skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trust me. I'm not arguing against vaccines at all and I got one as soon as I could.

However, I think most of us would agree that literally vaccinating people by force would be wrong. So I also don't think it's unreasonable to be at least a bit discomfited when some combination of government at multiple levels and employers make it harder for unvaccinated people to earn a living and participate in society. Even if at the end of the day I approve of many of those requirements--for example I need to prove vaccination status to go to a planned industry event next month which seems very reasonable--I certainly take no joy in such coercion and recognize that it is further polarizing.

Sure it's just "consequences" but those consequences are such that it's also not really a choice.
I've not heard of nonlinear causal reasoning. It sounds interesting. Could you suggest some reading? (A quick search throws up uninteresting hits about nonlinear models.)
It is also lazy thinking to say that since it is approved by an institution it must be good.
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Studies continue to show vaccines are less effective than we were all lead to believe. It seems like every new study that comes out lowers the bar even further. Pretty soon we'll be hearing "the vaccine doesn't help at all, but at least it didn't give you cancer" (mild sarcasm there, but you get the point).

Each of the big pharma companies were poised to make a boatload of money by being first to produce a vaccine. I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
being scared doesn't actually do anything for anyone, but the vaccinated do not have zero risk. if the virus is always kicking around, then there will always be vaccinated people dying of it.
No, there is no "evolutionary pressure for all diseases", only for those where lethality precludes transmission, i.e. there is some cap at a some max.

Which is not the case for SARS-Cov-2 - viral titers peak after 2-4 days and population-weighted IFR is relatively low.
My wife is a children's ER doctor. They are now seeing all patients up to 25 because the adult ER can't handle the number of COVID patients. The pediatric ICU is also now full (in contrast to the earlier COVID waves were virtually no children required treatment).

She's never had to do that because of a bad flu season. More than 90% of the adults in the hospital for COVID and 100% of the kids are unvaccinated.

People wouldn't even be discussing shutting down schools and businesses to get this under control if we had a 90% vaccination rate.
If the level of lead is higher in black communities, that certainly falls under the umbrella of "systemic problems." I also think a lot of this is interrelated. Without any sort of trust in a law enforcement system, of course there's going to be higher drug use.

With a large number of black people being incarcerated due to systemic justice problems, of course you're going to have a higher rate of single parent households (and this is something that can propagate through generations).

Those things you listed aren't really "other forces" that can explain disparate murder rates. They're all part of the same issue.
Is $19 per dose expensive? Not knowing anything about pharma costs, it seems about what it'd expect. Especially compared to the economic savings.
Your personal preference is not invalid. But think about it this way: making the (very reasonable) assumption that most users who set their system to dark mode want their browser content to match, this default behavior does the most good for the most users, even if it isn't what you personally want.

I don't think anybody would disagree that a manual toggle makes the user experience even better, but since it's not a part of the browser standard, it isn't zero-cost either. It has to be implemented in code (and incorporated into the layout, etc). Does it get associated with the logged-in user's account? If so the full stack has to be roped in; a new database column may be needed. You could just put it in localStorage, but then if the user switches to another device they could be surprised by the fact that this preference doesn't follow them.

It's definitely a nice-to-have, but demanding it as a hard requirement comes across as pretty entitled.

A better framing would have been "Hey web devs, there exist people who specifically want their web content to have a different theme from their system, it would be nice to have a manual toggle even if you already support prefers-color-scheme". It's something that never would have even occurred to me, personally, and so this could have been an illuminating post instead of a rant.
it always wound me up that the SteelSeries 900mb bullshit keyboard bloatware somehow downloaded itself and popped up on a brand new clean Windows install

(even disconnecting the machine from the internet first and disabling the various automatic driver downloads in GPO wasn't enough to stop it...)
I'll throw in a anecdote: my family in nearby hospitals are *not* being mandated to get vaccinated.

This is precisely because there is high demand for registered nurses and other medical staff at the moment.
Well said, appreciate the long term perspective and summary of what you see across backups, fake Tor, and closed source iMessage.

Good point about changing of Apple leadership. Tim Cook has said that 10 years from now he won't be the Apple CEO. That means someone new is coming in.

I purchased a Linux-first System76 laptop and will switch out my other iDevices. It's not just about Apple - any sort of closed source software/hardware just seems unsustainable long term. Having "trust" in organizations seems misplaced.
By Design: How Default Permissions on Microsoft Power Apps Exposed Millions
The first economist picks up the bill anyway. It was a fake, and on the other side there's an ad for a strip club.
Visit the strip club? (Y/N): _
no support for ubuntu 21?
I am extremely skeptical of this. I think the best summary of why this isn't the story is provided by Zvi[1]. See the section "Delta Variant."

