skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s like any other exchange of electricity between grids, which already takes place within larger countries. You just need to run a cable to create an export grid. Offshore wind farms have to run high voltage marine cables to the shore, for example. It is laid using the same techniques as underwater communication cables - with specialized ships.
Just my two cents: This feels rushed and has serious potential to lead to more division and less faith in government institutions overall.

(am vaccinated 2 doses Moderna)
> I’m wondering what the odds are that people will pivot from “it’s experimental” to “it was rushed due to politics/greed”.

No doubt this will be the case for some. So, you've found a logical flaw in people's stated reasons for not wanting a vaccine. How does that help anything? In these kinds of debates, the actual goals or beliefs of both sides often differ from what they say.

For example, the government being able to tell you what to do, vs. it not.

People end up locking in to trivialities like approval or some study, but they just obscure the real debate. Doing more to get the tradeoffs we are making into the open, and talk plainly about what people are being asked to do, why, and what their rights and options are, is much more valuable IMO than trying to find clever flaws in the reasoning of either side. Flaws are there, and obvious, but generally not central to anyone's core thesis, and almost certainly not going to sway anybody. They just let people score cheap shots against their opponents and pump up their own supporters.
AZ isn't available in the United States.

OK, fine, it's not just mRNA. It's novel tech vs. well known tech like attenuated/inactivated virus.

Beyond that, Covaxin is the only that I'm aware of that is performing well under delta.
I think you are right. People won't change their minds about it. But the question is, should they be allowed to control what goes inside their bodies? In my opinion, the answer is a huge YES OF COURSE.
This flow chart is not quite accurate, or at least is misleading. There is more to a distinction between EUA and full FDA approval than where manufacturing happens. The FDA's own website[0] says:

> The EUA process is different than an FDA approval or clearance. Under an EUA, in an emergency, the FDA makes a product available to the public based on the best available evidence, without waiting for all the evidence that would be needed for FDA approval or clearance.

I don't post this to spread doubt about the EUA and am fully confident in the safety and efficacy of these vaccines. But as written, this website would seem to suggest that the only difference is when production happens - which is not accurate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/understanding...
Everyone can make their own decisions, but can everyone give an introductory lecture? Perhaps the 250 attendees can decide if they want to be there in person or remotely, why would you remove that choice from the person giving the lecture?

And we are not talking about locking down the rest of society. That was the extreme end of the spectrum when we were trying to get it under control. The only place still with national lockdowns are NZ and Australia because they were able to contain and control the virus earlier on.

Sounds like you are equating your experience with everyone. Not everyone has access to the vaccine, not everyone is able to work remotely, some people have to interact with the public as part of their job. Perhaps try looking at things from the perspective of people who are less fortunate than yourself.

There is an underlying current of selfishness behind everything you say.
I knew the immigration policies in DK were bad. But, not this bad. While I lived there, myself, and my Danish friends were embarrassed by the obviously discriminatory policies targeted at differently looking people. Particularly, the idiotic law about a handshake with he mayor to confirm naturalisation in Denmark. Under the assumption that Islamic women will hesitate to go through it. The rhetoric from the Folkeparty was always a cause of embarrassment in the Danish society. I did not live near the Copenhagen area where I imagine most immigrant neighbourhoods tend to be around. I realise that I may have been living 4 years a bubble and thinking everyone is so nice and liberal, and always care for the greater good.

It saddens me to know about such discrimination in a country that gets so many things right.

It breaks my heart to just read the following quote from the article linked above.

"I talk with children who are living in this area, and they believe they are Danish because they are born Danish, they have Danish passports, they speak Danish, they go to schools here — but people always tell them: 'You're not Danish because you're Muslim.'"

- This is not a hallmark of an open society. All the Danish people I know (in my apparent bubble) don't care about religion. Just let people be who they are, practice whatever religion they want. I wholeheartedly agree with not allowing anybody to impose their religion on others (this applies to the politicians imposing their beliefs on immigrants too).

I sincerely hope that things turn around for the better, and the reasonable voices of the Danish society votes the discriminatory people out.
The FDA asked for information on the stage 3 clinical trails (which is a normal thing to get) and instead of providing it they decided to go for full approval.

Which is really strange. Unclear why they would do that.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/why-was-bharat-bio...
I keep expecting to read something that makes NFTs seem reasonable but the more I read the worse they sound.
>unwilling to spend much money

Citation needed.

I think for years humble indie bundle kept statistics and linux supporters were always chipping in well above average.
Do people not realize how much extra capacity is already in the system? Let's take a look at Ontario:

https://www.ieso.ca/power-data

Without doing actual calculus, let's eye ball: how many kilometers of range is there if you ran the system at peak? Peak demand is 22GW, baseline is 14, sum the differences for each hour. That's how much power we could be supplying, but is not being used up. In Ontario, that's about 100GWh per day. Model 3 uses up 75KWh for 500km, That's 1.3 million fully charged sedans for a population of 14 million, or 50km per inhabitant per day.

