skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gold tends to go up with inflation, but down with everything else in minor and financial panics - just look at the beginning of covid, or Sept 2008. And you don't need the gold bars in your vault when markets are relatively functional. This seems to be more a case of some preparedness against real extremes, like war with China, USD collapse, etc.
Only 73 Pediatric ICU Beds in North Texas (from the Yahoo! Article)? This article puts a little different perspective on that reality - ‘No Staffed Pediatric ICU Beds Available’ In North Texas Area, DFW Hospital Council Says https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/08/12/no-staffed-pediatric-icu...
The police don't want to help retrieve your bike, even if you know exactly where it is.
Because COVID poses very little risk to children. The flu poses more risk to that age group. No one is running around saying we need to mask children for the flu and vaccinated all of them.
It's not so much "fuck the kids" as "fuck the teachers".

Even if you believe that "kids don't get sick from COVID", you can't ignore that teachers do. And many of them are in high-risk groups -- older, with comorbidities. Most are vaccinated, but they're still taking a risk.

Teachers are already smarting over the fact that (in the US) they're literally trained to take a bullet for their kids. So when you tell them to open the schools "for the kids", they're hearing that they're disposable human beings, and they don't like it.

Open the schools incautiously, and there won't be any schools to open. Because a school without teachers is just a warehouse.
Yes. Hopefully, vaccines confer the same immunity as exposure during youth. Based on their efficacy, it seems they’re quite close, at least for current strains—even with delta, the overwhelming majority of breakthrough cases are benign or totally asymptomatic, just like with a common cold.
Pacemakers need to be replaced every 5-15 years as the battery wears out [1]. It's not like a visit to the dentist either, it's a major surgery. I also think you underestimate how rapidly a medical device company can make a dramatic change to the design, have it tested and approved, and distributed inside everyday people. Yes it's "coordinated" but the timeline is extremely long compared to how often the phone market is being pumped full of magnets.

For what it's worth I think it's still up to the user to be safe and know what they can and cannot have up against their chest. But to say that the medical community can just be "agile" about this is to really misunderstand how those devices are certified and designed.

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
I'm not a spokesperson for the company and really don't feel comfortable saying anything specific about this.

Generically: Identity is a very hard space. It's one of those things that sounds really simple but the deeper you go the more edge cases you find.

With an complex systems, changing fundamental designs of the system- while users and other systems are currently using that system- is like trying to upgrade the engines on a plane while in flight. Technically possible, with a lot of planning, but any wrong move or bad assumption and you're going to crash.
Oh yes and Uber is now green
Because anyone can mint an NFT, whether they have a license or not, so it would require a bureaucracy to check the validity of the NFTs, and so on, in other words a central authority. And if the system relies on a central authority then it makes no sense to trade the licenses on a blockchain, as the blockchain only adds an unnecessary step. Skip the blockchain and go directly to the central authority.
Then we need better labor laws.
This doesn't make sense. it's a drug that's given to humans. I mean, I'm not the target audience, but if you want me to trust your public health method, don't be disingenous.
> until the virus is eradicated

But doesn't COVID have animal reservoirs? If it does, good luck vaccinating all the bats and monkeys of the world. Or what's the plan there? Wait until the virus has subsided “enough”, then... what exactly? Still be on guard 24/7/365/4, paranoidally testing each and every traveler, ready to quench a cluster formed around some volunteer returning from a distant part of the world?
"dynamic programming" refers to something different. In practice, it often just means "solving a problem recursively using a memo table." But wikipedia obviously does it more justice [1].

It's a terrible name, and even the person who came up with the name admits that it's terrible: "The word dynamic was chosen [...] because it sounded impressive."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
By changing what "enough" means. Provide easy access to other/better means of mobility and then we can have fewer cars in total.
Pacifism is different from non-interventionism or neutrality.

Non-intervention means "if you attack someone else, I will not help them"

Pacifism = "if you attack me, I will not stop you"
> Not really, at the rate death is declining overall COVID will almost certainly kill far fewer in the same timeframe.

Looking at Google's worldwide deaths I don't see much of a decline. Sure, it's down from a peak, but it's actually on the way back up. What data are you using for that assumption that deaths are on the decline?

> And given differences in policy, and differences in resistance to them have not resulted in any discernible difference in result

South Korea, with a population of 51.71 million, is currently sitting at just over 2,000 deaths. Do you believe it to be sheer chance that their deaths are so low when compared to America?
…and again you repeat the ad hominem logical fallacy.
Yes, condoms = face masks. Expert tier logic.
Derp. I misread both parent comments. Please disregard.
Knowing that a loved one (in my case, a panicking, confused, and hurt niece who was in a bad accident with her younger sister) is in said hospital so you can come there and support them.

