skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the reason children are the hold up here is less around current data than around where we are in this pandemic and patterns of thought/risk assessment. Here's an analogy that maybe will work with the HN crowd. Say we've got a service that, for 75% of the API endpoints, often gets a severe error. 25% of the endpoints only very rarely get the same error. My team discovers that by applying one simple change to the 75% of the affected endpoints, their error rate drops dramatically. We can't, for whatever reason, apply the same fix to those 25% yet, but we're confident that within a relatively short amount of time we'll be able to.

Do we declare that the service is now working well and move on to other items? Maybe -- in a real setting it'll of course depend on what other priorities the team's juggling at the moment. Maybe this is "good enough" to move on. Still, I think we can all relate to the emotional pull to say "hold on, we still don't actually know why those 25% of our endpoints weren't affected as often. Something could easily change there so that we start seeing similar error rates. We have a fix on the way for this -- can we wait just a bit longer so we can roll this out?"

I think that's where a lot of people are. Again, one could certainly argue that we're close enough, but OTOH I think the reluctance to declare this "over" yet makes a lot of sense too.
Unrelated to approval status. We handle vaccine injury compensation via a special court and system funded by a tax on vaccine doses so manufacturers don't nope out and threaten the production of vaccines entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...
They could have made it mandatory for the military regardless of full approval. This just makes it easier.
> Labor drops hostility to coal

That one seems to be dated April of this year. I see I'm not alone in perceiving Labor (thanks, forgot) to be anti-coal.

They're in a tricky position, trying to placate the nearly-Greens voters on one flank and the CFMEU on the other. Which is why the Liberals are pulling political stunts like waving coal around - it is very hard for Labor to respond to. They have a nasty split in ideology there that they have to manage and it makes political sense to pressure it.

None of that represents ideological commitment to coal by Morrison. The Liberals don't especially care where the power comes from as long as it is cheap. Coal, gas, solar, nuclear. Mice in wheels fed a steady diet of sugar. They aren't going to subside environmentalists though, but that is a pro-market ideology, not pro-coal.
It's no more, or less future-proof. And as much as counting productivity of a programmer in LOC doesn't make any sense, your take on typescript does not either. It's extra security that matters. Typescript just prevents you from shooting your foot off (btw. show me, even small program, where Typescipt added 50% LOC)
I know a dev (used to work from Leeds UK, i don't know where he is actually) who created a crypto with 2 friends for someone who had the "yay" of Wall street. Long story short, he collected 200k for a 3-month job as actual payment, and another 600k when he sold his shitcoins (that's what he shared in our alumni group at least), i think the shitcoin creator escaped with 3M and a lot of people actually lost money.

I thought it was funny and an actual tax on stupidity, but now i understand that it was targeted at poor and/or young people who did not really had to money to loose in these schemes.
The government is not compelling you to get covid.
Also if you are not privileged enough in your place of employment, you could lose your job from being arrested due to missing work.
Sure. Let's say Apple users gobble it up.

Apple's shareholders won't.

They'll want to know where their 10bn (ish) USD went that Apple currently gets from Google.

Is Apple going to increase their device sales substantially because of an Apple search engine? I think everyone who is going to buy Apple has bought Apple, so I think not.

On the other hand, if Apple sells ads on Apple search, and they charge the same fees Google does, they'll still need 50bn in turnover to drop Google; Advertisers aren't going to double their marketing budget, they'll split it based on the ROI, and unless Apple ads convert as good or better than Google, this is a net loss.
Following on from this fragmented thought:

I've ruined myself with regards to mice. Over the years I've become very used to the G500 format: 2 side buttons for page up and page down make web and code browsing very fast. And a button by the primary left button is mapped to "show all windows" which used to be called exposé on Mac, and the equivalent in Gnome 40. I've also started recently using another button to plain-text-paste, which is surprisingly useful when pasting code to coworkers in MS Teams.
I'm just saying, some people will still use that as a reason.
> It's not trivial

In my experience, it is in fact pretty trivial.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be fixed, I'm saying it isn't nrealy as big a deal as people are making it out to be. The infosec community likes to latch on to any little vulnerability it can and act like the sky is falling even if, when taken in context, said vulnerability is only a problem in narrow use cases or requires the target to pretty much already be completely exploited.
Why would those who had SARS need to get vaccinated
algebra, analysis, topology. That is about what the average mathematics curriculum consists of.

