skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big one mentioned at the start of the article is pasteurized milk. I'll add another one that the article skipped - water. Processing and distribution of clean water has been a major boon throughout the world. You can see a regression away from it in the "raw water" movement and the associated diseases that raw water fans sometimes contend with.
Hey man.
It gets better as you get older, both because you learn more social stuff, but also because you deal with older and more experienced people that become more tolerant of our differences.

Also some of the skills you get in the online world dealing with people are transferrable to the physical world, well, at least it worked like that for me ;-)
Novavax is a protein subunit vaccine, with the spike protein only. The Chinese CoronaVac and Indian Covaxin are traditional inactivated virus vaccines.
1500 employees, 1/3rd quit. Supposedly, many of those who quit were working less than 20 hours a week, previously a minimum of 5 hours a week was required. At that rate it would take 8 part time employees to work 40 hours...
Thankfully GSO is also 4300x as spatious, and we don't need as many satellites up there in comparison.
Um, no: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

Median household income is greater than it has ever been.
Hamburger is the best processed food ever.
I still doubt much would come of it until someone began to target lawmakers with it.
Do absolute R0 numbers have meaning without a specified environment?

As in, shouldn't there be various values for R0 within a fully vaccinated community, R0 within an age group, R0 relative to the prevalence of active infection in a community, etc.?

I'm just wondering what complexity is concealed within an R0 figure. After all, if every infected person really infected 6 other people every 2 weeks or so, it would infect every person on Earth in about a year and a half.

Which is probably why R0 is distinguished from R1. Since otherwise R1 would be R0**2, and I highly doubt it is. It could be higher if viral load was a large factor (you have x% chance of picking it up when around a single carrier, but >x% if surrounded by multiple). Far more likely, it would be lower as it burned out tightly-connected groups.

Anyway, just thoughts triggered by seeing absolute R0 values.
It means they're a newly registered user. (Not sure of the exact threshold, around a few days to a week.)
How do you deal with potential scheduling conflicts if timeframes are not dedicated and known across the owners?
I haven't seen an evidence that supplements would prevent the majority of severe cases, or the neurological damage done (in even mild cases). Is this something backed up by data?
There are many efficacy numbers. mRNA does help against infection but efficacy is apparently low, like 50-60%. Makes sense because they weren't really developed with that in mind.

Efficacy goes to 60-80% for symptomatic, over 80% for serious/hospitalization, and mid 90% for death. I think.
if "the Council gets funding from the US government" then doesn't that mean this breaks 1st amendment rights?
I believe 3b1b uses his extensive knowledge of the system he developed to sometimes do hacky things that wouldn't be easy to support long-term. His repo may be better for someone who has a similar extensive knowledge, but won't be ideal for someone who is mostly interested in it as a tool and doesn't want to learn its innards.
I think it is very disingenuous to have a headline "Which processed foods are better than natural?" and then talk about food that is cooked, pasteurized, frozen or fermented.

Sure it is "processed" in a sense, but most of these things hardly fit the modern definition of what most people picture "processed foods". I mean at that point, if I cut my apples with a knife, they are in a way "processed" and better than the natural apple since I can avoid eating the bad parts without biting into them.
"I did in fact sign a copy of the NDA when I began my employment, and handed it to [person] on [date]. I hope this helps you to locate it."

I'm not sure how important this is. Of course they still have the old NDA, and in any perjury situation they would readily admit that. Managers and (especially) HR people regularly "fib" (synonym of "lie") in hopes of distracting attention from the monstrous demands of capital. If an employee made a big stink, that employee would be reminded that employment is at-will and thus contingent on signing whatever is required at any time. The worst NDA amendments could possibly be contested in court, if one wants to spend five figures on attorneys. Probably a better way to avoid surprise "renegotiations" is to unionize...
You can't lean on a start-up to provide prudent legal advice and protection. Its not what start-ups are good at.
What makes ditching fossil fuels on a civilization scale difficult is that ditching fossil fuels on an individual level is only easy for a portion of the population - a portion very much over represented on HN. If it were easy for all individuals to ditch fossil fuels (sorta the level of easy it is for all individuals to use paper instead of plastic straws) we'd pass some laws and ordinances and get it done in the blink of the eye. There would be push back sure - there are always reactionaries for everything - but the problem with EVs (and the problem that increased battery production scale might solve for us soon) is that it's expensive to switch to an EV and if America has spent more than a hundred years struggling to try and actually keep a roof[1] over everyone's head - getting a car in their pocket isn't going to be any easier.

