skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good! I have been using masks even before the pandemic to some degree before, and to be honest, I'm utterly disappointed by what I see now.

There are the people who are generally against vaccines and who even come up with conspiracy theories - often arguing that their approach is better for health and ignoring covid's long term risks.

Then there are the people who want to make vaccination mandatory - for the same reasons and with the same logical flaws.

Then there's also the government, first saying that masks are useless, then making them mandatory. Also, caring a lot about lives, but at the same time ignoring how many people die from other reasons and not considering the long term damage of lockdowns for many people (especially children).

And I'm pretty sure that when or if this pandemic is over, people will forget about all of it and go back to normal without having learned anything from it. And I'm in the middle, feeling that almost everything has gone crazy and no rational reasoning can help - no matter which of the groups I'm talking to.
This is old news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27943833 (29 days ago)

Also, the 39% number is the average for people vaccinated between January and July. For people vaccinated in January, the Pfizer shot is only 16% effective against the delta variant (scroll down to last page):

https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vaccine-efficacy-safet...

Protection against severe illness is still above 85% though and declines only slowly. Besides, people vaccinated in January were mostly elderly.
This is the media "grift" I absolutely can't believe. The vaccine IS preventing people from dying and it's largely known that the vaccine doesn't prevent infection or spread. That said, GET THE VACCINE, I do not intend for this to sound like I'm condoning any kind of anti-vax narrative!

Political fluff is expected, but keeping millions of people afraid and irate about information that deeply pertains to both their physical and mental health for what gain?
Next thing it will ask for your social media credentials, might even post a few status updates.
It will be interesting to see if this will mutate into less harmful variants, or, with vaccines go the way of Marek's disease, and become more lethal. This is a fascinating global experiment that will determine our policy for decades either way.

Personally, the first thing I did when I heard that a vaccine was coming was try to find out if it was "leaky" or not. I could not find this information. We ought to be hustling on a non-leaky version, and perhaps that will be the policy lesson learned.
The 39% is against getting an infection, and I believe that includes the ability to transmit the infection on. It definitely is crucial that Re (R0 modified by measures like vaccines and masks) be kept below 1 if at all possible.

The preventing severe illness is still holding pretty firm, but not as strong as against other variants. Still a very good chance. And preventing hospitalizations is even stronger.
Can't find the link right now but there was a case where someone took Google to small claims over an AdSense issue and won. The paralegal Google sent did try to argue that they were in the right per ToS but the judge still ordered them to pay.
Not sure if “it” refers to this particular package or hyper graphs in general. Simplicial complexes are widely used in mathematics for many decades and they are simply hyper graphs where every subset of an edge is an edge. So take the tetrahedron, for example. If (x1, x2, x3) are connected by a hyperedge (technically one of the triangular faces of the tetrahedron), then (x1,x2), (x1,x3) and (x2,x3) are also hyperedges (the lines bordering the tetrahedron face). A general hypergraph removes the subsets of edges are edges property.
I surprised people are trying to explain how it works even if I never asked. Thanks, captain obvious.

So, what I should change to have dark browser UI, but light web-sites? I change theme of UI in browsers setting, not what content is delivered. Two big differences.

Last time I checked prefers-color-scheme in Dev Tools is for debugging only and there is no dedicated "prefers-color-scheme" in browser settings.
Power to tax is the power to destroy.

The power to exclude is the power to coerce.

Society is coercing people into taking the vaccine by requiring it for any activities outside the home. Want to go to the grocery store? Get a vaccine or wear a mask. Want to go to Disneyland? Get a vaccine or wear a mask. Want to attend a conference? Get a vaccine or take a test and wear a mask. The mask and testing mandates are an effort to wear down anti-vaccine people instead of letting them be.
Did you save off your links for the tutorials you watched etc? I've messed with SP in the past but never got comfortable with it so additional tutorials would be rad.
My state is essentially out of ICU beds. There are a handful left in Portland. That directly affects anyone that might get in a car accident, severe infection, etc. Most hospitals in this state stopped elective surgery. That effects anyone that has an 'elective' surgury like removing a tumor, delay means they will get much, much worse and have an increased chance of dying.

While I'm all for 'personal choice', I feel like COVID cases should be de-prioritized for ICU access.
Ah, but does it flash? Can it been seen in the dark - without waking up baby?
Here's a recent study from this month: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.13372

A quick scan says:

* 13% of those with natural immunity "lost detectable IgG titers" after 10 months

* Protection durability from the vaccine is still mostly unknown, but appears to be good for 2-3 years

My anecdote is from 8 months ago, so I'm not surprised the data has been revised. I got my first dose of the vaccine less than a week after I'd recovered, which at the time was the recommendation of the CDC and health department. Less than three weeks after my first dose, they revised that to have people wait six to eight weeks.
You say it "isn't peer reviewed". I say it's a "preprint paper".

