skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know it is not more robust?

Almost certainly vaccine immunity is more robust than asymptomatic infections (especially those that rely on the innate immune response rather than adaptive immune response). Asymptomatic infections (especially in the young) are extremely common and possibly in the majority for those under 30.
One year isn't that long especially when talking about geopolitics, the UK could join the EU as easily as it left all thats needed is the will. Democracies like the UK and US have no consistent political principles besides democracy, Brexit might be over but the UK flip flopping on EU membership will never end.
I really hope this works. Does it need a new name and mascot ;) Its such an important application that's dominated owned by Slack/Facebook messenger/What App etc.
(In case any one doesn't know XMPP was Jabber.)
You don't buy Razer products because they have excellent build quality. You buy Razer because of the marketing, sadly.
That sounds like an exciting video once it gets realized
that's neat, like the temporary flooring used for outdoor 3-on-3 basketball tournaments. a concrete bridge would probably be smoother, more durable, and require less maintenance, but the interlinked rubber segments would be easier to reuse/reposition over time and being semi-permeable is a useful property for other reasons.
Dell sells (because i am pretty sure they don't manufacture them) really crappy input devices nowadays. I sent countless back directly to their Munich HQ.
I would have no problem with vaccine mandates if they were instead immunity mandates. Some people, like many in my family, spent a year and half exposing themselves to keep the electricity running, food packaged, delivered, fulfillment warehouses running, etc. Seems very strange that in the U.S. these people, most of whom are young (which means they are at lower risk from covid but higher risk from vax complications like myocarditis), cannot prove they have active antibodies as a way to meet an "immunity mandate".

Instead, they are treated as if they are a threat. As if they are the ones who are overstressing the health care systems. When often instead they are the frontline workers these systems depend on. Many give care in nursing homes and at hospitals (in the case of nurses, a large percentage of whom still refuse the vax).

How many health care resources does the average unvaxxed healthy 26 year old consume? A lot less than the chronic smoker, the morbidly obese, the elderly, etc.
Are you seriously arguing that politics is somehow unique to the USA? What kind of argument is that?

> The alternative is that they're all crazy (and/or malicious), and that's a <<very>> difficult thing to prove.

You don't have to assume the government is crazy or malicious. People are tired of lockdowns, they're tired of COVID, they're tired of wearing masks. Businesses, like restaurants, have been put in a tough spot. I get all that. So do our government officials.

That doesn't mean that there isn't room to criticize government for its mistakes. We already knew there were anti-vaxxers before the pandemic started.

> So difficult that the simpler explanation is that they are following scientific processes

They are _trying_ to. They're not. Lifting the lockdown just because things got better for a bit was a fucking stupid idea, and we're paying the price for that.

You would have been much better off maintaining the lockdown for some period and letting restaurants and other struggling businesses figure out how to pivot.

And for gods sake, the stupid shit like OSHA suspending vaccine side effect reporting requirements is just playing into the hands of anti-vaxxers (https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine).
They're still on IPv4 and chances are your ISP has you on CG-NAT.
But that's public housing, owned by the state, governed by a democratic vote. The theoretical chance that the state will abuse its monopoly position to squeeze renters is extremely remote, and in fact the opposite of the going practice in Singapore.
Twitter lists (built-in), and then tweetdeck.twitter.com is my recommendation.
Low compared to my third fucking sentence jesus christ.
But they created a lot of value for the shareholders, so there’s that. smh.
I continue to be shocked that there isn't more outrage that those under 12 are completely banned from getting the vaccine.

IMO everything else related to covid is less important, but it's still seldom discussed besides like in the article (barely mentioned).
I disagree completely. I want dark mode as the default everywhere. White on black is superlatively legible. Black text on a white background is not. Dark themes reduce eye strain and glare in low-light environments. Dark themes lower screen power consumption. Dark themes are calming. Dark themes invoke a perception of "premium" and "adult," whereas a light theme is often garish, cheap, and juvenile. Dark themes allow me to express the darker aspects of my nature. Dark themes align with my view of the world as a pit of beautiful despair. More dark themes, please!
Sure, if those actions were causing hospitals to run out of capacity.
People say "trust the science".
But I've seen no proof that this vaccine works.
In fact no you need a third shot to combat the delta variant yet I've seen no proof that people who've had the third shot can't get the delta variant.
Its sad to think people believe the lies the government and media is telling them.
Saying "take the vaccine then we can all go back to normal" is like saying "the lockdown will only be two weeks long".
The goal posts keep shifting.
The government will never stop taking away your freedom and spreading lies to push this agenda.
Hi, thanks for your support of our project, and all the users and developers of XMPP in 2021 :)

Google closing down XMPP support was indeed a sad day for everyone. But there are plenty of us supporting the idea that Google does not control the internet.

