skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find arguments like this so hilariously brain dead that I can't understand why anyone ever repeats them.

Other's have already pointed out the false equivalence of this statement but for a moment let's ignore it.

Your logic here is that, again (incorrectly) assuming equivalence, that people that are pro-choice are being hypocrites by asserting a contradictory policy of a vaccine-mandate. The assumption here is that to avoid contradiction these people must either a.) reject their pro-choice beliefs or b.) reject their vaccine mandate belief...

but this is a gun with a barrel that points both ways... because the same hypocrisy holds for the person making this critique! If you are "pro-life" and anti-mandate you are also, according to this argument, in a position of contradiction. You can either a.) reject pro-life beliefs or b.) reject anti-mandate beliefs

By the internal logic of this argument either we have a vaccine mandate and have make abortion illegal, or don't have one and therefor never question a woman's right to choose again.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if everyone that holds the pro-choice/pro-mandate "contradiction" responded with to this issue with "you're right! forget the mandate, and I expect I'll never see another protest outside of an abortion clinic by anyone else against a mandate again!" many people relying on this argument would be quite upset.

This of course is really just demonstrating that the false equivalent is inherent because otherwise this contradiction would not be present in both sides of the argument. You can't evade hypocrisy simply by being the first to point it out.
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1) Some people here commenting that you should do this with family/friends. Certainly can work but people change with time. Much better to have a formal structure that will work with strangers. This will inevitably happen in case of changed circumstances of owner or family of an owner (death being the worst case. Unfortunately, most who use \a formal structure get it written by a lawyer who will not anticipate potential problems.

2) This sort of scheme should not be looked on as a financial instrument. Should only be seen as a discretionary/leisure purchase that must have use/enjoyment as its #1 priority. Having said that, we just sold the Lake Tahoe property of our first syndicate of this type after 40 years, and showed a decent rate of return after ALL costs were considered, and great vacations all that time. We had multiple changes of shareholder during the that time - almost all by word of mouth, as well as some founders in at the close. Key was getting the right agreement before getting too enthusiastic about a specific property.
One aspect of the time element is not "this much time has past" but rather "the subjects have had enough exposures to the virus". For some viruses, like HIV, this may take a long time to accomplish. But for COVID, in the middle of a pandemic, it doesn't take that long to accomplish.
Not only that, the 1st paragrapph also mentions:

> But he ended up sparking a Twitter storm, causing a debate about how to build a fairer country along the way.

And yet the article never mentions any of those tweets or even summarises them. It literally just recounts his tweets with his photos.
You're legally an adult, you have full legal control over your body, you're legally fully responsible for your choices, and you're not in school any longer.

You mean other than that?
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>The moment you start talking about techniques you've already objectified the person across you

There's nothing about any sort of technique that is inherent to objects and not people. Techniques are something used to achieve a goal, and if a person is involved in that goal, there's nothing wrong with using that sort of verbiage.

>thus we "must" manipulate, coerce or the very least impress conclusions down their throats.

You've made any attempt to change someone's mind out to automatically be something that's naturally evil. Ridiculous.
This is incorrect. Researchers have rushed out results on Ct counts with disclaimers on them that they don't know how that affects actual viral loads or transmissibility.

What we now know is that viral culturability is lower in vaccinated individuals at the same Ct count:

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.03...

We've also known that Ct counts themselves drop faster in vaccinated individuals:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...

Nobody has done a study on actual transmissibility and e.g. the household attack rate of Delta in vaccinated individuals. Signs are very clearly pointing to expectations that it would be lower now. It looks like vaccinated individuals with the same amount of symptoms have similar amounts of mRNA loads, but those have less culturable virus and clear faster than unvaccinated infections (which makes like ABSOLUTELY TONS of logical sense since the vaccination allows the immune system to get ahead of the virus and the immune system is dismantling infected cells faster in vaccinated individuals so there's more "dead soldiers" around and the battle is over quicker -- analogy breaks down though because the viral debris stimulates the immune system as well which causes symptoms).

There's statements in the media that "asymptomatic vaccinated individuals might be silently spreading Delta" which have been backed up with no research other than wild extrapolation from the headline Ct values. Meanwhile we know that for a fully asymptomatic course of illness (as opposed to the presymptomatic phase of an illness) that the household attack rate is down by a factor of 10 (although with old-school D614G).

