skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> laundry list of horrific side-effects

This kind of hyperbole really damages the debate.

A “laundry list of horrific side-effects” sounds like there are known long-term problems that result from getting the vaccine.

This is simply not the case. There is a list of side effects, but it’s not long, and no reasonable person should consider them to be ‘horrific’.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/af...
I mean, technically, while there may be animal reservoirs, ~all of the coronavirus you will ever be exposed to is made by human cells. Although probably only 50-50 on being made inside a man's cells.
Depends on the country, of course. In Commonwealth (which includes the UK, Canada, Australia etc.) Foley v Hill (1848) still holds, which contains this absolutely lovely passage:

Money, when paid into a bank, ceases altogether to be the money of the principal; it is by then the money of the banker, who is bound to return an equivalent by paying a similar sum to that deposited with him when he is asked for it. The money paid into a banker’s is money known by the principal to be placed there for the purpose of being under the control of the banker; it is then the banker’s money; he is known to deal with it as his own; he makes what profit of it he can, which profit he retains to himself, paying back only the principal, according to the custom of bankers in some places, or the principal and a small rate of interest, according to the custom of bankers in other places. The money placed in custody of a banker is, to all intents and purposes, the money of the banker, to do with it as he pleases; he is guilty of no breach of trust in employing it; he is not answerable to the principal if he puts it into jeopardy, if he engages in a hazardous speculation; he is not bound to keep it or deal with it as the property of his principal; but he is, of course, answerable for the amount, because he has contracted, having received that money, to repay to the principal, when demanded, a sum equivalent to that paid into his hands. That has been the subject of discussion in various cases, and that has been established to be the relative situation of banker and customer, the banker is not an agent or factor, but he is a debtor.

Notice how completely different it is from lease of tangible property.
Yes, and parachutes do not prevent airplanes from crashing.

Brushing your teeth doesnt guarantee you will have no cavities.

Radiation doesnt guarantee you will be cancer free.

At no point did the vaccine promise full immunity.
> However, the apparent point of competitive programming--building up a good repertoire of advanced algorithms and data structures--is pretty close to useless.

That's not the point of competitive programming. If you talk to anybody who is good at competitive programming, they will tell you it's _not_ about memorizing algorithms and datastructures. It's about developing algorithmic problem solving skills; skills that you can leverage to design (create) algorithms, in order to solve problems.
I keep wondering about MegaBots, which was unabashedly inspired by mecha fiction, but which might've then gone on to inspire more. It was founded in 2014 and debuted its first robot in 2015. Fallout 4 came out in late 2015 as well, so I assume neither knew about the other and they were both influenced by similar prior art.
If you're in the western world, catch COVID right now, and aren't vaccinated, even if you aren't immunocompromised, diabetic, elderly, or obese odds are your chances of dying from COVID are higher than any other disease you've caught in your life.

Now it's true that chance is probably somewhere around 0.3% assuming you don't live in an area where hospitals are out of ICU beds and vents. But it's your _life_ at risk.
> Building more hospitals is a long-term process. Training medical personnel is a long-term process. Emergency measures intended to bridge the gap are untenable politically, and people are dying because of it. Thousands of them per day.

It's like the whole chip shortage thing. Most people ask why aren't we building more chip-building plants? The answer is we are doing that, but it takes billions of dollars and a lot of trained manpower to set up such a factory, and all of that takes a lot of time.

These are what are called in economics as highly inelastic supplies, which it seems is unknown to many commentators, who BTW have a habit of quoting Econ 101 in every discussion.
After reading this article, Afghanistan doesn't seem inherently like a war of attrition at all.

"Men fought, men switched sides, men lined up and fought again. War in Afghanistan often seemed like a game of pickup basketball, a contest among friends"

It seems more like renaissance Europe, where armies of Condottiero would parade against eachother, and the smaller or less extravagant side would back down.

This probably didn't suit the USA, who wanted real, bloody war, to justify trillions of dollars of military spending. Just like Vietnam: 'body count'.

"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"

- Julian Assange, 2011

Rapid takeover by the Taliban instead of months of dragged out death and destruction is a fair outcome for the country.
How exactly do you presume people have recovered…?
There are credible people on both sides of the argument.
I'll leave it to you, a user, that strong EM fields also blind the devices. The signals the ICD is trying to measure are very weak. I can imagine that strong 50/60Hz surge currents really screw things up, especially in single conductor power distribution situations (UK ring circuits, rural farms, etc).

That being said, the article (TL/DR) appears to focus on "static" magnetic fields. The near field charging feature of the iPhone barely makes mention.