I was her emergency contact, and my presence there meant the world to both her and her sister.
I believe you're underestimating just how poor the "average user"s understanding is of what's going on in "their" computers... they literally have no concept of "where" their photos/email/etc. is stored or backed up: in the cloud, on device, synchronised,... it's just a single black box. They literally have NO mental model of that.

A personal domain? They have no idea how to do that, no understanding of why you'd want to do that outside of "marketing reasons" (which don't apply to the vast majority,) wouldn't know what to do with one should they obtain one, and would not be capable of managing said domain once they have it.

Don't believe me? Go and look at an ordinary user's email inbox. ALL the emails they've ever sent/received are sitting there. Filing/folders? They've no idea what those are or how to use them. If an email makes it into a folder (by mistake: fat-fingered or a misclick of the mouse) it's GONE for them. Literally no idea that it might still be around, and still less notion of how to go looking for it. So every email ever sits "safely" in the inbox and "search" is a linear eyeball scan by date.

I little teaching? I believe not. A lot of teaching? Perhaps. Might have some small effect, and even then you'll not get through to a large minority. This is not intended to dis those people or imply that they're stupid -- far from it -- just that they've never developed/been taught the mental skills these sorts of abstractions demand, and there's no way to make that happen at scale. It's a massive, persistent, pervasive UI/UX failure, and a pisspoor reflection on our "industry"s priorities.
My biggest concern now is around seeing those who hedged their willingness to get the vaccine on its approval instead find a new reason not to get it.

So with that in mind, I'm much more keen on seeing how employers will decide on vaccination mandates now that at least one vaccine is fully approved. Any news yet on whether any more employers are likely implementing mandates (if they haven't already this morning) based on the news? Guessing a few probably had their policies and news pre-written in anticipation.
If you have a mouse with more than left, right, middle buttons and scroll wheel, it needs a 'driver'[0] of some kind so you can configure what the extra buttons do. Otherwise you can ignore the extra buttons and just use it like a normal mouse.

[0] I don't think it's an actual driver, I think it just remaps USB HID events from the built-in driver.
More dangerous than what? Even if it were 200% more lethal, 2x a very small number is still a very small number.
The UK seems to have a 62% full vaccination rate with 71% having at least one dose[0]. That sounds really low to me. "Close to full vaccination" to me would imply close to 100% or, reading "full" as "reaching herd immunity" I'd think 70-80% fully vaccinated - still a very long way to go.

I hear you that we will eventually reach a point where we've hit the new normal. It's just going to be whether that point is reached because we've given up (due to people refusing to vaccinate) or because we've managed to vaccinate enough. I think many people aren't ready to give up. Personally, the restrictions are quite meaningless to me in the US, but I can imagine that that's just because I get to work from home and all that.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/united-kingdo...
TIL, thanks! So Europe does have some big players in the chip production facility infrastructure, after all!
What baffles me is the total failure to highlight one of the best ways to mitigate the risk of severe covid complications: don’t be obese[1]. It’s also a good life choice for those who also prefer not to die of non-covid conditions.

Edit: And it increases your risk for long covid[2].

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/latest-evidence-on...

[2] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210608/obesity-increases-r...
Israel is at 68%. I wouldn't call that close to full. Portugal is at 82%, and I wouldn't even call that full.
In addition to being tone-deaf and/or incompetent on basically every big-ticket issue facing us, our (AU) power grid (mis)management is almost on a par with the US's E[R]COT debacle ... just stretched out over a few more decades, so it's harder to notice.

This story from 2014 [0] describes a sequence of events that could, if you were feeling sanguine, be attributed to generic incompetence, even if they smell more like congenital corruption.

In any case, AU citizens pay a bucketload for power, way more than it costs to generate (domestically).

Combine that with active disincentives at the large-scale (to develop sensible power generation / storage systems) and small-scale (witness the recent regularly change [1] to allow primarily fossil-fuel based power companies to charge residential solar subscribers a fee to feed-in power).

[0] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/july/1404136800/jes...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/power-companies-to-ch...
It seems like lethality can become a first order evolutionary driver though by turning our focus on it and quickly smothering any "hot" virus but allowing "warm" virus to spread. Can't humans play a part in the evolutionary process of the virus?
> But the virus spreads among the vaccinated any way.

At an incredibly reduced rate, and mutations generally do not spread to others.

> Moreover, the global population of unvaccinated will not be meaningfully affected by any one country's decision to mandate vaccination.

I don't see how that's relevant to my original response.

> And the mutation rate is dependent on the size of the global population of virus carriers, not one country's.

I don't follow. Mutations occur irrespective of any human constructs such as nations, countries, borders, etc.

> So all-in-all, I see very weak justification for such a heavy handed mandate, no matter how useful I think vaccination is.

Take the opposite case. Nobody vaccinates, we stop caring. What is the outcome?