That's generally how the media describes the papers that respectively go against, or with the narrative they're trying to push.
lol this is like a two paragraph thought terminator.
Is it “supremacist” to say you have wear pants in public or safely prepare the food you serve customers? Is it “authoritarian” to deprive you of the freedom to defecate in a public street, smoke in a restaurant, drive a car which doesn’t meet safety standards, or spray toxic chemicals on your property?

The answer, of course, is no because living in a society requires moderating your behavior when it affects other people. Those real examples also notably did not turn into the slippery slopes you’re trying to scare people with because public support isn’t unconditional – as we’ve seen, there are very real limits to what they can require and it involves significant public debate. Where real authoritarians do cause problems, it’s a misattribution error to say those problems are because they have health codes rather than correctly recognizing that an authoritarian government will manifest in all kinds of areas.
Can you clarify how this can't be prepped for, and is a marker of intelligence instead of also being explained by average intelligence, coupled with means ($$) and drive?

I attended a top school. I can assure you my classmates weren't on the whole more intelligent. They did have more drive, better study habits, more external forces (parents) pushing them. Some were extraordinary, but not the average. I would have trouble saying as a body they were more intelligent than say those that went to large state schools.
Kevin Sorbo's take

https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1417538663018344448

Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from the virus that they were vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.

I'm really interested a rebuttal to this.
The internet access is largely recognized as utility. The internet services (email, hosting, video sharing, messengers, cloud storage, etc) aren't really a part of that utility. Many ISPs offer some of their own services in addition to the access (@aol.com email anyone?), but that can cause issues if the user moves to a location where their old ISP is not available, or if ISP goes bust.
Welp, LAMP stack doesn't scale. Time to hire some microservices teams and set up a k8s cluster.
What's delta like for under 16?

In the US through May 2021, so it might not be a good representation for delta, here were the infections, hospitalizations, and deaths per 100k for various age groups:

Age Inf Hosp Deaths
0-17 37k 287 0.5
18-49 44k 1100 25
50-64 32k 2600 85
65+ 22k 5200 1140

Unless the numbers for delta are way higher, that suggests that for under 17 getting your immunity by actually getting COVID is fine. The main reason then you want to prevent kids from getting COVID is not so much for its danger to them but rather for the danger to the adults that the kids will spread it to. Kid gives it to a grandparent, and that grandparent is 20x as likely to be hospitalized and 2000x as likely to die as the kid. If the kid gives it to their parents, the parents are 4x as likely to be hospitalized and 50x as likely to die.

If the numbers for delta are at all similar for kids, then there is a good chance that there is not much difference between a population where everybody gets vaccinated and population where all the adults get vaccinated but the kids do not, suggesting vaccinating adults should be the priority.

The long term endgame is probably a population where it is endemic, everyone gets it as a child when they are young enough that it doesn't cause serious illness, and then keeps getting it every year or so for the rest of their lives. Those subsequent cases don't cause serious illness because they still have protection from the last time.

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. Nowadays they are still around, everyone gets them frequently, and we don't even bother to have a separate name for the illness they cause. We just lump it in with the illnesses from a bunch of other viruses and call it the common cold. Around 20% of common colds are from those coronaviruses.
I'm surprised that they packaged CentOS/RHEL version, but didn't care to package fedora version. I tried to use RHEL8 on Fedora, but DNS did not work, I didn't investigate further.

Also I'd love docker version just for socks proxy. I made one myself using RHEL UBI8 image, but official one would be perfect.
> I don't think they were ever advertised as such.

Correct based on my understanding. But sadly I see people quoting all the time (on social media) that it prevents infection. So there's probably a fair bit of misconception out there
> I recent came across a technique...

The moment you start talking about techniques you've already objectified the person across you to something to be finessed over, and as such less than a full person.

So many of our recent social-media extremized public debates escalate to the point of denying or diminishing the other side's personhood. They are an "obstacle" to overcome for some greater purpose, and thus we "must" manipulate, coerce or the very least impress conclusions down their throats.

The meta-context is that today we are all more psychologically fragile and the breadth of data points we have to reconcile gets wider (in no small part thanks to engagement metrics optimizations). We all turn into fanatics of some sort or other, fueled by this anxiety, including that of self-doubt. At no point we are incentivized to participate in the process of rationality together, we're only incentivized to willfully assert our own conclusions.

