skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone interprets arguments differently. Some reason against the vaccine may be insufficient to dissuade you, but it may dissuade another.

"I took it, but here's a bunch of reasons to not to" is THE best argument for equanimity and individual decision making; its Informed Consent. You should try to learn everything you can; the stuff the media tells you, the stuff the government tells you, the stuff doctors tell you, and even the stuff on the hard anti-vax it'll give you autism side says. Take all of it with a grain of salt, but different amounts of salt depending on the credentials and biases of the source. Sieve it through your own personal belief system. Then act to your beliefs. You'll probably be wrong, but you were already wrong before; the goal isn't to always be right, but to continually improve your ability to recognize when you're wrong.

There is no one truth to any aspect of our reality. You may actually find some compelling arguments against a belief system you once had. For example, one soft anti-vax argument I've heard recently stuck with me: that these vaccines are effectively the "kills 99.9% of germs" equivalent of ultra-fast evolving viruses, imperfect vaccines which allow both the host to live and the virus to evolve, thus creating even more vaccine resistant strains of COVID. And, maybe, at a global public health level, these vaccines are a REALLY bad idea long-term, and our efforts to save a few million people today will kill millions more in the future. Maybe. Its hard to say, but its an interesting thought.

You won't hear that from the CDC. Their bias in PR right now is: everyone get vaccinated, downplay anything negative about the vaccine, don't allow for nuance because we can't trust the public with nuance, we just need them vaccinated. That's fine! Its a legitimate goal that will almost definitely result in a lot of good. But that doesn't mean the whole truth is everything they say.
I guess it depends on what type of skincare they are doing. My ex (Korean), had a 7 or 8 step routine each night. This is fairly normal for young women in Korea.

She explained it to me as such: it wasn't so much an anti-aging regime, as a protection from the elements regime -- in particular pollution, as South Korea has some trouble with seasonal fine dust. I suppose it makes sense. And for what its worth, her skin did have a healthy, shiny, glow after applying all the layers -- which is also part of the appeal.
I don't care about myself but the social isolation of kids was pretty bad. I hope we can get back to where they can fully interact with each other again.
> I feel there is vastly more potential for LTA flight that isn't being re-explored with autonomous drones and solar being viable now

Interesting to see it go the other way too. Hybrid Air Vehicles near me is the remnants of a cancelled US military autonomous blimp project, now aspiring to use the large helium blimps originally powered by diesel engines to pilot 100 civilians passengers as an alternative to turboprops (i.e. use the bits of the tech and the business model that's been around in some form since before Hindenberg)

I do think freight with electric propulsion (over distances battery-powered heavier than air aircraft can't compete even if they're also autonomous) is an easier environmentally friendly sell.
Amazing that it's not only 200 and not high quality, but it's called "ploopy"
Yeah, its cool, its fun, but its not useful for actual real world composition, since its rather convoluted to work with and this final piece is incomprehensible, especially compared to a paino roll or similar.

But, of course, like you, I assume that's not the goal so it doesn't matter. It is cool and it is fun and that's all that's important.

And I'm very impressed by this example! garrettjoecox did a great job.
It would be quite ironic if The Great Filter turned out to be the xeno equivalent of mosquitoes spreading some unstoppable virus. Or if mosquito saliva contains the proteins(s) to unlock some medical breakthrough like some immune system stimulant that obsoletes antibiotics, or cryo-sleep. I try to keep those possibilities in mind whenever I get carried away with my fantasies of an anopheles genetic bomb, but durnit, those bites do have a convincing way about them to persuade one to a "kill 'em all" disposition. Thanks for the paper, it was a very neat read.
The US isn't even the most anti-vaccine country in the developed world, that goes to France.
Thank you for the detailed considerations.

First I want to say that black hole does not imply extreme conditions. You will not notice when falling into a really large black hole. They are violent only when small. Large black holes are almost as benigh as outer event horizon, shredding-and-tearing-wise. We can't observe singularity, so whatever matter state it is on has no bearing on information paradox.

With regards of reappearing from black hole. When the universe is close to big crunch, a lot of very heavy black holes begin to merge. When we are virtually inside a black hole, it may merge with more black holes, and if they are sufficiently large, we will be able to interact with objects (such as stars, even) inside the black holes in which they disappeared from our sight previously. Moreover, we will see that they have evolved during their absense in line with how objects outside of observable universe evolved in absense of observation.

This is when talking about very large black holes, the size of our galaxy. These are easier than it sounds due to very fast black hole volume growth.

About evaporation, I can't say too much. But I also don't see how it

UPD:
...I don't see why it needs introduction of new physics, given that it is a virtual phenomenon - nothing interesting really happens near the event horizon, it only becomes interesting at a distance.
mux.com (YC backed) is doing stripe for video already. Their API is really to use.
Machismo? Dude. 1.6 years is a non trivial amount of my life. I’ve already put my career on hold because of this, sacrificed my daughters well being, and a bunch of stuff. I got the shot. I’m fully vaccinated. How much more do you expect from me in order to protect people who don’t want to get vaccinated?

