skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is also one of focus. A Community college will offer things like a 2 year certificate course in .Net Enterprise Development, rather than 4 year degrees in Computer Science.

If you need a junior .Net Enterprise developer to write WPF apps in C# to talk to a SQL Server using LINQ, then it is very likely that the student from the community college, who has spend 2 years focusing very practically on learning exactly those technologies, will be able to perform better out of the gate compared to the university student whose education has a broader and more theoretical base.

In theory the University student should be 'better' in the long run since they have a deeper understanding of the field as a whole and should be able to solve harder problems and more quickly transition to new technologies, but that is of course up for debate. And most companies don't need to solve many hard problems, they need a WPF app that can talk to SQL Server using LINQ.
I mean that locking the doors so occupants can't exit is illegal.
Perhaps we shouldn't have watered down the k-12 system so that a high school degree meant something.
> The vast majority of currently active cases right now are for the 0-9 age group.

Either I can't read graphs, or you can't.

And you absolutely cannot take the overall mortality rate and apply it to the one age group we know practically none have died from in the past.

So, as I said, the data doesn't bear this out so far as I've seen.
> Couldn't evolution have settled on bigger brains if they are an advantage?

Biological brains are limited by other factors. Human brain size in particular is limited by factors like needing to fit through a human birth canal without wrecking an upright walking gate ([0]) and being able to be powered using a hunter-gather diet.

[0] - loosing the upright walking/running gate would have limited certain ecological options (like persistence hunting). Instead, human gestation is shorter than it should be given our body size when you compare it to other mammals.
I mean, that's definitely not the impression I had after getting the vaccine (first shot March 24, well before anyone came up with the "Delta" name for B.1.617.2). I stayed home and wore masks just as much as I did before the vaccine. I knew the vaccine would make things safer when I did need to interact with other people, but also that it was hardly a reason to "go back to normal."

Maybe your problem is you listen too much to the mainstream media instead of doing research for yourself? The corporate interests are trying to get you to consume more and so they wanted to entice you with the prospect of "going back to normal" and consuming things you don't need.
My problem with this "we just have to wait N units of time" approach is: what do we do instead meanwhile?

What's the alternative?
Vanishingly small percentages of freedoms require vaccination.
We really should have some regulations regarding standard drivers for all devices and compatibility of them. I am dreaming I know, we don't even have right to repair yet.
> That is not so far from what we have already and it is a spectacular failure!

We have nothing like a transparent, rules-based system based on basic due process. The rules are vague and broad, the transparency is basically nil, and due process does not exist at all.

People are banned and then rules are invented post-hoc to justify them, there is no discovery, and corporations have total authority to do as they please without restriction. In what non-authoritarian country does this resemble anything like a legal system?
I share your general concern here, but this is not how email-based service logins work. Excluding account creation and password resets, third-party services don't require you to access your email every time you log into them. For the most part, the login process simply treats the address as an identifier.

The actual consequence of the scenario you describe would be logging in to each service and changing the email address associated with it. But the idea that you'd be locked out, especially from your money, is just not realistic.
Where are you getting negative EROI numbers for solar from? That would certainly point to significant pricing failures.
Like someone else mentioned, I think the core issue is "Should the government have the right to mandate medical procedures?"
In my mind, I'm vaccinated, so what does it matter to me if others are not?
All deductions would include deaths avoided by the vaccine.

If there are ten poisoned people, and you give them all an antidote, then one dies of poison and one dies from a stab wound; the net effect was eight lives saved. If the antidote killed one person you might argue it was net seven lives saved.

Google "Net breakthrough deaths". You are not describing a real metric. You would be better off describing this as "total deaths from covid among vaccinated individuals".

> If anyone is willing to think, the increasing rate is problematic, because, naturally, there is a lag between when one is vaccinated and infected. Another lag between infection and hospitalization. Another lag between hospitalization and death.

Because we can actively compare current deaths of vaccinated individuals vs unvaccinated individuals, and compare them to our bayesian priors as you tried to imply you were comfortable with. If the vaccine is a flat 50% reduced chance of death, and you vaccinate the highest risk population, you might still see the vaccinated population having a higher death rate even if vaccine is working perfectly.

Your math is pointless.
I understand the long-term concern but it needs to be balanced out with the known dangers of contracting COVID. While it's possible--if extremely unlikely--that the vaccine will have detrimental effects we <know> that COVID causes serious problems. Over 600k Americans have died, millions more have been hospitalized, and some people who have recovered still have long-term problems.

People who avoid the vaccine are akin to people who don't wear seat belts because they might drown if their car falls into the water.
How does this not count as evidence?:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/well/live/vaccine-long-co...

