skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're certainly less effective vs variants, but I haven't seen any convincing data suggesting that vaccines are totally ineffective against them.

In fact, the article also quotes one of the authors as saying:

"The bottom line is, this can happen — it can be true that vaccinated people can spread the virus. But we do not yet know what their relative role in overall community spread is."
I think low code can really help while doing broader level coding, e.g. service, API, component definitions, and also mapping out communications/ service calls. When doing detailed data manipulations, data mapping can help, but when digging deep, the code is easier. If we can switch and use mixed approches between code and low code, it can improve the productivity in my opinion.
The title should be "How different masks protect against Covid-19, and its delta and lambda variants" but for some reason the "How" got auto-cutoff by the HN submission system for some reason...
Optimizing the a* Algorithm
They're called the 'me generation' for a very valid reason...
FYI you can actually still create a new reddit account without giving any email address (not even a disposable or fake one). Just leave the email text box blank and click "next".
Also it can damage your ears pretty badly if it burns in open air.
I would have liked the article to get opinions from the people who actually use screen readers. They would have the most experience on what makes alt text significant.
> Hydrogen is often viewed as an important energy carrier in a future decarbonized world.

by who? (other than japanese car makers)
Slashdot also had a great moderation system. Way ahead of its time.

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Edit: I was going to respond to [1], but I'm rate limited. Below is my comment:

> Anonymity really hurts profits.

That's what killed YikYak and continues to beleaguer anonymous message board monetization (well, maybe it's the content).

Reddit at least has an interest graph going for it. If they can figure out how to boost subreddit discovery and encourage users pick the things they'll spend money on, then they'll be golden.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157448
I work at a F50 that has a similar home grown solution. The nice thing is team members can customize their local machine however they want! Then for the actual dev env, its standard.

Works really really well when you allow your employees to explore and do what they want locally. Then when things break or go wrong (either I tweak something, or an incompatible Apple update lands) - I can just reset to the same dev env as everyone else.

It's fantastic. Spin up and throw away a dev env that is so much more powerful than my local machine could be (100+ GB RAM machines are a click away).
Of course they wouldn't go trawling through LLCs. They would use probable cause established outside. LLCs are just a means for some crimes, not a cause in and of themselves.
No, the consensus is that they reduce severity but also protect against contracting, just at lower efficacy rate than against earlier variants. They still reduce cases versus not having them.
> I still don't understand the entire premise here.

It's because the premise is so weak. I can put a brick on the gas pedal, so no car is safe!
They've had a backdoor for the FBI even before they started positioning themselves as the privacy company.
> I think eligibility should be based on a minimum karma-within-subreddit (comments and submissions) threshold

A million little HNs.
This hypothetical lacks an explanation for why every politician has not demanded Apple (or say Google) do this scope creep already for photos stored in the cloud where the technical feasibility and legal precedent has already been established by existing CSAM scanning solutions deployed at scale.
> all newly sold screens only work if they're registered

The other side of this pincer movement is to mandate that all devices which access the internet must send a remote attestation of their boot process, to check that you haven't "tampered" with them by installing your own OS or jailbreaking them.
It's a combination of your lifestyle changing and your kidneys beginning to lose function. Your metabolic rate may be the same but your GFR is declining.
> And you bet that early adopters putting in regular powerpoints

A 110V AC outlet is completely inappropriate and inadequate for charging a BEV; for example, it would take three days of nonstop charging to charge my car from a 110V outlet.

BEV automakers include the 110V adapter as an emergency stopgap more than anything else - I suppose they intend it to be used to help you get to a DC charger: but even assuming I'm no more than 100mi from a Supercharger then I still need to be plugged-in to 110V for at least 24 hours to get the 30kWh level I'd need to travel 100mi - and who is going to let someone borrow a days' worth of 1-2kWh electricity like that?
> How much work would it take to transcode, say, a nematode into assemblages of these things?

You also need to find a way to simulate input (an environment) for this simulated “brain”, otherwise I suspect it would suffer the problems associated with sensory deprivation.
I think this may be exactly what I was hoping for :)
I agree especially in dense places like Europe (thinking of Italy outbreak) early border shutdown for non essential travelling would have helped in addition down the line. I’m not sure boat travel is comparable to air travel in both mass and interconnection around the globe. It would probably have also been warranted but main driver here was globalization / air travel.
Yeah, 'Just lookin' on a car lot is generally a decent buying and signal. Also if this recruiter took the time to build network and pipeline people they could reap the results as people are ready to move positions and thing 'That AWS recruiter sure was nice to talk last year, wonder if they are looking.'
I've read the proposals for it. It certainly looks good, yet exception handling looked good 30 years ago, too. I haven't used sum types myself, and often it takes years to discern whether things are really good ideas or not.