1. I know it might feel the opposite at first glance when you think of how much EVs cost compared to a house in SF - but bear in mind that houses can be built extremely inexpensively.
It's so sad to even think that's a possibility :(
It's interesting you had to pick illegal practices to attempt to make a point, while my point was that ethics was used to shame practices when the legal system couldn't be used because of a lack of rigor.
(1) vaccinated people who get infected can infect others (this wasn't common before Delta)

(2) Kids aren't being vaccinated, and masks have become political despite being the cheapest non-pharmaceutical intervention when most or all are masked (versus costs of shutting down, increasing ventilation, etc.). Some others also cannot be vaccinated due to health issues or availability (not in the US, it's widely available)

(3) most, but not all, hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.
Maybe, but be careful. It doesn't have to be drugs. You can cover their food and some of their house payment, because they're broke, but they bought a new boat (or similar expensive item) anyways. Surely, they can't ask their rich relative for too many vacations, right? Or vacation houses?

For someone who keeps their word and is honest about their finances and asks for such-and-such, fine. For those who don't care for paying off the debt they have and always gets more, and you give them money, you're feeding their entitlement, and ultimately making no one happy.
Turns out Google culturally has a hard time playing nice with other large partners? Color me shocked.

Minor story as perspective. Initiative was hatched to extend Google Maps Street View inside of buildings. High level meetings were held. No technical roadblocks.

Deal eventually killed, because Google was unwilling to provide their raw data to the buildings' owner, for their own uses.

You're hamstringing a feature on your own app because you don't want to ship the data you collect to the person you're collecting it from? mind boggles
Yes, I've heard him say in a few places in his videos that he gives his blessing to this fork and encourages its use over his own repo for that exact reason.
At some point Google is going to add a Google Assistant Apps Store and a Google Assistant Dialer, and before we know it they'll release a phone with Google Assistant OS and we'll be back to square one.

Seriously, this thing is getting incredibly bloated, even by Google's standards. It's a dumping ground for every half-baked duplicative idea Google has had for the past few years, it never gets cleaned up, and its settings screen[1] speaks for itself. It must be hell to work on the thing.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2020/05/21/google-assistant-settings-...
Now take this story and replace the wife with Steve Jobs and the husband with Woz. It’s basically the same.

Jobs also rejected the advice of the technical co-founder in various matters, and insisted on staying away from producing IBM compatibles. In the end it worked out for Apple but not for Vector.

With a different roll of the dice, it might have been the other way around. Luck plays a huge role in startup success.
Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
I've had the best luck explaining this in terms of causal inference.

We all know that it's really easy to screw up or invent connections between things when you use observational data instead of a randomized controlled trial. Observational data contains weird connections that you often can't tease apart, whether it's because there are important aspects of the mechanisms that were unrecorded (missing features), selection bias (missing data), or because regularization forces your hand in interesting ways.

Generally for statisticians, this leads to bias in parameter space. For ML practicioners, it's more interesting/useful to regard this as bias in function space.

There are useful lessons from the causal inference world too. There is a whole field of tools to try to get unbiased parameters/functions from observational data. There are even models that can guarantee unbiased parameters/functions under pretty reasonable assumptions and reasonable conditions. There is a rapidly developing field around learning unbiased (estimates of) functions from less "perfect" data.
She uses an iPad Mini.

I would also recommend a handle/knob type thing on the back so it is easier to hold it without accidentally touching the screen.
Oh man, I am getting nostalgic about this. It was amazing to socialize without any formalities.

Analog life is quite the thing. The funny thing is my dad used to complain how phones have ruined physical interaction. He used to have friends just literally show up at the house and see if he is available to hang. He thought phones ended that lifestyle and now he is glued to FB. God help us all...
Here is a fantastic resource from the UK government that answers your question in great detail [1].

> As eradication of SARS-CoV-2 will be unlikely, we have high confidence in stating that there
will always be variants.

> We describe hypothetical scenarios by which SARS-CoV-2 could further evolve and acquire,
through mutation, phenotypes of concern, which we assess according to possibility.

> Scenario One: A variant that causes severe disease in a greater proportion of the population than has occurred to date. For example, with similar morbidity/mortality to other zoonotic coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV (~10% case fatality) or MERS-CoV (~35% case fatality). [...] Likelihood: Realistic possibility. Impact: High.

> Scenario Two: A variant that evades current vaccines. [...] Likelihood: Realistic possibility. Impact: High.

> Scenario Three: Emergence of a drug resistant variant after anti-viral strategies. [...] Likelihood: Likely - unless the drugs are used correctly. Impact: medium.

> Scenario Four: SARS-CoV-2 follows an evolutionary trajectory with decreased virulence. [...] Likelihood: Unlikely in the short term, realistic possibility in the long term.

