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From your own article where it repeatedly emphasizes that the Pfizer vaccine is no way outdated:

> The vaccine still provides very high levels of protection against hospitalization (92%) and severe illness (91%) caused by the Delta variant, the ministry said.

..

> 91%. That’s how effective the Pfizer vaccine is at preventing serious illness and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant after two doses, according to the Israeli study. This is only slightly lower than against other variants. As this is the primary purpose of a vaccine, it is still highly successful, though it does mean it will likely not be sufficient to stop outbreaks on its own.

In any case, there's clear evidence that immunity waned in people given two doses too close together 8 months ago and that a third dose basically regains full efficacy.
I'd think twice before saying that. If a hurricane was to ever hit the Houston, TX area, you'd have the mother of all environmental disasters, there are many toxic dumps based in the area.
> I don't trust big pharma and I don't trust the vaccines. Should be reason enough.

This is a good example of what I was talking about. You don’t trust big pharma? Most people who say that will still pop some ibuprofen etc when they get a headache so really they do trust big pharma when it suits them. The real reason is deeper down.
This system could issue an alert to send a nurse to change the diaper, which is a significant advance over requiring visual inspection.
My wife says that this is complicated and there is a lot of nuance, but there are specifics of their work that cannot be replicated, and in fact my wife's lab came to opposite conclusions for some of the results. So the labs that do work on this pathway simply ignore or refute in their future papers the Lill lab results that conflict. She said that whole paper is ignored and there was a meeting in Germany with the labs that work on this pathway and all the grad students agreed they did not trust work coming out of the Lill lab. She said she thought the paper was fully retracted and was surprised when I sent her the link that it wasn't fully retracted.
> not a robot per se but more of an armed, treaded vehicle that a person can drive around

That's typically what a mecha is. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/mecha
Those aren't equivalent.

Preventing obesity is *very* hard, or we wouldn't have obese people. Who actually WANTS to be obese?

Preventing your ICU trip due to covid is as easy as driving to the pharmacy once or twice and spending 20minutes there.

It's easier than grocery shopping.
> Are seatbelt laws a mass experiment in social control?

For this, or other instances you might come up with, you had a large consensus between the rulers and the ruled. No one questioned the motif behind seatbelt wearing or other public safety measures.

Do you have such a consensus for vaccine mandates, lockdowns, mask wearing or covid passports? It seems not. The only consensus you have is at the top between those who hold the power, resources and influence.

When you have skeptic voices and vaccine hesitant people among medical personnel we can t really talk about a consensus. If you can't even persuade some doctor or nurse to agree with your medical decisions without using coercion what should the average joe do? What does that tell us about the motifs of those that hold the decision power?
The vaccines were unfortunately politicized from the outset, from the first mention that they were in development. It's a shame that neither politicians nor the media felt it a good idea to keep the best interests of the people in the forefront, rather than their own. So, it's hard to blame the populous for developing a deep sense of distrust around it.
Yeah that’s a good one actually. I like it.
Read a Paper: Performance of Intel Optane (Nonvolatile Memory)
Ah, interesting, the article doesn't seem to mention range.

This comment[1] reports the article battery as 160 watt hours, so 2x 99 Wh might be an upgrade.

One use case I pictured was last leg after airport arrival when traveling minimalist and budget. As a transportation alternative/supplement to mitigate last-miles time/$/hassle cost.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273273
> because of your feelings, not because of science.

For the unaware, there are multitudes of highly acclaimed scientists and academics around the world from top institutions including Nobel prize winners that are advising caution against the vaccine. You don't just get to choose which "science" you listen to. These voices are massively censored so the public doesn't really get to hear both sides of the argument. The whole "don't talk bad about the vaccine lest `vaccine hesitancy`" is evil and plain anti-science.
2020 vaccines were made for 2020 variants. Summer 2021 brought new variants that are more contagious than the 2020 variants. Its not hard.
You mean this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27472107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27469092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468756
Probably the latter, because frankly E2E encryption means very little to me when one end is the world's most powerful company.
Deforestation is relevant here? What are you on about
nothing posted on that twitter...?
Yeah it's sad to see death rate spiking back up as well.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/

It's better than before, but it's too dangerous.

Maybe the only out of this is wait for more mutations with lower fatality.

:(
Your personal risk management is at odds with my childs safety. Not everyone is able to be vaccinated at the moment.

