skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>once infected the vaccinated spread the virus like unvaccinated

You are spreading disinformation. Vaccinated people who do get sick are less likely to spread the virus, and have a high viral load in their system for a shorter duration:

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A vaccinated person may have the same viral loads as an unvaccinated person, but that high level of virus lasts only three to four days compared with an unvaccinated person who could be contagious for up to 10 days, said Suresh Mittal, professor of virology at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

“Individuals who are vaccinated have a good immune response. If they get in contact with people who are infected, they might get infected, but the majority may not transmit,” he said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/08/11/covid-...
Withholding security updates on more vulnerable hardware sounds like a galaxybrain solution indeed :-P
Ask HN: What features do you want in your personal CRM?
I suck at staying in touch with people. So much that I'm planning to build an app, where I can make a list of contacts I care about and it'd notify me if I didn't speak to someone for a long time.

I want to keep it simple for the everyday user. However, I think I can add more features. One feature I thought was regarding gifting. Make a note of what each person is into in the form of tags. Say tags like loves-to-cook, etc. And make a list of gifts you can give to a tag - eg: a chef's knife.

What other features do you want? And how much would you pay for this app?
Depending on how much soaked into concrete and other materials, couldn't there still be outgassing?
Why?

Most people have "non-contructive" hobbies and that's fine. Everybody is out there for taking pleasure in life. What do you do during your leisure time? I do hike among other things. That probably does not help society too much.

If you need to fulfill a OS-related position you should definitively the former, all other things being equal, because they will probably be more qualified. If you need a DBA, sure, take the latter.
One other thing not mentioned in the article: new large format cameras are being produced all over the world right now (so no need to hunt down ‘antique’ models if you don’t want to have the hassle of maintaining older equipment).

These include Chroma cameras in the UK, Arca Swiss in France, Chamonix from China and very many more.

The experience of shooting large format is massively immersive: I take way longer over each image than the writer in the article, easily stretching to a half hour until I finally take a single image. It’s rare that I have more than 3 or 4 images at the end of a whole day - but the whole experience is really satisfying and meditative: my partner likens it to a day’s fishing
It seems that the most telling factor is what percentage of the software is new code.

Successive versions of a baseline like Android can solve a lot of problems, but how much new code is there sitting on top to achieve some new use case?

For new smart devices, either the manufacturer or an outside firm is tasked with writing new code to achieve some end, and that's where the problems usually are.

So it seems like as long as there are developers writing new code, our tech is going to be buggy and not quite living up to those futuristic expectations.
The “problem” is that vaccinated people with the virus but experiencing no symptoms is that they still spread it to both unvaccinated and vaccinated alike. While many might not feel sympathy for the unvaccinated, a small % can’t get the vaccination, and there will still be that % of vaccinated people that do have a bad health outcome.
Natural immunity comes with a 10--25x greater risk of death, possibly much higher (see update) by COVID itself. (The risk from the vaccine, without a Covid infection, is effectively nil based on hundreds of millions of doses administered.)

Natural immunity comes with a ~9x greater risk of hospitalisation, again from Covid itself. There's effectively no risk from the vaccine, again with hundreds of millions of doses administered.

Among adults aged 65–74 years, effectiveness of full vaccination for preventing hospitalization was 96% for Pfizer-BioNTech, 96% for Moderna, and 84% for Janssen COVID-19 vaccines; among adults aged ≥75 years, effectiveness of full vaccination for preventing hospitalization was 91% for Pfizer-BioNTech, 96% for Moderna, and 85% for Janssen COVID-19 vaccines.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e3.htm

Note that "natural herd immunity" doesn't come without a near-total population infection rate, with a large number of deaths, prolonged medical care, and long-term health consequences. The vaccine-based risks are far, far, far lower.

There's also quite likely a much higher likelihood of long-term Covid symptoms or consequences.

This information is interesting, but a poor basis on which to shift policy from vaccination to infecting the entire population and blessing the survivors.

Update: the article is also a dupe of an earlier substantial discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224 (260 comments).

US CDC reports an 0.0016% fatality rate from all causes for vaccinated individuals. That's 100x lower than the incident fatality rate of 0.1% suggested by multiple countries with excellent Covid surveillance and reporting systems. Note that many early vaccine recipients were elderly (65+) and would have a higher natural death rate than the general population.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...

I've clarified the vaccine vs. natural infection risks based on criticism of unclear language.
.. if your goal is to be a douche!
What is the most impressive programming feat PG ever accomplished? A Lisp dialect maybe?