It literally says: "While most of the breakthrough cases were mild or asymptomatic, seven out of 36 workers tracked at six weeks (19 percent) still had persistent symptoms. These long Covid symptoms included a mix of prolonged loss of smell, persistent cough, fatigue, weakness, labored breathing or muscle pain."

It's certainly not great data, but it's still the best information we have as of right now.
>nonbinding Declaration

That's why.
Unless the system has been vaccinated by plugging one beforehand.
Electron comes with a lot of security exceptions and an insanely large security issue surface. You're essentially running an old unpatched version of Chrome for every Electron app you're using.
I've felt the same way, even on a Mac, but I don't really care about how my mouse "feels" compared to some people. Does the cursor move? Good enough for me.

That said, I'm all in on trackpads 24/7 now and have been for years. Nobody does trackpads better than Apple and using a giant external one while my laptop is docked helps me to remain productive when I need to undock. So much of your productivity is muscle memory and by using a trackpad full time, I'm also flexing those muscles.
In addition to heart implants, cochlear implants are an issue too. Not only that but the electronics for controlling the implant require an iPhone app.
A little misleading: not a robot per se but more of an armed, treaded vehicle that a person can drive around. Also warrior only in the sense that it would be used to service war aircraft — not actually fight soldiers or whatever.

Cool as hell though nonetheless. Being behind a foot of leaded glass and sealed in that steel and lead cocoon would creep me out. I mean, what if the hydraulics failed and they were unable to get the hatch open?

For the nerd traveller, I highly recommend Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 in Arco, Idaho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I

In addition to the breeder reactor itself, outside in the parking lot are two remaining experimental nuclear aircraft engines that the robot was to service.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/morris-s2/
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I like the coding challenges we have at the office.

The ones who want come to solve a few riddles (this is a nation-wide competition), food and drinks are provided, we have the opportunity to chat a bit and I can claim my last place, live every year.

This allows people who like these kind of things to get together in a relaxed environment.
Why does this technique change anything? You are still assuming the supposed superior position, since you imply that the stance of your discussion partner is wrong and needs to be changed. Dont you see how patronising this is?
I've got the vaccine, I am not saying don't get it. I am saying those who choose not to get it have very valid reasons for it.
From steermouse front page:
"Includes some options, “Double Click”, “Click Lock” and so on. A letter key is available for these clicks. For example, a space key + click allows you to grab-scroll in Photoshop."

Isn't this the default behavior of Photoshop? I've been using space+drag since moses was a baby. How is this a feature of this software?
I wonder if this was the idea seed for Liberty Prime, the giant robot in the game Fallout 4?
I can never forget this classic video of Jonathan Blow trying a new Razer keyboard (worth it to stay tuned to the very end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGO3EG5DC8
Because in cases like this, the choice they’re making with their body can be directly responsible for the hospitalization and death of other people in their vicinity. Vaccines aren’t fool proof, every person who doesn’t take the vaccine is an increased chance for those who did take the vaccine to get exposed to a breakthrough case.

I know I wouldn’t want to work in person at any place that didn’t have a vaccine mandate. Once vaccines are approved for children, I think people’s options should be to either vaccinate their child or homeschool them, since if I had children I wouldn’t want them exposed to the unvaccinated. The federal and state governments forcing everyone to get the shot would be a step too far for me, but I’m very much in support of it being hard to be a part of society if you refuse to take one of the most basic steps to protect other people in it.
When exactly did the manufacturers lie about efficacy? Be specific, and cite your sources.
People like you are ruining the desktop computing experience. just stop
> Are you claiming this is good or bad?

Neither. In April, the rate of death from Covid19 among those fully vaccinated against Covid19 was 0.9/million.

By August 9, it was at 7.5/million. CDC used to provide updates every Friday for the preceding Monday. The rate increased with every report.

The last update was on August 13. So, I wondered why they had not updated on Friday this time.

I see now that they just posted an update since this thread started[1] and after the approval was announced. This will increase my posterior belief that the update had been held back to happen after the approval announcement for political reasons.

Total deaths: 1,829

Asymptomatic or not Covid19 related: 371

Rate (1,829 - 371)/168 = 8.7/million. Up again.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
> So it is literally unbelievable that Tesla not just stands up a cluster, but created their own hardware to do so, and didn't run any quotable benchmark and only has the theoretic FLOPS numbers for marketing.

They haven't gotten to this point yet.

They have a single tile (A node). It wouldn't surprise me if the tile they have is just a prototype as well.