The only person who truly looks after my well-being is me. I can be selfish. I deserve to have my actual normal life back. My 2019 life didnt revolve around worrying about stopping the spread of exactly one very specific disease.

If y’all want to hide under the bed at home until some undefined end date… go for it. But forcing society to do the same with you is incredibly selfish.
>> with mostly (> 90%) foreign labor

This number is too high, even if you include 1st and 2nd generation immigrants who have greencards/citizenship. Did you work for a company that underpaid its employees by only hiring foreigners?
If the world were a better place, my job wouldn't need to exist.
He's giving an anecdote. Mosquitos would land on a native man but not bite him. Some mosquitos bit him(timonoko) but he had DEET on so not many did. An Italian couple got very badly bitten and spent the trip trying to slap and genocide all of the mosquitos.
My father is a long time plasma physicist researching fusion power. I have talked to him quite a bit about these issues. The research budget for fusion has long been, unfortunately, spent on a few large projects instead of many smaller that would have likely let progress toward controlled fusion power plants happen much more quickly. We probably could have had them in the 1990's or 2000's with good planning and $3-5 billion a year (2020 dollars) in funding from the 1970's, instead of the ~$500 million that was being spent.

Very significant progress has been made though and understanding how plasmas work continue to improve. We probably understand the physics on how to build an economical fusion power plant (if there was a reasonable carbon tax), but there is a lot of complicated engineering problems that need to be figured out. Materials that can self heal under hight neutron bombardment being a major one. A Manhattan like project with the right focus, leader(s), and the ability to ignore bureaucratic red tape (radiation rules make developing anything that produces radioactivity almost impossible), might be able to do it in a similar time frame, but I don't know if the US's current culture would support it.
"Scrapping" is like nails scrapping on a chalkboard for me.
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No, getting vaccinated is not stops anyone from transmitting disease, it is obvious. Virus gets to breathing system of vaccinated people same as for unvaccinated, and replicates there for 4-6 days. Then they either have a vaccine breakthrough, or vaccine-boosted immune system kicks in and defeats the virus in next 2-3 days. All this time the vaccinated host is as dangerous for others as unvaccinated.

I hope you didn't know it or didn't think it through, otherwise mention of Fox News seems to me a blatant hypocrisy. Either way it was an unnecessary ad hominem attack.
Ye the authors are taking correlation for causality big time. It is just a bad paper, judging from the abstract.
As long as the data continues to indicate that prior infection provides equivalent protection and that prior infection is verifiable then that seems like that should be a valid exception to a vaccination requirement. The verification is key though, it seems like everyone who got a cold in 2020 _thinks_ they had Covid.
One thing that I think is often overlooked when it comes to Deno is how the combination of secure defaults, web API compatibility and the dependency loading system can essentially eliminate the need for actual deployment builds and containers making it a great candidate for a truly open source and non-proprietary serverless platform.

Especially in combination with content addressed file systems like IPFS (which gives you additional features like built-in checksums, immutability, de-duplication and storage resilience) you can have a Deno instance running and as the deployment step simply send it a file hash or URL to execute (of course with the appropriate security precautions like a signature or encryption on top). I built a prototype to see how it could work and a full Deno app deployment to my own VPS took less than 2 seconds. No git pushes, no container build pipelines, no proprietary cloud services.
It'd be nice if there were a more generic pattern container, that could test a variety of patterns in one go. If this is going to be a platform api, it's starting from an extremely limiting first concept.
I'm saying, they didn't die of Chicken Pox. They might have died from some underlying condition and simply contracted Chicken Pox.
If I were permitted to put something on your server that could put you in legal jeopardy, wouldn't you want to know what I'm putting on your server?
How do other people use Wikidata dumps if they are not using the "official" (with sparql or so) way of querying it? I have done some pretty raw extraction from it (e.g. download the already pretty large zipped json dump, then unzip it on the fly and parse the json, and extract triples and entities). Not sure if that is really quite efficient, but the dumps are hard to work with, and I really just needed the entities in one language and the triples/graph of them.
I'd say fairly easy, especially if you're not working full-time. It was difficult for me because I have ADHD and that makes the extra focus necessary for accelerated learning difficult, but if you're good at focusing and driving yourself to finish things quickly, I've seen people get WGU's CS degree in as little as 1-1.5 years.

I'd recommend checking out the various subreddits dedicated to WGU, their college of IT, and the SWDev and CS programs (r/wgu, r/wguit, r/wgu_devs, r/wgu_compsci). There are also student-run chat servers on both Slack and Discord.
> Muscle weakness and fatigue is in no way shape or form like paralysis.