I think the "disable ICD" being a simple magnetized reed switch for an implantable medical device is a bit silly. At least tap a code into that reed switch a little!
Can confirm. Have been using wireless Logitech MX master 3. There is like 1 in 10 chance that my Linux machine hangs when putting it into sleep and I touch the mouse. Also it is almost guaranteed the machine freezes when i turn the mouse off with the switch on its belly while putting the computer to sleep.
It taught me to always save my work at least:)
> CDC says 94% efficacy.

Published in May, using data from Jan-Mar.

Delta didn't exist.

> I find your analogy to be very telling. You have moved to another political issue that is quite divided along the same political lines.

I mean, yes. Science has become politicized and one side of the debate keeps making poor arguments.

> Abbott never had covid and his more recent tests only days later he tested negative.

He's vaccinated. Ct loads of viral mRNA drop more sharply if you've been vaccinated. Having it clear fast is expected.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...
> So is smoking inside restaurants.

But not smoking in your car or at home. There are tons of American parents who hotbox their kids with cigarette or marijuana smoke on a daily basis which not only harms them with second hand smoke but increases their chances of smoking themselves by an astronomical factor.

Parents legally harm their children constantly by setting bad diet patterns (child obesity), or substance abuse patterns just to name a few ways. Should we make that illegal and have the state raise those kids?
The Victorian government data you linked is very unclear.

It treats cases in aged care vs. not in aged care as separate sets, but is not clear on whether or not hospitalisation cases come from both sets.

At the top of the page it says "cases in hospital by age" but I can't seem to find any reference to the age of those people in hospital.

What's clear to me, though, is in the age group of 0-29 there's been a total of 1 death in Victoria. It's not a whole lot to go on, but it seems unlikely to me that many in the 0-29 group require hospital treatment.
Ask HN: Is Anyone Recycling Chips?
With the chip shortage in full force, I would imagine there are literal tons of electronics getting dumped in landfills that contain useful circuitry, including chips. Is anyone trying to recycle these?
When you design your API/write functions, you just ask "what is the type in play here (e.g., a string, int, etc)?" and then consider what—if any—issues that may cause and write code against it.

For example, JavaScript default args are really helpful for avoiding type errors:

const nameString = (name = {}) => {
return `${name.first} ${name.last}`;
};

Here, because I set a default expected type (technically speaking), I get back an empty string without runtime errors. If I get an empty string during dev in my UI, I know to go handle the case, or, write a test to call my attention to the problem (often unnecessary because the "bug" is a design issue).
Poor project management != fault of IDE, it's the one responsible for choosing to configure the project in said way. That's not dismissing the fact that VS and other IDEs allow, and even recommend, nasty setups but, unless they force them, I don't see blaming optional features or poor usage of a tool as a rational reason to write off an entire toolset that can be powerful and productive.
The broader patterns are repeatable, somewhat, in that you can see them broad as day. The way these different languages handle state and communication is totally different though, so, simultaneously incredibly niche as well.
We use Django's authentication, authorisation, and session management and it's rock solid. I can highly recommend it.
> Also in the thread, ASML has a monopoly on this tech. Others have not invested into EUV and by now, it's pretty much impossible for anybody to catch up.

This is essentially true, but people need to keep in mind this is not like when we say Apple has a monopoly, or something.

The capital equipment market is very different than consumer markets. For example in 2019 it's estimated ASML sold 26 EUV machines, in total. Analysis are super excited because this might go to 41 in 2021.

https://blog.visiblealpha.com/asml-euv-monopoly-may-stack-ch...
I was going through the thread reader page and thought "What an interesting blog post, it's very multimedia with lots of pics and clips of 10 second videos". I then realized it was a scraping of all his Twitter posts, but damn, that presentation was so much better than the @#!^@!! that is Twitter.
Semaglutide makes it a lot easier to eat healthy though, at least for me. When you aren't super hungry all the time it's easier to make healthier choices or just not eat at all.
That's not how science works. We may have various bits of logic that can tweak our initial probability analysis, but we have to do the testing. When we change something fundamental, it must be tested, and things in the past that are similar, but not identical, are not sufficient. This is especially true for something that is being injected into the entire general population, which calls for the highest level of scientific certainty before proceeding.

"We think based on biochemistry that mRNA acts like this, and we hope it does that, and we think it probably does the other" doesn't carry much weight here. The probability of any element of that chain of logic being wrong is too high.