It's not something I can summarize in a couple short sentences, but the base rate of infections we're seeing from the actual data of delta infections doesn't match the 39% intuition at all. Additionally, the Israel Study seems to be thrown around a lot, but the data is suspicious if you look at our actual delta infection data from every other source.

In short, I think there's a lot of panic here that is being done by people who are looking at a single study.

[1]: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/08/19/covid-8-19-cracking-...
Why not vaccinate kids for every other endemic virus under the sun then?
External mouse - agreed.

Trackpad support though has had many issues over the years in my experience across devices & distros.
I am aware of the viewpoints of anti abortion choice people, but they are not relevant to forgingahead’s comment that I was replying to.

forgingahead’s comment implied that people with the opinion of pro abortion choice are being inconsistent in their belief if “my body, my choice” when it comes to mandating vaccines, to which I intended to clarify how it is not inconsistent because it is actually “my body, my choice [assuming it does not affect others]”.
Holding police accountable for unreasonable killings is not being anti-police.
> But originally back in the 80s and 90s and even the 2000s a hacker was someone who did something different with their devices just for the sake of it

I am over 40 and it was already not used that way, except few old peple in few small subcultures angrily insisting on everybody else using the term wrong.

But among programmers, "hacking the code" was always negative.
I'm an EE so most of my work, that requires a lot of mousing, is layout which involves various Cadence/MentorGraphics tools. I think most of the mechanical engineers here use NX. It's industrial grade, very expensive, and not open-source, etc. The mechanical engineers used to use windows too and moved off it a couple of years ago. No idea why.
I've used Linux over a similar time period. I remember plenty of times when the scrollwheel wasn't mapped to anything, and I needed to stick a value for ZAxisMapping into the X configuration. At this point, it's been a number of years since I needed to do that manually, but it used to be a pretty regular thing for me.
Good one. there's gotta be some value in not having to stick needles in babies and old people quite so often.
The vaccine will prime your immunity to one (important) protein. Natural infection could prime your immunity to up to 29 proteins. I'm not sure 'robustness' right word in the context of rapidly evolving variants.
But the virus is “organic” and vegan
LSH is a really neat algorithm, but to my understanding (at least what I’ve seen in literature), it also tends to be rather inefficient. For it to have good precision, you need longer hashes, but that reduces recall. It also does not really tend to produce a well balanced distribution of entries over buckets. More current research has therefore focused on more elaborate hashing functions that are capable of producing shorter, and better balanced hash maps.

The article is well put together and nicely illustrated, though :)
> Control group(s) were given vaccines after 14 days

I saw some conspiracy theory that said this weeks ago and just shook my head at how ridiculous that would be. At least it seemed like a conspiracy theory because my view of control group was apparently something else.

Emergency use authorization, for a vaccine that was never tested on humans, and both Pfizer and Moderna eliminated the control groups?

What the hell!? There must be… other or new control groups right? You can’t really have phase3 trials and reference nothing for control can you? What will they reference?
How's that been working out so far?

At some point life returns to normal.
> With fees, room, and board, the total comes over 25k/year

We lived off campus 4 ppl in a 2 bed ( ~100/head). My total living expense was ~350/month. My parents had recently immigrated, so i was totally ok with not having a "college experience" or actually knew what exactly it was.
I was able to find another job on campus as an attendent at computer lab which game plenty of time to relax and do coursework.

I agree that now it might not be possible. But its doable if you get grants( which most of my classmates did) and are ok slumming it out though college.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/07/23/pfizer-sh...
There is a common set of algorithms that most people who do well in such a contest can implement whenever they like, but most of the effort involved in solving the problems happens before they write any code, and many (half or more?) problems can't be solved by just applying the techniques from this repertoire.
This thing was never about protecting people. Thats why it doesn't make sense to you. These health passes will later be called citizen passes or similar, and you won't be able to do any activity without them.

And if you are a difficult person with opinions about this, you will get flagged as a security risk and unable to use that citizen pass. People think I'm joking and it will never happen. But I believe that's exactly where we are heading.
I'm sure there are more and very detailed differences, like if the evidence leads to an unsafe vaccine that there are different processes.

I think the major talking point is covered by this info, which is meant for the general public. I'll make an assumption that the general public is also less educated on average than the users on HN on average. A flowchart that would satisfy a bunch of nerdy engineers (us HN users) with all possible paths would confuse the heck out of everyone else.
I get what you're saying but we're seeing the virus spread through the vaccinated. Because the vaccinated aren't getting sick and ending up in hospital, they're spreading it to more people and the virus is mutating the whole way so I struggle to follow your logic.
> It will teach you bad practices, like abusing of dangerous programming constructs or data structures to optimized the code

If someone can't weigh up the pros and cons before using a particular technique, they're going to be a bad software engineer anyway. The field is all about making the right tradeoffs in particular situations, and blindly following current generalised "best" practices without really understanding what they're meant to be better than is going to get you into trouble too.