I'm still waiting for evidence that vaccinated individuals are even found to cause superspreading events (where a single vaccinated individual infects > 10 other people at an event). My default hypothesis is that the R0 of delta in vaccinated individuals is probably less than 1.0 and I haven't seen any ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to suggest otherwise. There was one study done in Israel that found that 80% of breakthrough cases passed it on to nobody and with 1-3 cases for the rest of the 20% that puts the R0 below 1.0, but that was done during Alpha so I always lose that argument in favor of fearmongering over uncertainty.
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No. I'm asking why we want it to be easier.

You can make getting from A to B easier (and faster), by replacing walking with cycling. You make it even easier with a bus, and easier still with a car. In some circumstances, this is valuable and should be welcomed. But it's a mistake to think that moving from A to B in a car is actually the same experience as doing so on foot.

I'm suggesting that this might be true of making music also.
No, I'm not saying anything about whether vaccines should be mandatory or not. Whatever your beliefs, you should be taking these externalities into account. I think there are reasonable, good faith arguments for both voluntary and involuntary vaccination, that still account for these negative externalities--pretending they don't exist does nobody any favors, and we should disregard arguments that ignore them.
Your article only suggests that getting vaccinated after infection is still better than not getting vaccinated after infection.

The point I made was that vaccination is not more robust than being infected, or at least dont assume it is without solid evidence to support it.
But then you spread it someone else that is at risk.

Getting vaccinated is not about you only. It is about reducing the risk to all of us.
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> Scorn, mockery, and threats is NOT going to convince stubborn and contrarian people to get vaccines.

Please re-read that part of my comment: you and I are in agreement.
Your opinion on how websites should respond to user preferences is a bit off the wall, to be frank. There aren't many (any?) angry responses here, but there are a lot of responses trying to explain how the current way it works makes sense despite your own opinion to the contrary.

It seems to me like you're just not handling disagreement very well, and that might be something to work on for the future. Especially if you're going to post your opinion publicly.
There were already 7 known variations when the vaccines were introduced. Furthermore, none of the vaccines currently approved for use (at least in the US) have the live virus. So vaccines are not "causing mutations". Mutations happen during replication within infected cells. The vaccines will greatly reduce the number of cells that will get infected. So vaccines reduce mutations and chances of strains to take hold. Unvaccinated people who become infected are what will fuel strains.
If you can read french, here's a page about why 16 isn't used (anymore!)
https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/viewtopic.php?t=36236

TL;DR Running out of numbers and putting in temporary measures requiring the 16 as prefix. Measures that likely didn't scale as well as expected since we moved on to a different system within basically 10 years.
In modern software development, this is usually a task for the junior engineer as it's code the client never sees. Only in specific industries where the client is also highly technical (e.g. a data-acquisition component in an instrument) where the quality of the low-level code matters, would it be someone senior. In those cases, it usually matters a lot more than the UI.
>Governments have to pay, regardless of whether or not the shipment arrives: on time, damaged, or at all

Wouldn't this be standard language in any contract? If I buy a widget and they ship it to me, if it gets damaged in transit, or lost in transit I still have to pay the producer, I then go after the delivery company (and/or their insurance) for compensation.
Isn't that part of the scientific process? Is there some other way to come to the truth aside from observation and examining variables related to the observed outcomes?
Not really. Ibuprofen has been in use for a very long time, has well known and studied side-effects, and is readily available over the counter in generic form. There is no big lobby interest for Ibuprofin at this time, so the financial incentives there are not suspect.

On the other hand, any time I see a pharmaceutical ad for some new wonder drug, my incientive-caused-bias hackles are immediately raised.
The long term consequences of those things are fairly well known/intuitive at this point.

People are bad at optimizing for low and long term risks, but doing something knowing it's bad for you is different than being anxious about what unknown effects a treatment might have.
Curious why the downvote?