Having muscle weakness in your arms mean that you can't do things like raising your hands to chest level and squeezing someone's hand. In practice it means you can't do everyday things like opening doors, or else can only do them with great difficulty.

Having muscle weakness in the legs means that if you're lying on your back, you don't have the ability to raise your legs off the ground. In practice, it means that you can't do everyday things like walking, or else can only do them with great difficulty and probably some form of assistance.

It's obviously not exactly the same as being paralyzed, but it's not that far off either. On the spectrum from "I'm not setting new deadlift PRs lately" to "I'm likely going to hospice soon", it's a lot closer to the latter than the former. There's a good chance that it means using a wheelchair, possibly indefinitely. I think you're doing people an extreme disservice by underplaying how serious this is.

With paralysis, the cause is usually traumatic spinal cord injury. Whereas with muscle weakness, the cause is usually something more like an autoimmune disease attacking the tissue around your spinal cord. But in both cases the end result is nerve signals not getting properly transmitted, and the impact on everyday life is pretty similar.
Much like the Napoleonic invasion of Moscow, the key was home field advantage. Not in the classic Russian winter sense.

Once Napoleon's army arrived in Moscow, there was a "what now" aspect to the war. They'd accomplished the goal that was set out and defeated Russia, but they didn't actually want to live in Moscow. So, they eventually left to go fight the Russian army, which had seemingly and unbelievably abandoned its crown city to the invaders. But they hadn't. Because Moscow was home, whether it was filled with these unseemly visitors or not. There was no way Napoleon's forces could win unless the Russians actually decided to sign a piece of paper and let them.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons I still choose Windows over the other desktop OSs. PowerShell is also great. The problem is that they take this great base and plaster a slow, dysfunctional, half-thought-out, user-hostile interface on top of it stuffed with telemetry, ads, and dark patterns designed to push you to their cloud services.
A few days ago, the Wikidata Query Builder[0] was deployed. It provides a visual interface to generate simple SPARQL queries, and you can show the generated queries. Maybe this can help you in understanding how SPARQL patterns work?

[0] https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/
... we do?
So... a dehumidifier with a solar panel?
So are there OTC retinol products that work better than others?
My wife and I travelled to London UK and surrounding areas late 2019 and came back with a viral pneumonia that had various COVID symptoms. No blood samples kept and serology tested showed nothing 6+ months later. There are late 2019 cases suspected in the UK and France in the last quarter of that year, based on saved blood samples.

Lots of tourists from all over the world go there for shopping and the universities and tourism. Big crowds.
You’re missing that this is in comparison to other tube sites. There is a direct comparison here between the moderation or porn hub and other websites, and the claim is that porn hubs moderation was worse. It’s fine to say that content moderation is hard, but it’s much harder to justify doing a crappy job in comparison to other content moderators, especially those in the same space as you.
Like I said, I welcome the option to enforce stricter type checking, and I definitely will make use of it once it becomes available.

OTOH, if type safety is a concern, one can already enforce it using CHECK constraints or triggers. But yeah, it's like a seat belt in a car - in order to benefit from it, you have to actually put it on.
You or I don't. But in the market, if you can't make your product work with no fuss, your customers will buy someone else's (or flee to another platform entirely).

If you accept the paradigm of third party hardware sales at all, then you need to have some kind of automatic secure install.
People love downvoting 'round here, but the comment is sensible.

Don't shoot the messenger, even if we all hate the news they bring.
This boils down to “I have nothing to hide.” I encourage you to review https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal... and consider if you really feel this way.
> My eyes seems to defocus, and it becomes harder to make out letters.

I don't understand the inner workings, but I get the impression that there is some fuckery going on when keeping the same distance to the screen and heavily diminishing the amount of light reaching the eyes. There may be a threshold (varying among individuals) beyond which the pupils become too open to clearly focus on the text.

I have a slight photosensitivity and most outdoors daylight conditions are too much for my naked eyes, but many dark UIs are too high or too low contrast and feel worse for extensive reading than their light counterparts in a screen matched to a moderately illuminated room (and this also also includes changing screen settings to match environment light conditions when switching between light/dark themes, not just trying with the same settings).

This leads to a life where my screens are stoically dimmed way past their sweet spot most of the time. Colors suck a bit, but at least I can always focus on light UIs without strain and it avoids text persistence (burn-in) in the eye.

Lately I'm trying GitHub Dark (not Dark Default) in VSCode for dim environments at night; it's the lesser offender while retaining some legibility/contrast. Dark Discord seems bearable for a while, too.
Right, my interpretation of reading GP's comment was that it, in great detail, explains how it works in the military. Just, using startup terms.

I didn't read it as them implying that's how startups actually work.