If you're interested to know what's happening in the XMPP community these days, there are monthly newsletters published to the blog ( https://xmpp.org/category/newsletter.html ) and by email ( https://xmpp.org/newsletter.html ).
Team Topologies 2: Organizing Business and Technology Teams
Competitive programming is fun and trains quick and accurate problem solving. You can critique the fact that modern programming interviews seem to be too focused on short leetcode problems, but that is an entirely different field than competitive programming.

"Mathematical textbook problems are useless, because scribbling mathematics in a notebook is not best practice! Real mathematicians exclusively spend their time writing academic papers."
FreeCAD?
That's very fair, I feel like I've tried nuking Zoom from orbit to fix this and it didn't help but there is a chance I've missed something. Thanks for sharing your experience, I'd love nothing more than to be wrong and find a way to fix this in Zoom!
Although I agree that the average student at one of those schools is much better than one at a lower ranked school, I think there is a false equivalency at play here. Enrollees in Math55 are not representative of all math students at Harvard.

In my experience, the average student of a prestigious institution is just as good as an upper decile student from a decent university. That said, the top end of those at top colleges are truly world-class. At the end of the day, these universities have historically educated the elite: there is discussion to be had on legacy admissions and paper-mill research groups that pad the resumes of high school applicants with research of little merit.
Per CDC, "three out of every four new infectious diseases come from animals"

https://gothamist.com/news/germs-spill-from-animals-to-human...

Think about it like online ads. Even though you've never clicked on one and don't know anyone who clicks on them, the market is worth hundreds of billions. There are so many novel pathogens floating around the world that if humans are exposed to 0.01% of them we'll still see regular epidemics and occasional pandemics.
> Deno has much higher browser compat.

Is this a fact or a personal feeling? Any links to back up this statement?
Not OP, but I finally switched away from Fusion 360 to FreeCAD - https://www.freecadweb.org/

I'll be honest, Fusion 360 is still a lot better in a lot of ways (advanced feature set, ease of use, layout and hotkeys, etc), and if I were employed to do CAD full time, I'd still be using it (helps that the company would be buying the license).

FreeCAD is workable, though. And since I'm mostly just making parts to 3d print, it gets the job done nicely.

TinkerCAD is another option (https://www.tinkercad.com/) and it's honestly the easiest CAD tool I've ever used. But it's not really comparable to the real parametric CAD tools.
> More than 260 hospitals and health systems furloughed workers in the last year, and many others implemented layoffs.

[0]: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/20-hospitals-l...
That’s actually what we’re doing in my state.
I literally think so, yes.

Honestly, one of my life goals is to somehow tap into creating a plausibly excusable place for companies to dump their marketing dollars, I feel like that's one of the secrets to an easy life.
That's a good thing. If it's personally painful to not get the vaccine, we'll have many more vaccinations, which will lead to better public (and economic!) health. Freedom of choice does not mean freedom from consequences.

BTW, if you /don't/ get the vaccine, you'll still almost-certainly get covid antibodies eventually, via contracting the virus. As a reminder, the virus itself has not been FDA approved, and is known to have both short and long-term harmful side effects. The vaccine is many orders of magnitude safer than the virus.
Isn't this basically what competitive programming is? Maybe I'm a bit clueless, but my assumption was most people have standard libraries of common algorithms/implementations they pull from and tweak/glue as needed to fit the problem in front of them. Those libraries are not standardized, but there is for sure basically a common set of things you need to be competitive, right?
The latter. I'm probably not at risk from either the virus or the shot.

Unfortunately you can't isolate a world-altering issue like this from its psychological and political context, so for me any respiratory-disease-related risk is secondary to the much bigger threat. "Live free or die" is not an empty slogan. I will be standing with the unvaxxed to the bitter end, although it probably won't go that far.
What's the problem? If anything it is a good sign. When an organisation pushes unworkable projects on you it means they don't know what they are doing, if they don't know what they are doing they are easy to manipulate. Enjoy.

I am doing custom work and manage a team that does it. I see "project makes sense and has potential" as a red flag when considering a new client.
Lower risk of heart muscle infection.
Anybody else feel personally attacked right now?
Studies will take time. That said:

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027663917/rsv-covid-children

> At Texas Children's Hospital in Houston on Thursday, 25 of 45 hospitalized pediatric patients were diagnosed with RSV as well as COVID-19. "A hospitalization rate much higher than for either virus alone," according to officials.