"In addition, a growing body of evidence suggests that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines also reduce asymptomatic infection and transmission."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
I think far more people here prefer native apps than Electron. I know I do.
If you want to dig past the abstract, crime is far more predictable by poverty rate than it is, or ever has been, by race. In fact, crime rates among poor whites are virtually indistinguishable from those among poor blacks. But the racially segmented crime rates are higher because black poverty rates are higher.

And why is that? Ask any sociologist and they'll have the same answer: systemic racism. This shows up in hundreds of different ways: redlining, wage gaps, resource availability, etc.. The criminal justice system as a whole, and cops in particular, are a huge part of this. Cops Terry Stop black people at higher rates than white people. Cops detain black motorists at higher rates than white people. Cops arrest black people at higher rates than white people for the same crimes. They are prosecuted at higher rates than white people for the same crimes. They receive longer sentences than white people for the same crimes. And they get wrongfully convicted (as evidenced by exonerations) at higher rates than white people. And we have an extremely ugly history of making laws that are intentionally targeted at criminalizing black people...giving cops more ammunition to continue this oppression.

Black people being murdered in cold blood by police officers is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to black oppression by the police. World War I wasn't started because people really cared about Austrian Archdukes...the explosion into full on war was a long time coming, and Franz Ferdinand was just the trigger. Just as well, BLM activists absolutely care about black people being killed by black people. But when a cop, who represents a daily oppressive force against black people trying to make their way out of poverty, brutally murders someone in cold blood, in broad daylight, and with dozens of witnesses begging him to relent, and then continues to choke a dead body for several minutes after he gave up the ghost....yeah, protesters have every right to make a big fucking deal about it.

BLM absolutely cares about black violence and crime. They know what the solution is: black economic mobility. And contrary to the experience of poor white people that also experience violence and crime problems, cops are a part of the problem, not the solution.

Just to be clear, to all the downvoters, this is an actual earnest conversation. I don't think any participant of this thread deserves the downvotes that it is getting. I do believe there is subtle racism here, but it isn't malicious racism, just the typical sort of everyday biases that present themselves in all people from time to time. We don't solve systemic racism by taking sides and lobbing pot shot insults. That does more damage than good.
Having to preface a comment with vaccination status is truly unfortunate.
A similar option is to boot a kernel using the built-in EFI stub (CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y), embed the initramfs if you use one (CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE), and set the default command line with CONFIG_CMDLINE if configuring it via UEFI is too unpleasant. I boot like this.

Advantage: less complex than adding another layer (and dependency) with the gummiboot stub.

Disadvantage: relinking the kernel is more expensive than rebundling with objcopy, if you change initramfs with the same kernel often.

Disadvantage: it's not an option if you use a distribution kernel binary instead of building your own.
Aren't most takes on here subjective? I don't think we label most posts with "Only my opinion, but..." event though that applies to almost everything here. Anyway...

Trex doesn't do anything about transitive dependencies and package deduplication, what my critique is about.
> The Taliban may hold some socially outdated ideas, but their use of digital communications and machine guns is absolutely not "from the sixth century

Of course it's not. And the US should know that. They trained the Taliban in he 80's to fight the Russians.
The Case Against Self-Checkouts
There are a few vaccines I had to have for school when I was younger. What’s the difference?
Ill happily find you a remote job pre covid to undo all this
>"I mean, it's an event based form builder. Same as almost all of these tools (going WAAAAY back, 20+ years at least)."

And nothing "better" and more practical came out ever since paradigm wise. Just insane bloat of trying to marry Browser to a native application
This is a strawman "fact check". They disprove something that was never alleged to seem as if they're fact checking when in fact they're just trying to protect politicians trying to get corporations to intrude into your speech and privacy.

What was said was the DNC was trying to get the text message providers to monitor the text, not that the DNC could read your text messages. The text message providers can absolutely monitor your texts.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina...

>Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.

It was never "the DNC can read your texts".
Well, it's been profitable so far, so of course it's going to get milked for as long as possible.

https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pand...
I'm sure the ravaged nursing homes and full hospitals wished they had found the wisdom of your baseless bro science earlier.
Also if you're writing capacitor 3 apps there's a badly supported open source library that doesn't work for social logins. Firebase should support a decent library but they don't.
The goal is to stop the people from getting infected as much as possible, for a couple of reasons, mostly to stop mutations and also to make sure hospitals aren't over-loaded. It sounds like we're at least already on the same page with not wanting hospitals to be over-loaded. Getting a vaccine is much better at preventing reinfection than only having had COVID in the past, according to the CDC study quoted below (basically, those who had covid before and weren't vaccinate were over 2 times more likely to get re-infected than those with the vaccine!).