Maybe we have different definitions of average, which seems to be a hacker news bias, schools in the top 40 are not average by definition

, but many many schools offering math degrees don't even offer classes beyond that level.
Absolutely. I also do dislike Klarna and I believe the chances it will not be remembered in 5 years are higher than it will be remembered.
I like Cory Doctorow quite a bit, but he's wrong a lot of the time. His views suffer from a combination of two flaws: 'magical group-think' might describe them. Despite this, his tech opinions are worthwhile because he keeps his finger on the pulse, and even his bad takes are representative of a large number of people in tech.
I think there will be more spikes, assuming people go back to commuting. As soon as folk get home they will plug in their car and draw large amounts of power. This article is fairly informative: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
A hearsay evidence says it was developed by the holland government.
I think that’s their point. They have the benefit of a custom domain and they pay a good provider to host it for them.

I self-host my email on a VPS and have been doing so for many many years. But for a startup that I am a part of, I said we buy mail hosting from Proton mail and so we did.

Probably eventually I will also begin hosting my personal mail with Proton mail because honestly the intermittent deliverability problems that I’ve been having through all these years with my self-hosted mail are a bit of an annoyance. Mostly it happens that I am marked as spam when mailing someone that has never sent mail to me yet. But I don’t send much email with that address anyways, mostly just receive, and rarely to new people, so it hasn’t been a priority.

For a while I was thinking of starting a paid email service of my own, but I just don’t think it’ll be worth the time to try and get into that market. But the idea was that if I was making money from it then I could spend the time to run such a service for many people and have employees to help me run it.
You own your BAYC for instance. Man it's like talking to my grandma in here.
Norway is awesome. Y’all could ban new fossil fuel vehicle sales tomorrow and it’s be a non issue.
The good news is that the mass industrialisation of battery production for the auto industry will also mean cheaper batteries for e-bikes and other personal electric mobility vehicles.
The internet was really useful back in the days though, even for skeptics. Crypto is still an idea searching for a problem (not discounting the possibility that it won't find one though).

At this point, it seems like pure promotion, marketing & propaganda fueled by social media, a negative externality of the internet itself.

Simple equation: trash in, trash out. But sure, "a man's trash can be another's treasure".

Note: Visa's strategy is a no brainer as a business move. 150k is nothing on their marketing budget to gain exposure & PR targeting generation Z and millennials (future customers). Even if it fails, this acquisition has value as a stance because their customers (young adopters and old investors) want to be "supported", at least ideologically. Ex: "Progressive", "We were on your side, remember?"

I suggest reading their marketing whitepaper: https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/regional/na/us/Solutio...
It's actually for 16 and over. No impact on the EUA for 12-16 year olds. I've heard "maybe september" for emergency approval for younger kids.
This 'recycling program' only takes Pi 3 or newer boards and refurbishes them for resale. This isn't really recycling, and I feel a more important approach would be to think twice before buying the latest toy and just creating more e-waste.
There is always something that doesn't fit either the use case or the aesthetic sense.

> Why use js,

For someone working with JS on the front end, the ability to not only use the same language, but also the same libraries/modules/functions is very valuable.

> which is slow?

Not that slow, once a JS engine takes over.
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Now do Covaxin.

Seriously: what's the hold-up? Why is the US still blocking this vaccine?
Some good points! I've been thinking about the chatbot model a lot and I echo your thoughts. I've been working with a therapist and a fiction author to combine interactive storytelling with self-reflection tools based on a variety of psychological approaches. Our main challenge has been to build a conversational engine that allows for the user's need for autonomy, agency, personalization and relatedness. This has required a lot of scripting, meaningful fixed choices and enough open-ended prompts so the users feel they are co-creating the world and having an actual conversation that goes deeper than the schematic chatbot interactions we see out there.

I'd love to talk to you about your experience at Ginger, if you're open to a chat? If so, I'm at ez.skinner89[at]gmail[dot]com.
The government isn't compelling me to get vaccinated, either.
At the beginning of the year, it was dropping down to the low $20Ks.
I see. In that case I stand corrected. Thanks!
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.

The answer to this is not to say 'we can't fix the underlying issues right now, so we're not going to do anything'. The answer is to take measures that we _can_ implement until those longer-term solutions can come into play.
If you are interested in something like like this, the originators of Industry 4.0 (the German government in 2011) [0] has backed a number of actually free/open technologies from low-level EtherCAT protocol [1] to higher level OPC (Open Platform Connector) [2] for defining high level process interactions, and soon there will be open standards for digital twins. [3]

But this advertorial is just another expensive ISO "standards document" to purchase, extending another proprietary technology (S-95), as evidenced by the lack of hyperlinks to documents or repos. If you want to purchase the two new chapters, it will cost you $705.16 [4,5] - there's no bundle price for all of the chapters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution

[1] https://www.ethercat.org/en/technology.html

[2] https://opcfoundation.org/about/what-is-opc/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin

[4] https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/25465

[5] https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/59706
Isn't "dog whistle" in this case just mental gymnastics to insinuate someone did somehow secretly say things even when neither meant to nor literally said it? Excuse my childish question, was that any different from purposefully misunderstanding your parent?
“ but I would like to hire someone who are good at solving problems (of any kind) and can detect the edge cases very well and without deep math or competitive programming knowledge, it's not possible at all these days.”