I see most of the "resistance" as an acting out as a protest for having been left out of this process, including having been honored in anxieties. Notice I have said nothing about the truth value of conclusions, nor am trying to draw a false equivalency of "all-sides-ism", because the sense of participation, or lack thereof, is orthogonal to the truth of content, but hurts just as much when neglected.

We've forgot how to be a fellowship of people who share similar fates and see each other as such, we've turned into mere proposition debating machines.
Is this build somewhat complex and / or not guaranteed to run well?

I have absolutely no experience with Electron development, and actually believed that the cross-platform thing was free (or almost). Again, at least for apps that don't need special functions that could be platform dependent.
Imagine you sign up to be a startup founder at YC. It’s a salary job, and the pay is low, very low. The promotion schedule is pre-determined, almost invariant of your success. You develop a specialty and your team is assigned to you, rotating once every two years. Most teams only work on one problem, but if you are one of the very best, you get called to work on many small problems. There is almost no requirement for entry into the program except an extremely brutal training that keeps most people out of it. There are only two benefits. First, you get to be part of something that might change the world for everybody else. Secondly, you will gain respect, experience, and trust to start your own business when you get out.

So there you are, on a team with a bunch of people you have never met before. You are now stuck together. If somebody is a problem, you deal with the problem because you can’t get rid of the person. There is a structure, but you’re all on the same path to those roles. All your grievances point to YC and not your team. You’re all getting screwed equally, but no matter how bad it gets, you all chose this, and you all depend on each other.

You get a problem you didn’t choose. You might think it’s stupid. Too bad. Your team owns it now, and they depend on you. You succeed or fail together - nobody cares about praise or blame. Your team makes all the decisions. Nobody is looking over your shoulder. Nobody inserts their suggestions. You report only on a need-to-know basis. Nobody can tell you what to do. If you do something wrong, it will come back to you later in the report out, but not now. The only way to get rid of you is by trial of your peers for an ethical violation.

So what it comes down to, is that you just do your job, and you don’t worry about anything else. You can and must work effectively with almost anybody in that situation.
"it's good for the economy"

How could we keep funneling all the money to the top if there's no scarcity?
It would be an awful option, think of the diversity of excel users. Millions of them would struggle to understand that here, this time, that does not represent “equal or greater”, and it would be an endless source of confusion.
um, ok thanks.
I see. I explicitly specified that I was referring to comments I see.
I think you have that backwards:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines...

Selection pressures and non sterilizing vaccines are what causes more virulent strains to emerge.
I'm pretty sure that Old Ben understood that, in order to live in society, he had to give up his freedom to steal, rape, and murder.
Yes. No intramuscular vaccination for a respiratory virus is going to be effective at preventing infection of the surface, mucosal, tissues in the upper respiratory tract. The IgG antibodies in the body serum do seep into the lower lungs though and prevent serious diseases there and in the body proper.

To provide sterilizing immunity to the upper respiratory mucosa we'll need an intranasal booster after the intramuscular to recruit resident B and T cells to the upper respiratory mucosa. There the B cells will make IgA antibodies for a much longer time than IgG antibodies can seep in at any useful level. Additionally the resident T cells will kill off any cells that do get infected.

This is a nuanced issue. We need to be clear that there is a difference between infection of the body organs and infection of the surface mucosal tissues.

ref: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397

ref: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti... page 5, #8. "Whilst we feel that current vaccines are excellent for reducing the risk of hospital admission and disease, we propose that research be focused on vaccines that also induce high and durable levels of mucosal immunity in order to reduce infection of and transmission from vaccinated individuals. This could also reduce the possibility of variant selection in vaccinated individuals."

ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-021-00550-x
Thank you. Studies have shown that people who were previously infected with Covid tend to experience worse side-effects from the vaccines than those who were not, and the actual benefits from the vaccine for those people are questionable at best.

Natural immunity is a thing, just like it always has been. I've heard all of the arguments about why nobody wants to widely acknowledge it, but I just can't agree with them.
The "programming text editors"/"code editors" of now that are used in place of traditional IDEs are practically always extended to, by definition, being an IDE, albeit a leaner, more custom-fit one.
Interesting but until there is some real data around this personally I would rather see people who we know are at risk, elderly in poorer countries, get the vaccine over under 12s in first world countries. That's just my opinion though
For those downvoting this, here is the source:

"Tesla uses no cobalt in the iron phosphate packs and almost none in the nickel-based chemistries.

