skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021020...

There is a grim history of poor medical ethics surrounding the treatment of African Americans that has resulted in feelings of distrust from some.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-exp...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/...

Additionally, medical debt is such a massive burden to many lower income households that there’s this additional layer of distrust, a feeling that you should steer clear of any medical establishment otherwise they’ll try to pin something on you and charge you mountains of money (even though the vaccine is free).
> Why is American warfare so expensive? Russian, French and Turkish interventionism in the Middle East and Africa are an order of magnitude smaller but they seem to have accomplished more than the US/NATO did in Afghanistan.

I’m no apologist for the US, quite the opposite. However if you want a good comparison, compare the how various empires fared in Afghanistan, it’s as close to like-for-like as we will ever get.

The US, Britain and Russia all did miserably. Wasted time, lives and money and they have caused huge harm while losing.
I use a "gaming" mouse (Logitech G502) for day-to-day work. In additional to the usual left/right/middle click and up/down/left/right scroll, I have forward/back, copy/paste, next/previous tab, close/reopen tab, jump-to-first-tab, refresh, zoom reset, and microphone mute. It's useful enough that I find I really miss it when using a less-capable mouse.
Crimes against data – Professor Andrew Gelman (2016)[video]
Implementing WebGPU allows you to make use of GPU resources on the server (from rendering to more compute focused)

Localstorage is admittedly a bit niche, but works well as a way to bypass the need to get generic read/write permissions for the filesystem for a config file. (Deno implements a permission model similar to the web where you start with nothing and must request / have pre-granted access to resources like files/network/env/subprocess, and this access can be granular to specific files/directories/host+port combos)
The exploitation would be of the loophole.

Since there is no rule that says a device manufacturer has to disclose the code to anyone (not even to the FDA) in the first place, there is no need for a loophole. Device manufacturers largely keep their code secret (and yes, in a few cases where such code has had to be disclosed anyway because of a lawsuit or the like, it has been shown to be pretty crappy).

So, I'm saying that if code disclosure and the like (ala Right to Repair, etc.) was required, but some subset of devices was exempt, manufacturers would do their best to cram their devices into the exempt category.
I like the direction Lattice is going. The bigger FPGA developers Xilinx and Intel are going for bigger, denser, faster, more ultra-ram, and as many LUTs as the chip can handle; Lattice is going for smaller, cheaper, and more accessible. I'm very surprised to hear they're going after low power edge AI, but it's niche markets like that where FPGAs shine!
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
"Optional events". This isn't how I want to spend the rest of my days. I can't believe my children will have to grow up in this cyberpunk hell hole. These vaccine passports will certainly expand to a full on social credit system. Why not just add more key/value pairs to it and gain nearly total control over the population?
When I worked in Italy, I learned that Italy is pretty much the best place in the world to eat Italian food. The variety there was amazing too. On the other hand, they were crap at Chinese food and couldn't figure out the humble hamburger to save their lives.
Sure, but consider how this will impact corporate or educational environments (which in my experience DO usually use full disk encryption). I believe full disk encryption is also on by default for most new OEM machines.
Hierarchical Partitioning in Azure CosmosDB
CDC doesn't make public policy. Nowhere did you mention what the harms of this forced mask use could be on kids. Even if masks offered some protection it has to be balanced against all manner of long term social, language and developmental effects caused from wearing a mask.
Sure, increased rego works great.

The per km thing is a bit creepy even if it's just reading the odometer, and as you say a bad deal for regional residents.

It's also very viable to not own a car in the city. I don't have one. But in the country, what behavior are you trying to encourage? So that complicates things.

It should probably be means tested too.

I just object to the idea that EVs should be subsidized rather than ICEs punished. It puts the finger on the scale away from even better solutions like riding, walking or public transport.
It's a benefit for users at large because they get to use services that provide more benefits (like Google Photos search and automatic video creation), services with more privacy (like self-hosted photo services), or services that are cheaper (like Amazon Photos).

Android has demonstrated that there is no need to whitelist this. This is purely a lock-in play for Apple.
I went to a manufacturer's website recently to buy something direct (cut out the middle man, better for everyone, yay!) The price was double that on Amazon. And they charged shipping. I get that bringing wearhousing in house has to cost more money, but it was just strange to see that dramatic a discount.
I'm curious about the format/formatting of this paper. There are a few visual roadmaps to the various sections and subsections throughout the paper, complete with drawings/iconography (clip art?). I haven't seen anything like this before in an academic paper. Is it something that's becoming popular in certain research communities?
Almost all of the statements were true. They just needed more context with them.