You have to have a cluster before you can start running cluster benchmarks.
100% false. The vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission.
Up-voted because you called out GP's comment for the subtle flame-bait that it is, and avoided feeding into it. There's a lot of emotional discussion here appealing to the ignorance of one group or another, and very little thoughtful discussion of nuances and tradeoffs.
Could you explain what you mean by that?

We already know Covid can cause autoimmune issues in some patients, so are you saying the effect you describe is just a subset of these, or different?
This is more a Windows bug. Bad enough for Razer customers, but it affects all Windows users.

Windows should not install random drivers from the Internet when a non-admin user is logged in.
F=ma.

I agree that U.S. states should provide far more driver's training and have much stricter testing requirements before issuing licenses. We also need additional tiers to our licensing.
Razer, the same company where installing Linux voids the warranty and BIOS and firmware upgrades need to be installed from Windows 10 just so you can have a black and green GUI.
This is for private business mandates - from the article:

The move may encourage some unvaccinated Americans to get the shots as well as give more private businesses across the nation greater confidence to implement vaccine mandates.
It relates to racism because the topic, in fact, is racism. It flows naturally that when a conversation starts on racism, generally, conversations on the topic are also related to racism.

(In the same way that if I asked HN about their favorite keto recipes more than likely all the replies will be about keto broadly)

The discussion above is to identify that when someone says "google Chicago shootings" what they actually are trying to do is undermine the position of someone bringing up "Black Lives Matter" in an indirect way. This specific behavior of bringing up another, new subject matter for the purpose of undermining a position, instead of stating one's criticism about the position directly, is known as a dogwhistle.
Chinese isn't more difficult to read than English; it's just a matter of getting used to it.
> Getting really drunk and driving home is also a decision about your body. So is smoking inside restaurants.

Smelly analogy is smelly. You're talking about the difference between very specific behaviors being prohibited versus blacklisting half of the population from participating in society with vaccine mandates (many of whom are black, by the way). It's not even close to a valid comparison.

I get the sense that the overlap of people who are pro-mandatory-vaccine and pro-choice is pretty high, being that they are both liberal positions. "My body, my choice" is just fine for women's reproductive rights, even if it meant taking away a baby's chance to live. All of a sudden "my body, my choice" doesn't sound so good?

I got both of my shots but I am so tired of people blaming anti-vaxxers. Give me a vaccine good enough that I don't have to worry about it. Today, I'm literally going to get a COVID test despite having both my vaccine doses. Why? Apparently my government isn't capable of providing useful guidance to keep me safe. We keep hearing about masks, but the mandate got dropped and there was never any talk about mandating the clearly superior KN95 or N95 masks.

Anti-vaxxers have been consistent from the beginning that they're not getting vaccinated. You know whose position keeps changing? FDA & CDC. Whether it's how effective the vaccine is, what the side effects are, do we need to wear masks, how much social distancing is required, whether or not a booster is useful...

You and everyone else blaming anti-vaxxers are letting the government redirect blame for its own failures.
Cybernetic Zoo is one of those sites you can lose an afternoon to.
Not really. Basically you get 45-75% efficacy or you roll the dice on getting Covid and potentially dying depending on age.

Not to mention your article was about infection not hospitalization. If you do that it makes even less sense.
This was a result of both, though: the same dispatch interval also set a new record low level of coal-fired generation in the NEM (9,365MW - the previous low being 9,507MW in October 2020).
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Sure, but the power would cost about double per MWh than the wind, solar and (projected) storage - in 12 or so years which is the earliest one could be finished…

I’m not opposed to nuclear in principal but without some kind of huge advance, the economics and time frames don’t really stack up…
I’m pro vaccine, but requiring I take a test or prove my trustworthiness strike me as fundamentally different than requiring I inject something in my body.
I agree with you in part, particularly with why there has been a backlash against multiculturalism. Also with the reality that different cultures tend to have different views to a wide range of issues.

But I’m not sure what you mean by elite. Donald Trump and the whole modern Republican Party are the elites, and I wouldn’t describe them as flexible and open-minded.
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Pluuuuuusssss... we don't know the long term impact of Covid itself.

People who argue against vaccines don't seem to think enough about that aspect.
As a personal beneficiary of previous precedents being later overturned, I cannot rely on that.
You can obtain a medical exemption if necessary or just refuse to attend school or work for the employer that is requiring the vaccine. You can be homeschooled/attend online college or find an employer that lets you work from home. No one is being forced against their will to receive the vaccine, there is always another option.
Server-side software is even stronger than DRM. DRMd software, at least in theory, could be cracked or run under emulation.

