skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why making vaccines virtually compulsory (eg. France) is a horrible idea. They should be 100% optional. It's very far from obvious taking one now is a good idea. It helps with delta, but new variants that evolve in response to pro-ADE selective pressure may be extremely dangerous to the vaccinated.

Infected vaccinated people are variant factories, because they have same [1] [2] viral loads as unvaccinated, but less severe symptoms (for the delta strain) - meaning infected unvaccinated are much more likely to self-isolate fast, while vaccinated may not even know they have covid. We already know current vaccines are borderline worthless [3] in preventing delta infections - Pfizer is only 39% effective.

In addition to that, selective pressure for new variants with more severe ADE doesn't exist inside people without antibodies because newly mutated strain has no competitive advantage. This means a new variant with severe ADE is almost certainly going to originate from a vaccinated person.

Immunity from a past infection is more selective [4] which is very good as far as ADE risk is concerned, so the main risk is from current vaccines.

Last but not least, policies that encourage 100% vaccinated environments (covid passes) create a perfect environment for a new ADE variant to preferentially spread - also because people there feel safe so they don't care about masks and social distancing.

Trading a negligible risk from current covid strains for a potential risk of a very lethal ADE variant (eg. 5% for the vaccinated in the otherwise healthy 30-40 range) in the future should be an individual decision. Even from a population survival perspective it's better to have a heterogeneous population.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm...

"there was no significant difference between the Ct values of samples collected from breakthrough cases and the other cases. This might mean that the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 is also similar."

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

"Data from COVID-19 tests in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are showing that vaccinated people who become infected with Delta SARS-CoV-2 can carry as much virus in their nose as do unvaccinated people."

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...

[4] https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
Or k9s ? But then it's so hard to manage you end up paying a cloud provider to do it for your or hire the dupper k9s expert.
That’s overstated, look at say elite marathon runners who do incredible amounts of daily exercise without bulking up.

A 500 calorie workout might only be 400 extra over spending that time sitting on that couch. Similarly extra muscle on it’s own takes energy but fat also burns energy so even modest weight loss balances that out.
For most media especially any media that is trying to control my life and or other people let it control their life I ignore. I.e. Covid news ... i get my covid news directly from my hospital friends in different cities across the U.S. They have no incentive to lie about their reality vs. all paid media does who wants to get you hooked via fear and make you keep coming back for more.

Im sure my views on media arent popular, but i think differently and paid media that controls peoples lives has no place in my life! Its too easy to tweak the truth an inch or more for money/greed.

Though if there are now classes where part of the class is teaching if that news source is telling the full truth i guess my views on media aren't that crazy. Either way its tuned out and I listen to no boogieman only my friends who work in hospitals across the country.
> What if that's because "right-leaning" information is truly wrong?

What if it's not?

> What if cutting taxes doesn't pay for itself?

If only we had some kind of experiments in the 20th century that showed what systems lead to impoverishment and hunger. Or better yet two centuries of scientific inquiries and refutations of crank economics on logical grounds. Like you know, Marxism, whose incoherency is shown by left, right, and center authors alike. Or imagine, we knew MMT is neither a theory nor modern but a reincarnation of some disproved ideas of old.
This is correct. I do cardio 10-15 hours/week and have to count my calories so I don't gain weight.
I don't see how Shell theory applies here. The box wouldn't be inside the blackhole, it'd be outside it.

If the box were a perfect sphere then yes it would have zero net gravitational pull on the black hole, but the black hole would still have an extremely strong pull on it. And that's still assuming it's perfectly centered which would be almost impossible to maintain.
Normally antibodies help neutralize and protect against viral infections. Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) is a phenomenon in which antibodies actually enhance the ability of the virus to infect and replicate. This can cause more severe symptoms and poor health outcomes. In can happen to anyone infected with the virus, regardless of vaccination or naturally acquired immunity.

Historically some vaccine candidates that targeted coronaviruses, RSV virus and Dengue virus elicited vaccine associated ADE. Naturally there has been some concern that current COVID-19 vaccines will result in ADE. So far the scientific literature has not established any consensus that the risk of ADE outweighs the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines. In fact, much of the existing literature supports the idea that the protective effects of vaccination or natural infection will outweigh the risks of ADE. Still in rare cases some individuals will be severely impacted by ADE, so for now it is something to at least be aware of.
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More background, well written and accessible to a wider audience: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/12/an...