I'm not saying that testing wasn't done. I'm saying "eh, it's probably OK, mRNA looks pretty safe" is not a useful contribution to this sort of discussion.
> I don't have to click anything, just open the camera settings to fix it

Fyi I frequently have to open zoom camera settings to make my laptop camera (Linux, darter pro) work. The fault may your case be shared with zoom, which is also a dumpster fire.
Reminds me of https://github.com/djandruczyk/eXtace
It's kinda fun seeing it happen in real-time in the comments though. Lol. These people will be the joke of history books. I can imagine the line already:

"While many were hopeful that FDA approval would assuage the large amount of vaccine skepticism, it did not seem to change the narrative."

I will continue laughing at their pathetic graves and funerals while being frustrated at their impact on me.
A lot of people are ok with risks, until they’re bitten by them.

There are many articles (I’ve seen two just in passing) where nurses talk about COVID patients going on a ventilator, and begging for the vaccine, only to be told it’s too late.

I feel that most people that are taking risks with COVID (e.g. healthy people not getting vaccinated) either don’t have enough foresight to realize they actually don’t want to be hospitalized/die from this, or they don’t believe the risks are real.

Risk assessment is something many aren’t great at — that is striking a reasonable balance between no fear and too much fear. This is made worse by conflicting opinions and studies, and not being able to discern truth from fiction/sensationalism.
People are mostly worried about long term side effects. Including those who have the vaccine.

Understanding that base fear will help bridge the divide between groups.
It was the seed for the headline, maybe.
I'd go with Supabase.
Bad for whom exactly?
For example, here it seems today's usecase was a "SMS-like mobile messenger", so they are deprecating stuff such as resources, priorities and presence notifications. WHY? My use-case as is the entire of my network is multiple devices, so resources AND priorities are a must.

So rather than "modern XMPP" this looks like "how to use XMPP to build a SMS-like messaging program for mobile phones". Now it's clear who is the target of the document and you avoid a weasel term like "modern" which also annoys every other consumer of the protocol.
> I honestly can't comprehend how you are talking about a tax on land being a tax on capital.

"Capital" in economics is a fairly broad category. One definition from Merriam-Webster would be "accumulated goods devoted to the production of other goods". Land is at least as qualified on that score as a manufacturing plant or a home (creating goods such as "shelter" and "storage") or machinery or hand tools or any other durable property used in the production of other goods.

> The owner of the land didn't create it, taxing the owner of the land doesn't discourage his production of additional land.

Being created by the owner (or by humans in general) is not a necessary qualification for status as "capital". Still, it is important here to distinguish between "land" in the colloquial sense and what economists would refer to as "land" (unowned resources). While land might not be created through human action, property is. You are not taxing the land, you're taxing the conversion of land into property—the act of identifying useful, unowned resources and claiming them for human use. And when you tax something you naturally get less of it; in this case there is less incentive for people to go out and discover new resources. A 100% LVT would nullify any economic motive to expend effort locating new sources of minerals or suitable farmland (etc.) since 100% of the value of whatever you discovered would be taken by the LVT.

That's assuming the LVT is limited to the hypothetical value of a bit of land in isolation. It gets worse when the scope of the LVT is increased to include the economic value of "location" with respect to other human developments—for example land inside a city being taxed more than physically equivalent land in a rural area. At that point you're not basing the amount of the tax on the land at all, but rather the capital investment and expenditure of human labor in the surrounding area. This form of "land value tax" is deceptively named; it should really be referred to as a tax on gross external benefits received. Which has some obvious flaws, for example that the property owner has little control over external benefits others may unilaterally choose to create, and also that one pays extra tax on any contribution one makes to one's own community which has the effect of raising property values. (In fact, under a LVT system unilaterally contributing to the community and making it a nicer place to live might well be considered harmful since it raises everyone's taxes…)
We beat small pox, polio and other terrible diseases with the all in approach. Please take the shot and convince everyone you know to do so as well. If we eradicate this... it's gone.
My first job was with a pharmaceutical manufacturer, I wouldn't go back to those type of institutions, healing materials need to be handled way differently.

I don't think I would do very well working for an oil company either but I did end up in oilfield services for a while, even though my motivation is completely toward alternative energy.

One of the interesting things I noticed was that the toxic atmosphere of the refinery enviromnent began to be abated quite a bit earlier than the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1990, largely due to the newer oil company employees being more aware of their position in a lucrative industry which could actually afford to operate more cleanly. To the extent the more environmentally-aware employees have had an impact, in hindsight it appears to be more effective than the actual regulations were.

You should have smelled it before.

And I know what kind of materials I am smelling.

Sometimes more effective change can be made from the inside.
>In the physical world, we have a cascading set of governments, councils and countries we form part of in a participatory process.

This doesn't really work in practice though. For most people they keep their head down and hope that nobody finds fault with them, because everything is filled with so many rules and gotchas that you're almost guaranteed to be breaking some of them. You're supposed to follow rules that you don't even know. And this is considered fine by society, because as long as you keep your head down you're not going to be bothered.