> "Masks aren't effective"

The point of the (non n-95) masks is not to protect the wearer. They didn't want everybody to cause a run on the n-95 masks for healthcare workers. The cloth masks may not very effective at protecting the wearer.

> "Masks are effective"

Masks are very effective when the infected wear them. Everybody should wear them because they don't know if they're infected or not.

> "Vaccinated don't have to wear masks"

Currently we don't believe vaccinated people. If you get vaccine you don't have to wear a mask.

> "Vaccinated should wear masks"

Unvaccinated people were the first to go everywhere with out masks. That carrot didn't work.. Everybody put them back on.

> "COVID is not airborne"

This could be true!

> "COVID is airborne"

But it catches a ride on water droplets!

> "COVID came from a wet market"

I haven't seen this as part of government messaging

> "COVID came from a lab"

I haven't seen this as part of government messaging

> "If you caught it, you have immunity"

For some amount of time, yes

> "If you caught it, you might not have immunity"

Yep we've got new variants that yo _might_ not be immune to.
Not surprising. Facebook has very strict rate-limiting for deletion of posts, unfollowing of friends, leaving communities, and anything else that can potentially reduce your "engagement". Disabling it on some platforms was just the next step.
Overall I agree, however:

> But both research companies and ministers are exempt from legal responsibility on these vaccines,

What does that even mean? You're in France, you'll be treated no matter whether someone is responsible or not. I don't think you can be liable of something going wrong if you did everything properly (which is the case).

Everyone, governement and research companies, followed all the laws. Legal responsability exist only if you didn't respect the laws. If they didn't follow the laws, they won't be exempt from lawsuits.

So. What does "But both research companies and ministers are exempt from legal responsibility on these vaccines," mean?
I'm not a fan of validating ideas. The problem is that modern people often like things which are not good for them (e.g. processed foods, drugs, social media, bureaucracy, etc...). The product might make them less efficient or harm them, but people still like it for some reason.

Customers are often irrational, especially with the current heavily manipulated monetary system. I only want to work on products that are beneficial for users (in a meaningful, long term way), even if people might not understand the benefits today (and it might not sell at all).

Bootstrapping (unlike VC funding) allows you to wait out the insanity instead of forcing you to profit from it. If you have a good product, people will come to their senses sooner or later - You will get steady, linear growth but it will be solid growth.

Most of the time, exponential growth is fickle. Users got overexcited, they made an impulsive decision; the next phase is disillusionment.
Well, because the project isn't warfare as such. The project is wealth transfer from public to private hands via something that looks like war. Yet more socialism for the ultra-wealthy, in other words. In this incentive structure, spending more than needed is the point.

While it wouldn't be true to say that the US hasn't had "military goals" in Afghanistan, I'd make the claim that these were never really the point. Like most of the defense budget, this has been about enriching a specific sector of the American elite, and by that metric they've succeeded tremendously. In fact, judging from the media reaction to the US leaving the past ten days, they seem to have thought it'd last a lot longer than 20 years.
Would you care to share some useful extensions for these problems?
Yes, the fed issues currency by fiat, but the actual resources consumed by this war probably account for the monetary price tag. Additionally, the money spent did not vanish in a puff of smoke at the end of a gun: it lined the war chests of the military industrial complex. This gives these people and organizations outsized influence to manipulate our government into staying in wars in order to justify buying expensive munitions. This destructive feedback loop is the true cost of war.
John Carmack visits Starbase
I once tried the following approach and it saved me a ton of development time. In reality, it validated that there was not a good pattern for a problem to be solved in the space I was looking at.

Figure out who your target audience is first. You might have to talk to a lot of people. Get good at listening and asking open ended questions ( see book Mom Test )

Once you have a rough idea who your audience is, try to find about 30 people in that audience to talk to face to face. You can use a script like in the book Running Lean. You want to keep good notes on each conversation. Build a table/matrix of all things you uncover across these 30 or so conversations. If you can see a clear pattern in the problems a majority of the people have, that could be the idea you build a product for.
I skimmed your article but I don't see any "sound evidence" proposed in the article either.