An interesting fact: concern about ADE is a significant reason all the vaccines target the spike protein rather than any of the others, such as N (nucleoprotein).
It won't end until the climate crisis is ready
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The propagandists ARE portraying it that way.

ignore your doctors, they're paid by big pharma, don't get vaccinated.

ignore the historians, the holocaust never happened.

ignore climatologists, physicists, chemists, global warming isn't real, keep buying expensive items, it's FREEDOM.
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Having run through Universal Paperclips 100 times straight, I fully appreciate the truth encoded in this article. Now that capital has captured governance, I fear that humanity will eventually complete its one and only run through the game, with similar results. 8(
They didn't retrace steps, they analyzed isotopes concentrations in different parts of tusks, which were constantly growing through the lifetime of the mammoth.
> start panic crowding in the water in tens of thousands of people large groups?

I guess it depends on where you are, I live on the Mediterranean, where, if you panic in the water, you're just standing in calm water. I imagine the ocean is much scarier.

> maybe there's something better

I think we do need something better, I see it too often for it to not have an exact name.
I have lived long enough to observe the transition of News to Entertainment. When I was young the FCC required Television stations to provide a certain amount of pro bono programing because they were using a publicly owned resource. News was part of that. It simply was not a source of revenue back then.

Public resources such as TV frequencies are now auctioned. The owners have no pro bono requirements any longer. Cable News' 24/7 Eyeball grab search for revenue has changed the game forever. The internet has lowered the Bullshit barrier to a new low.

An individual like Alex Jones can literally go to Amazon and buy a couple hundred dollars worth of equipment and start an internationally available cesspool of disinformation. Just as the covid unvaccinated are dying in the hospitals the infotainment unvaccinated will fall prey to conspiracy.
I used to read that to my daughter and make all the voices from the movie.

It's a great kids' book.
I seriously doubt this is correct.

Covid has 3 protein markers. After you get infected your antibodies will continue to recognise all three.

However the vaccines don't have all three, so the antibodies generated are not as all encompassing as they would be if you contracted Covid.

Therefore, if it doesn't kill you, having Covid puts you in a better position to fight off variants.

At least that's how I understand it from all the articles I read about the various vaccines, that said, IANAD, so don't take this post as medical advice.
Your thinking total lack of food as a famine. I'm thinking huge drop in food supply, but you still have food. Some will have more (party members, people in the cities, rich people, etc) and other less. There will be protests.
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I'm working in the printing industry, printing machines are becoming more and more like that, too.

Our packaging department just got a new machine for producing filling material, it works like that, too. The machine is free, but you'll have to buy the raw material from the guy who provided you with the machine and so on.

It's a thing for sure.
It centrifuges the clothes with a geared crank (similar to a salad spinner). So the clothes come out ready to line-dry.
It's not even that the combination isn't obvious; it's also that the orientation of the parts is touchy and makes the difference between "I could do this all day!" and "Can I please just hold the knife in my hands?"
That also doesn't apply to the conversation, which was about a branch of history that could have started 100 years ago, not 160 years ago.
> First, water must be coming to the camp some way, or another, or people would've been dead.

The water (and fwiw, also food, medicine, literally everything) coming into refugee camps is extremely, extremely rationed to a point where even in summer months, people have to get by with sometimes half a liter per day and person. Forget about showering, forget about washing clothes.

The biggest single cause of the 2015 mass migration was that Germany withdrew its UNHCR funding from 301 million $ to 143 million $ (per https://www.heise.de/tp/features/EU-Staaten-hatten-2015-fast...). The result of that loss of a small amount of money was that suddenly hundreds of thousands of people lost access to food.

With the current financing situations, the last thing refugee camps need is more to take account for in the supply chain.
Apparently the combustion engine was invented before the bicycle as bikes need ball bearings to function smoothly, which also requires advanced machinery.

https://www.ft.com/content/9084f6ad-6146-4b38-8e7c-faf850f90...
>First of all, you have no idea whether that's true anymore than I do.

I don't know what is true?
Evidence that isn't cited, just assumed as fact.

This post is an excellent example of information to not trust.
A similar phenomenon exists in the UK though I don’t think it has a name (crack/craic is close: “what’s the crack?”), and is more related to how you (and your friends) are wired, though it is a common occurrence in pubs across the country.