Breadth of knowledge and experience is a great thing. If you follow from the start that OOP is the right and only way to do things for example, you're not going to have a feel for when it gets in the way. Actually knowing what it's like and what happens when you do something the "bad" way is very valuable experience too e.g. you're going to be a better coder if you'd had to battle with buffer overflows and memory leaks in C in the past even if now you only use Java and Python.

This kind of logic really bugged me after moving from academia into industry. In academia for example, it's usually the right choice to make quick and dirty prototypes to get the results you need for a paper and not burn time over-engineering it. This doesn't mean I don't how to clean up code. I would also say it gives me more experience on avoiding over-engineering compared to someone that tries to copy best practices all the time.
Some people use computers in the middle of the day and don't want to stare at dark web-sites though.
i think they're saying only the unvaccinated need to be afraid.
Hard no to that.
I haven't seen any good information on transmission. My gut feeling is that less symptoms == less transmissibility, but I have no data to back that up.

One study has put the delta R0 around the same as Measles...which is 3x original COVID, but still less than Chicken Pox.
I'm honestly curious if you would apply this reason to other types of infections? or is it something about covid and the covid vaccine that has the risk/reward ratio tilted in favor of not vaccinating for it? When I do my own assessment, I look at the tremendous success of the vaccines (efficacy and low serious side-effect rate) and compare it to the risk and consequences of getting the disease, it seems a very easy call for me. So I'm really curious what you are evaluating differently - what am I missing?
To further support your argument, we are on the verge legal precedent that it is unconstitutional for public institutions (e.g. public universities) to mandate vaccination - and predicate employment on it - for people who already have antibodies acquired through natural infection [1].

> Prof. Zywicki’s immunologist, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, has advised him that, based on his personal health and immunity status, it is medically unnecessary to get a Covid-19 vaccine — and that it violates medical ethics to order unnecessary procedures.

> the Policy is unmistakably coercive and cannot reasonably be considered anything other than an unlawful mandate. And even if the Policy is not deemed coercive, it still represents an unconstitutional condition being applied to Professor Zywicki’s constitutional rights to bodily integrity and informed medical choice, respectively.

> GMU’s Policy infringes upon Professor Zywicki’s rights under the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262820
Does anyone know why vertical wind turbines didn’t take off?

I remember reading an article in popular mechanics about them years ago (found it [1]) and it seemed like a superior turbine…

[1]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a246/128...
> “if it increases the chances of Trump being president in 2024". Or "if Covid killed my wife and some, but not all, of my kids"

These are too sophisticated reasons. More realistic renditions might be “that other tribe gets vaccinated loudly therefore I won’t” and “I’m strong, only the weak get vaccinated.” Of course the same in-group dynamics etc motivate the vaccinated and we’d be lying to ourselves if we thought our actions are purely rational and charitable.
If the user can upload anything they want, you usually need to have various measures in place to prevent abuse. First, ideally each user should have their own sub-domain (i.e. user_id.somedomain.com) so that if they upload malware your main domain doesn't end up on blacklists.

Secondly, you might need to scan the content somehow, again for malware and possibly allow other users to report it.

Of course there's the issue with copyrighted and illegal material - there should also be a way to report this, or detect it. I guess it means you need to be aware of and comply with the server country regulations which can be tricky in some countries.
I know that lockdowns are a fuzzy term but basically we mostly use it to meant that we prevent people from leaving home except for buying food or going to work. By saying that lockdowns can also mean some light version of limiting number of people in buildings, and there they still could be good, is like motte and bailey fallacy.

But lockdowns in this strict sense was the most stupid idea ever. Outdoor events had very little effect on covid spread anyway.

If covid was a short term problem, it would make some sense. But it wasn't. The research is inconclusive at best. The studies are not on the level of pharmaceutical interventions. Remember how long it took to prove that ivermectin is not effective? Nothing with the same level of rigor has been done with lockdowns.

I stand by my assertion that we don't implement prohibitions at the same level with smoking, drug use and junk food as we did with lockdowns. The reason for leaving home is to meet other people or visit places. If you close an indoor pub or a restaurant that's a measure but not really a lockdown as people could still order food or wine and eat and drink outside. So, in this sense lockdowns are equal to blanket alcohol prohibition. Even if it worked to some extent in 1920s in the US, people voted to stop it. It wasn't a recommendation to stay at home like a warning on tobacco box, it was an order with high penalties. And I think in Australia it is still like that. They have added exercise for valid reason. But what if I don't want to exercise but only walk around and enjoy nature or a beach?
> Sites that presume that my full-screen portrait mode browser is a mobile device need to die in a fire.