I'm sorry that people in your family are being treated like a threat. Can you elaborate on that? I also feel for those if there are issues at work, and I really think US should mandate paid leave to take the vaccine (at a minimum), but that's another discussion. :)

This report details the findings of a case-control evaluation of the association between vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in Kentucky during May–June 2021 among persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. Kentucky residents who were not vaccinated had 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with those who were fully vaccinated

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
Look through a list of vaccine safety recalls. Here's a highlight of the big ones--this is the list that most vaccine hesitant people talk about when they discuss their issues with vaccine safety.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....

None of the side effects in that list took more than a few weeks to occur, and the majority them happened within a few days.

>HN is different than the comments section of a news site.

Tell me again how hacker news isn't reddit O user of 3 months.
Immuno-compromised people aren't some isolated hobbit species, they're people like you and me that have jobs, run errands, learn in schools, consume food, often live with other humans who have to go out in public, etc. And new folks with sub-par immune systems are born or created every day.

Many vaccine-resistant folks will throw this population away from the entire risk analysis equation, treating them as a mere error term. At least, this has been my observation. In my opinion they should just admit they don't care about the fate of others beyond the 'thoughts and prayers' passive level.
If the nappy can't handle another round of pee or poop then yeah I might consider waking the baby up to avoid them waking up thanks to the pee.

The secret is in changes before naps though :)
> 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,

Well, in your example, with default params, you get back an "undefined undefined", not an empty string, so even simple code is sometimes easy to get wrong. Proper amount of typing actually helps a lot to avoid it.
All you have to do is look at all of the replies to your post here on HN to understand that the majority of users who have their OS set to dark mode actually do prefer websites to display in dark mode as well. This is probably why browsers don't (currently) offer an override option.

You are free to have an opinion, but I'm so confused as to why you're not understanding that it's a minority opinion and that the way things work currently actually do make sense.
The information up to now was a mess, but one of the early "educated opinions" was that one is more contagious in the days just before the explosion of the symptoms. So, if that holds, and if you lived an active social life and tested from time to time, you risked being a spreader.

Second, about "getting antibodies the natural way": what about a 7 points IQ drop as a risk? What about a first-level-paretian-20-per-cent risk of long consequences, "the fifth wins four fifths of the jackpot"? A few made that reasoning and could tell you it was not a good idea, some still feel damaged. I invite you: do not focus on death as a risk.
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the PC Industry
I believe the author will agree with your assessment.

> Competitive programming is a good tool for building the programming muscle. An extreme pursuit of competitive programming is worse than useless.
Often it's importan also to distinguish UI and content.

UI != content, but for some reason they are often treated as the same thing.
> At what point does this become "zero COVID"

In New Zealand, it already has. Every time there is a single case or two, the entire locale (Auckland in this case) fully locks down. This is the 5th time it locked down. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/world/australia/new-zeala...

It's ironic that Covid has been arguably more disruptive in NZ than in US, which has a ton of cases.
Citation needed. This to me seems like an attempt to group various people who disagree with you and classify them as lunatics.
How so? We already require vaccinations for other diseases and it’s clearly been effective against them.
Bytes don't care about protocols, but anyone who cares about future and backwards compatibility should.
Right wing is a legit political stance. If you want to see what world would look like without people with political views differing yours, my woke comrade, move to North Korea or Eastern Europe circa 1948-1989. You'll see what an amazing world leftist-only ideologies create. Especially when you won't be able to study at university because one of your parents is not member of the Party and listens to Free Europe.

Forwards, left and not a step back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLAAprIN6S4
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Exactly what I expected to hear.

Let's acknowledge that at least some of the stuff we're seeing is being driven by politics to the detriment of actual science. Some of that might even include (gasp) information about vaccines.
92% of Brits have COVID antibodies, either through exposure or immunity:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-around-nine-in-10-adults...
Nobody does, but that's the current status-quo anyways. Almost every cloud-based service provider will do this anyways, Apple's only change is that they've moved their surveillance from their computers to mine. If I can't know how secure my phone is at all times, then I frankly can't feel comfortable using it.
> In the past two years, a network of quantum gravity theorists, mostly millennials,

There you have it: millennials are killing the Hawking Information Paradox industry.

(It's always been said that mathematicians do their best work when they're young, it seems weird to mix generational cohorts into it)
So following your argument, we would also need to outlaw every sort of risk-taking behaviour. Almost every sport except chess bears a risk comparable to what you say above. And most recreational activities also bear a risk that you might have an accident, which could put some stress on the people working at the hospital. Heck, the helicopter pilot could crash while they bring you to safety, so you implicitly killed them.