North America (Canada specifically) is much less open to these kinds of discussions, though that could just be my social circle (or lack thereof) and it feels kind of lonely.

The closest thing I could compare it to is when potheads get together to smoke and you end up talking about random stuff. The difference being that in my experience Canadians like to stay indoors and discuss safe topics eg music and other media.

Granted, a major driver of this when I lived in the UK was boredom (and cannabis) but even when I visit my now mature friends from back then, we still like to take a brisk walk and shoot the breeze, just sober (OK, maybe with a few beers and cigarettes)
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We had to endure 'synon' - a 4GL/rpg generator for the AS/400.. When that thing fired up, it brought the whole machine to its knees.
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6'1/185cm. At the time my weight was around 93kg, so 150kg bench was nothing special for my size. When bulking I'd do about 2400kcal. For people pushing towards competitive levels it may well have made sense to go higher to allow exercising accordingly harder, but for me it was just to stay fit so I prioritised staying reasonably lean.

Also worth mentioning that outside of lifting my life absolutely was/is very sedentary, so I did burn less than a lot of people.

EDIT: One thing that will confuse people here is that style of exercise will matter a lot. To reach a 1RM of 150kg on bench meant most of the time I did bench 1-2 times a week for 5 sets of 5 reps of ca 120kg or so. My bench routine took 10-15 minutes. My whole lifting program took about 40m x 3 days/week. I added some cardio to that, but that is not a lot of physical activity. Someone who does bodybuilding on the other hand will typically do a lot more volume.
Until there's a wealth floor -- until everyone is fed, sheltered and has access to education, there needs to be a wealth cap.

We, as a collective humanity, should not allow anyone to have more than, say, $20 million, until the basic needs of others have been met.
not sure about now, but there was some really roundabout way to do this.
No, it reveals that trust in establishment institutions are at record lows. When noteworthy institutions (Twitter, Facebook, Google) are claiming "promotion of truth" as the reason for what many believe is in reality pushing a biased agenda, it is not unreasonable at all to be highly skeptical of any institutional effort to promote "critical thinking".

The Democratic Republic of North Korea is in fact democracy. It says so in their name. The Ministry of Truth is also, in fact, a truthful organization. It is also clear in their name.

Okay. None of this is proof of anyone's opinion. But if you can accept that this is how many earnestly see the world, you don't have to psychoanalyze the comments here and come to a derogatory view of those writing them.
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Can we think subtly enough to find ground between "fealty" and deligitimization?
Honesty and a willingness to accept that you're just as biased as anyone else can get you pretty far. A reasonable enough test might be: do you believe anything to be true that you wish weren't true? If every explanation you adopt for every social ill, every natural phenomenon, every historical event neatly fits a model that generates no discomfort, do you think it's more likely that the world really is that way or that you're privileging particular explanations?
So let’s say you start a project, get 70% there, it’s version roughly 0.7. The project blows up, people get interested, lots of attention is paid to the periphery. Everyone is now using your project but it’s still missing 30% of what you’d consider necessary to be feature complete. What do you do?
He essentially became the Unabomber without the violence. Crazy uncle Ted nailed some stuff too: https://unabombermanifesto.com/Industrial-Society-and-Its-Fu...
NPR is universally denounced by the American right as leftist/Democratic Party propaganda. Also PBS.

This is a meaningless distinction when those in the American right also make claims that Fox News is too liberal.

Including: Six viewers who spoke with The Post mentioned a transfer of power to “the sons,” whom they said were “liberal.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/12/27/fox-news-vie...
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I also met a few German parents who were a little irritated "oh no! Don't take it apart! "
But the kids are fine and often curious about all the things inside.
> in fact, you would be for this class

I am for the idea of this class. But I am pretty sure many teachers won't implement this idea netrually.
Sounds right but for the wrong reason possibly.

Lawn bowls is very common. Thus a bowling ball may be taken as some to mean one of these[0]. Which is very different in size to a ten pin bowling ball.

[0]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tRIAAOSwJddfCxXt/s-l1600.jpg
Lol, I was going to reply that maybe he lived in the desert. I just put my undershirt up to my mouth and breathed deeply through it 5 times, and it was pretty damp. I don't think it is controversial that humans expel a lot of moisture through breathing.
That's what makes it a great filter.
Perhaps similar to descriptions I read about the cafes of Paris, or SoHo in the artistic district, except here its not limited to a certain class.
We’ve got one vaccine that’s been blacklisted due to high prevalence of blood clots.

