skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The information on that CDC page is misleading. While the page is about children, the text that mentions the 3960 annual drowning deaths does not specify "children," and the number seems to be across all age groups.

This source states ~800 children deaths/year to be children (in 2014). [0]

(I am not commenting on your overall point, just that statistic.)

For reference, the CDC notes annual total US children deaths (if defining "children" as <= 14) as a little over 9000 (in 2019, I think). [1]

[0] https://www.safekids.org/press-release/almost-800-kids-drown...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/child-health.htm
Not to nitpick your Uber anecdote, but the "candidates in the same age group came from a non-college/-university background and usually outshone those who did" probably had to have some strong non-university background like significant practical experience in projects or work to pass the resume filter process to make their way to your interview stage. So there's probably a great deal of selection bias in that specific example.
The odds are overwhelmingly high they won’t with COVID either. Let’s not forget that the survival rate in all populations is well north of 90%. Parent age populations closer to 99%. Even higher if the parents are vaccinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_colleges_in_the_Unit...

In the USA Community College can mean a private or publicly funded 2 year university, college or trade school. A state university is pubicly funded and can be a community colleges. See the New York State SUNY system for an example. There is also the New York City CUNY system which is publicly funded by the city at the local level.

I went to "Queensborough Community College", a CUNY university in NYC. So I tend to define "community college" as a publicly funded 2 year university/college.
Speaking as someone who worked at major software companies, on projects which included multiple kernel drivers:

You are sorely mistaken.
That CDC estimate is based on a simple probabilistic multiplier model from data up to Nov 2020 [0].

More recent meta-analyses [1] and large population-based serological studies [2] suggest a lower bound for the asymptomatic proportion to be at least ~33%. For young adults the upper bound for asymptomatic rate is likely between 65%-90% (95% CI) [2]. Considering other recent evidence that cases may be massively underreported [3], the true asymptomatic proportion could be even higher than what has been suggested.

[0] Estimated Incidence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Illness and Hospitalization—United States, February–September 2020
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1010/6000389

[1] The Proportion of SARS-CoV-2 Infections That Are Asymptomatic
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-6976

[2] Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population: Analysis of nationwide serosurvey data in the Netherlands
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00768-y

[3] Evaluating the massive underreporting and undertesting of COVID-19 cases in multiple global epicenters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S253104372...
“How dare they not recognise my incipient genius?”
Yes, but there can be a single spot where the self destruct sequence is keyed up.

Though obviously there would be no guarantee the command could be related to remote stations.
You have an overly rosy picture of Japan. Their population is very compliant and already used to masks as a way to avoid spreading disease, and they are still experiencing a surge in cases that has caused them to declare a state of emergency in the Tokyo area, and remove spectators from the paralympics.

Herd immunity happens when a disease can't spread because all people surrounding the infected person have enough immediate immunity to stifle its progress. Delta seems to be able to spread to people in the gap before the immune system recognises it, so it may be something that can't be stopped by herd immunity.
No, a burrito is like a non-Abelian subfield in the category of comestibles.
The idea is to detonate it before you exit the area.
Not leaving booby traps.
Is there a particular reason you think that people shouldn't keep wearing masks everywhere literally forever, or is it just that it hurts your feelings?

Barely a century ago, it wasn't common for doctors to wash their hands, because it hurt doctors' feelings. Dr. Charles Meigs, an obstetrician, said, "Doctors are gentlemen and a gentleman's hands are clean."

But, of course, factually they weren't clean, factually they were full of germs, and factually Dr. Meigs was killing several of the people he operated on through his unclean hands. There was factual data that infant mortality dropped significantly in clinics where doctors were washing their hands.

But the response to hand-washing was much like yours. "You're saying society should keep washing hands everywhere literally forever? That's so insane I can't tell whether you're even serious." And in fact they sent the doctor who suggested hand-washing to an insane asylum, where he died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_reaction_to_Ignaz...
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It's hard to justify the extra 200K for MIT CS degree tuition vs many public in-state universities' CS major.

My take is, if you are interested in academic research and theory study, going to ivy leagues makes sense, or if you're into law/business/medical majors, school ranking matters a lot. For a high paid IT job at undergraduate degree level, ivy league makes absolutely no sense, the extra $200K tuition is also really just a net loss.
That's like saying water is a building block of life so any product with water is safe.
Mutations will optimize for transmission, but once there's a high level of immunity against this strain (all the variants are still one strain) then the virus will face the pressure to mutate to achieve actual immune escape. There's 20 epitopes on the spike that need to change, and some of those should come at a cost to fitness, and eventually it should face a choice between trying to increase its transmissibility to find immunologically naive humans (where delta variant is probably reaching its limit) and to better transmit in recovered/vaccinated individuals due to immune escape.
Afghanistan was a war of attrition that the locals felt the most of. Likely one of those wars that your dad and granddad fought (if you trace it back from the Soviet invasion) and somehow you also ended up fighting in. After a while everyone gets tired and they want to live in peace and not die in a war.

