skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remdesivir [0], for one, which received Fast Track and Priority Review designation from the FDA. It was also noted in a 2019 Wall Street Journal article [1] that the majority of new drug approvals are now done through a Fast Track process.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fast-track-drug-approval-design...
We no longer believe that Covid is spread by large droplets that will fall to the ground within six feet of being sneezed or coughed out. Cloth masks catch those droplets just fine.

We now know that Covid is spread by minute particles so small that they float on the air for hours. Cloth masks do not filter the air you breathe from particles of that size.

You would need an n95 mask or better to do that job.

Remember that mask wearing almost completely did away with last year's Flu season while we simultaneously had a huge Covid surge.
I don't really know how to determine a fair price other than letting them compete with Moderna et al.

Traditional flu jabs apparently [0] cost the NHS £5-8 (<$11) per dose; the Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine seems in-line with that charging $2-5 non-profit for the duration of the pandemic [1]. But I don't know how comparable that is to Pfizer's given that the latter's different, newer (mRNA) tech AIUI? (Perhaps that's a disservice to the researchers at AZ/Oxford, I don't know.)

[0] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/17/nhs-attempts-sav...

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/11/covid-19-vacci...
> regulated critical parts of the supply chain of raw materials and preproducts

I'm unfamiliar with this having happened, but if it did as you say that would definitely support your point.

> It then compelled the manufacturers into exclusively servicing the US purchase contracts

Wasn't this just a component of the purchasing contract? I would draw a distinction between cases where the gov was a purchaser and where it was not.
Shouldn't Jonhat disclose it to Microsoft before publishing it as a zero-day? This would really be something that Microsoft can and should block on their side.

It's a bit crazy that Windows downloads and install random drivers when plugging in a device when a non-admin user is logged in and that should be fixed but besides this, they also have a way to block the offending driver for a while. Publishing it as a zero-day instead feels a bit irresponsible
We don't support Linux yet, but we are working on this!
> Do you have any specific examples of this?: "weird, Orwellian ways that the government talks about it"

"The voluntary phase is over" - Bill de Blasio

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/08/03/new-york-c...
the author does not relinquish rights to run the code. running it on a third party service does not magically launder the license.
Your argument is essentially that because we don't / cannot outlaw all ways to harm others, we cannot justify making other laws to avoid harming others?

You are also strawmanning to assume that laws that punish bad parenting would immediately skip to the state raising the kids.
>"Pascal just isn't a language I want to spend a lot of time working in."

I do not dwell on "liking/disliking" languages. I use what I use (few languages) for pure practical reasons. To me the goal is to design and deliver end product. Language to me is like a screwdriver. It just has to be good enough to do the job without bending backwards. For making native multiplatform GUI applications Lazarus/Freepascal combo totally ticks the box.
C++98 was big. C++11 was big. C++20 was big. Probably expect C++29 to be big.

Nine to twelve years seems like it should be enough time to adjust.
Personally (haven't started a company) there is basically only one thing you need before starting: your first customer, then not screwing up, but that I believe is easier.
They will of course pivot; you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

As mandates increase, I anticipate a wave of fake vax cards, as the ones in the USA are simple and trivially easy to forge.
All the pro-mask studies are like this: Some simulated situation that doesn't take into account whether spread actually happens like that in real life.

They can simulate blowing stuff through various types of filter material all they want, it doesn't change that none of the epidemiological curves reacted to mask mandates anywhere.

They do work great as an ideological symbol though, thanks to the topic's polarisation.
> Delta doesn't really change much of that, they are not the primary victims nor spreaders.
And yet, in some parts of the US, government guidance requires masks from age 2.
>That process isn't being followed

Evidence?
> Can see why it ended the way it did.

If we learn from all that history, I would imagine it has not ended at all.
The American Cancer Society is quite silent regarding heart attacks.

There are plenty of groups working on Black maternal and infant mortality, drug and gang violence in the Black community, etc. If you want to work on that feel free to volunteer/give money. The criticism that "movement A isn't doing anything about topic B" is just sort of silly, as I can always come up with some worthy topic that movement A isn't addressing, no matter which movement.
Yes, my "substiantial benefit" is not exposing my system to an artificially created addiction/dependency on fabricated meds. What you seem to ignore is the long term effect of going down that path as a society. If the death rate in my age group were higher, believe me, I would take a shot. But since I am statistically not really at risk, I prefer to not make myself dependent on vaccination to survive.
> That's what happened with the four other coronaviruses that are in wide circulations in humans. They are thought to have caused terrible pandemics when they first got to humans which were deadly in adults but not bad in children.