And then, reading between the lines, it seems like a very fair critique that the article doesn't jive with the reality of the military.
could have just been an amazon list then i could have added to my audio service
An aside from my own life that I found interesting: for a long time I thought "surely there's a way, electronically or otherwise, to have an easier more ergonomic interface to making guitar-like music than a guitar". Then I learned to actually play the guitar and realised just how much control over the sound you have and how expressive it is and realised that replacing that with something easier would actually be pretty damn hard.
Petition from Coalition Advocating for Adequately Licensed Medicines-Caalm [pdf]
Well to be fair there's significant 'peer pressure' (just look at this thread!) and there's debate about 'vaccine passports' for non-travel, i.e. restaurants etc.

I had my second dose today, but I'm against having to 'prove' (or comment on) that when I decide to go anywhere (within the UK, I don't mean for travel) again.
High-risk human-caused pathogen exposure events from 1975-2016
Regarding understanding this as a good or bad effect, I think this is still an open question and further research is needed. My take away is that the rush to eradicating mosquitoes may have unintended consequences as we don't fully understand how symbiotic they are in the development of the human immune system.
Just check the 3rd dose data from Israel. Of course you don't know because you haven't looked for it. If you are unwilling to do the research just follow CDC guidelines. That's what everyone else does.

What makes you think I have the power to force anyone to anything?! I honestly don't care how I communicate or what you think of what corporations should do. I am personally tired of all these lazy ignorant rants while society is suffering and the medical community is doing their best.
The user to whom Apple’s offer is a false choice is one that assumed they would always be able to update to the latest iOS while uploading whatever photos they wanted into iCloud Photo Library without any kind of content scanning. Turning private API into public API is a huge investment, and I’ll be honest: this hypothetical user seems quite far-fetched, and I don’t see how this investment is worthwhile for Apple to make. Especially so because most of the criticism is about a slippery slope where all rules don’t apply: Apple could just as easily scan the photos the 3rd party processes as well. So what incremental privacy do they even gain?
Try heating it with a hair dryer until pain. I'm not sure for mosquitoes but it works for me with hornets and horse flies bites.
Accompanying blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/06/08/why-we-petitioned-the-f...
Here's a more detailed article transcribed from Popular Science:

http://cyberneticzoo.com/teleoperators/1958-62-beetle-mobile...

It mentions the all important ash tray and cigarette lighter just before discussing the emergency oxygen system.
Vaccine trials run large randomized control experiments to estimate vaccine effectiveness. i.e. they compare a control group to an experiment group, both equally likely to contract the virus, and observe if a smaller percent of the experiment group contracted the virus compared to the control group over a certain time period.

Continued vaccine efficacy data is measured longitudinally, by tracking the cumulative infection rate across populations with similar risk profiles but different preventative measures in place.

The data for vaccine effectiveness is already publicly available and compiled through reports and infographs on the CDC website, the FDA website and the WHO website. xkcd even had a comic about a graph of vaccine efficacy pulled directly from the FDA's preliminary brief about the Moderna vaccine trial results last year. There are papers that have been published regarding longitudinal results for countries - for instance, you might have heard about studies from Israel claiming that vaccine efficacy has dropped by some 60%, while other studies continue to cap the drop at anywhere from 0 to 10%.
Even with the "same level of virus" vaccinated people are much less contagious :
https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1429449468261322759
I'm not a web developer so maybe I'm missing something... What's your thesis here? That you're very efficient with a stack that you've been using for 13 years? That other people's stacks and architectures are overcomplicated?

If what you're doing works for you, just keep it up. I don't think that you have an obligation to add complexity to what you're doing just so you can stay relevant.
> some research has shown that they don't do very well at stopping spread, so why all the fuss to force people to get vaccinated?

Do you have a link/links to where you read that vaccines don't do well at stopping the spread? Everything I've read is that vaccines, while not 100% effective at stopping the vaccinated person from infecting someone else, significantly lower the risk of spreading the virus[0]. That risk drops dramatically when both parties involved are vaccinated.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/keythings..., see Effectiveness --> What we know
No. I'd argue Pakistan was a far bigger problem, but certainly corruption did not help. Charges of corruption in urban centers is very old in Afghanistan, the Taliban certainly did not invent that.
The real question is whether covid or all the in-fighting around politicization of covid is doing more harm to society. I almost think it's all the in-fighting and social discord.
Wikipedia has no objection to crawling a couple thousand pages if you do so at a reasonable speed and set a user-agent with a contact email.

If you want to crawl millions of pages please use a dump.
Does that actually inflate the vaccination rate in Miami then? I don't think vaccine access should be limited to citizens (let alone tax paying ones) but at least the statistics should be clear in pointing out whether or not the vaccinations are for residents, or for tourists. The real vaccination rate among residents in Miami could be much lower then.