I sort of get the sense that he doesn't realize how many crazy talented (but not famous) programmers there are out there. He's got a microphone and is determined to keep using it to tell us how great his ideas are, but the audience has gotten a lot more discerning since the 90s when producing a CRUD app in Lisp could still be considered a feat.
iMessage actually isn’t included in iCloud backups by default. It’s the one thing toggled off in the settings of a fresh iOS install.
Exactly - “for those who didn’t die”
There are solid engineering reasons to keep support for these systems alive. They're comparatively simple and very well understood, so a well-maintained support for these "toy" systems can be used as a trusted reference even when working on more complex platforms.
Separately, shout out to Richard Bronson, a founder who appears in this story, and whose YC startup Commissary Club tries to get former convicts to adjust to life after prison: https://www.commissary.club

I believe there's a lot of work to be done to help people re-integrate with society.

This is a theme with YC. Another cool startup they have backed is: Recidiviz https://www.recidiviz.org
I think 2000-2003 was just an extreme outlier in corporate malfience. Nowadays ,with technology rise of high tech and big retail, there hardly seem to be any noteworthy arrests. Businesses these days are so successfull and profitable, such as ads or intellectual property, no need to cheat and steal. Rather than outright fraud vcs get burned by overinflated expectations like wework.
Thankfully quite a small percentage of covid patients die. Certainly not enough for a 16x difference.
I have listened to quite a lot of his podcasts. There are times where he is straight up wrong and hiding behind the "I am just a guy asking questions" facade. You know what's even more tiring than "haters"? Fanbois who refuse to admit their idol might have a few flaws...
There's a YC company that tries to make starting and scaling WebRTC super easy, which is far from trivial for a variety of clients/browsers or with 5+ participants simultaneously: https://www.daily.co
It's a 5-user Client Access License (CAL) package for Windows NT Server.
You're weary of kickstarters but all it takes is for a guy to tell you typical kickstarter stuff for you to say fantastic! LOL
Thanks! It will eventually need to compete with games made by full teams, so there are still a lot of features and refinements planned
Not really. All you need is a ship, which you've had (at that point) for hundreds of years already.
"The script should work with any POSIX shell."

Nice work!
Would an toroidal aerospike work with rotary detonation? :-)

What sort of nozzles can one use with an RDE?

I see that one can have multiple rotating pulses in an RDE [1]; I guess with some work the engine designer can control the number of pulses, is that right?

Are there performance tradeoffs when deciding how many pulses to employ? What are they? If employing multiple pulses, does one want them rotating the same direction, or opposite directions?

BTW, Scott Manley has an introductory video about RDEs [2].

[1] 5:50 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4kbgfpKCw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_Eh0J_4_s
You can use a Twitter front end alternative, eg. nitter.net/lordbeef

There are also web browser extensions that will redirect URLs to more privacy-friendly alternatives such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
Effects of Ivermectin on Viral and Clinical Outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 Subjects
> Agreed - I think it would be better to just compare an overall diet of someone eating more plants vs less plants, then sum up their water usage.

I agree, that would be a better way to compare diets.

> I’d have a hard time believing that overall eating fewer animals resulted in higher water usage (since those animals had to eat plants to grow), but would be interesting to see data on it.

I agree too, but I don't think water falling from the sky on non-arable land is the same as using potable water for agriculture. I think those two should be counted separately.
Is that more secure? Snaps seem to be shit for performance, so I avoid them by default, but maybe I should be favouring them when I have security concerns.
Yes, which is basically how this ends 5 years from now. We’re probably all going to get exposed, but get your vaccine first!
I sure am sick of those ICs with pins sticking out of the top. Progress at last!
Non-peer reviewed study being flogged by the right wing to push an anti-vaccine agenda, upvoted on Hacker News. How is today unlike any other day? Yawn.

Worse, the guy who’s posting this has been spreading COVID misinformation on this site for literally years.
What about Israeli citizens developing offensive cyberwarfare capabilities?
If you are thinking of a mouse oriented text editing gui where one scrolls with the scroll wheel and then clicks somewhere and starts typing from there this might make perfect sense. In fact you can of course use Emacs like that if you prefer but for keyboard oriented operation it would be absolutely odd if operations that moved the view didn't also move point and in fact other functionality depends on this. Presumably making visual point from internal point different would complexity and work and I have no idea to what end this work would be.

It would be equally weird if scrolling with a mouse wheel worked differently than scrolling with page down for example. In fact in many applications I now realize it does work differently. It's likely that I and many others are not likely to notice because when we do scroll with the scroll wheel in an editable field or document we immediately follow a series of scroll operations with a click in the appropriate location where we intend to insert text. That is to say people are unlikely to exploit the fact that visual point and point are different as a deliberate feature because its awkward. It's spacebar heating.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

I would also venture to guess people are vastly more likely to scroll documents in emacs via keys compared to the scroll wheel in part because mouse scrolling emacs isn't awesome. That is a better thing to improve.
„Inductive reasoning aptitude is often counter-productive in fields like sales where tolerance is very important, because highly inductive people tend to be good at seeing faults in others.“
That is huge BS on very many levels.
1) Good sales is all about pattern recognition (e.g. in order to understand why someone wants to buy)
2) I wouldn‘t know why you need to be particularly tolerant as a sales person
3) In my experience „smart people“ see less faults in others / are more likely to understand where weaknesses come from. So saying if you are good at inductive reasoning = you are more judgmental is BS.
Yeah, Unless you are one of the unlucky ones...