As should sites that render font-size such that I get the exact same number of characters per screenful on a phone or tablet. I don’t need giant characters on my iPad, the focal distance is approximately the same, and it’s a waste of screen real estate.
> Engelhardt set her sights on quantum gravity when she was 9 years old.

I tried to come up with a witty comment about that but words fail me. Wow.
All (I hope) gaming mice with fancy drivers will also just work fine without them.
Not signed into iCloud on my M1 Mac mini and everything works perfectly.
>Microsoft's model was that they'd audit and authenticate the software through the WHQL process. And it turns out that let a really glaring hole through.

Not to let Razer off the hook here, because they're responsible as well, but in doing as you've described here, Microsoft are have willingly placed the onus for security on themselves.

>Linux vendors ship all the drivers themselves

Not all of them. Nvidia is a famous exception to this. If you want to install their drivers, I don't know of a Linux distro that will allow you to without root privilege.
Everything Sutajio Kosagi puts out is high quality and a futuristic.
> Each of the big pharma companies were poised to make a boatload of money by being first to produce a vaccine. I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

Considering the massive drop in deaths as various countries, US states got vaccinated, I'd say they haven't been compensated enough.
it would be nice if cloudflare attempted to get their various tools into the official Debian repositories (contrib, backports, whatever)

after being bitten several times by questionably packaged third-party repositories I now refuse to use any third-party repos
Wow, I agree. That seems like a deal given all the special extra cold handling you have to do with it.
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Maybe they do have the superior position, just because you happen to hold a belief doesn't make it valid. That's the point of discussion in the first place, that is to understand.
That looks like the output of a package manager (like a cabal freeze file), but if that's all you got then you don't have a package manager yet.
Embarrassingly false equivalence.
I remember the times when you would load the mouse driver into the memory above 640k of your 1Mb RAM PC. It was around 30kb in size.

That is 'one Megabyte' RAM, not Gigabyte.
This "technique" sends a strong signal to me that your goal is to change the person's mind, not respect his desire to not take the shot.
> The types of data varied between portals, including personal information used for COVID-19 contact tracing, COVID-19 vaccination appointments, social security numbers for job applicants, employee IDs, and millions of names and email addresses.
Even less popular opinion: fear is irrelevant. What we actually have is a cultural gap in how risk is assessed. Some only consider individual risk of death. Others also consider risk to beyond death, and beyond themselves. Casting the latter as afraid is unhelpful.
If we got every human being vaccinated with a 100% efficacious vaccine for all strains at the exact same time globally without pause then MAYBE eradication would be feasible.

Eradication is a fever dream, did you bother to read the attached article?
You're acting like this is a surprise result, but everyone expected this. The vaccine was designed to make you resistant to a different virus. We give out new flu shots every year for a reason.
You’re saying the US was constrained by its strong sense of morality? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...
You might find this helpful in your search -- HN Discussion of open source phones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208
But won't the mucosa learn to produce the IgA antibodies when you get exposed the next time though? The virus is going to be endemic forever, all who got and will get the vaccine are going to get exposed again and again.

In other words, for the already vaccinated (or post-infected) won't repeated exposure also act as a booster?
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I'm very excited about Lambda functions. Create your own set of clean logical functions on top of quirkier default functions. Optionally with namespacing (e.g. "m." for math functions / "t." for text functions). Use recursion in the function definition, without external programming.
I suspect there is hope from the electron developers that somehow the platform will start getting less resource intensive.

App developers want their user to have a good experience (I'm guessing). But it isn't great with electron. But its fund one team or fund 3 ui teams (Windows, Mac, Linux) and hope testing gets them all in sync.

Unfortunately there isn't a great cross-platform solution (qt?) that makes everyone happy (or at least not furious).
I think you should pretty much ignore voting in contentious political threads. People have it in their heads that the "side" with the most upvotes "wins", so people are reading comments to determine sides and then to vote appropriately.

All I can say is that people are going to be super upset when they go to cash in their HN karma and find that it isn't honored as legal tender ;)
From ones body perspective. What is the reason to take vaccine risk if you are healthy <~50/have no disease that complicate covid recovery?

From societal perspective, why would you do it if you can transmit it in the same amount as if you are not vaccinated?

Doesn't makes sense to me, but well..

I do think that it's a good thing for people that have disease that can complicate covid recovery and older generations.
It'll eventually evolve into npm-but-different once Deno gains more adoption and its users learn they need a real package manager. And the cycle continues.