Perhaps because "always worried me more than the risk of death"? If so: this is because the evidence always seems to have said that the risk of long COVID has been at least an order of magnitude higher than the risk of death. Also, if you have no dependents, death involves less suffering: in the unlikely event it happens, you're out of the picture already after a short period of misery. On the other hand, chronic illness can come with a lifetime of suffering.
I'm not sure on the details of how it's done ... but it certainly is done :)

Honestly, the library/libraries used are kinda moot - those things change all the time (ie, it doesn't matter if it's OpenCV or something else)

Most government-issued IDs are intentionally designed to be very hard to OCR (it's why they have barcodes/etc on them for automated scanning) - and any advances in image processing are more-or-less immediately countered by improvements in ID construction

I know the E-Verify (https://e-verify.gov) service that come businesses use to process I-9 forms (https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-9...) electronically manages to link SSN, IDs, and other factors to ensure the person filling-out the form matches (as close as can be determined) the data they're filling-in
Do you really think there are a lot of obese people around that can simply stop being obese but just haven't had a reason to yet?

Where do people come up with this stuff?
You havent mentioned why the CEO is backing the project. This is an important detail.

Many projects start out vague and ridiculous that turn out well in the long run. Depends on many factors. Not just technical quality.
>War of attrition does not mean casualty numbers

War of attrition almost certainly requires high continual casualty numbers, it's literally in the first sentence of the Wikipedia article:

> Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel.
Unfortunately, if he fails to say that he risks getting downvoted, flagged, or labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

This is not limited to the medical field, I was once downvoted on an HN comment until I edited it to state that I wasn't supporting Trump, because people were reading it that way.
it justifies my current behavior so it must be true

That would be my guess, since actual evidence shows that vaccinated people are infectious for a significantly shorter period of time:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var...
Not really, babies need constant monitoring anyway so you will figure out the need fast enough.
The biggest challenge with Excel features remains versioning: functions are tied to a specific Excel releases, and it takes years before enough people run a version supporting them.

I wish they made these an add-on.

Until then, I expect to hear my fancy files are "broken."
FHE doesn't let the other party access the results of algorithms run on your data. Other parties can run an algorithm on your encrypted data, but only you can interpret the results.
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I don't know the entire story, but my wife is a cardiac ICU nurse and says magnets are part of the normal procedures for dealing with ICDs. They'll slap a magnet on the chest of an ICD patient to inhibit the device if it malfunctions.

All I'm saying from that is while a lot of comments around here are calling it design flaws, I'm pretty sure to a certain extent its a design decision. If you have a patient on the stretcher and you need to disable that thing now then a magnet seems like a perfectly reasonable & safe thing to use. Requiring specialized devices that might not be available at all times seems like the design flaw. Asking patients with specific health needs to avoid certain activities/devices is not a huge stretch.
Getting Covid is not safe, like at all, so it’s so bizarre to me that anyone would look at the safety profile of a vaccine in a vacuum. Any medication has rare side effects. Tylenol has rare side effects that can be severe. Covid has direct effects that are common and severe.

Cigarettes and asbestos are not vaccines and are thus evaluated totally differently (and at a totally different point in time). In past vaccines monitoring, bad things happen right away versus long term:

“Serious side effects that could cause a long-term health problem are extremely unlikely following any vaccination, including COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose. For this reason, the FDA required each of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines to be studied for at least two months (eight weeks) after the final dose. Millions of people have received COVID-19 vaccines, and no long-term side effects have been detected.” [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/sa...
You could and lots of people have. The visibility of masks (literally in your face!) tends to distract people from this, but the vast, vast majority of Covid restrictions were revoked after vaccinations became widely available, including anything in the vein of "stay home" or "social distancing". In all of the US and I think a substantial chunk of Europe, it's considered safe as a matter of policy for vaccinated people to go wherever they'd like and do whatever they want.
I have never heard of Vioxx and just looked it up…wow.

Great example.
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Goodness gracious. I'm staying the hell out of Germany. That would even be extreme in the US
Probably needs Squirrel as a catalyst.
Notable is that the article is referring to a pre-delta study of elementary aged school children (elementary school normally caps out at around age 11 in the US). Young kids have long been known to be less prone to infection, less prone to suffering ill effects from infection, and less prone to spread the disease. Delta doesn't really change much of that, they are not the primary victims nor spreaders.

It's the older kids (who could have received the vaccine but opted out) who will have more "adult-like" patterns of transmission and should be more of a concern (not for their own health, really, but they might infect their elderly or infirmed unvaccinated relatives). One would expect masking to help prevent spread from these people.

But of course... these kids and their families likely already self-select and associate closesly with other anti-vaxers outside of school to begin with, so school seems like the least of their worries. At a certain point you kind of have to ask whether it's worth trying to protect people from themselves.
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> Are you seriously arguing that politics is somehow unique to the USA? What kind of argument is that?