What I personally use is the "poisoning" technique. This involves marking an object as being in an error state, much like a floating point value can be in a NaN state. Any operation on a poisoned object produces another poisoned object, until eventually this is dealt with at some point in the program.

I've had satisfactory success with this technique. It does have a lot of parallels with the sum type method.
They didn’t violate Section 230. Senator Wyden (who was a Congress Rep who cosponsored Section 230) has stated as much, repeatedly.

The law doesn’t require that “platforms” treat content neutrally. It only states that hosts are protected from litigation due to user content if the hosts follow the requirements. There is no explicit or implied punishment for hosts/platforms if they fail to treat content equally. That is simply the host exercising their 1A rights of Free Association (and disassociation).

Be careful what you wish for if you want Section 230 eroded. AFAIK the only erosion so far was SESTA/FOSTA and that destroyed a handful of sites like Craigslist Personals/Casual Encounters. You are advocating trading private company contract enforcement for overbearing threats of government prosecution.
Take a look at this article, it explains why calculating CFR this way is not accurate:

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/05/10/no-the-death-ra...

> Erin Mordecai, an assistant professor of biology at
Stanford University, agreed with Riley about the
miscalculation, and cautioned against the comparison.

> She said it’s impossible to accurately calculate a death
rate for each group — vaccinated versus vaccinated —
because demographics skew the data.

> “Those breakthrough cases may not be an average subset
of the population, they may be a more at risk group that's
more likely to have severe disease anyway,” Mordecai said.
“To better understand what's going on with the relative
risk, you would need to know the demographics of the
underlying health conditions of the people who experienced
those breakthrough cases and deaths.”
I haven't checked in a while, but does the data show that the efficacy against delta is less than the 90% we thought the vaccines were going to be?

I mean, we all knew some vaccinated people would still get Covid, about 10% of them, so do we know that there is a higher number of breakthrough cases than even that?
This is going to one of those “what have the Romans ever done for us!?” moments.

Yes, the wars were long and problem riddled, the local governments corrupt and their version of democracy was different. But you don’t change a culture that quickly.

The US occupation of Japan also lasted a couple of decades but there were real, lasting improvements in our society. Despite the efforts of the current nationalist government, they haven’t been able to subvert the constitution that McDouglas made. [0]

0: https://www.cfr.org/japan-constitution/japans-postwar-consti...
It's a little late for that. SARS-CoV-2 is already endemic worldwide in humans and several other animal species.
My point is, unless we had achieved artificial "herd immunity" world wide, mutations would have occurred. Since it's quite clear we could not have achieved artificial "herd immunity" mutations were going to happen regardless of what we did in the countries who had the resources for full immunization of eligible population.

There was no realistic chance of keeping this under control once it spread beyond Wuhan.
There doesn’t exist any official Git GUI. Others already mentioned GitKraken, which I think is the most noob-friendly GUI while offering pretty complete functionality.
> You believe that encouraging Americans to be healthy will work?

Yes, however it starts with improving the food preparation options and raising food quality. There is horrible stuff in our food - stuff that is outlawed in Europe because it is a known toxin.

Something has clearly gone wrong in the US and it’s a pretty patronizing position you have taken to put the blame entirely on the public. The government institutions supposed to be watching out for this stuff have failed, and are likely corrupt.

> Would you impose a government sanctioned food protocol?

Nah, not needed. This is fixed by a PR campaign and some cultural adjustments.

For example, for some reason the media has been promoting “body positivity” in recent years and encouraging unhealthy lifestyles. Those people who actually bought into that idea were set up in a worse position when this kicked off.

Probably not promoting bad ideas like that would be a good place to start. The commies will whine that it’s “fascist” or not “big hearted” whatever, though.

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In the end, I guess only people who can see through the lies will survive, and that’s just the game we’re playing now. That doesn’t mean that we should accept living a society where this is normal.
These politicians need their head smashed in with a shovel.
What has changed again? The practical state is that photos are uploaded in the clear to iCloud today, and Apple can scan them if they want or more importantly if the US Government asks and with any valid subpoena must hand them over.

Consider the this new hypothetical future state:

1) photos are encrypted on iCloud
2) photos are hash scanned before being encrypted and uploaded.

In this new state no valid subpoena can get access to the encrypted photos on iCloud without also getting the key on your device. What is your metric where this is not a better state than the current state where every photo is available in the clear to any government that asks and must be preserved when given a valid order to do so?

If you don’t upload photos to iCloud there is no change.

In all scenarios you have to trust Apple to write software that does what they say and that they won’t write software in response to a subpoena to target you specifically.

The attack with the hash scanning is someone gets a hash for something in your photos specifically (that doesn’t match a ton of people) and through some means gets it into the database (plausible), but can’t get anything without going though this route. Specifically subpoenas can’t just get all your photos without going through this route.