You can't crack GMail to run your own version of it.
> What functionality can a mouse have that couldn't have been standardized 20 years ago?

Apparently there are some wacky domain specific mice: https://3dconnexion.com/uk/product/spacemouse-enterprise/
correct, because thats the usual expectation: application should respect what the OS trusts.
Nah. Historical vaccines effectively cover "what happens when we train the immune system to react to something via vaccination", which is still quite relevant with mRNA vaccines.

mRNA's short half-life - on the matter of a few dozens of minutes - and pre-existence in our bodies helps us not worry too much about the differences in delivery mechanism.
The CDC estimates that the survival rate for the 18-49 age bracket (which accounts for most parents of young children) is 99.94%. And that's since the start of the pandemic without vaccination. For vaccinated parents now the survival rate is virtually 100%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I am curious to see how this goes, because it will also be a clear indicator where our society and civilization is heading if there is no legal recourse against illegitimate authoritarian dictates that simply alter established practices to follow form over function.

There is of course also the issue that mandates come with legal liability for consequences that manufacturers are seemingly not liable for. However, when you mandate or pressure your employees, you are violating several laws, let alone fundamental human rights, and you are also not just taking responsibility for the effects/impacts but you are unnecessarily grabbing hold of that liability when it is not at all necessary. It is kind of mind boggling that we are facing a situation where people, companies, and organizations are increasing their legal risks by purposefully taking on legal liabilities they would not have by doing nothing.

I know someone with a totally inexplicable, debilitating, possibly neurological issue (but no one can tell her after ~5 months) that started with the injection. She chose to submit herself to the experimental treatment and is therefore personally liable even if it kills her. The manufacturers have been given immunity, but that liability will be taken on by employers that choose to mandated/coerce the injections.

I don't think people, organizations, and corporations are taking that into account adequately and are rather mindlessly rushing to grab the legal liability bag that the manufacturers were exempt from.

It's rather irrational and actually quite insane. I cannot make sense of why it is happening. One guess is that it is the effects of moral hazard after decades of nearly zero consequences for the administrative and ruling class. There are never consequences, so why not jump in head long that has never produced meaningful consequences and also in most casts has been quite profitable. Of course you would sycophantically rush to be the most obsequious to the system.

Nothing else makes any sober sense to me.
> i object to those methods but not the concept of appropriate thresholds

What's the difference? Why does Amazon have the right to direct observation of their work and bathroom breaks, but your employers/clients don't have the right to direct observation of your work and bathroom breaks?

> if a task does not require specialized skills i will call it menial.

"Specialized" in that context is meaningless. Skills are skills -- there is no job in any modern economy that doesn't require training, whether it's through education, provided by the employer, or picked up through practice doing the work. It would take you years to achieve the productivity of harvesting food[1] compared to those who are skilled at the job, and vice versa.

If you're in IT, the worker shortage that provides you with higher wages is not based on your merit, it's based on market conditions totally out of your control. There are people who have more education/experience, who have invested more time and effort in their field, earn less money, and yet make more substantial contributions to the economy than you do. So I don't think it's wise for anyone to start calling jobs "menial." It's a cultural practice designed to justify worker exploitation.

[1] https://youtu.be/OTCqyfJwkx0?t=422
There's also libratbag, which contains RGB/DPI/extra-button/etc control for a variety of mice from many many vendors
As a hypothetical exercise, were you the PM of Sweden, what would you do?

As I understand it, the PM of Sweden doesn't have the authority to do anything you describe, due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerial_governance , and (in)famously "The Swedish Constitution legally protects the freedom of movement for the people, thus preventing a lockdown in peace time." quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden#Ec...

Are you sure your question isn't more like "if you were the dictator, what could you do?"

Also from Sweden is "Vision Zero" for road safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero .

> A core principle of the vision is that "Life and health can never be exchanged for other benefits within the society" rather than the more conventional comparison between costs and benefits, where a monetary value is placed on life and health, and then that value is used to decide how much money to spend on a road network towards the benefit of decreasing risk.[2]

As a hypothetical exercise, how much monetary value do you place on human life? How do you rank economic factors over human life?
Probably because appealing to the authority of a nonbinding resolution isn't a very strong argument.
Competitive programming doesn't teach you only algorithms and data structures, it teaches you to think very clearly about program flow, edge cases, debugging etc., points which you seem to just gloss over from the comment you're replying to, just to justify a conclusion you had already reached.
Some of these people appear to live in a completely different reality.
"Mandates" in the headline refers to mandates imposed by businesses and schools, many of which already require vaccines. Why would this particular vaccine would be any different?