Yes, this is an unrealistic scenario (where capacity is perfectly used up), but 50km per day per inhabitant is also insane and unrealistic.

So, the way we'll make the transition to EVs is that people will do their jobs, they'll upgrade lines, they'll make batteries, they'll make cars, consumers will buy new cars. It'll be fine, don't midwit this.
It's certifiably insane.
We have finite resources on this planet. At a certain point we're gonna have a hard time finding the materials needed for things. Putting those resources into shared infrastructure like public transit means a more efficient use of those materials to benefit more people. A city bus can hold 42 people and uses far less resources and street space than 42 personal vehicles.
That's not how the drug industry works. The companies fund and conduct their own efficacy and safety trials, the government just rubber stamps them. The FDA doesn't perform an actual science. They don't even require an impartial group to replicate the science.

The FDA doesn't do really much of anything to collect safety data. There's seemingly no reason for the agency to exist.
> Since no one under 16 has been vaccinated yet, about 70% of the population is vaccinated (44M out of 67M).

This fact really bothers me. I feel like once adults got vaccinated we all spiked the football and said "F--k the kids, I got mine".
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Is it? Definitely the most visible thing was the "defund" thing, but certainly in my circles I saw a lot of interest in reparations, housing reform, health care justice, etc, all with an eye toward addressing the generational economic issues that have led to or at least greatly exacerbated community violence.
Excel’s random-number generator used to fake famous psychology study
The vaccine contains other ingredients as well.
> What terminology would you recommend for getting the number of people who died from Covid19 after being fully vaccinated against Covid19?

"Breakthrough deaths" not "Net breakthrough deaths"

Your post is flagged and unreadable now but I'm pretty sure you were claiming 8 million breakthrough deaths. That's obviously wrong because it's two times larger than the total number of deaths globally among all people.

> Since the CDC do not report these as a time series, but they just overwrite the most recent numbers, I linked to snapshots of the same page over time[2]. If there is an arithmetic error, I would like to know

Your error comes from failing to compare to the right control group. Vaccinated people have a tendency to be much higher risk than the unvaccinated. Notably, no children are in this group. You're getting fooled by bayes law here. The baseline risk of people who were vaccinated was on average much higher. 80% of people over 75 are vaccinated. Less than half of people under 30 are.

And on top of that are missing the bigger picture that the most conservative estimates I've seen suggest 79% of deaths are among the unvaccinated. Combine that with the previous statement about who is getting vaccinated and you have a very clear picture that vaccines are drastically helping reduce death rates.
This is really u fortunate and true. Approving a drug that doesn’t work and rushing a vaccine through the process may have the effect of less faith in governmental organizations.
Even if true, so what? It's their bodies. They should be allowed to choose, just like you are.
There was never a real ventilator shortage. Doctors figured out quickly that mechanical ventilation does more harm than good for the vast majority of COVID-19 patients. It's only used on a few percent of hospitalized patients now.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/nhcs/intubation-ventilator-...
You may wanna look into Japan's cases and covid measures again. They got fucked over hard by the Olympics that about 80% of the population was against. 3x as many cases as their previous worst wave, despite travel being banned from pretty much everywhere and virtually nobody opposing masks.
Remember, Visa are the jerks that stop your girlfriend from selling pictures of her butthole on OnlyFans. NFTs are worthless ephemeralia.
> what is more boring than Rails?

modern PHP? I would contend the OP is still a hipster, but at least he's pointing out that fashionable programming is really toxic for the industry as a whole. Boring technology is good because the ordinary, standard thing is meant to be exactly that, ordinary and standard. Leave the breaking changes, feature churn, evangelising, endlessly-revised howto articles, missing/outdated documentation, etc. where it belongs -- in the "innovative" software.
Any pointers to projects doing/enabling microtransactions in crypto?
>Built in Detroit by a subsidiary of General Electric

Wow the USA sure built cool stuff when most of the factories were still in the USA and companies were far more focused on getting competent employees than with "diversity"
There's nothing wrong with holding the police to higher standards than criminals.
> In Poland you can attend higher edu institutions on weekends and work meanwhile.

> It often costs you like 1.x * minimal wage per semester, thus in total like 17K PLN for bachelor/engineering degree (3.5 years).

It is indeed something, but why poorer people need 2-3x effort to reach the same level of education? Why are many people against things like public income and free public schools which would fix issues like this? Why do we focus on the ones exploiting the system to get "easy money" instead of focusing on people already exploited by the system which would benefit from this?
I'm tired of prudes telling me I can't drink and drive. Let everyone make their own decisions. Everyone else can stay home or drive sober if they want, but we shouldn't prevent the rest of society from having fun!
Please do! I think that would be a big win.