I think probably there is a long-term shift more in the direction of iron-based lithium-ion cells rather over nickel ... I think probably we'll see a shift -- my guess is probably to two-thirds iron, one-third nickel, or something on that order. And this is actually good because there's plenty of iron in the world. There's an insane amount of iron. But nickel, there's much less nickel, and there's way less cobalt."

- Elon Musk -- Chief Executive Officer

Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2021 Earnings Call Transcript:
https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/07/27/te...
My response to this would be dependent upon the current level of transmission in the region, which would inform whether or not such an intervention is worthwhile as a means to prevent loss of life.

If new case rates are very low, the probability of asymptomatic transmission is very low, and universal mask wearing is probably not warranted.

If new case rates are very high, the probability of asymptomatic transmission is correspondingly higher, and universal mask wearing is probably warranted.

Another important input the the equation would be the % of the population with some level of prior immunity to disease.

I'm not in favor or against any given intervention, I'm anti deadly infectious disease transmission.
The goal was never to "win". It was to build up an army (the afghan army) that could eventually stand by itself and defend the government in place.

This was a largely failing effort even years ago, considering that most of the afghan army were made up of people from the north of Afghanistan and previous geopolitics (north/south) play a role. The people in the south would at times trust the taliban over sympathisers for the previous northern warlords which had influence over members of the afghan army.

See this documentary (from 8 years ago) about how utterly lost and helpless this situation has always been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
Yeah I agree that I don't think any platform is going to be objective, and I think a lot of users also don't want strictly objective moderators.

One of the reasons I want the fediverse to do well is because it can solve this case. Your local instance can be moderated as you desire - heavy handedly or barely at all - and you can still communicate with other folks.

However, we do need some kind of user rights to enable platform migrating. Something like mobile phone carriers where they have to unlock your phone and let you port your number. Social media companies need to let your identity and data be portable.
We should do this with people who are obese and ride motorcycles as well. Given obese take up hundreds of thousands of beds a year.
because when you hear racist dog whistles everywhere that usually implies that you yourself are exactly the type of dog who can hear those whistles
I really hope we take this as a call to put more research into effective and affordable antiviral treatment. Vaccines are great, but there is always a limitation. Better antivirals could save a lot of lives, especially early in a pandemic.
The masks part is easy.. it has no effect..

We have been on and off masks here in Denmark, and it seems to have no effect on spread. Also mostly you get covid when not wearing one.. from a family member or a friend..
We know it's not robust because this anecdote of N==1 directly contradicts peer-reviewed longitudinal studies.
The mRNA vaccines were very good at preventing any infection, between 80% and 95% effective depending on variant and study. J&J was between 65 and 80% depending on the variant and study. All of them have been excellent at preventing hospitalization and death.

And they definitely were advertised as helping to prevent the spread. That's the whole "herd immunity" thing. After all, one goal is to prevent the epidemic from hitting the unvaccinated.
That depends on what you mean by "good job". It's certainly better at preventing sever illness than it is at preventing infection altogether, but it's still quite good at that (better than the typical flu vaccine, for instance).
> This Supreme Court decision says nothing about the extent of the penalties; simply that it is within the government's rights to enforce health mandates.

You are misrepresenting the case. The extent of the penalties was implied here, because the case was about upholding or rejecting particular state law, which listed the specific penalties involved.

> This decision is a referenced legal precedent cited for masking mandates, stay at home mandates, etc etc. The case -stemmed- from someone protesting being fined, but both the decision, and the ramifications, intentionally, are far further reaching than that.

Wrongly so. See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3906452
It has emergency approval. The CDC decided the result of waiting for a full approval would likely cost more than allowing it early.

Also to be fair it's not like they just rushed it out the door. There are probably very few things on the market (short of fully approved pharmaceuticals) that have been through more testing than these "rushed" vaccines.

edit: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...
So what is there to say about Israel or Gibraltar?

Both have very high hospitalization rates. Both also have very high vaccination rates.
"the scientific community"... you mean the pharma companies who developed this vaccine, right?
>1.9bn off of 100m doses

20 bucks? Cheep! Hopefully this drives up vaccine investment.
We cant stop it from spreading during its asymptomatic phase.
But covid mutates and replicates in people whether they're vaccinated or not?
Politicians certainly didn't deliver a great message about it though...when they are the ones that are giving out 99% of the information about the vaccine (since I don't think the drug companies can advertise a non-approved drug). Many vaccines are meant to prevent infection, but this type is meant to mostly reduce the chance of severe infection by training your body to see the virus sooner and know how to attack it with less "training".