Yes, this is now thought to be the case for the 1889-1890 pandemic.
We're about to find out one way or the other in the US. Hospitals are full, ERs are full, ICUs are full and it is likely going to stay that way all fall/winter. This has two consequences: 1) There are no beds and/or staff for people coming in with heart attacks or from car crashes or other solvable issues. 2) Fatigue is building on hospital healthcare workers. They are being berated by family members of dying un-vaccinated persons. They are at a breaking point.I think we will see a complete meltdown of our hospital system. There is going to be a flood of healthcare quitting. I personally expect 20% to walk away over the next 6 months.
Only someone totally ignorant of the difference between a vaccine and a pain drug, in terms of how they are tested and approved, would use 'what about vioxx' as an indictment of vaccines.
I hadn't heard of Clapton's vaccine response until reading these comments. Just listened to an interview with him on Odysee. His description sounds exactly like my own experience with the first jab.

I haven't had the second jab. I've had nothing but pressure from almost everyone I know to get the second shot, and am still on the fence.
Sadly, Unable to share this on Twitter as it identifies the link to be harmful! What a pity! But thank you for sharing!
The way Firefox is acting the last few years, you would think that Google owns them. "One company for one government."

Luckily a few promising alternative browsers are popping up.
It sounds like an outstanding search and rescue platform, in calm conditions.
This was rambly and trying to pull my point somewhere else but let's address.

The two groups(Those opposed to vaccination due to potential long term effects and those in favor of vaccination immediately) cannot come to a meeting of the minds. Both sides see a potential existential threat that they're prioritizing that makes them diametrically opposed to the other point of view ("if you don't get the vaccine today you're actively spreading the plague" vs "if I get the shot, my blood will clot and I'll be sterile"). The truth is somewhere in the middle.

The whole issue with vaccination is that of threat perception. Everyone is building hypothetical models for the future based, mostly, on personal feeling and enough data points from experts to justify that feeling.

Again: There are a number of people who feel that the threat of the virus is less than the threat of the vaccine and are thus using whatever means presently available to them to justify to others why they believe that, just as there are people who feel that the virus is a greater threat than the cure.
He could have simply said I believe the vaccine work and is safe bug .. pharma have predatory contract.

I think his goal was to make it clear that he was not an anti-science or conspirationist himself.
LOL, I had forgotten about this, but I actually sort of lived this decades ago in college. I thought I "invented" this variable-less swap technique and used it when answering a CS class quiz question. The prof dinged me on it. I thought I was wonderfully clever and the prof just didn't get it. But of course, he was right and I was wrong.
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Yeah, my CAD software, Rhino, is all that ties me to Windows.
Portugal: 66.5% double jab, 75.8% at-least-single-jab. (22 Aug 2021)

(I was right in front of ourworldindata.org)
THIS is actually a great suggestion. Have some lower speed that sawstop does not trigger below. It really does not need to trigger once its (very) slow unless you have a heavier dado blade maybe?

Or have a noncartridge saw brake on the saw, when you come off saw for more than 3 seconds put some light pressure on to slow it more quickly.

I think a fair number of false fires are from this rather than the "wet wood" worry.
We support both Windows and Mac - when you press any of the 'Start my free trial' buttons, the app, for your specific operating system, should start downloading. Let me know if you experience any issues.
I never claimed getting covid was safe, only that we don’t have long-term data on the vaccines.

Re: things like Tylenol, the difference is we have a ton of long term data on that, and the interactions with things like alcohol or other drugs are well known.

The fact that the FDA made a point to say that the vaccine was studied for eight whole weeks is worrisome, for something that most of the population will be forced or at least coerced into taking.
If you want the kernel implementation of WireGuard instead, or you can't use the official packages for some reason, there's an unofficial CLI on GitHub [0] that just spits out a standard wg-quick configuration file for you to use.

I started using it a few weeks ago while travelling and I've found it reliable and painless.

[0]: https://github.com/ViRb3/wgcf
That's very cool!

How does it handle weather? You mention it can take off and land in inclement weather, but how does it compare with existing competitors? Intuitively (as someone with zero knowledge or experience in any of this), it seems like planes and helicopters could handle higher winds than a blimp - is that the case?
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Data for Delta is still coming in, right? I thought there are concerns about it causing more complications in children than previous variants.
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That can be said about languages, libraries, plugins, any tools you choose to make use of. It's just about sticking to good practices and understanding what you're using instead of choosing to be a bad dev. That shouldn't require excluding everything that has the potential to be used improperly.
> and can take off and land in inclement weather

What kind of inclement weather are we talking about?

Aircraft have to deal with some really inclement weather. METARs like 12026G41. You mention you are testing in Alaska, which is infamous for this.

How much of a problem will this be?
Well, Ben meant literally purchasing, not figuratively, since that quote likes to be given out of context. The vaccine is free.
> until I edited it to state that I wasn't supporting Trump

It's funny you mentioned this because my original comment was something along the lines of:

"""

2016-2020: "I hate Trump, but..."