Can see why it ended the way it did.
If the treatment is ineffective and carries any side effects, then it is a safety issue. The whole "do no harm" principle means that you are subjecting a patient to unnecessary risks and side effects with no possible benefit.
Putting political labels on people is a vital step in the divide & rule strategy: keep the people hating each other while the power elite pull the strings.
I’ve been living in the US for 21 years and whenever I experience this I assume it is racism and/or prejudice. I cannot confront them so I have no way of knowing their exact reasons for doing this. Maybe I’m just socially awkward and I don’t quite know how to play native in this country.

It didn’t bother me much until the last couple of years. I now have a young daughter who’s friends with a lot of the other kids in the neighborhood. I receive the same treatment from some of these other parents outside of the playground or outside of the school line and I can’t help but think they’re going to perpetuate this cycle in the future.
The kids aren't in danger.
> But it means (in theory) the same experience on all plattforms.

That's quite the opposite of native since each platform has a host of unique features and capabilities. Guaranteeing the same experience on all platforms is guaranteeing that you're not using the platforms natively.
Years ago I managed to clear super competitive algo/DS rounds for a big firm and then failed spectacularly at the job, because I had no idea what they were talking about half the time the projects were being discussed.

I wish they had just asked more pertinent questions and saved everyone some time and me the humiliation.
> The really egregious thing here is asking for a Firewall exemption and not including the base driver in the box.

A million times this. The electron thing is a sideshow. The real problem is asking for too much in the way of security exceptions.
I think I shared this last time Sonic Pi got posted here, but Sonic Pi is also extremely flexible when you bus the MIDI output to other tools - Ableton, external synthesizers, etc. I posted a clip on IG a while back -

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKvWP6h3xQ/

And I've also seen it play well with ORCA and other livecoding tools:

https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
Unlikely unless there is a legit medical reason not to take it. Not taking the vaccine would directly affect readiness.
Nothing like some good fake news on HN eh?
>The science is clear: abortion by medication is safe and effective

I doubt about the "safe", specially in what regards the mother's mental health, but I do not oppose at all to use it on abortion apologists.
I'd venture that in this day and age, the average person has more respect for maids than for reporters. While being a maid may not be a great job, it does actually benefit other people, and folks would miss maids if they all quit tomorrow.
And solar supply chain is heavy on fossil fuel right now, so you may have the same burning of coal behind the scene to make that solar energy. I've read reports where it was actually worse than directly burning the coal.

Those reports are incorrect. The energy payback time for a PV installation including structures, cabling etc is typically 2 years.
Interview by Bill Kennedy of Ardan Labs, for the Ardan podcast:

"John Arundel is a software consultant, mentor, and author of the book “For the Love of Go”. We talk about his early fascination with computers, the role his mother played in planting these seeds, and the steps he took in his younger years to follow his passion. We then explore John’s indirect job path, having to settle for work as a technical writer out of college and stumbling into IT and system administration. But the major lesson that comes out of this is that these 'detours' actually served John's later work, developing parts of his expertise that would aid him in his writing and mentoring."
The lightbulb was one invention, but what changed the world, was the lightbulb making machine. So a style of battery that can be manufactured with high speed, efficiency and low waste.

Some solid state battery technologies promise this. Potentially a lot easier to make. Solventless dry electrode are some keywords.

On the other hand, regular li-ion is already quite scaled, proven and entrenched, so maybe the solution turns out to be incremental changes to those processes. Multiple companies have tried to leapfrog to solid state but have canceled or delayed their plans. With large scale mass production, don't underestimate the power of path dependency. These supply chains and manufacturing methods have inertia.

New financial methods probably will also happen with personal cars, as the investment cost goes up but running and maintenance down. Also alternative ways to move around. Taxis, scooters, robotaxis - all make more sense with electrics. Maybe some tunnels for electric vehicles. They're building light rail a lot in my country, and new Chinese electric buses have started to appear en masse. Air quality should improve a lot.

If you think about, is buying a car with a huge battery good for the environment? Maybe instead of mostly sitting on the driveway, those batteries could have been applied to supplanting diesel in an electric bus. Or coal or gas in a grid storage system, together with solar and wind.
why do passwords cover accounts not scopes?

if passwords also covered account scopes -- which is what this tool enables one to monkey-patch into the OS, i could give you my password so you could gorge on my code without me having to worry about you reading my journals or abusing ~/.ssh

other than that, i second your notion.