The line between "conspiracy theory" and "a theoretically possible hypothesis that can neither be proven nor ruled out" is kind of murky for me, but if you are claiming "there are sound evidence that COVID comes from a lab leak", then you cannot support your argument by only citing "space for reasonable doubts" (which is what your article said).
The point is that you can't just draw a line around obvious failure modes and say they're not part of the strategy. If you compare the median global response to "we beat the virus with a single lockdown!", that sounds like an obvious winner, but it's a much more equivocal story if you compare it to "we'll be doing snap lockdowns 1-2 times a year for the foreseeable future, and even then we may need to give up on elimination if one of the lockdowns doesn't work".

(As someone mentioned upthread, this shouldn't be seen as a slight against the people or leadership of New Zealand, who generally seem to understand that lockdowns weren't meant to be a one-and-done measure.)
There is fair use in trademarks in most countries: https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/fair-use-of-trademarks-inte...
Here's the other side of the story.

For a long time I was a student (yes, I did a PhD). I didn't have the cash for local bike shops.

Buying and supporting local is a luxury for the rich. I could not afford the $600 bikes they were selling. I bought $150 used bikes on Craigslist and repaired them myself. And no, not with parts from the bike shop. I could get the same parts at half price online, including from Amazon. Usually I could tune up a $150 bike for another $25 in parts and that's a lot cheaper than $600.

If local bike shops want my business, and pretty much the business of students in general, they need to get with the beat and be cheaper than Amazon.

Oh btw -- last week I changed my bike pedals for one that I got on Amazon for $20. I have never seen a bike shop sell such good pedals at this price point. I have never even seen a bike shop sell this brand ("ROCKBROS"). They usually sell some super expensive brand like Shimano only. They also seem to have politics against selling competing brands sometimes, and Amazon has none of that bullcrap, you see all the brands and you buy the best.
We completely wrecked your life and mental health, but it's all good because we're providing free mental health services.
I'm using darktable for processing my RAW files for some time, and it's very powerful and neat.

It has some learning curve, but it's much smoother than it looks. Also, its final image quality is really high.
Sorry about that. "Bone Diseases, Developmental" are not enabled in the UI yet.

However, if you want, I can search for you via our API, where we have all conditions.

Thanks for the drop-down menu advice, will implement that.
If it was >250g, you need a license: https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/drone-safety/learn-rules-yo...
I think of my road bike and the mountain bikes I owned when I did that.. So toys(sports equipment).

But yeah, the majority of the US population probably thinks recreational bikes for their kids and maybe the ones they own to ride with their kids.. Also toys.
According to Raymond Hettinger, it was easy to get rid of the GIL and replace it with a bunch of smaller locks that allowed true concurrency - but the single-thread performance was dramatically worse due to all the extra locking and unlocking, and that wasn't something they were willing to sacrifice.
> What do you expect to see from that data alone? How much immunity and for how long the actual covid infection provides?

Yes, so we can deduce remaining susceptible.

The basic model in a pandemic is SIR. Susceptible, Infected, Recovered. Vaxed is a secondary factor.

We live in crazy land when I have to explain why we should be tracking Susceptible (computable when you know number infected and reinfection rate). (not to pick on you, just speaking about general trends I'm seeing)

Imagine if in computing someone asked, "why should we measure RAM usage?"

It's like, the very very basics.

Without that, you cannot accurately model and forecast the pandemic. And you can see for yourself how poorly the CDC is still modeling this when they said "vax work great! no masks!" and then "shit! vax don't work as great as we said, masks back on!" It's like they are pretending that natural immunity without a vax does not exist. One of the very basics in epi, both theoretically and empirically from mountains of data. It's crazy town, I tell you.

At the individual level you should know this to make the proper conditional decisions. There is scant benefit to be had from the vax if you were infected and recovered naturally (and yes, I've read the Kentucky study, and if that's someone's main argument they're a moron).
That this article is even necessary proves that our leadership in the west has utterly failed to convey the goal of Coronavirus suppression tactics. Either that, or the sensible message is being morphed, funhouse mirror style, even through the most banal of media outlets.

COVID-19 in some form was always going to be around forever. The goal was never complete eradication. Perhaps the miracle of the mRNA vaccine led us to fantasize, a little too openly, about going back to the pre-pandemic status quo. But that was never going to be the case.

Personally, I’ve already moved on. I’ll wear a mask as the situation dictates. I’ll get the boosters. I’ll keep mailing in my nasal tests twice a week and check the results. I’ll keep an eye on the hospital numbers and modify my risky behavior as needed. I won’t argue with people about the mask, about vaccines, about the origins. I’ll work from home as long as they’ll let me and go into the office when they say I’ve got to — or I’ll find another job.

