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The vaccines all induce production of neutralizing antibodies. For example, this is the title of a Nature paper from May: "BNT162b2 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies and poly-specific T cells in humans."[1]

You cite a bunch of people saying that vaccinated people can transmit the virus. They can, but they're far less likely to, as multiple studies have now shown. If they get infected, fully vaccinated people are about 70% less likely to transmit the virus,[2] and even partially vaccinated people are 40-50% less likely to transmit the virus.[3] There are some obvious reasons why this should be the case (e.g., vaccinated people clear the virus much more rapidly, meaning that they're infectious for a shorter span of time - see the recent study from Singapore: [4]).

This is on top of the fact that vaccinated people are far less likely to get infected (even with Delta) in the first place. Uninfected people don't transmit, of course. Overall, the effectiveness of the vaccine in reducing transmission in a population is high. Recall that most vaccines do not confer sterilizing immunity, but many still generate herd immunity, regardless.

You also argue that people who get infected are less likely to get infected later than people who acquire immunity through vaccination. This does not mean that getting immunity through infection is preferable to getting immunity through vaccination. If I can use a rather crude analogy, imagine the following argument: "People who jaywalk and get run over by cars are less likely to get run over a second time than people who use the crosswalk." The whole point of vaccination is to avoid the negative effects that come from getting infected without pre-existing immunity. Getting infected so that you can avoid getting infected just makes no sense. The worst case with vaccination is that you later get infected, probably have very mild disease, and get a boost to your immune response.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03653-6

2. https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

3. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2107717

4. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...
Makes sense. This could be it.
My argument is specifically that you can't justify banning something simply because you personally define it as "wasteful" and assert it has no value in your opinion.
If these displace pesticides, that is a big win for everyone involved.
It's several things (yes, we know it's confusing). Asahi Linux is the overall project.

m1n1 is our bootloader, which once installed will present a standard (ish) U-Boot/UEFI boot environment. From there you will be able to boot any distro or USB installer, in principle, once the changes trickle upstream.

Our installer will install m1n1 and then give you the choice of also installing a distro image. We'll be providing our own based on Arch Linux ARM, but we're open to other distros providing images so we can add them to the list. We already have interest from Fedora, for example.

So we expect that people who want to run Linux (or in fact openbsd or anything else) on these Macs will first use our bootloader installer, then either pick one of the built-in images or use their own USB installation media from whatever distro.
Newsletter(Papers with Code, The Sequence...), Google Scholar Alerts, Arxiv RSS Feed(Too overwhelming sometimes)...
Don‘t modern codecs already do something like this to conceal packet loss? (Obviously only at the phoneme and not word or semantic level.)
Yes. Idk about Spain, but most countries provision the full decommissioning and cleanup costs upfront when building, which is part of the reasons why nuclear is expensive. Nobody does that for any of the alternatives ( of course the risk and costs there are quite lower, but still)
Calling them may be a drag, but when I did so last year, the rep pulled the specs that I've chosen on their webshop and gave me a 5% discount, which is quite a bit considering a £4500 laptop.
Yes really, by qmmmur's definition.
The idea that the bombs on Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki shortened the war in a significant way is in historic sciences at least contested.

I remember my professor at University arguing against the fact that this idea was presented as proven fact, when there were many question in the scientific community.

Not sure how maybe newer evidence might have changed it. I would need to dive into the actual scientific literature to update my knowledge of the topic.
I guess Saigon had to be rebooted for a younger audience...

It's sad though: 20 years ago, a lot of people said Afghanistan would be a new Vietnam, an unwinnable war over a territory that had broken several empires already. Humanity just does not learn from history, not even recent history. So much death and distraction to accomplish nothing (except fattening the pockets of military suppliers and contractors).
Tell HN: Just realized you can put Emoji in Gmail labels
This is pretty cool but it might not be revolutionary. A change and upgrade from purely text-only labels, I can now add a bit of emotional flair or warmth. It's pretty cool. It might have always been possible but I just discovered it today :)
Ask HN: A Place for Programmers
Is there any place online where one can discuss deep technical aspects and questions?
Most if the stuff I need to discuss with anyone is either complex or relatively deep.
It’s always been an issue. But today most sites I used over the years have become awful (stackoverflow) or too shallow (hn).
If there is a place for like minded people, then please invite me in.
In a community of people that eager to learn there will always be added value for everybody. IMHO
The important thing is that we learn all that we possibly can from the ancient structures.

Then, I would agree with restoring and maximally using these structures for modern purposes. If ancient Egypt persisted, the pyramids would have changed as well. Change shape, color, purpose. Who knows.

Change is integral to life and trying to keep something the same for millenia just for the sake of not changing it, is unnatural.