> At the moment there is little data available on the impact of contracting both viruses and whether the two together can make a person sicker. But health officials worry it could put young patients — who are not eligible for the vaccine — at greater risk.
My team tried Firebase Auth and while I think it's stellar for some use cases, I'd warn people about some potential issues:

- Firebase is a juggernaut of a library on the frontend: https://bundlephobia.com/package/firebase@8.10.0 Our product's main feature is being fast - it has the word "instant" in the name. For a product with users around the world, many of them will feel that network request and/or increased execution time. This is fine at the prototype stage or for teams which don't have the resources to implement a case-specific auth implementation that'll be lightweight and efficient. In our case we felt kind of stupid; this should have been clear to us from the beginning, but we wanted to move quickly. Ultimately this cost us time, and to be frank, that was mostly on me!

- Integration with other systems wasn't always smooth or simple. The Firebase Admin documentation left a lot to be desired. There are a lot of quirks all over. Some fields during some authentications might be empty for example, but it wasn't clear why or what this meant - this meant a lot of deep-diving and experimentation. We were using the official Go library. Sometimes we could use the library, other times we'd need to write a request out to Google's APIs. We made a lot of passes to improve on this thinking we must be missing something, but after hitting various existing issues online where developers dismissed the problem, it became clear that this is just life for a Go server supporting Firebase Admin.

I do recall that Android and Node.js support appeared much better, so if you suspect you're using a better-supported ecosystem, maybe this won't get in your way.

- Something that a better developer might understand and navigate than I did was the lack of assurance of data being present or its structure being consistent. Fields coming back for users seemed slightly inconsistent (not a problem for most requests). I wrote a parser for each provider to normalize data because occasionally we'd be missing the user's email or something. For example, as I recall, getting the email from a Twitter-authed user could be different from getting the email for a Google-authed user. I'll admit we had other issues to face so I spent the least time on this, then we dropped Firebase before I could revisit.

- Like any off-the-shelf solution, it ends up having significant limitations. This can be a great thing too, but for us it was a deal breaker. You can assign metadata to auth profiles but this felt too flimsy to us. I think this is a general Firebase issue, not specific only to auth: data integrity is poor. It was an ever-present problem that we couldn't attach users to our other data with rock solid guarantees. It felt like auth was almost ephemeral in our stack, and without fully owning it, it was as though our users weren't the cornerstone of our application but a floating member out in space.

Despite all of that it's a great product and I highly recommend it if it fits your needs. I'm not slamming the developers behind it. I think they're well aware that it's not for everyone, and they've done a great job making it work for as many people as it does.
If you get Covid and are hospitalized, do you feel that your treatment should be paid for by others (meaning through your insurance or govt assistance)?

If so, doesn't that mean your decision affects others?

I hope that you would do the responsible thing and offer to pay your full medical bill in that scenario, in which case, disregard my question.
The only bit of fiction that I have read that mentions atomic powered bombers is Charlie Stross' excellent A Colder War - where they are armed with Project Pluto style missiles and target the Soviet weakly-godlike entity i.e. (a) Cthulhu.

Strongly recommended.
Vulnerabilities Without CVE
Nobody reasonable would say "muscle weakness and fatigue" means "you're basically paralyzed".
> many are choosing to forego foreign holidays this summer

"Choosing" is a strange way to put it when COVID testing and quarantine requirements have added hundreds (and in some cases thousands) of pounds to the cost of most foreign holidays and the rules are changing so frequently and suddenly that it's a big financial risk to book anything more than a few days in advance.
Well, no. It's a Razer bug. Razer wrote the software. They wrote it to run as admin when you plug a new device in. They wrote it to launch a browser (!!!) under user control. Those are all Razer mistakes, Microsoft didn't do that.

Now, it's true that MS has a flawed architecture here. But it's not inherently so as I see it. Third party devices do need automatic driver install of some form. Drivers do need elevated privileges. 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.

But the problem is just really, really hard. If you want third party driver software to run on your system (and not all vendors want that: iOS has nothing of the sort, obviously, and Linux vendors ship all the drivers themselves) then you need to be prepared to do a ton work ensuring it's safe.
You have to clock your hours there and are pushed to take time off for any overhours you have made.
On the other hand, customer escalations are expected to be handled relatively quickly.
Why four years? Why not 40? That number seems just as arbitrary as the 10 months we've seen so far.

I think the part that seem hypocritical is that people that I know don't apply the same rigor in other parts of their life. They use recreational drugs that are sourced from who knows where with no clinical trials and a high percentage of adverse reactions even amongst our small community.
Navy Seal Who Killed Bin Laden: Biden ‘Deserves an Impeachment,'
Can you explain that criticism? Why, to them, is that related?

I've seen it before, and I've seen talk show pundits that they watch say it, but whatever is clicking in their head is not clicking in mine.

I am not exactly understanding the train of thought which is being used to invalidate calls for police accountability. I am not seeing it related at all.