The package integrity and import maps sections of the docs look like they do everything that’s needed, they just look fiddly to use correctly.

Maybe it just wants something as simple as an optional .denorc at the root of your project to set the default flags?
This suggests FDA approval doesn’t say much about whether something works—presumably it still says something about safety. At any rate, whether or not FDA approval means much, to a certain subset of people it ostensibly did, since the objection that there was only an EUA was fairly common.
Existing fridge compressors are ridiculously reliable. They are a close circuit, self lubricating motors. My grandma's fridge from the 70s was still running strong when we threw it out a few years ago.

I didn't quite understood how that new design is more reliable or serviceable? The closed compressors are literally zero maintenance. Also, the vibrations of that thing will tear itself apart quite fast, just look at their own promotional video: the pipes themselves cannot possibly last long with such vibrations: https://youtu.be/2TFiL5BM3ss?t=471
These two things are not mutually exclusive.
100% this. Which is why the only group of people I will not question their vaccine hesitancy are those already recovered from Covid direct infection.
Appreciate the suggestion, thanks! I got the domains view.dev and view.page, what do you think of those?

View.com was taken. They're selling windows, I mean actual glass not the OS.
> If medical boot camps are as effective as Javascript boot camps... you may want to wait a while before exposing yourself to other people's germs.

This line made me both laugh and cry a little.
> Vaccines work.

I have always been a vaccine enthusiast but now I see infection surging even in the most vaccinated areas.

> masking work

I have always been saying this, even when officials denied. Yes, mandatory masks in public transport and grocery stores are the only of all the deployed measures I recognize as actually working.

> blatant disregard for everything we've learned from the past year and a half at worst.

I actually don't think we have learnt much.
Question long-term effects of mRNA vaccines, anti-vaxxer!

Question certain "green" program spending, climate-denier!

Question voting or border security, racist!

Question certain political figures, conspiracy theorist!

Issues are much more nuanced than a one word dismissal used to dehumanize the dissenter.

You can be hesitant of these new mRNA vaccines but for classic vaccines that use dead / weakened viruses, that doesn't make you an "anti-vaxxer".

You could also already have antibodies from natural immunity and not deem the small risk of the vaccine side-effects worthy.
> I host email through Protonmail

Until Protonmail kicks you off for some vaguely specified reason.
That's not an option. Hospitals in many were already understaffed before the pandemic. And the pandemic has caused such a severe worker shortage that traveling RNs are getting paid upwards of $200/hr in remote parts of the USA.

The only way to deal with this pandemic is to vaccinate as many people as possible. It's the best way that we know of to reduce spread of, and the effects of catching covid-19.
Isn't this vaccine already grossly outdated?
Yeah, I'd like to jump on that bandwagon, if you have any leads please share them. Best.
Are they really overwhelming hospitals?

This keeps being repeated but most hospitals operate at about 80% capacity as-is. Places in Tennessee and Florida are currently, with COVID-19, operating at about 80%. [0]

If we look at Israel, which has a very high vaccination rate, we see that they're supposedly running out of hospital space. [1] But the article linked doesn't say _anything about their actual numbers atm_ and points to a fiscal problem rather than a manpower problem.

There was a recent Science Magazine article that states that 13% of the hospitalized-and-vaccinated group are under 60. That amounts to 39 people in a country of 9 million. [2]

I've asked this before both here and elsewhere: If these vaccines aren't "good enough," what is? At what point does this become "zero COVID" in that "nobody can ever die from this disease again?"

[0]: this may have changed -- things are changing quickly -- so I'd be curious if you have any recent (<1 week old) information on this.

[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-public-hospital...

[2]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-... -- and I took this from Louis Rossmann's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYtfT7HsJq0
Bold of you to assume missing/outdated documentation is reserved for novel stuff.
I would be absolutely delighted to use public transit to transport 250kgs of equipment, radios, drones, and firearms to a site after a natural disaster. I'm certain that will be possible.
> Because this is usually the choice.

Interesting. I don't seem to be lacking software to do everything I want to do in Linux without having to use Wine.

Also, I've spent more money buying Linux software than any other platform.
> I can't describe how incredibly stupid this is. This is peak dystopia. An absurd example from history - "maybe we should rethink the Inquisition, no? They are kidnapping and torturing people based on no evidence" "Don't be a downer!".... "Let's brainstorm on this religion thing a bit with its pointless wars, flying airplanes into buildings and killing people?" "If you don't have anything good to say, don't."

Did you misread something or am I misunderstanding you?

(If you meant to support me I misunderstood and the rest does probably not apply.)

Following you example I'm exhorting the people who say we should just give in and let the powers that be continue their inquisition or what not.