The internet is the way it is because people in the real world are the way they are. When a real world business bans you on a technicality you don't really have recourse either.
[mRNA vaccines are distinct from gene therapy](https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-mrna-gene/fa...).
The overall suicide rate appears to be unchanged.

Quoting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110323/ :

> In the first few months of the viral pandemic, there were scattered media reports of individual instances of suicide ostensibly related to the effect of COVID-19 and several articles published in scientific journals that principally relied on such media reports ...

> Analyses of actual suicide rates during the COVIDE-19 pandemic based on national and regional/local health statistics from across the world, however, provide a different picture. A majority of such comprehensive data-based studies report a modest reduction in total suicide rates whereas the remainder report no significant net increase in suicide rates during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Quoting https://www.bbc.com/news/55949640 : "The only reliable recent data available on suicides in England - from the University of Manchester - has found that rates have not risen during lockdown."

Quoting https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/10/louis-appleby-what-has-... : "Now we have reports from several countries, based on national or state-level suicide data. They come from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Peru, Norway and Sweden—high income countries in most cases—and they carry a consistent message. Suicide rates have not risen."
No its not and this kind of speculation is incredibly harmful.

Please stop using atomic anecdotes to percieve the world, or at least stop propogating them.
Trump made a Peace deal with the Taliban, which involved releasing Baradar, whose currently in charge of the takeover.

People need to understand the importance of the Border Wall. Between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It stops terrorists from ducking in and out of the country at will. It stops the drugs. It stops systemic child abuse/trafficking. The Afghanis are one of the most abused groups of people in Human History.
Well, not being a nation-state, I'd have to content myself with a LineageOS phone with no Google Play, or maybe a PinePhone. If I were a real spy, I've no doubt my employers would have the resources to provide me with something.
Because in places where lots of people think like you, the ICUs are overflowing?

I also think you underestimate how ANGRY people are that they spent 18 months in lockdown, only to have some anti-vaxers mess things up at the end. By this point, we shouldn't be talking about which areas do/don't have overflowing ICUs, we should be talking about which areas have hit milestones for number of days without a positive case!
The Supreme Court disagrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
They have parts like PMW3360 in a mouse clearly intended for office use, judging by its shape; no wonder it's expensive. This is a sensor designed for extremely fast movements in games (faster than punches in most martial arts). It's not the latest and hottest model, but you won't be able to tell the difference from a cheap sensor during normal use.
453 MB on my install. It's such a useless app that I used it once, configured everything, and then verified that the same mouse worked fine with libratbag on linux -- it does (I have it on a KVM box between two different machines). Next time I'll just configure it on linux. Their hardware is good -- but the software is awful.
Yes I do realize that drunk driving is illegal and I support that. I think you are misunderstanding my post, which is about doing the science to determine the actual probabilities involved with having and transmitting covid, along with the probabilities of serious harm. Then after multiplying all of those probabilities, comparing it with drunk driving as a relative measure.
> For example, the government being able to tell you what to do, vs. it not. People end up locking in to trivialities like approval or some study, but they just obscure the real debate.

Is government regulatory authority really the "real debate"? That too seems like an projected excuse, trivially proven by the fact that the same people who are most invested in the libertarian framing are the ones who believe a secret government agent has been working for the last four and a half years to extrajudiciously round up pedophiles and liberals.

I'm not saying that's what you think. Maybe you're a pure libertarian. But a whole ton of people on "your side" of this debate are quite clearly not serious about regulatory overreach.
Why would we need to include an exemption for natural immunity?

Doing so would add additional work to the _already overworked_ health agencies, labs, etc. You'd need to test people to ensure that they have an adequate immune response (at least on par with what the vaccines provides). With unlimited resources and total information, then sure, doing either vaccines or natural immunity would work, assuming that the natural immunity is at least on par with the vaccines. However, given that we don't have unlimited resources nor total information, it's much simpler for the health agencies to ask for everyone that doesn't have a medical exemption to get vaccinated.
That money is an asset under the control of the bank, sure. But you are willfully ignoring a key aspect of the terms and conditions: That when you ask to withdraw your deposit, the bank provides that money.

If you want to keep pulling on that thread, you will find it connect almost directly to the root problem of large-scale human organization:

Some people think that when you put your money in a bank it is incumbent on you (it is your personal responsibility, they may say) to ensure that that bank will not close and run away with your money and if they do it's your own fault and you got what you deserved.

Other people think that when you put your money in a bank, you should be able to trust a broad social contract that prevents your money from being stolen.