We’ve got another made by a company that’s been embroiled in a 4-decade long controversy over asbestos in baby talcum powder that only recently issued a recall, denying it all the way and claiming it’s safe.

I assure you, Zuck isn’t needed for any negativity here. These companies are awful and they’re not to be trusted. Period.
Being overweight also raises your metabolism. Focus on the mass, not so much the rate.
In the context of ML, there is a great blog post from years ago that compares the ROC curve to an indifference curve in economics, which describes how without a sense of what the costs and conseqeunces of the precision in the ROC curve are, you can't really optimize a model well. It's a question of internal vs. external consistency.

There is a heuristic I learned related to a bunch of others, but it's being able to do a fast assessment of the returns on precision. I talk about it to clients in conceptual terms of doing depth-first searches vs. breadth-first. Technologists tend to be depth first and very deep in a relatively narrow context, where dynamics people tend to be breadth first across a wider set of contexts.

The penny pinching metaphor the author uses reduces to an admonition to look at the "bigger picture." Personally I dislike that trope, but a general set of cognitive tools for depth-first thinkers to pop up conceptual levels, particularly into ones where they can apply their skills to navigate the uncertainties of breadth-first thinking with its dynamics of multiple simultaneous equivalents, it would be really useful to summarize and teach.

There is the issue where the details of precision in fact have nonlinear effects and they are worth drilling down into, but that's part of the analysis.
What if a programmer wants to lean a language and not a domain? Devoid of domain, which systems programming language is easy for beginners? It will be quite an ask of a beginner to either work on embedded systems, write device driver, DB driver or compiler. So for beginners, forcing a domain from the start would be counter productive I think.
Here's study analyzing 20 years of tax cuts and is pretty conclusive in that they never pay for themselves.

https://www.crfb.org/papers/tax-cuts-dont-pay-themselves

I guess this is part of the "Marxist" academia that can't be trusted because they just have it out for conservative thought?
Now, that's now. So in 10-20 years, there's going to be impact due to climate change. Other countries are going to cut back on feed/food exports.

China is self sufficient except meat, which is fine now.

So in 20 years, your going to tell the people in the cities who are used to eating meat daily that they are going down to meat only 2 days a week. Is your rich fuerdai going to be totally content with that?
It is one of my most-favorite figures in a physics paper. I'm still bummed that PRL made them remove it in the final version.
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So what you are really saying here is that "there is no sanctuary"?
No it doesn't. You don't need anyone with zero accent. You just observe that a distribution has some kind of average or median, done.

Also, you are drawing the wrong conclusion. "Everyone has..." is simplistic. Some have more, some less is nuanced.
There's a lot more than that going on right now. A whole subreddit dedicated to it[1].

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Shortages/
> Yes, literally, the dictionary meaning of a "penny pincher" is one who does not want to part with his pennies.

I understood the context to be pennies being insignificant. Thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of pennies are not insignificant (to most people), so penny pincher would be a useless term in that situation. The alternative is where even saving a billion dollars, since it can be translated to 100 billion pennies, is being a penny pincher.

> You preferences may say "it is more important for me to save seven bucks in this context." That does not compel other people to enjoy your preferences.

It is not usually seven bucks when you are out with a decent size group in a city for a few hours.

> In my life, I have been in groups where if a few people consumed some relatively more expensive food or drinks, they are responsible enough to take care of that.

Ideally, but many times I have been out where it needs to be brought up. But that does not make one a penny pincher.

> Also, when you go out with a large group, you do tip the wait staff generously, right?

How is this relevant?
Until the invention of the pogo stick. Which the internet informs me was only a few years later...
For now, but if they don’t do something like this laws can change and that change could make things a lot worse for privacy than this implementation.

I suspect they’re trying to get ahead of that and solve this in the most privacy protecting way possible.
Those washing machines are also popular among cruising sailors for whom water efficiency is particularly important. While you can use seawater for washing clothes, it's not very nice and if you don't rinse the salt out, it will eventually damage the clothes.

I have read of some folks who just use a big bucket with a lid. They poke a toilet plunger through a hole in the lid and pump away like churning butter.
That's because the problem isn't media literacy, it's culture war. Both sides believe that they are fighting a do or die battle for their ideology, and are likely to support something even if the evidence is dubious because it advances the cause.