:-))

What I'm saying is that if large groups of people, of different dispositions, intentions, cultures, etc. all over the world are doing mostly the same thing, then that means that there are some forces in play that they all can't really control. In this case those forces are social.
It's my car, I should be allowed to choose to drive it drunk.
Requiring an ID to vote is a violation of civil rights purely because local governments make it difficult for poor people to get IDs for free. If everyone was issue a government ID for free, this would be a nonissue.

I'm not aware of any grocery stores requiring a vaccine passport, but in general, the bar for a private business allowing customers in should be a lot more malleable fluid that voting restrictions.

It's not a contradiction of principles to point this out even if poor black people are among the lowest vaccination groups.
She cannot participate at all in city life after the mandate and will soon lose her job over it this Fall.

I do believe the carrot works better than the stick, but I don't think this goes as far as being "treated like a threat".

I understand that you believe that unvaxxed are where the mutations happen.

I didn't say this and this is not my full belief :( . Mutations can happen at any new infection (including breakthrough infections, yes). So, the premise is to reduce new infections as much and as fast as possible. I think we're on the same page that vaccination greatly reduces your chance of infection (even more than having previously been infected before). Getting the most people vaccinated, as fast as possible, is the most efficient way to achieve that.

Overall, though, you've gotten pretty far away from the original question, "Well, what would it take for you to change your mind [to get the vaccine]?"
Like any and every popular movement, there will people that attach themselves to it to serve their own agenda, sometimes fully self serving, sometimes because they see a platform to advance something they see as extremely important for society, even if many other people disagree on the fundamentals or just the methodology. While missteps of the BLM movement deserve to be called out and criticized, it's also important to remember that great many people are more interested with the original core tenets of the movement and so it's not accurate to paint them all because of the actions of a few.

The same goes for the Democratic and Republican parties. I'm sure everyone here could point to bad actions that people have taken in the name of those groups and/or organizations, but that doesn't mean we should assume those negative instances represent the wishes of all the others in that group, or apply the criticism across the entire group when it doesn't reflect a majority of their views.

And before people come back with their perceptions of how much of a group believes in and supports the actions of some, it's worth considering that opposition groups will always latch onto the problem people and subgroups and play them up as larger than they are, so the media will almost always either misrepresent them as a larger or smaller portion of that group than they actually are.
Yes, but, the reality is that everyone is going to get exposed to this virus eventually. Probably not that long from now, if you haven't yet. Pretending that evading it forever is possible, is not helping people to make wise decisions; I think many of the unvaccinated currently believe they can evade both the virus and the vaccine (they are incorrect). Eventually, long covid or not, we are all getting exposed. We should act accordingly.
If the software and vision model are local what is the value given for the recurring fee? How is this better than a posture correcting garment or brace?
The US currently operates amidst legal corruption.

And that is OK, until the citizens say it is not and mean it, just to be clear here.

That imparts a strong bias that very likely marginalizes our government ability to assess the overall effectiveness and ability to function in other governments.
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Something wasn’t squaring between the claims that Apple has already been scanning iCloud Photos for years, that Apple reports hundreds of instances of CSAM while Facebook reports millions, and that Apple knows they have a major CSAM problem. Good to find out the problem was with the first one.

I wonder if the “you know they already do this server-side, right?” people feel the slightest bit chastened.
"Thirdly, assume that the growing body of evidence is correct . The vaccinated coworker who has a new Tinder date every week and mixes with large crowds in clubs will still be a higher risk than a reclusive, un-vaccinated, masked individual."

The overlap between antivaxers and masks does not work that way.

"In general (and I don't mean you), parents have had zero regard for others being infected with the flu for as long as I can remember. I've gotten the worst flu of my life (coughing for months) from a visiting parent with an infected child (the parent knew it and did not tell)."

So this is about revenge? I really have no clue what you point is.

"Secondly, children have a very low risk, the flu is more dangerous to them than Covid."

The number of children with severe symptoms is growing.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-kids-are-hospitalized-with...
The mask mandates are universal -- everyone is required, vaccinated or not. When they were only advised, it was advised that the unvaccinated wear them. And whether you can go into a privately owned store, privately owned Disneyland, or privately owned conference -- these are private businesses, the gov't should not tell them they cannot require vaccination.
Is there any point spending the day in the classroom with reduced oxygen to the brain?