I’ve already made peace with this thing. I’ve moved on. If I get it, I get it — but there’s no real use in obsessing over it any longer. I’ve adapted, and I’m ok with that.
Human Smuggling Rampant on Facebook Amid Border Surge
From the article: "PNW wasn’t the only business growing tired of Amazon. Kerson and his team asked buyers at every retailer who stocks PNW parts to remove them from their Amazon stores too, so that everyone involved could maximize their profits and not undercut each other." ... “We set up these calls and we were not expecting them to go very well,” says Marshall, “As soon as we started talking about it the buyers were really excited.”

From the FTC: "Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors that raises, lowers, or stabilizes prices or competitive terms ... Price fixing relates not only to prices, but also to other terms that affect prices to consumers, such as shipping fees, warranties, discount programs, or financing rates. Antitrust scrutiny may occur when competitors discuss the following topics: ..., Capacity, Identity of customers, ... Defendants may not justify their behavior by arguing that the prices were reasonable to consumers, were necessary to avoid cut-throat competition, or stimulated competition." [1]

Is there a lawer who can say if that was price fixing?

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
> We know that dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mink, white-tailed deer, a gorilla, and a tiger have been found to have been infected with covid-19.

How do we know this? PCR test? At what threshold? Or, antigen test? Is there a guinea pig antigen test for COVID?

I'm suspicious of this reasoning due to the apparently complicated and necessary natural pathway this virus used to become infectious to humans in the first place. This apparently doesn't apply anymore?

> Of diseases that get as widespread as this, with animal reservoirs

The contact with those reservoirs needed to be much more than casual in order for infections to pass. I'm not sure this logic applies to a SARS virus.
I was considering to use Amazon Fulfillment for Summon The JSON decks. However, it occurred to be very expensive. My customers are fine to wait a couple of days. They can also choose fast manufacturing, to get decks faster. I don't fell I miss anything by not selling or fulfilling by Amazon.
Just read through your blog post, there's plenty of great insights on there and I appreciated someone being so thoughtful and tactful with their response. As a Rust developer, I fully encourage you to push through and learn the language: I've walked a few tenured web devs through the language, and they're always surprised by how strongly typed and simple everything is once you understand the syntax. Truly one of my favorite languages to work with!

As for 'alternatives' like you listed towards the bottom, I fully recommend setting up your own Nextcloud instance. It's a really versatile little thing, capable of hosting your photos/documents/music/whatever from a decent online interface (or WebDav, if you're a nerd.)
Also, the question of should a government force its citizens to have a medical procedure. Or de-facto forcing by requiring proof for common daily activities.

This issue was then weaponized for political purposes, and people got militant about it.

But governments have consistently lied/been wrong about this virus, so there is no trust either in their messaging about this crisis.
That will be everywhere. Do you not understand what happens when people feel completely subjugated like this? This is a path to total chaos, devastation and destruction.
The point is that if you're performing your own service of your car, you're already more of an enthusiast than your bicycling counterpart. Cycling for transportation needs to work for the mainstream, buy it from a dealer on installment, take it to the shop for routine maintenance, treat it as an appliance consumer. Enthusiasts will always find a way in spite of bad infrastructure.
I just looked again at the papers about Pfizer trials, and the severe adverse events after the vaccine were 0.6%. Many would surely call that number non-negligible. Unfortunately for the desire for clarity, the severe adverse events after the placebo were a too close 0.5%.

Yesterday during a normal call with a friend, he mentioned that one acquaintance of his got leukaemia, four weeks after vaccine injection. That leukaemia is real, the relation with the vaccine doubtful.

This whole sars-cov-2 infestation came during a loud noise of other adverse events, many unrelated... The normal loud noise of adverse events.

One may suspect, but cannot point to virus or vaccine for anything that happens.
This is tough in B2C though.
I think that it comes down to the difference between not learning at all and not learning specific overcomplicated things when they're unnecessary for your use case.

If you look at OP's examples, I don't think that any company would disqualify an otherwise competent developer for having only worked on monoliths instead of microservices or for using an easy deploy set up instead of a something with Docker and a CI/CD system.

And of course OP still has tonnes of experience with their specific stack which is still quite popular - that's the opposite of being unhireable.

The other part is that you might be overestimating how difficult it is to pick up something new when it's necessary. Most of these aren't that big of a deal to learn for someone with experience.