2021: "I got the vaccine, but..."

"""

But I erased that and wrote my comment above because I thought it had a lower chance of being downvoted.
It's not obscure. HOA means Home Owners Association, Google "HOA definition" for more information.

From a cursory search ~25% of Americans are a part of one.
It's set by the OS. The browser picks up the OS setting.
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Which mice do? Is there a list somewhere? I just got a Steelseries mouse and the programmability only works if the driver is running in the background. I might as well just use Autohotkey. My previous A4Tech mouse was actually programmable.
I still don’t get why companies who design hardware a so poor at writing drivers/supporting software. They design and test hardware, because recalls are expensive, but somehow feel like shipping shitty software is just fine.

Why is it so hard to priorities good drivers? Or is it just impossible to hire good driver developers?
Just to be clear, by the standard you're proposing there's also no scientific evidence that posting on Hacker News is safe. There is no scientific evidence that the internet is safe. There is no scientific evidence that wearing a mask is safe.

There is, of course, an INCREDIBLE amount of EVIDENCE for all of these things being safe (including the vaccine). There has simply never been a 100% complete full evaluation of safety to the rigorous standards of an academic paper.

But it's really important to understand that we know TONS of things without having that rigor, and we don't hold the vast majority of our life to that standard.

Heck, we outright know that driving IS dangerous, ridiculously so compared to taking a vaccine, but we still allow that.
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Yeah like that person who lit a cop car in Seattle on fire!
Oh, they were white? And from Texas? And didn't appear to believe that black lives mattered at all?
The point I'm trying to get here is that you're arguing with what should be an unimpeachable central thesis "black lives matter".
Also, you are kidding yourself. The US is still painfully racist. People were gonna get mad no matter what because it was about black people.
Sure, there's just many fewer vaccinated people getting infected, so many fewer spreading it. And when they do get infected, they are infectious to others for significantly less time.

Either way, you're still less of a risk to your own health and the health of other people if you get vaccinated.

You seem to be trying to make a black & white argument: The vaccine isn't 100% effective, and therefore isn't necessary/people shouldn't feel obligated/it doesn't reduce risk/or something like that. But it doesn't have to be perfect in order for it to be much much much much much much much much much much better than nothing
This won't help at all. The narrative will indeed move from unapproved to rushed. This is just like a run of the mill FB post: ain't nobody convincing nobody of nothing! The FDA screwed up and should have just announced it was fully approved back in December, torpedoes be damned.
The article is very short and to the point. Bravo!

This Firefox change sounds reasonable to me. Why would this not be a good idea?
Did your country do a staged rollout where healthcare workers, the elderly, and the infirm were vaccinated first? That's how I got mine in January. I work at a public K-12, where our staff were vaccinated in Phase 1b.
WARP is wireguard under the covers. You can extract the keys, and just use real kernel-mode wireguard on any linux distribution with a sufficiently modern kernel.

E.g., with:

https://github.com/ViRb3/wgcf
Is it a Mac thing? I've had issues with Logitech software even on Windows.

Their mice hardware is pretty good, but the software is so bad I never install it and just use whatever works on the mouse by default.

On Mac I use the magic trackpad for wireless because it's the only one I've found that consistently works with the bluetooth connection. I'm not sure who is at fault, but other bluetooth devices just constantly have issues (drop connection, fail to wake, fail to pair, etc.)

For wired I sometimes use one of the Razer "Gaming" mice - I don't like the aesthetic, but there aren't a lot of great options in that category and they work well enough.

Apple mice have never been good - they've always been form instead of good design.
Frankly, if you insist I get a biannual shot for your reasons, I insist that you give up tennis because I dont see why I should pay a single penny for your spare time activities.

I am willing to retract my retarded claim if you do the same.
[My first attempt at an ELI5…] This is needed for massive ML models. GPT-3 for example has 175 billion parameters. The model training job simply won’t fit on a single processor’s memory by itself. To calculate these models, the bigger job has to be broken up into many smaller jobs, across different processors. But, to complete the big job, all of those smaller jobs need to talk to one another from time to time. Massive bandwidth speeds up that crosstalk so that the training can happen faster.
Body takes repeat threat way more seriously. That's the reason second dose of vaccine mRNA creates about 10x more antibodies. Almost all kids vaccine require a second or even 3 shots with months of gap in between to create stronger immunity. (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...)

If you keep a tab on the news you might have seen antibody level from covid vaccines drops significantly over time. Actually same is true for people already have covid; natural protection wanes off within few months.
PBS Space Time seconded. I recommend taking the rabbit-hole approach with them - i.e., blocking out a considerable more amount of time than the length of the video you're about to watch. They always reference past videos that expand on the building blocks of whatever the topic is in the video you're watching, and it helps to go watch those if it's a new topic to you, before continuing with the current video. I absolutely love that channel.
It can also be used to sense if the wood is too wet - go to bypass, then do a cut in wettest part and you'll get an indication.
Does this imply that if we knew the total state of the universe, we could calculate its future state?