Half-assed approaches will only slow, not stop, the pandemic. It's not very hard to think critically about this...
Asymptomatic spread of the virus is negligible from everything I've read. Children that don't show symptoms aren't a threat. Additionally, there's really no evidence that schools are spreading the virus more.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/925794511/were-the-risks-of-r...
Pfizer's Covid-19 Vaccine Just Got Full FDA Approval
> This stuff gets measured all the time, also for equipment that is to be used in aerospace and hospitals...

They only measure dynamic magnetic fields (i.e. electromagnetic fields). There are essentially no regulatory limits in static fields, since they don't really interfere with RF signals.

In fact, is amazingly easy to purchase neodymium magnets of a size that should not be that easily available, which explains the hilarious safety videos like this one[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t8yDnyOaQ8
In this case, the magnet isn't really interfering with the ICD in the strictest sense of the word, because ICDs are deliberately designed to be disabled by magnets.
My understanding is that there are already battery chemistries without these elements (LFP batteries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery, and while they're currently not quite as good as the cobalt/nickel batteries, they're not far off and they're expected to improve (and they're mainstream enough that Tesla is already using them in some of their cars).
Why on earth does Google want me to sign in?
FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid shot
At some point they'll have to hire Gen-Z. By consent or not, this entire generation is documented on the Internet.
Orientation of USB-C matter
Fully disagree. Care to expand?
Samsung Teases 512 GB DDR 7200 modules
Or AirTags.
ENS is a DNS alternative that is not controlled by ICANN, where ownership of a name is effectively an NFT.

Why might you want that? See https://www.eff.org/issues/icann
After CDC stops updating stats on deaths/hospitalizations from Covid19 among those fully vaccinated against Covid19.

As of August 9, net breakthrough deaths stood at 8/million and net breakthrough hospitalizations stood at 35/million, up 900% and 733%, respectively, since April 20.

Current numbers: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

Snapshots: https://archive.today/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/...

Putting my Bayesian hat on, a reasonable conclusion is that if the breakthrough hospitalization/death rates had improved, they would not be holding them back on the eve of the approval of the vaccine.

Also, interestingly, CDC stopped reporting breakthrough infection rates that do not result in hospitalization/death earlier.

The page says:

> Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected. COVID-19 vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the pandemic under control. However, no vaccines are 100% effective at preventing illness in vaccinated people. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19.

First, I must applaud them for the reasonable argument there. Now do Covid19.

Second, it is not the absolute percentage that matters. It is the trend. Frankly, a vaccine where 1/100,000 who take it die of the disease it is supposed to protect against sounds a little far away from "vaccines are 95% effective".

Also, deaths lag.
Almost 4000 children die each year from drowning in the USA, with double that having a non-fatal drowning [0]. Note that non-fatal drownings can cause long-term health problems. They haven't banned pools yet, so it follows that, as a country, the USA considers 4000 dead children an acceptable risk of having open water, such as rivers, ponds, and pools. And bath tubs, I suppose.

Now with that number in mind, how many children are expected to die if all of them were to be infected with covid-19? I found it hard to find some numbers about this, in my country all corona-deaths of people aged 49 or less are grouped together these days because there are so few that they could be traced to individuals otherwise.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/facts/index.html
Many museums are in fact showing fakes. Seems that people don't care as long as they know there's only one official version of it hanging somewhere, even if that's not the original. I think that's analogous to owning the one NFT that was officially minted by the work's creator, even when there's infinite digital copies of the work possible.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90170415/so-many-museums-are-fil...
Counter-intuitively, having more and cheaper batteries will help with that. Given cheap enough distributed battery storage gives you leverage on scaling back the current requirement that all electricy currently produced needs to be consumed at the same time.

So combining distributed generation (solar) with distributed energy storage can dial down the need for the currently planned, highly contested HVDC links by buffering the capacity and making the load less spiky.
Your reference [1] does not talk about suicide, but suicide attempts, and to the extent it correlates with "lockdowns", it seems to directly contradict your claim:

> Among adolescents aged 12–17 years, the number of weekly ED visits for suspected suicide attempts DECREASED DURING SPRING 2020 compared with that during 2019 [...] mean weekly number of ED visits for suspected suicide attempts were 22.3% HIGHER DURING SUMMER 2020 and 39.1% HIGHER DURING WINTER 2021 than during the corresponding periods in 2019

(Emphasis mine). So, during three phases of the COVID-19 epidemic, suicide attempts decreased during one, increased during two. The US was in nationwide lockdown during only one of these phases, which happens to be exactly the one where suicide attempts DECREASED.

Source [2] talks about (indisputable) damage to the US economy, which you attribute to the (half assed) US lockdowns. But this is begging the question whether it was the lockdown rather than the epidemic which did the damage, and in fact, Sweden had a WORSE economic outcome than its neighbors.