In fact, everything you do outisde of your workhours is your personal risk, so it needs to be banned I guess.

Sounds fine to me. I am blind and can not do most of the fancy recreational activities you sighted people are so fond of. So why should I care. In fact, I should immediately start a petition that makes your lifes more dull and miserable.
But guess what, no. Thats not my thing. I am not an asshole.
So... then it was a surprise?
I came here to post the same thing. I've been using Logitech mice for something like 20 years on my Mac and have never once installed a driver. I recently learned the some Wacom tablets drivers request network access. WTF? There's no legit reason for a driver to need network access. There could be a separate program that checks for updates and prompts the user to install them if desired. It shouldn't be part of the driver, though.
It would be nice if I could, say, post a picture or an emoji in one xmpp client and have it displayed in all other clients that are capable of sending emojis and pictures. XMPP has so many ways of doing both of those that if you're not both using the same client it's a total crapshoot.

Also the desktop clients are garbage:

- Libpurple is such a lowest-common-denominator implementation that lots of features I expect from XMPP tend to just not work (maybe there's configuration buried somewhere in pidgin to make them work, but I haven't found them).

- Psi got abandoned and so has like a dozen forks, some of which sometimes work; and many of which look a bit sketchy

- Gajim is almost great. However its a plugin-based system and too few plugins are enabled by default, so out-of-the-box it doesn't work quite right.

- Dino is getting to the point where it is usable, but if history is any clue, it will be abandoned shortly.

There used to be some promising BOSH clients that could be served as static JS to make a usable web client, but they are quickly becoming out-of-date.
On a related point, while doing some Unicode research, I discovered that the Unicode project itself uses wikidata as an (untrusted) source for some data, translations of names, if I recall correctly, cf. https://www.unicode.org/review/pri408/pri408-tr51-QID.html although that's not the reference I encountered earlier today. Their system is set up so that if the Unicode organization corrects something previously read, it takes precedence over what was pulled from wikidata, but otherwise the wikidata value will be used.
Isn't the concern that children act as a massive spread vector such that breakthrough cases in adults may still overwhelm hospital systems?

A couple months ago I would have maybe agreed, but the delta variant seems to really through a wrench into this line of thinking.
People say they do, but then they proceed to read stale data from replicas all the time...
Should we try to make it easier?
The first group has been told it is the second's group fault. The first group is setup to think negatively about the second group because it deflects from decisions made. Let's say it brings on side effects like early dimentia or something much worse. The first group is setup to feel anger towards the healthy second group. The lucky children under 12 become the future. Decision makers can play this off as we are sorry we didn't know.

A recent study (last week) came out showing after three months it starts wearing and you need to get another vaccine. You will have different people at various levels of vaccines shots (1 to 3 and by Jan you could need a fourth). What being vaccinated means based on the number of shots and where you are in the wearoff cycle makes the vac vs unvac divided not based on reality. If you had one shot got a side effect and decided not to get the next shot where does that person fit?
> If you own a JPG, do you own the artwork? According to the artist who is distributing the work as a token, and also according the social consensus of others who are collecting art in this way, the answer is no.

But according to the rest of the world the answer is 'Yes'

The rest of the world thinks that in order for something to be considered original that thing has to be hard to replicate

Replicating an NFT is as easy as doing a screenshot or Right clic > 'Save as' . And any random internet user stumbling upon that NFT can do it.

In order to replicate a painting such as the Mona Lisa you need millions of dollars of equipment and millions of dollars to pay experts who'd do so without ruining the sole original, and still won't be the same as the original.

Maybe subtle nuances not even discernible by the human eye, but still after millions of dollars of equipment, millions of man hours you don't have something which is 1:1 as the original Mona Lisa. With NFTs is again as easy as screenshots or Right clic > 'Save as'
Why does reduction in death/hospitalization/severe illness keep being interpreted as "no gain" by the skeptics?
Yeah, I don't get the cloud/device distinction people are making. Increasingly they are one and the same (if you know what I mean).
There's a lot of complaining about algorithms/data structures interview questions. But at the end of the day it is up to the hiring companies how they want to triage and select candidates. Rather than complaining, what would be more compelling is evidence that companies using these sorts of interviews are actually damaging themselves. At the moment, the most successful tech companies in human history are using those sorts of interviews, so the burden of proof seems to fall on the complainers.
Muscle weakness and fatigue is in no way shape or form like paralysis.

I'm starting to think you've never encountered someone with a disability in your life.