And here is one very relevant quote:

> There is no historic precedent for the mass administration of antiviral medication in the community as prophylaxis, apart from the use of anti influenza Neuraminidase Inhibitors, which were used to a limited extent in this way in the early phases of Influenza Pandemic of 2009 in the UK. The safety and efficacy profile must be extremely well established for a mass administration strategy to work and poor compliance will likely rapidly lead to the selection of drug resistant variants, rendering such a strategy short lived.

[1] Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
?? Buy good Hardware where you can disable TPM2 and Secure-boot?
You might trust the isolation mechanisms, but that doesn't mean that all employers do.
and honestly given this huge error in your statement, I have lost confidence in your entire comment unless you are willing to share the source.
Please share some scientific citations showing natural immunity gives better protection than vaccines. This runs counter to what I'm hearing from my virologist sources.
>if an employer demanded I install an app on my personal phone, I'd refuse.

I did that once. In very polite terms I told them that I like to keep personal and work activity separate as much as possible for personal and work security reasons and that if they issued me a phone with an app I'd be happy to carry it.

I got a very positive response. Ultimately they didn't think it was worth issuing me a phone and everyone went on happily.
Obviously processed food, e.g. cooking, is necessarily in many cases. However sometimes certain levels of professing are unnecessary and bad for you, e.g milk chocolate filled with extra sugar and candies embedded vs say an 80% dark chocolate with no added flavors other than milk.
Exactly. People were saying it was impossible. He announced it to happen in 2018. It will happen 3-4 years later than planned. And people use that to bash him, forgetting the elephant in the room which is that he made the supposedly impossible possible.
The bias would have to be determined by a board of experts who debate things based on facts, but is ultimately subjective and linked to the time and place of the culture.

The ethics in AI folks, for the most part, seem to want models to predict what they would predict, based at least partly on subjective analysis of culture, not entirely based on scientific data.

At least that's what I think I've concluded about algorithmic bias. It's one of the situations where I really want to understand what they're saying before I make too many criticisms and counterarguments./
Translation:
"Oh crap, they actually bother to think about what the implementation details are. Better try to pull everyone into a false sense of security before maximizing the exploitation again."
I'm counting ICU admissions among the unvaccinated separately, not against the population as a whole. When you consider that the majority of the population (65% total, 80% eligible) is vaccinated, then you have to separate the two groups because the outcomes are totally different.

But I did spot something wrong with the way I'm counting, so yes the 10% is probably wrong. The reason is that the daily new case count given by the province is incremental, while the ICU count is current # of cases, not new admissions. So it's not possible to do the comparison in this way. I'd have to take a look at the current active case count by vaccination status, which is something I don't think the province is reporting.
If this is so clear, then my current question is how long would that take?
> faster to digest

That's the problem - it raises the insulin levels quickly. Unused energy gets stored in the fat cells
Perhaps not? You clearly are not well versed on climate change. To take something that is already happening and is very bad: massive yearly wildfires in California. I grew up in Washington, and NEVER had a “smoky summer”. Now it’s a yearly occurrence. It’s at best naive and at worse actively evil to be promoting this “oh it might actually be fine” narrative
Climate change helped strengthen the Taliban
> And, no, if an employer demanded I install an app on my personal phone, I'd refuse.

It’s increasingly common for employers to give payslips via a smartphone app; which needs to be installed on a personal phone of course.

I’m one of the very few people to make a stink about it. But they’ve accommodated me after a lot of back and forth.
Any change will take 20 years to start working through the system.

That said, prices will change. SFH owners move once in a while. Even if you live in the same house for 50 years (about the max possible given human lifespans), someone else on your block will move every few years. When someone moves a developer will look at the location and decide if it is wroth buying the house for the lot, tearing down and building something else. Right now in the Bay you could buy a lot of SFHs, tear them down, replace with a 10-plex and rent it out for enough to make it worth it. (Assuming zoning codes would allow this without a large cost over the cost of labor and materials) Eventually though housing will catch up and rent will fall until it isn't worth it.

We can't prove the above because of course zoning codes won't let you do it.
It's best to think of R0 as a summary.

For a detailed discussion, see TWiV [792] with epidemiologist Jeff Shaman. First link in this show notes is "A guide to R"[2].

[792]: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-792/

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02009-w
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That first paragraph really isn't fair because R0 has changed. So of course scientific opinion has changed. That's not same thing as pretending and then vilifying.