But alas, we don't know what we don't know. This is the major argument in the way of ever abandoning these structures as archeological sites and to shift them to modern use.
So your idea is that, rather than type in the programs directly, we instead switch to some kind of language for defining the program in? A language that abstracts from all the low-level details?

Sounds like a winner to me. Somebody should implement this!
I wonder why they started with lettuce. I get the nutrients and minerals part, but the calorific value is low. Potatoes also grow well using hydroponics and would seem to be a better base choice for longer orbits.
Didn't it happen 10 years ago already? And in the aftermath it was reported it will happen again and the network needs to be prepared better next time?
Others have a «router-like» reset button which you shove a paperclip into. I’ve seen it on at least one X1 yoga.
Afghans who worked with Australian forces wait for death at hands of the Taliban
Only the SEP firmware is encrypted; all the other copro firmwares are plaintext and your can analyze them to your heart's content.
I just realized they probably don’t care and the urge disappeared completely. Not because they are callous but because no one cares, it is all digital narcissism.
An acquaintance of mine has a personal newsletter that he puts out twice a year.

This way people who like to hear from him are able to. he always invites replies and often times I just write my thoughts on one or two things he wrote.
Most fruits approximate 50% fructose and 50% glucose, like sucrose or "high-fructose corn syrup". Pears and, particularly, mangos have a much larger fraction of fructose.

The important difference is that they all (except grapes!) have enough fiber to modulate absorption. Juice, any juice, is as bad as candy. Amount matters. Rate matters.

Regular corn syrup and corn sugar are just glucose, so relatively harmless. You can't find corn sugar at a supermarket, but can online: "Homebrew" sells it for $2/lb, nominally for home beer brewers to boost carbonation, but it is good for anywhere you would use cane sugar. (Sometimes a pinch of the latter may still be needed, e.g. in hot cocoa.)
Well this is honestly not really the software developers job. Software developers figure out how something should be build. This is indeed a creative process, though different to what is described.

Developers don't figure out requirements. sometimes it's possible to use libraries, Frameworks, open source and no code solutions or even modern programming languages to make that easier. However in general still someone needs fairly deep knowledge of the relevant tool. You might as well call such a person a developer. Usually very little in the sense of making it easier is possible because the software doesn't exist in a vacuum and needs to be build on top of/interface with/integrate existing software/run on a specific server set up.
An analogy is not an argument. It is an assumption
I have the Precision 7750 with power fingerprint button, but I'm not losing sleep over it. I will suffer a lot more than that before I go to Windows or worse, Apple. Besides, usually it's just a matter of time before the driver gets into a kernel.
It's a fun city filled with amazing people and while it's got some rough edges like any large city, it's still like way more stable than almost anywhere else in latin america. There's a ton of hidden gems around the area if nature is more your thing and the surrounding area is really nice if you prefer to live closer to nature within urban reach. Even a 20min uber ride out of the city will get you up a mountain hike and usually doesn't cost me more than 6$.

I have the perspective of someone who's actually moved here a long while ago though and I don't really have a lot of respect for the huge tourism PR move to get people out of the city by talking enormously bad about it, but at the same time I really prefer hanging out with locals over tourists and expats to get that perspective.
Lucifer is an odd one. It's demonstrably terrible, technically, but it does have a cult following.

But it's also got its 6th, final, season coming in 2022..
And the rest of the Metal. We're directly taking to the macOS kernel driver.
Enterprises do try all the time to replace devs with "no-code", or "config" solutions, automation, interop, or the flavor of the day.

Many times the initiative comes from architects such as yourself.

I've never seen it go well, almost like they don't really know what it takes to "glue two apps together", but I'm sure you'll do better! Good luck!
Hey Travis, I don't own an RM2 but I like newsletters, what are your favorites newsletter ? Thanks
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The vicious cycle of people attaining an elusive freedom at some cost, and then backpedaling after measuring the cost to be greater than the freedom. But this memory doesn't last, and in the not too distance future we'll again forget why drugs are bad.
>I work in water management in the Netherlands.

Wim Lex, is that you!?
20 years for what?
Using a PinePhone or a Librem 5 phone means using open hardware in addition to an open source operating system. That's not the only option: since Android is also open source, based on a modified Linux kernel, there are Android derivatives, CalyxOS[1] and GrapheneOS[2], that allow (at least partial) access to the Android app ecosystem, but remove Android's nosy bits, i.e. Google Play Services (location services, authentication, sync through Google’s cloud infrastructure, etc.) Both systems require proprietary, closed Google Pixel hardware, but it's unlikely that Google Pixel hardware alone implements mass-surveillance measures such as the Apple/NCMEC initiative. CalyxOS (includes open source MicroG vs. vanilla Google Play Services) seems somewhat more app compatibility -oriented, while GrapheneOS (includes Sandboxed Google Play Services vs. vanilla Google Play Services) seems more security-oriented. There might also be phone performance differences between the two, so it's worth researching further.