You shouldn’t be so opinionated before you’ve entered the work place. If you find, after a few years of experience, that this is true then fine.
I'll give it to them that the solution is an elegant reduction in parts count. It's just a shame that they compare it to a straw man and exaggerate the benefits. "It solves this problem, and this one, and this one" but modern compressors don't suffer most of those. Other sibling comments have good specific qualms, so I won't duplicate them.

That said, I'm glad people play around with new designs. That's how innovation works. I just wish investors would be satisfied with "we're trying a reasonable alternative design to look at benefits" rather than requiring "the old design is a dinosaur, and our design solves every problem under the sun"
I think you put on your tinfoil hat by mistake there buddy.

None of the numbers you provided have any sort of relevance to the links you posted. Net breakthrough deaths, as far as I can tell, is not a real metric. And only 4 million people have died of covid globally to begin with...
Base load plants like thermal and nuclear are retiring, therefore the load shifting to night time provides less benefit over time. Ideally, load is shifted around renewable generation, with only demand that is most inelastic relying on battery storage, pumped storage, or natural gas.
I had never worked with such API before so it took me roughly two days, the AWS documentation is abysmal, and I could've one that in just a few hours if only they cared about documenting their APIs better. My biggest mistake was going for a kind of presigned URL that was not giving me much control over the size of files sent (I don't find it anymore for some reason, looks like the documentation changed). Go with PresignedPost, it allows quite a lot of control and it's an amazing way to avoid load on your servers.

>are you also encoding videos for adaptive streaming?

Can't help you with that, I only worked with images, best of luck!
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The question as always is what you could replace it with. We have an unfortunate situation where Microsoft had a near-monopoly on the desktop for so long that credible alternatives are lacking for many users. Even if they like some particular flavour of Apple or *nix as an OS, the applications they need might not be available on that platform. I wonder what the forever-defenders of Windows think they will do if Microsoft continues along the course set by Nadella and the current senior team and the situation with intrusions and lack of control over your own equipment continues to deteriorate.
Generation across the NEM is on par with a year ago.

It's more about a combination of long term factors (the slowly achanging generation mix) and short term ones (a slightly more windy than usual August pushing a bit more coal out of the market).
Yeah, absolutely. Even nazis deserve free speech. If it's effective, it's effective. If the Panthers were given actual free speech during the 60s, the world would have been an infinitely better place. If labor activists were given free speech rather than being habitually and ritualistically slaughtered by local and federal governments leading up to the 1930s the United States would be a drastically better place and it's likely that Germany would not have turned out so poorly in the first place as a side result.

It doesn't matter whether the speech is effective or not. The root of your problem is that what has happened traditionally is that governments will censor left-leaning views while leaving the right free. The problem, then, is not that the right is not being censored, but that the left is.
Did you see Logitech's previous native apps? Did you think they were better?

Because they really weren't. Hardware companies fail at software is a much longer living phenomenon than Electron.

(I could believe Logitech's current apps are an Electron like technology, but timeframe wise they predate it also, so maybe more like nw.js or similar, this article talks about roccat, which is a different company)
It seems one option is to increase hospital capacity. There should be ways to do this without needing more RNs and MDs.
It's really concerning you're wrong and also wish for the ability to silence others instead of engaging with them.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0818-covid-19-boost...
Interesting that most comments focus on the social aspect of this instead of deciphering the science behind that approval.
Lol homeless people with scalpels what could go wrong?
Yeah but like... It's ~node~ how would one go about helping maintain it?
Are they blocking it? I thought they don't have the production numbers to be able to export.
It ultimately comes down to nurture vs nature.

My opinion is that nurture affects nature, so yes if we optimize childhood development it would naturally lead to better outcomes.

However I do believe people have a “natural” ceiling based on genetics. Meaning that no matter how great your nurture environment is, you could never become a top NBA basketball player or a Nobel prize winner.

Now I’m not saying MIT is either of those things, but it’s certainly difficult to get in and not simply a by-product of your “nurture” environment but some interplay with your “nature”. Although I’m sure with a timely $20M gift from your parents your chances of getting in would increase substantially, regardless of your qualifications.
An interesting, short read is the difference between Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and the full FDA approval[0].