Your second paragraph is eliding a lousy "therefore" - obviously, the cost of shooting for natural immunity versus vaccination is that you have to experience the actual disease and all its risks. Survivorship bias.
What are some good examples of sanctions leading to a population changing their government to a better one?
I'm not 100% confident about the dates, but my understanding is that the author's project started in 1989, before AVRs were developed (1996).
Consider R0 a rough estimate of how many people each cade infects. It's an imperfect instrument but helps communicate the idea clearly that answers "how infectious is this virus?"
I wonder if there is a way to game your system. For example instead of buying a 1/4 fraction, someone could set up two LLCs each owning two 1/8 shares. With the way you rotate the priority order from year to year, the person would get "first choice" two times within one cycle. Getting first choice two times for 1/8 each is superior to first choice one time for 1/4. For example the weeks around very popular vacation dates (Christmas) would get picked out twice each cycle by the same person.

That aside, I wonder if this model would open up some interesting rental opportunities: instead of occupying the property, co-owners could rent out their blocks of time, and get a return on their investment in the fully-managed property.

Unrelated: you say: «Ancana owners own a real asset (the property) versus a block of time» But I wouldn't emphasize this too much. After all, on the surface co-owners get the same utility as a time share: they have to reserve their "block of time".
Marketing can only weakly rebuild trust; at some point trust has to be earned by difficult acts, like popularizing end-to-end encrypted messaging or not unlocking that San Bernardino iPhone.

So far it sounds like Apple continues to talk one way and walk another on user privacy.
I'm actually also very sensitive to audio quality.

Oddly, I also landed on zoom has above the rest in terms of quality. Everyone on my team uses headsets, this avoids need for echo cancellation and the weird muting effectings that generates - so I HIGHLY recommend this - two people can talk at once comfortably so you pick up the little cues of interjections etc.

Facetime audio only is good in quality in my experience, but not so great in latency (may be for reasons outside apple's control obviously).
From the referenced Financial Review interview[1]:

> Cook sees the upholding of privacy against those “hucksters” and their “juiced-up algorithms” as a human right. And taking a stand has certainly been a trait of his tenure. “We do things because they’re just and right,” he said when asked by investors at a shareholder meeting in 2014 whether Apple should avoid embracing environmental causes. “If you want me to make decisions that have a clear ROI, then you should get out of the stock.“

Seems a trifle hard to square with Apple's recent actions.

[1] https://www.afr.com/technology/why-tim-cook-thinks-australia...
When my grandma makes jam and compote, it’s because you can’t eat all that fruit in the 1 month it’s in season. Best to store it over winter.
Didn’t Hurricane Sandy hit New England in 2012?
This is the perfect example of why it says not to ask why you were downvoted in the FAQ, and the last time I try to help. You literally asked, I just tried to give a plausible explanation. Instead you rant back, scream and insult those literally answering your question. Not the right behavior for HN.
Feinberg to Cerner is mildly interesting since Geisinger is an Epic customer.
Thanks! It didn't occur to me that there might be publicly accessible lighting strike data and mapping, but of course there is, duh.

Do you happen to know the sensitivity of the network? That is, the percentage of lighting strikes they expect to catch?
I am not disagreeing so much as saying there was more nuance.

For a direct quote from that link: “early Muslims tended to also view the Earth as flat” In other words it was a common belief, but not universally accepted fact. So saying that culture believed in a flat earth isn’t true anymore than saying they believed the earth was round.
eugenics wasn't illegal at the time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/science/haunted-files-the...

When the Eugenics Record Office opened its doors in 1910, the founding scientists were considered progressives, intent on applying classic genetics to breeding better citizens. Funding poured in from the Rockefeller family and the Carnegie Institution. Charles Davenport, a prolific Harvard biologist, and his colleague, Harry H. Laughlin, led the charge.

...

By the 1920s, the office had begun to influence the United States government. Laughlin testified before Congress, advocating forced sterilization and anti-immigration laws. Congress complied. The Immigration Act of 1924 effectively barred Eastern Europeans, Jews, Arabs and East Asians from entering the country. And, at the state level, thousands of people who were deemed unfit were sterilized.
from what i can tell, its 30% at transaction time, then 65% at withdrawal time.

That is not necessary.
You can build a money system that maximizes growth without requiring it to happen predictably every single quarter.

What is needed is a money system that lets the economy grow as much as is sustainable, not 3% per year because that is what someone wrote into a contract 20 years ago.
Everything I've heard about how viruses evolve says that they get milder within the host population. The host's resistance keeps increasing as the virus mutates and the population is exposed to the new mutations, and over time this allows the virus to diverge from other populations... where the virus isn't spreading.

E.g. diseases can evolve in Europe then spread to Native American populations. Evolve in bats, or apes, then spread to humans.

Now that this virus has shown that humanity has become one population... and it will spread everywhere if we let it... we should let it.

If we do strict testing, vaccination, etc. and prevent international travel, and otherwise fiercely prevent the virus from spreading across populations, then we'll have just created a situation where the virus could mutate to become harmful.

As long as we do nothing we're safe.