I'm thrilled by the idea of using passwords to switch between the sorts of things i do without having to log-out.
You can’t drive a car without a license for the same reason: unlicensed drivers kill people at higher rates. Just like unvaccinated people kill others at higher rates.
My brother had that (quite legitimate, really) concern. So he delayed vaccination. Now he has Covid. Doctors talking of amputating his toes because of blood clots. Death is not the worst thing to be feared in this.
rebrickable.com is intended for finding new things to build with your existing sets/bricks, but as a consequence of that, it has a searchable database of which bricks shipped with which sets.
I'll start by saying I am vaccinated, got it the first week immunocompromised people could:

But I do not believe that this is valid at all, being that this is the very first mRNA vaccine.

>By looking at other vaccines historically and seeing that side effects tend to happen in the first few weeks.

I feel like what you are saying is basically like someone asking "How do we know that self driving cars will be safe on the road" and you responding with, "well obviously by looking at the history of cars, we have been doing them for a century!"
They usually last years as it takes that long to get enough participants to have enough power. There were so many participants, that wasn't necessary here.
This is a pretty odd comparison to make. Governments are reacting to spikes in cases with restrictions in order to keep the public health system functioning within certain limits - ICUs becoming full is a serious issue which leads to loss of life for those that need an ICU bed, regardless of whether they need it because of Covid or something else.
no please dont turn this into a "why i like/dislike electron" thread

edit: ah, too late
Whilst I don't have the figures to specifically source, yesterday's daily pressing briefing for my area had the health minister saying that delta was 100x more lethal than the flu in children, or 1000%.

That is not a very small number.
Thats quite a nice way of putting it, that covid will lower the average life expectancy even of a vaccinated person by 20 years.
Cause repeated tissue damage to lungs, heart and neural pathway tissue, accumulates and those 20 today will sound all like darth vadder in there sixties.

I still think this is a problem, but hey, if your are already that old and on your way out, who cares. Same attitude as with global warming..
Hmm, who provides care at a hospital? Wow, RNs and MDs. Do you expect a janitor to intubate you? Increasing hospital capacity is hard, expensive and takes time.
Or Australia could just build a few smaller nuclear plants away from urban centers and be much more effective and environment friendly.
I like to ask whether I’m making a gun, a hammer or a pencil. Technically you can use any of those for good or bad, but you have to jump through a few more mental hoops to justify the gun. I try and stick to pencils.
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The tax rate on a new car in Norway is over 50%. So you can expect a compact gasoline car to cost almost double what it would be in the USA, while EVs are exempt from the taxes.
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This is a pretty ignorant suggestion. It's like saying that my company should dramatically increase its software output without hiring software engineers. These are people, not robots. You must hire more skilled labor if you wish to expand the capacity which requires that labor.

If you're saying we should fill that labor requirement with low-skill medical technicians, you're misunderstanding the needs of the hospital. If you are ending up in the ER or ICU with covid, or any other cause, you are beyond the help of an at-home med tech, which is why you're at the hospital in the first place.
I’ll echo everything he said about Steermouse, except to substitute for Razer’s bananas mouse software, not Logitech’s.
No, the adjective can sometimes be part of the name of the group, if it becomes well known.

“Best Western Hotel offers discounts starting in May”

Does this mean this is really the best Western Hotel?
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EUA can be applied to many different product categories including diagnostics (basically every single PCR and antigen test in the US up to very recently was initially released under EUA), therapeutics (for example the FDA granted an EUA on chloroquine for threatment of COVID), other medical devices (for example PPE) and vaccines.

The EUA rules for each category is different in how they differ from the categories baseline. For vaccines the gulf between EUA and full process was relatively small - the clinical dataset was basically equivalent.

I found this article to be a better summary of the differences between EUA and BLA (https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/06/15/whats-the...). I think you are right - the diagram from the OP is somewhat misleading.

There is absolutely nothing stopping a company from manufacturing whatever they want before they get a BLA - they just can't market it.

In real terms, it looks like the two big time savers was reducing long-term effects follow up from 6 months to 2 months, and well as probably an abbreviated review of manufacturing processes.
As does the virus itself. Many, many ingredients.
There are thousands and thousands of people on HackerNews and only a tiny fraction of people comment on any given post. Further, the group that does comment on a particular post isn’t a random sample.

Under such conditions, expecting a consistent, well thought out, position from post to post is unrealistic. And not really even all that surprising.
> Hospitals in many were already understaffed before the pandemic. And the pandemic has caused such a severe worker shortage that traveling RNs are getting paid upwards of $200/hr in remote parts of the USA.