> Now - Matrix and Signal exists, but it takes two to tango. If you have no one to message there, because everybody uses iMessage/WhatsApp/Messenger, you are screwed.

It starts somewhere. I was part of getting first WhatsApp started and then Telegram started and I am also reachable via Signal. (Sadly I do not keep up to date on my Matrix accounts, bit they are there.)

The good thing is just by being there you make a difference:

When someone logs into Telegram or Signal and if they accept to match contacts with their address book they'll see you are there in addition to a few others and it feels less like a ghost town.

WhatsApp felt a bit odd last I tried it, but it used to work this way there too.

(PS: one kind of advocacy I recommend against is bulk messaging all contacts about a new messager that is end-to-end encrypted. My wife told about how weird that felt for her colleague when a friend of the colleague did that.

Instead just be there, and when as you see more people arrive create persistent groups and make it worthwhile.)
HIV and Ebola are natural. Your point has no merit.
Over the last 4 years, I've brought my weight down from nearly 310lb to under 240lb using an approach that seems to resemble closely what you're describing here (Liraglutide / Semaglutide, combined with nutritional and psychological coaching).

At 50+, I had more or less given up on losing a significant amount of weight, but due to increasing mobility issues and a diabetes risk, I wanted to give it another shot, and I'm glad I did.

I think the right kind of coaching makes a lot of difference: I describe the clinic I'm going to (dazz.ch) as "Weight Loss for Rich Old People": Everybody is non-judgmental, it's accepted as a given that behavioral change is hard and that setbacks occur, and the focus is on motivating people to keep trying.

So I could see your approach having a good chance of working for people like me. I suspect that one important and tricky element will be to build a personal rapport between your clients and the coaching staff — important, because it adds an element of accountability to the weight loss (I've always felt I didn't want to disappoint my dietician); tricky, because ultimately you want your clients to be loyal to your company and not to the employees.
I wouldn't say that people don't care because they know there's only one official version of it hanging somewhere.

I think it's more so that people don't know that they're looking at a fake. I would be surprised if you told someone that the painting they're looking at is fake and they're response is "oh I don't care". I'm sure they'd be at least a bit disappointed.
As Trump himself stated: intuitively you want to leave. But it’s all subject to an analysis of consequences. Something this administration completely blundered.

US still has forces and bases in Okinawa, South Korea and Germany etc. The scale and purpose of the operation of course changes as the context changes.

Merely withdrawing “before 9/11” (as if that is some relevant symbolism…) was irresponsible and clearly not even planned in any serious manner.

I don’t have any defense for the Afghan army, it’s government nor the people. Many have come to Europe under false statements of age and now we are stuck with them. Many turn to criminality simply because the European job market has no use for them. It’s a horrible result for all involved.

It’s well known that US presidents since Bush have wanted to leave and not spend more dollars on these foreign adventures. Many arguments can be made that more countries in Europe should have made larger contributions to the war against terrorism.

Again, it matters in the manner how you scale down, and what you leave behind.

Had it been Trump (or anyone else) - of course I would have been equally critical. This immediately affects my life in Sweden; and it’s just horrible to see the consequences in Afghanistan with the Taliban barbarians subjecting the people to their tyrannical rule.

It’s not hard to see this area turning into a place for terrorist plots again. And then what. At least the Trump administration clearly has that in mind. It’s hard to imagine what Biden has in mind - if anything at all.
There are some issues with nuvious' pam-duress that allow for untrusted string inputs when handling scripts with system() call, and I sent a patch to them via E-mail in an attempt to highlight the issues and provide a basis for a better way to handle it.
... does it mean I won't run your software? You bet your ass it does.
I wonder how the work-from-home revolution will play into this. If we don't need to commute there will be a huge change in our vehicle needs and transportation energy needs.
It's controversial because that assertion assumes that entrance to MIT, Harvard etc. is primarily based on IQ (or whatever other metric of "smartness" one uses). It is apparent that admission to these universities is based on many things other than IQ, and that IQ may in fact be a lesser component than other things, such as socioeconomic status (which leads to attending schools that prepare one for applying, being able to participate in activities that pad a CV, etc).
Already happening here in South Africa. https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/discovery-warned-higher...

Note that they're NOT mandating/requiring vaccination (which may turn out to violate constitutional rights here) -- it's still the customer's choice -- but you're gonna pay more, just like if you smoke tobacco.
All of those externalities apply to driving a car.

Are you saying it would be legal to ban cars for those reasons?
You don't need a vehicle for curbside pickup.

Make "vroom vroom" noises while you wait, if it makes you feel better.
I guess those $10 magnetically attached name tags are bad too then.
This is outrageously common; Fidelity owns ~12,000 pieces of artwork, for example. They have curation and management staff too.