I guess a stretch would be "black lives don't matter to them so why are they trying to convince us", or maybe its not a stretch to the people that would think that, but its also hard for me to relate to because I don't really get the segregation mentality, it seems dated
> To avoid these pitfalls, we wrote the core of the product in Rust, which allows for 95% of the code to be shared across platforms.
> This is an emotional appeal

Spock wants to have a word with you.
Totally agree, I want everything in dark mode, web pages, my text editor, applications, the OS, browser chrome etc. I find bright white screens are not to my taste.
Those patients simply go somewhere else and cause more strain. We on hacker knews should known the pain of cascade failures more than other platforms.
I had to be vaccinated to enter first grade, and again in college. Since I went to a public school, doesn't that already kind of answer this question?
The second part doesn’t? She’s just saying she won’t take it because Donald Trump alone said to.
Some 18-49 year old parents have cancer diagnosis that they're living with and are taking immune suppressants, or they're taking care of older family members.

You can't erect a solid barrier around that population demographic like they never come into contact with vulnerable sections of the population.

And enough people are being stupid about vaccinations that they're out there getting sick, and unfortunately if you just let them roll the dice while letting the virus rip through kids, it will find all the vulnerable people out there and overload the hospital system and affects everyone. Kids don't exist in a vacuum and the virus will happily hop through them to find every vulnerable adult it can.

Once again we find ourselves in a "flattening the curve" problem.

And you need to stop focusing on death rates. In terms of hospital resources, a patient who spends 2 weeks in the ICU and recovers is just as bad as one that spends 2 weeks in the ICU and dies. And per patient they're more resource intensive than other respiratory viruses.
1. Thalomide, according to Wikipedia, had fewer doses administrated than 100m

2. No regulatory body in America ever claimed it was safe to use before the side effects were discovered.

I don’t see how the comparison is apt. The FDA doesn’t have a track record being too cavalier when it comes to public health so I don’t understand why you would bring up an example of the FDA doing their job to imply they aren’t doing their job
You're right. There are also edge cases that seem to get lost in the mania of one side or the other.

What if you've already had Covid and recovered? The data seems a lot less certain about whether the vaccine is a clear advantage over the natural antibodies that you have from a natural recovery.

What if you genuinely have allergies or other issues that might cause serious complications with receiving a vaccine? People like this definitely do exist.

Those issues are both real. Alas, it's also tough to prove for certain that somebody is in one of those buckets and not making something up because they're afraid of the vaccine.
The computer says No: How the EU's AI laws cause new injustice
The vaccine isn't a vaccine, it's a treatment. Cases are a poor indicator. It's time to go back to normal.
I'm very unfamiliar with this, but is there additional ongoing costs in terms of extra energy consumption? Do you know if this rig is changing your monthly energy costs?
39% effective against infection, but the big sticking point is that it "Largely prevents severe illness"...ie keeping people out of the hospital. That is the crucial need right now with the delta spread.
I'm already triple vaxxed (booster), but there are plenty of aspects to this that help drive people's fear:

- Phase 3 trials for Pfizer not complete until May 2023: (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728)
- Control group(s) were given vaccines after 14 days: (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...)
- Pfizer generates 1.9bn in revenue off of 100m doses, just in the USA alone, creating a massive revenue loop for them that governments cannot get out of due to predatory contracts (https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-eyes-higher-covid...)
- Pfizer's incredibly predatory, leaked, contract (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20616251-albanian-pf...)
In my country we have collection points for electronics similar to glass recycling. Vaccuum cleaner, TVs, radios, cables. Actually TVs are too big for the collection points. Those get shredded and any kind of metal is filtered and extracted, down to copper in a cable. I'm not sure it's cost effective, just something to get the recycling percentages higher. Retailers are required to take back electronics and use proper recycling channels. The drawback is automating it and afaik there's nothing special for chips yet.
Do I have to use emacs if I was to try out Guix?
How to cleanup AWS CloudFormation Stacks efficiently?
The link you posted cites and links the FDA meeting they had for public discussion. It was almost a 9 hour meeting (which they have a youtube recording of), to say that wasn't transparent seems... inaccurate. Did you not read through the citations from your own source?

>Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.

https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/advisory-committee-c...
Have you considered the flathub Discord repo? I have been using it for over a year with no hiccups.
>> 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 role of the US went from hunting and killing Taliban to not allowing them a permanent base from which to launch terror attacks to "nation building" where the military was then building schools and gas stations. The US never wanted a "bloody war". If they did, they could end the Taliban in the span of a few weeks, just like they did ISIS. It wouldn't be a war, it would be a rampage for which many in the US population and politicians wouldn't have the stomach for. Thus, we have "surgical strikes" and operations that go above and beyond protecting civilian casualties.

>> Rapid takeover by the Taliban instead of months of death and destruction is actually the best possible outcome for the country.

I'm not sure how replacing the US military with the Taliban is considered "the best possible outcome for the country."