Basically, does this imply the universe is deterministic, or that we're living in a simulation?
This is part of why I don't use Razer (or Microsoft) products anymore.

Razer's UX is horrible on Windows, which is a shame since that's where most of their customers will use their products. The moment you plug in a Razer device, Windows starts downloading a 300mb installer that will prompt you to install the Razer management software each time you reboot/plug in the device. If you deny it, Windows will keep the installer and ask you next time anyways.
That's already the case in more secure environments (company-provided devices plugged into internal USB ports - all other ports filled with sealant).
Right, because 0.1% of the population expecting 99.9% of the population to lockdown and inject things too isn't selfish?
It is a favorite pastime of journalists to attribute events to a particular "generation", as if there was any kind of explanatory power in doing this.
It's weird that this is not packaged in Arch.
The evidence for cotton and surgical mask--as used in actual practice--being effective at reducing the spread is pretty weak in general.

Most I've seen cited by mask proponents either don't use control groups (and thus can't really distinguish btwn other factors that correlate with mask wearing) or are laboratory tests just testing what % of particles are blocked by masks--which ignores almost every relevant question about mask mandates and relies on suspect theoretical models about how covid actually transmits between people.

I'm mystified why people on both sides are so up in arms about masks, but nobody gives one shit about uncontroversal and more effective mitigation techniques like air filtration and circulation.

An infected kid in classroom without proper air circulation could fill the classroom with enough virus to cause a super spreader event--mask or no-cotton/surgical mask.
To each their own. To me

return !!val ? val \* 10 : val;

and

return val.map(x => x \* 10);

are equivalent. They're both confirming the presence of a value before using it. And callers of both main/mainWithOptions will have to do likewise.

> Returning None more clearly demonstrates intent as well when you really don't want to return anything (but want to avoid returning null/undefined) and avoids having to come up with conventions for returning specific values that signify null/undefined by callers.

Null and undefined are values that are used for this exact purpose, though...
US state-run colleges and universities usually offer night classes as well, but they are just as expensive as day classes.
Not dissimilar w/Windows, although maybe not as bad - the 1st thing that came up just now in a search for my device was a Logitech Support page about "If you are having trouble with Mac..."

I use a M-R0056 MX Ergo trackball, primarily for CAD. It's fantastic hardware, very precise & responsive, controllable, and reliable even after years of being packed into/out of a laptop bag almost daily, etc.

But the drivers? Ugghh. After looking at all the great function mappings and other stuff they could supposedly do, I did a whole bunch of setup, and found that the software was, to be very polite, flaky.

Tried multiple fixes, but in the end, just de-installed and ran the hardware with the default Windows mouse software ever since. The Logitec software is just a complete waste of time.

I haven't been in windows internals since Win32, so I have no idea if it is MS making it impossible to make good drivers, or it's lazy 3rd parties shipping second rate stuff. To me it feels like it's 2nd rate managed as bloatware - just use the biggest and quickest libraries available and ship it, but that is complete conjecture. Either way, it is really disappointing to get such good hardware and not be able to take advantage. If anyone has any insight as to why it's so bad, or what can be done about it...? E.g., is there a similar obscure utility like Steermouse for Windows (looks great, but seems Mac-only)?
That was not my experience in the military.

Sure, in tough (particularly time sensitive) situations you’re taught to compartmentalize to get the job done. You don’t want someone lost in thought about a cheating spouse when bullets are flying. But in general, people were treated as complex individuals.

From the OP:
>The military kicks you out or keeps you down, and non-military groups try to help everyone grow while tolerating problems.

The military puts a premium on training and accountability. Are you physically unfit? Your fire team or squad leader will take time away from their own family to train you. Have a substance abuse problem? The military will often try multiple times to help you overcome it. If your spouse dies, I can all but guarantee you your military unit will be checking on you regularly and helping to make sure you have the resources to deal with it. I’ve never seen that type of effort in the private sector from the organization level. I wonder if people are confusing a “tough” or “accountable” culture with an uncaring one.
IMO, same thing. If I see that, I'm going to know what to fix. Still not a sell that I need to add in TypeScript. I get the why, but it's often overkill.
How often should you have 1:1 meetings with your direct report developers?
> poison hemlock looks pretty similar

Well that may be it. There's a place up in Umpqua called Hemlock Lake. There's definitely a lot of hemlock out there too. But I wouldn't trust myself to differentiate, but can say that some of the really big plants looked exactly like the pictures you linked.
> Nuked Logitech’s crap from orbit

+1. It's the only way to be sure.