[1] https://calyxos.org
[2] https://grapheneos.org
For funding the military industrial complex; what else?
You can DFU these machines from Linux with idevicerestore, no need for Apple Configurator.
This is what happens in war. People kill and die and are murdered and commit atrocities and innocent people and children die.
Incredibly disingenuous article. Other than pot at the state level, and psychedelics in Oregon, the US has not liberalised drug laws - especially laws around the kind of drugs that result in addiction, death and mass incarceration. The author confounds police taking a hands off approach to enforcement of drug laws (i.e.: ignoring public nuisance behaviour from addicts) with liberalisation. i.e.: treating addiction as a public health issue, adequate service provision, provision of clean drugs etc. All policies proven to be effective in reducing use and reducing public nuisance. He also wilfully ignores the context of the (most recent) opiate crisis in America - mass evictions beginning during the sub-prime crisis, and continuing to this day. Precarious employment protections. A radically dysfunctional health care system, offering little to know protection in cases of severe mental illness and chronic illness. Not to mention the context of the first opiate crisis in the 1980s - mass unemployment amongst the urban poor, the closure of state mental health facilities, and the collapse of service provision for inner cities under Reganomics.
See also: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
> an engineer to fully understand the form and function of a piece of code

Which is quite impossible. This kind of understanding is a bunch of mental levers, trying to Nicolas Cage every possible scenario to a piece of code.

That's why we have ideas such as clean code and TDD - to ensure that we don't have to fully understand the form and function of a piece of code. Instead, we can be humans, worry about the general design, and allow machines to validate it.
Thank you.

Glancing through the Nim documentation it doesn't appear to support goto. Searching online reveals one can hack something into the underlying instruction set, but it looks very unclean.

To port my parser I would need to alter the core of the processor a bunch to make it effectively be a large switch statement inside of a loop to build the state machine.

Right now all three implementation are essentially following the same logic with just the language syntax altered between them to make maintenance of all implementations simultaneously easier.

I have spent some time generating ragel grammars for this sort of thing, and ragel can output a number of different languages itself. The code generated by ragel, is, though, quite messy itself and can have random problems that require workarounds, which is why I haven't decided fully upon going down the ragel path.

May I ask what the point is of having a Nim port? You've listed safety; which can be better addressed by building a state machine generator and a state machine DSL. Also, the code is quite small, so I don't think "safety" is the primary concern for the codebase.

Nim compiles to C, C++, and Javascript. I can already effectively run the C parser in JS by compiling to WASM ( and I've done so with my XML parser ) C++ code can call the C code without issue. A wrapper to auto-call object deletion in C++ would be trivial to write.

Rewriting in Nim would not, so far as I can see, offer any benefits to me that are worth the effort.
They have UAP vehicles now, maybe worth it?

More seriously, this is extremely concerning from a geopolitical perspective. Looks like this next week will be tumultuous.

EDIT: I'm too scared to post to their Twitter, but the latest tweet from Matin Bek ("Member of negotiating team of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" per his profile) was "Don't panic! Kabul is safe!" which just darkly reminded me of this scene from a Mars Attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUrAMxmO_A&ab_channel=Sadys...
Seems like no one knows what is going on. We gifted the Taliban 700 vehicles, hummers, drones, and even a few Blackhawk helicopters. How could securing our valuable physical assets not be important enough for our military. It makes us look like incompetent fools. Furthermore our estimates for when Kabul will be lost to Taliban have been wildly off and went from 90 days to 3 days overnight. It’s a total disaster over there and no matter what anyone says these things are the responsibility of the current administration and military. Total embarrassment so far. The audacity of the Taliban to even dare try to steal 700 vehicles from the USA. This alone brings aggression from other enemies and for that reason alone is grounds for us making a strong demand to get our stuff back or else risk our re-entry. Taliban should have a choice between letting us leave with our stuff or having us come back in force.
Exactly this. Wish some journalist provide an accounting of how much Military industrial complex made out of this mess.
Is there a good overview of what this means starting with the basics and based on up to date theory and evidence?

I don't really understand how you can have multiple species that interbreed and then some go "extinct" but then we find "extinct" DNA in living ancestors.

Seems like a paradox. Kind of like if I said "All swans are white" then got excited about finding a black swan.

But in that case it's only actually surprising to find a black swan because I'd made a wrong assumption based on limited evidence. Is that the case for
these "extinct" human species?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archai...