Basically it is manufacturing, funding and red tape being the difference, nothing about safety or clinical trials differs.

In software terms, EUA is parallel tracked sprints for clinical trials and manufacturing at same time vs. regular approval is Waterfall where manufacturing occurs after approval.

[0] https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/whats-the-difference-be...
This is of course a mod of Jakub Różalski. I think it was very funny. Unfortunately Reddit did think so and banned me for life. Reddit actually banned half of Helsinki by the IP-address because of this, which was very funny also and to the point.
This is absurd. There is no winning with this guy:

> good news: I got the URL it's requesting!
bad news: it does its own certificate validation so it's erroring out at the self-signed root cert I have installed for MITM use.

> GOOD SWEET LORD THEY ARE SCARED OF PEOPLE STEALING THEIR DRIVERS

Which one is it, is it good that they use encryption to protect their users where they can or not? Please make up your mind.
The US doesn't need it.

Other countries are entirely free to approve it for their citizens.
That doesn't make it any less dangerous
> Which makes sense as most transmission occurs in the presymptomatic phase, there's no selection pressure to evolve to be less deadly.

That was my thought too.

That was in interesting read, by the way. Thanks for sharing.
Of course! Especially in the "knowledge worker" departments, but the majority of white-collar employees and their families still kind of believes the "Japan #1" pipe dream. Japanese products are automatically "the best™", quality is highest in the world, and anyone who argues differently is a "Japan basher".
It's a strange mixture of arrogance with an inferiority complex, but it still works as sort of a mantra which I guess Japanese office workers are holding on to, in order to be able to keep on churning despite evidence that it's not working.
Unexpected humor is the best.
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Most of the 3rd party modules have been abandoned.
Exactly like governments are moving goalposts with their measures: one lockdown... second one... wait no, a third one is necessary; herd immunity will be reached at 70% vaccination + infected, ah no actually only vaccinated count and it's 90%... did I say 99%? No, it will be 100%!

Meanwhile in Japan: people living freely their lives with no lockdowns, no forced vaccination, no vaccine pass. Another model is possible but the Western governments are addicted to their power trip.
It will likely be a medical separation.
The CDC definitely says we should vaccinate almost all children against influenza. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccinations.htm
What measures we can implement doesn't matter if these measures don't work.
> you also need to serve the correct files to the correct clients

Thats been the hardest part for me as a developer. I've had several extended debugging sessions that ended up being "the media is encoded incorrectly for this android device".
Just for my understanding. Is the person who I replied to saying that even though state univ are "considered" better, their personal experience is that community college (which is considered inferior to state) students performed better?
> step 0 is obviously to use a device that won't blab its sensor readings to all and sundry

Which phone is that these days?
I am not a programer, so i can safely say: yes.
But not all vaccines are covered under the program. I assume this one will be. Do you know if this one is?
I really don't know what to think about India. I add it only because its so weird how quickly Delta seemed to fizzle out there, and then everyone stopped talking about it. Lots of very strange cases like that in the data.

I think most data is not really comparable across countries, only across time (and even then: discard data early on), because of different levels of data collection. So best only to compare the same country vs its own prev spikes. But this is esp true with India vs smaller countries, you may be able to compare Euro nations to each other more accurately, but would caution against interpreting small differences as meaningful.
If you are on Linux and using fancy gaming mouse, there is a chance you can configure it with the open source libratbag (console app) or Piper (GUI app). It won't make any network requests. :)
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Where exactly do you get the 1.7%? Is it computed the same way the breakthrough deaths are computed? What is the denominator in each case?

I see, you are using this table[1] ... This is the case fatality rate (which is inflated depending on how many infections are never recorded).

Using the numbers provided by the CDC, if we put the cases in the denominator and not the vaccinated population, we have:

Hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases reported to CDC 8,054
Deaths† 1,587

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

Now, if the CDC had not stopped reporting the number of infections, we'd have the correct comparison. If we take cases as the cases reported by CDC, we have (1,587 - 341)/8,054 = 15.5% of the cases resulting in death from Covid19 of a person who is fully vaccinated against Covid19.

Why did the CDC stop reporting total breakthrough infections (which would have allowed an apples to apples comparison of CFR here)?

[1]: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
That explains why they have a tie-up with one of the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world (SII), but the delay still seems to be political (either diplomatic or because of lobbying or both). According to a recent statement by SII MD, Novavax apparently still hasn't got the full approval from US FDA - https://youtu.be/Y8xw-NO1QA0?t=15 . Meanwhile there are other reports that SII has started to test the Novavax vaccine in India (which they plan to distribute under the brand name "Covovax" after approval).