My conclusion is that you are more protected in the hash scan and encrypt state than in current state.
What about counting institutionalized people in places like nursing homes and prisons? How do you count people in cars with multiple occupants? How do you know who’s a resident any who’s a foreign visitor?
What sorta shit conversation is this not trying to have? Your question doesn’t even make sense here.

Collect that fucking .25cents tho bro
Fake news.

Gay news.

Liberal propaganda.
> We had a chance to keep a new disease under control, but it's increasingly looking like humanity blew that chance.

Vaccinating 8.5 billions of people in a very amount of time is clearly not a reasonable goal to begin with. Even without war, extreme poverty, lack of access and political chicaneries about the who and what.

Humanity's best minds have been trying for years to create a vaccine for coronaviruses that last without success. Now we've tried to do this in less than a year and we don't know the long term effects, therapeutic or otherwise; and if someone does please provide your time traveling machine to the nearest university at once.

So yeah, the virus will become endemic, variants will appear constantly. What we do now is not a decision the people in white coat or black robes can or should answer.
Globalization only accelerates the spread a little. Evidence indicates that the previous major coronavirus pandemic occurred with HCoV-OC43. Apparently it started in 1889 and spread worldwide within a couple years. Even prior to widespread globalization people did travel and it only takes one carrier to spread the disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
Apple is not the police. Apple is not an extension of the Unites Government. There is simply no reason for Apple to enable local scanning for any content what so ever.
This will not work anymore since Apple blocked sideloading iOS apps natively on M1 Macs as of January 2021.

From [0]

> The change itself was made to the App Store system that delivers the actual .IPA file and it is all part of Apple’s APIs that manage the DRM (Digital Rights Management) protections of the operating system. Because of this, it’s unlikely that a workaround will present itself in the future.

Just look at the issues section, the same errors appear. [1]

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/19/apple-blocks-m1-mac-iphone-ap...

[1] https://github.com/Letscoder/PlayCover/issues
Only commies will say it didn't leak out of the Wuhan Lab.

Why are we even allowing this liberal propaganda on HN? Fucking assholes.
At least with D a thrown exception must be a subtype of `Throwable`. I.e. you can't throw an `int`, oh, and the incredibly confusing throwing of an object that itself can throw.
How was C128 not slapt together without any plan or adult supervision? You paid for 2 cpus and two graphic chips, one cpu only ran a reset routine?, and the second "graphic chip" had no graphic enhancements and required expensive monitor. Zero practical upgrades when running C64 software, no incentives to develop c128 native software. Price with floppy drive on par with Atari ST and 20% away from Amiga. As a bonus C128D was more expensive to manufacture than Amiga.
> "Still, I'm glad Purism continues to stake-out and explain its entire reason for existing."

I'm not convinced that's a good look from this blog post. See the examples they give: "a Catholic priest’s resignation after location data revealed he used the Grindr app and frequented gay bars", "might expand into terrorism, sedition, or similar categories of crime", "[catch] DMCA violations", "Your car could report when you parked illegally or disobeyed the speed limit", "Your smart irrigation system could detect whenever you watered your lawn in violation of water conservation orders".

There's more to this whole topic than "you won't be able to break laws and decieve people with casual abandon", right? Like, a presumption that your customers are actually innocent, maybe.
So the 4th Amendment doesn't cover Apple voluntarily inducing their devices to check for CSAM prior to cloud upload.

But the 4th Amendment would cover Apple being forced to modify their system to scan for anything else the Government has told them to.
Why? It's already been well-reported that Apple makes a teeny fraction of the NCMEC reports that other large cloud providers make, and that the reason they hold the keys to iCloud backups was from some requests/pressure from the FBI.
Facebook Does Kill People
Not just whatever repo permissions your user has, critically your password has permissions to access your user account, which can do things like granting permissions to others, or changing your own security credentials.
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CSAM is such a blatant excuse to me it blows my mind how such a huge mindshare on here believes this is actually about child protection or is a valid argument. Since this is public information do you think pedophiles will just get caught by this? Will this curb their appetite?

If somehow I found myself in an authoritarian state where porn was illegal just on apple devices do you think I wouldn't just switch to a different OS?

This is a bullshit excuse and we've seen it countless times. It is manipulation 101, get the victim to agree to a small request first then ask more and more.

I'm glad I never used apple devices and I'm not caught in their ecosystem.
Case tracking hasn't really been effective even in areas with limited spread. It's a failed strategy. Exponential growth starts immediately as soon as there's one contagious carrier, although it takes a couple weeks for absolute numbers to grow really large.
But that's just total BS unless they are directly writing rust code.