> Although the narratives of human evolution are often contentious, DNA evidence shows that human evolution should not be seen as a simple linear or branched progression, but a mix of related species. In fact, genomic research has shown that hybridization between substantially diverged lineages is the rule, not the exception, in human evolution.[6] Furthermore, it is argued that hybridization was an essential driving force in the emergence of modern humans.[6]

Seems to be hinting that the branching tree diagrams are misleadingly simplified.

edit: found this, which suggests that most of the fuss is about trying to draw firm lines in between fuzzy degrees of difference, though the author would still think of then as seperate species, and thinks it's the definition of species that needs work.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/are-neanderthals-same-species...
When you have tons of surface area for free and a big temperature difference, I'm sure water condensation can be done in a different way.
I began noticing a pattern in recent popular startup founding stories. It goes something like this. Protagonist is the founder here.

1. I wanted to do X.
2. But I couldn't Or it was an extremely frustrating experience.
3. So I took a step back and thought, f***k it I'll build it myself.
4. So here we are; our vision is to democratise X and uplift millions out of their misery.

Examples of the top of my head:

1. The concept for Uber was born one winter night during the conference when the pair was unable to get a cab. [1]
2. ....they were having trouble paying their rent and were looking for a way to earn some extra cash. They noticed that all hotel rooms in the city were booked, as the local Industrial Design conference attracted a lot of visitors.[2]
3. The idea for ZopNow came when founder Mukesh Singh was standing in a queue at a grocery supermarket. The idea flashed in his mind that something could certainly be done to save people from the hassle of waiting in long lines at grocery supermarkets [3]
4. He was motivated to start OYO Rooms so that he could be in control of the TV remote, which wasn’t possible when he stayed with relatives when he was a child.[4]

[1] https://www.uber.com/en-IN/newsroom/history/

[2] https://getpaidforyourpad.com/blog/the-airbnb-founder-story/

[3] http://www.newspatrolling.com/zopnow-company-profile/

[4] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-...
Clickbait title. Everything we thought about drugs isn't wrong, SF just implemented poorly (compared to Portugal and the Netherlands).
The issue with automating software is that you first need to specify exactly what you want, and what should happen in all the edge cases. The best way to do that is with a domain-specific language, which is what programming languages are.

I don't think the issue is that there isn't a tool that understands natural language, it's that even in natural language you need to specify everything before it works.

Who knows, though, maybe we'll see a piece of AI that can make educated guesses from rough descriptions and make it work.
20 years of fighting the same one-year war. The US Army never learned, and the politicians were fine with delegating responsibility. Also, the recent status quo was fine, and there was no reason to be hasty about a withdrawal deal that the Taliban never honoured.
For 99.9% of use cases, that's a solved problem. You'll never use anything other than FLAC and Opus for lossless and lossy compression respectively.

I'm sure there are unusual cases such as live streaming over satellite internet where getting an extra 1% compression on high quality audio is a big deal, but even that's likely a temporary problem. Starlink users already get >50mpbs
[Citation needed] cause the academic research on complex system safety disagree with the fact that doing what you said make the system better
Thought provoking article. I am not convinced that the correlation of drug liberalization and deaths is sufficient to say there is a causation. However, I do agree with the author's main point that policy should not be dictated by ideology. The will certainly be some people who would benefit from a 'tough love' approach.
Not only was it individual effort, it just felt so pointless. In group messages (Facebook/WhatsApp) you're effectively/literally inviting someone into a group conversation like a private forum amongst the invitees.. In g+ circles, all you were doing was labelling your friends and even naming the labels could be tricky ("friends" circle .. if you aren't in it, what does that say?)
Honestly, I bought my X1 Extreme Gen2 explicitly for the Nvidia GPU. Having had trouble to get multiple external monitors to work, along the integrated display, I run it basically since day one with the Intel GPU deactivated in Bios. My understanding is that, besides the fingerprint reader, dual GPUs are the main problem regarding Linux on that machine. If so, I don't care. Not that I had the time trying it out so yet.
Lenovo is still far away from Dell in this regard. None of Lenovo's top of the line Thinkpad workstations allow you to choose Ubuntu. The example you've sent has Ubuntu 18.04 which is over 3 years old and not the latest LTS version. It's a pathetic half-assed attempt from Lenovo and they're gonna have to do a lot better if they want to get in to Linux laptop market.
With the current fall of Afghanistan I do have to ask why do we still have spies. We were in Afghanistan with the government, had satellites, drones, ownership of telecommunications, paid informants. We had all the data we wanted.

Are the spy agencies just bullshit jobs? They just make stuff up like the enemy don't have phones, so that makes them more advanced.

They do seem good at stealing oil contracts. Not sure if much else.

Security guard.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DavidSmith%20spy&src=typed_q...

"The alleged agent was found out because, according to "Spiegel", among other things, he did not withdraw any money from his account for a long period of time & did not pay with a card. BKA investigators began to observe him"
The headline reminds me of my honeymoon.
[Citation needed] that the way it can go wrong are more and that they are different.

The research community on complex system safety disagree with you here.
Very good. Where does the "speed increase" comes from ? Better encoding scheme or better decoding implementation ?