just end up being a crutch for the players in the middle of the skill bracket but will fall off in effectiveness once they reach the higher levels where enemies will actually think for themselves and come up with counter strategies along the way.

Also has support for CS:GO actually been approved by Valve yet? I know they did some AI showcases at their events in the past but I feel like this sort of thing, unless very limited in functionality, will go against their stance on cheating.
In my experience, may of these companies (Riot, et. al) are not particularly consistent over time or in the application of even current rules. And it's also hard to divine what "would be considered cheating" by these companies as one support person may say something is cheating, and another might consider it cheating and ban your account.

It seems very fraught and risky to use for gamers who desire that their accounts don't get banned.
I can't answer your very leading question, but there are PLENTY of people who wear masks, are vaccinated, and are scared of mandates, and are consistent about "raising the bar" across the board (For things besides COVID). They just don't get as much media coverage, because that position doesn't fit into a digestible narrative in today's zeitgeist.
Can’t imagine it is a joke based on his work and posts. It’s how I feel as well. The only people it benefits are the people who don’t need another leg up. It’s like someone purified everything ugly about Capitalism.
I wonder how many people agree with these statements and which ones:

- The Delta variant is more virulent but less lethal than the previous variants

- There will be additional variants (lambda is already here)

- Certain masks are reasonably effective (N95, KN95, multiple layers)

- Certain masks are much less effective (garter)

- Masks are sometimes worn incorrectly or intentionally ineffectively

- Many children under 12 don't wear masks

- Mask mandates are sometimes compliance indicators (wear masks onto plane, take off mask to eat and drink, people sitting inside airline terminals for hours on end maskless eating and drinking and not eating and not drinking)

- Allowing maskless outdoor dining results in transmission and was only done to prevent mass outcry from small businesses. Many of these so called outdoor seating areas are de facto indoors. There have been transmissions between vaccinated people in these outdoor venues. Some had symptoms.

- YouTube and the tech platforms have become the dominant venues of public discourse. The tech platforms have significant power to control discourse. This power spans countries.
I know precisely what I am talking about, everything I said echoes the best public health guidance we have thus far, and I did not "callously disregard" anything. I have carefully considered the issue of whether YouTube should have the right to muzzle Rand Paul's idiocy, weighed the pros and cons, and I have decided that they should.

I'll thank you to keep your sloppy, inaccurate, careless personal attacks to yourself.
Your science and citations and reason don't matter on the internet.

Rand Paul is a medical doctor and the person you're replying to is a musician.

Yet the musician has watched the mainstream news media and therefore determines that their opinion is unquestionable.

Actual scientific debate (which is a fundamental process of the scientific method)..... is not even remotely an option to these people..

You're talking to a fascist. They will happily put you up against a wall for disagreeing with them and happily eliminate any possibility of discussion.

And its a hopeless battle against a hoard of people like this who all parrot the mainstream news media talking points and act like it's unquestionablely correct even though their knowledge of biology and science in general is questionable. But because the mainstream media says it it must be true.

It's fascism straight and simple.
America is going down a pretty scary rabbit hole right now.
I shouldn't have called it open source, it was source available to customers who paid for the training course and signed a license agreement. Don't think they ever had intention of making it open. I found the model especially strange because of the requirement that any custom changes you asked for would be available to everyone else (your competitors). I guess they didn't actually want the workload of custom changes so this was a way of further disincentivizing it?

https://www.synapse.com/steamvr
Saying cloth masks are effective in the context of (K)N95 masks is even worse misinformation. Even the CDC's website on masks points out you should really be using (K)N95's, and that cloth masks are completely ineffective when wet, which they get after 15 minutes or so of breathing through them. The science on cloth masks says they work, but only shortly and just barely. Rand Paul is closer to the truth by saying they don't work than someone else saying they offer robust protection.

Yet Youtube isn't banning anyone who says cloth masks will keep you safe, which is extremely dangerous misinformation.
And because the newspapers were syndicated they also have the big stories around the world.

Like the Carrington Event & Krakatoa, or Alexander Graham Bell's firewall to stop people stealing electricity, or pirate attacks on junks off Hong Kong.
> Tech companies feeling competent to dictate truth is scary.

The government has been telling them to censor or else.
YouTube pulled the TidePod-eating challenge videos because they endangered public health. This is no different.
That explains why we never had trouble making copies. Our VCRs were ancient top loader models with automatic nothing. My teenage self thought Macrovision was a weak bluff to stop people from even trying to make copies.
How can you cross reference and double check if only one side is presented and the internet is the main means by which one double checks? This is the conundrum I haven't figured out.
I don’t get why escaping reality is bad. Is theatre bad? Books? Movies?

Providing a good escape from reality can lower people’s demands of reality, which can lead to a more sustainable future. If people can eat beans but be tricked into thinking they’re eating steak it can improve health and lower emissions, for example.
I'm dissappointed to see you're being downvoted for what looks like a good faith (and common) misconception with a request for more information.

Anyway, the best way to learn more about this is to search for resources describing the "psychrometrics of evaporative cooling". Psychrometrics is the study of the thermodynamics of air and water vapor mixtures. Learning about the psychrometric chart, in particular, is helpful since it is a very clear, expressive tool that will illustrates how adiabitic (no change in thermal energy transfer) cooling can occur by adding humidity to dry air.

I think this entry from engineering toolbox provides a good start: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/evaporative-cooling-d_698...
I’m here wondering if Paul made his videos from the Senate floor, would they have been censored?
That study was measuring masks ability to prevent being infected with the virus, not spreading it, so not directly applicable to parent's claim
Agreed. Outside of the US a lot of content is just not available at all.
> My current environment is my laptop, which I would also need to access codespaces.

> So by extension, codespaces is more risky than my current environment.

That only looks at the hardware. There are many more pieces to the puzzle.
But cheating can happen (and be prosecuted) outside of eSports. The founders should be careful.
> ineffective government mandates

There's the bait and switch.

You see, cloth masks aren't as effective as N95 mask, that doesn't mean they aren't effective. Nor does it mean that the government mandates to wear masks are ineffective.

Frankly, you can look at nearly every other world government that issued similar guidance to the CDC and in all cases those countries did better than the US. Why? Because it wasn't a political issue. The countries that faired the worst all turned COVID into a game of the left vs right.

You can't say masking and social distancing don't work or are ineffective when 40% of the population goes out of it's way to not wear masks, wear them under their nose, and decides to hold big rallies and gathering to celebrate how much they hate wearing masks.
The masks work, but he only mentions a narrow use that isn't the current reason for wearing them. That's the misinformation; he got you, too.

Think of it this way: "Don't wear a seatbelt because they don't keep other cars from hitting you."
Funny enough, I recently purchased one of the latest TP-Link Archer 5400x (AX73) routers. Ended up not needing it, so I opened it up and connected via UART.

Once you log in it appears to be running a version of OpenWRT, although they don't specify that on their website.
I could be a novice in this subject matter so please correct me if I'm wrong but I think that a state board certified Ocular Immunologist with an active license to practice would know a lot more about masks than an Information Technology expert...which part did I miss? Are you letting your emotions get the best of you?