> Especially if the worst case is 0.5% excess deaths

The deaths have, naturally, dominated the headlines, but there are other disabilities. One acquaintance in her early 20s has yet to regain her sense of smell after 8 months, and that's not all that rare a phenomenon: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/when-wil...

And even athletes in top physical condition can suffer debilitating consequences for indeterminate periods of time: https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/31936050/lewis-hamilton-s...
Unless we make a judgement-call on value how can we balance taking away peoples freedoms over extending other peoples lives?

Consider the following questions:

* Would you accept 70 million people staying inside for a year to extend a single persons life by 10 years?

* Would you accept 500 people staying inside for a year to extend a single persons life by 10 years?

* Would you accept 5,000 people staying inside for a year to extend 10 peoples life by 10 years?

* Would you stay inside for an hour to save another persons life by a year?

* Would you stay inside for a year to save another person life by 1 year?

These are the real questions that we have to answer, and they will absolutely (and unfortunately) need people to face into the question of the value of life.

My personal answer to these questions is (in sequence) No, No, No, Yes, No. A reasonable person could answer completely different - there is no absolute right answer in any of these!

We can pretend that the answer to these questions is impossible - but these are the real decisions that policy makers need to make. How much is someone's freedom worth compared to the life of a stranger?
What's a use case of node.js calling programmatically OBS studio?
They won't, this is half a massive con and the other half exuberant arrogance.

The only possibility is some type of breakthrough in storage density. We then have the issue of charging and the capacity on the grid.

Additionally, how well will this work when my rental properties parking is a gravel lot. If the charging situation is then figured out... How well does it preform in 30 below temeratures? Sometimes my car sits for several weeks or months how well will the cars handle this?
Possible, but it is hard to implement in a failsave way.

How can the new employee proof he was fired, because he was sick too often?
don’t mean to detract from the conversation, but isn’t math 55 just elementary algebra and analysis? surely this is insufficient at the vast majority of schools to constitute a math degree
Thanks to god for covid i don't have to return to the office. It is a small price the humanity have to pay for that, so it is ok.
I'll do a PSA here for younger people since I've followed AIDS since the beginning of news reports in the 1980s:

- In Africa, men using hookers is a common status thing. So heterosexual men get it from hookers and take it home to their wives.

- If you look at the links in this thread, you can see that black Americans are around 5x more likely to get HIV than other US groups. Mostly this is an aversion to condoms for several cultural reasons.

- This may sound surprising to men who are well-read, but American women (and others) often don't use or demand condoms. You'd be amazed at how little they're actually used. I expect an epidemic of infertility and STDs as women's partner count for all groups climbs above 100 each (thanks, Tindr.)

If you're in the US and need larger condoms, most chains carry the brand-name "Magnum."

The California Family court is awarding $2,000+/month to baby mamas from engineers, so wrap it up, guys.
I think what Musk is doing with Tesla Bot is using it to get the attention he craves.

It doesn't matter than the attention is for something as silly as a person doing a dance in a android suit because the marketing stunt worked, as evidenced by Evan Ackerman (along with a slew of others) going out of his way to write an article about it.
The FDA grants full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine
Concert tickets, where the artist gets a pct of fees on scalping.
Also, check out https://github.com/Qirky/FoxDot It is more userfriendly layer above SuperCollider, coding is in python.
Absent a trusted third-party? Please show us.
So does this mean Moderna and J&J can’t be administered now since there is an approved vaccine?
Because the patent office now pretty much just checks if something is the same as prior art and let's the issue of obviousness or usefulness be settled in litigation.
I have been in similar situation with ASUS ROG keyboad and I am so mad! Windows automatically installed crapware without my consent and it runs as a service. I uninstalled it but it keeps coming back.

Do NOT buy ASUS ROG keyboards.
Two questions.

Was there ever a phase 2 trail for this Vaccine?

Is the full clinical trial data published?
Finding a "good" mouse is really freaking difficult. First off, you don't know the state of the drivers and control software, as this thread demonstrates. Then you don't know the quality of the switches, as I found out with several Logitech mice that were well reviewed, but I suspect the hardware was switched for cheaper variants once the reviews were in. 2 separate Logitech mice started double clicking randomly, and their support was awful because they didn't have like-for-like replacements unless I wanted to wait for months. On top of all that, getting a good button layout, size, and shape is a real crapshoot too.

So I bought a sealed-in-box new Logitech G500 from ebay as a spare because of course none of the new mice are anything close to the quality of the older models. Especially after being burnt on switch quality.

The Ploopy mice have an awful name but are definitely intriguing to me. QMK firmware is pretty much perfect, and I wish I could use it on the Logitech G500.

I used to recommend Roccat mice to people, but their lack of Mac and Linux support is a dealbreaker these days.
This is a video about such a project - of course done in LEGO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JkdHEX3Yk