This has always been a systemic problem of how hard medical education and license are to get. I'm pretty sure medical personnel can be trained to reasonable (mediocre but better than nothing) skill level much faster and for much cheaper than it normally is.
Say that to my cousin's niece.

Wait. You can't anymore.
> Breakthrough deaths" not "Net breakthrough deaths"

That is nonsense.

This is the "gross" figure reported by CDC[1]:

>> Deaths† 1,587

The footnote is:

>> †341 (21%) of 1,587 fatal cases reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.

So the net number of deaths due to Covid19 in people with breakthrough infections is 1,587- 341.

"Breakthrough deaths" would use the gross figure, and result in a breakthrough death rate of 1,587/166 = 9.6/million (or 10/million if you round up). I did not want to overstate, so I used the number of deaths net of those where the cause of death was noted not to be related to Covid19.

> I'm pretty sure you were claiming 8 million breakthrough deaths.

That is complete and utter nonsense. I guess people flag without reading. I said:

>> As of August 9, net breakthrough deaths stood at 8/million and net breakthrough hospitalizations stood at 35/million, up 900% and 733%, respectively, since April 20.

Note *8/million* commonly read as "eight per million" (I rounded up from 7.5/million).

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
> Great, but we're talking about server software so the first thing any project is going to do is enable all of that. And it's not like you can trust this on the server, you'd still need to sandbox to process if you truly want isolation.

Except that we aren't talking about server software. Node is a js runtime environment, and it is being used for other things like scripts and CLIs.

> I guess that could be convenient but I'm struggling to think of a situation where installing node has ever been a problem.

There are a ton of CLIs made with node that need to be installed globally. As someone that never uses node this feature would help me keep my binaries explicitly and tidily under `~/.local/bin`.
you obviously have a pretty strong bias. I didn't say its a requirement, I said they would have a higher percentage of gifted students.

Also the requirements are not "above average", a math SAT of 750 is in the 95% percentile of SAT takers, which is already below average for MIT. Even then, the "average" student isn't even taking a college readiness test. You are grossly overestimating what average is.
That's correct, and I think the author goes too far in implying that the efficient cause is the "wrong" way. I think what they are actually opposing is _linear_ causal thinking; after all, systems thinking is about graduating from linear to nonlinear causal reasoning.

Culturally in the West we tend to think of linear modelling as the highest truthful form (see reverence for subjects like physics, though ironically quantum physics moved away from this paradigm to a degree) which is not ideal because only a small number of subjects are amenable to such a model and most are far removed from the arenas in which we act day to day and thus would be well served with accurate models.
Same experience on all platforms. Sure. Nowhere does that imply "a good experience on any one of those platforms"...I am reminded of early (1.4) Java, just an order of magnitude worse.
1) It isn’t a moot point when vaccinated individuals need ICU beds for other emergencies, which are still happening. This isn’t a theoretical, this is happening in the Southeastern US.
> If you can get jailed for speech, you can get jailed for encryption.

Not in any democratic country.

How can you prove that I'm using encryption? How you even define what encryption is to make it possible to have a law that bans it? If me and you we put down a code to communicate, is that encryption and thus banned?

Also you wouldn't need to ban encryption completely. There are cases where encryption is required by law (e.g. digital signature on documents) and others where the encryption is required for things to work (e.g. credit cards, mobile phones, etc).

You have to put down a list of cases where you can use encryption and others where you can't. That is nearly impossible.
What's that actually mean in this context?
>essentially none of the criticisms and drawbacks of doing so have been addressed, the anti-Electron group feels like they're being ignored

I was told there is a "Hit a programer, they will know why did they got it" group and they basically waiting for the employes at the HQs, following them to the parking lots / train stations and beating the living sht out of them, just because their profession is programer.

Maybe if this gets mainstream we will see change in the future.
I have a Ducky One keyboard, very simple, mechanical keys, well built, no RGB, no additional drivers, and doesn’t seem like it will quit working any time soon.
How does the second statement relate to racism?
https://www.dw.com/en/why-denmark-is-clamping-down-on-non-we...
There's a Git plugin for Obsidian: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

It's not quite out of the box, but installing community plugins is very easy through the settings UI.
Sounds great! I just started working through their tutorial this weekend too and hope to be able to make something like this soon.
By any chance are you Shrikant Narasimhan from Chennai, India that went to the jail that was Sairam Engineering College back in 2006? If so, I sat on a few quiz rounds with you and Vinod.....
When it's something like weed, sure. When it's something that is a public good on a social level, like vaccination, there's precedent for requiring it when medically safe.