If you are using tools like swc or esbuild, then you need to evaluate tool itself, not the language it was written in.
Could an apartment building even support say 50% or 75% of a typical sized apartments buildings parking garage's worth of 'supercharger' like installs? Later on times a whole cities worth of apartment buildings.

I'm not familiar with this field but I'd imagine this would take some special arrangement with the power companies. But so far that seems to be the only solution at the moment.

Without apartment buildings offering this I don't see how it could be widely deployed without changing how cities are built and transportation is deployed. Even if all the buildings offloaded to external Uber-style autonomous fleets they need to be charged somewhere and at a massive volume. And in my city 90% of new housin development for the last two decades seems to be on apartment buildings.
One for each. Our solution compiles to a single executable.
Apologies for my joke.
1MW chargers exist today (for electric buses)

4.5MW systems are being planned

https://cleancities.energy.gov/files/u/news_events/document/...
>> So what you're saying is, you'll note as someone who has benefitted from the current system.

Yes, this is hackernews. I'm noting that having a consistent group of buyers for small technology companies is a good thing for...well...hackers. This entire forum is hosted by YC which fosters small technology companies. The entire forum has a bias -- most of us are technologists, many are entrepreneurs, many are small technology business entrepreneurs. I'm specifically noting that having consistent M&A is a benefit to all hackers -- and note that M&A is a choice, but it is nice to have a choice. You do realize that 30yrs ago, most hackers were relegated to the back-room while others accrued all the winnings right?

Also, not sure if you've run a small company before, but its easy to create good technology with value and be unable to actually have a profitable business. Two major reasons are 1. many users dont want to pay the break-even cost, 2. legal and administrative costs for customer agreements, master servicing agreements, advertistors, etc

Before Google acquired YouTube, they were bleeding cash on network/hosting fees. There was no monetization strategy, and unless money was going to be airdropped monthly, they would probably have shut down. They had <1% of the content they have today. They could theoretically go from VC round to round, but it isnt clear how that is better than an acquisition where the business was fostered into what it is now.

Finally, w/r/t competitors. YouTube isnt like my mobile phone bill, or my broadband bill -- i'm not locked into a 2yr contract. Switching to a competitor is as easy as opening another tab on a browser. Which competitor do you suggest that offers equal value and how is YouTube hurting them?

I watch classical concerts on YouTube. I suppose I could go buy a flight to London and purchase opera tickets, but i'm not sure if that is a better deal. I could rent DVDs of performances, but the selection at the local video store is nil. I can line up examples.
Don't say that too loudly, carpets became just such a Boogeyman not long ago
For every person in the hospital due to covid is another person not able to receive care.

Hospital beds aren't unlimited.

ICU beds full? Someone has a heart attack? Well, sucks to be them.

That's the part of covid everyone is ignoring: it creates an additional burden on the health care system, hospitals that normally are booked solid for surgeries can no longer handle those cases due to the emergency influx from a pandemic spreading like wildfire.
Deadly Lambda variant could be neutralizing vaccines, new study says
I have to note that one of those solutions deployed at scale is Google's. But the big difference is that when those were originally rolled out, they didn't make quite that big of a splash, especially outside of tech circles.

I will also note that, while it may be a hypothetical in this particular instance as yet, EU already went from passing a law that allows companies to do something similar voluntarily (previously, they'd be running afoul of privacy regulations), to a proposed bill making it mandatory - in less than a year's time. I don't see why US would be any different in that regard.
MacOS and Windows only
It would be grest if they offered group discounts for Python packaging solutions developers.
I remember listening to the virologists at TWiV in February 2020 talking about reports coming out of China (superspreading events, etc) and all of them pretty much were betting on the virus being airborne and aerosol transmissible back then already. All of them are US based scientists, lack of knowledge wasn’t the issue here indeed. It was really a total lack of preparation by officials so they had to keep those masks ready for at least some of the medical professionals.
Yes, there is a point because, as the top level comment demonstrates, faulty root cause analysis is being used to advocate for ineffective or counterproductive policy.

Also, I have to admit that message you heard is strange. I don’t believe there is evidence that humans can transfer Covid to bats, plus, if the sanctuary believes that, why are they letting anyone through at all? I would expect the consequential threat wouldn’t register as many people already believe the disease is not going away. I’m not saying wearing masks is unimportant but the cave warnings are a good example of how melodramatic speculation can be counterproductive when coming from officials. We won’t make progress by asking for perfect behavior to stave off doom.
No mention of comma.ai
> One thing that they do not seem to be taking advantage of is how specialized many of their communities are.

Their default subs are utter crap and full of influence campaigns accounts; in addition to being nearly impossible to post to without punished in some way.
Yep. I prefer books to youtube videos or whatever my peers use for the precise reason that books cover concepts from ground up, whereas tutorial content is geared towards fastly getting some stuff up and running.