The fact it is that the virus will be around with us for a while, and everyone will probably get it at some point. Vaccination will help when dealing with it.
I second this. It's always about learning the mindset even if you don't use it for real life. Same for learning mathematics, music, philosophy, etc. It becomes your mental model to apply to other aspects of life.
It's not a hare brained idea, and it's been presented in the msm recently like @ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58270098
Yeah it’s not like Tesla is giving demos of full self driving that are actually being controlled by another human behind the scenes. Being overly optimistic with timelines and lying are vastly different.
That was underwhelming.
To that point, a phalanx of sharp lawyers would be must.

Also, incorporation in a suitable country, e.g. Switzerland.
This is especially true of functionality that could be implemented in 15 minutes by users that so desire.
Ask HN: If you could live in any city in the world, where would you live?
Or they haven't come crashing down just yet... It seems as long as things appear fine nothing will happen.
"... if they expect to run an open OS with the full power (or even a significant fraction) of the hardware."

When using open OS I never expect that.1 To me its a tradeoff worth making.

1 In some cases I dont want/need all the hardware features.

Is there a name for the common practice where a vendor produces a low-priced and a high-priced version of a product that actually contain the exact same chip, only the lower-priced version has some features disabled. Vendors seem not to fear that buyers will reject the lower-priced version because it does not access all the chip's capabilities
I don't think it makes sense to say "the year of Linux." Mass-migration to Linux wouldn't be good for anyone. Definitely not for end users, who wouldn't know how to deal with simple problems, and not for distributors, who wouldn't know how to handle angry "customers." And imagine these Debian maintainers flooded with requests from thousands of people using their packages.

On the other hand, the current process is natural and works well: people get frustrated with their old system, look for something new, try a few distros and if they like them, they stay with Linux, otherwise they go back to their system. In this way the popularity of Linux is increasing steadily, and in a vast majority of cases you use Linux on your personal machine because you want it, and not because you are forced to (because, say, the manufacturer of your previous system is user-hostile). This is how things should be.
Is there a difference in the immunity provided? What I mean is, does natural immunity do better at suppressing the transmission of covid19 than vaccine immunity? If that is the case, wouldn't that be an argument for encouraging every low-risk healthy person to develop natural immunity to suppress the spread to immunocompromised people?
I don't know that my short comment required you to restate my point, and in a way that I don't quite agree with. But I appreciate your different viewpoint. I think people should seek treatment and therapy for mental health problems, but it is worth focusing on positive things, also. They are not mutually exclusive.
Important note: this is for the delta variant.

Vaccines appear to be less effective* against delta in general, and previous comparisons (like those that said vaccines are more effective [1]) were regarding earlier variants.

I have yet to see anything that confirms that the conclusions of the study would be similar for other variants. (If you have any links supporting that, please do share.)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

* But still pretty darn effective. To be abundantly clear: this was in no way meant to suggest that it's a good idea to avoid getting vaccinated...
This should be compared to a third boost of a different vaccine.
> Local HATE them... truly inapplicable to 99% of the rest of roadways in the USA.

Have you considered they might be training the vehicles on you, not the roads? At some point roads become a solved problem and understanding/anticipating other drivers becomes thr hard problem.
>what I do in my leisure time.

Sometimes I participate in HN.

My understanding is that systems programming is not in demmand these days. Microsoft and Apple products are mature. There is not a proliferation of different hardware architectures to port to anymore. Almost nobody gets paid for systems programing in unix or linux unless you want to become an AIX programmer or maybe work in academia. Again, OS programming was the big thing in the late 1990s early 2000s.

Now it is important that your OS just works and gets out of the way and lets you get real work done. Anyway I am done with this thread because I don't want to be accused of flaming.
Through this whole OF debacle, seems like the free market sorted itself out and consumers got what they wanted.
It's probably pretty easy if you do literally nothing on it.

Windows 95/98/Me had a very weak concept of protected memory. It was there, but it wasn't very hard for an application to go read and write into the virtual memory space of other processes. Even then, any semblance of protected memory only existed for Win32 applications. DOS and Win16 programs, both of which were very common at the time, would just have free reign over everything.
This is neat.
Just doing nothing with a section of the garden seems to help.
Let things grown and leave them alone and all sorts of stuff appears. We now have weta, which I like (at a distance), though others are less keen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wētā
Or how about ppl who don't go to jail. I am sure there are plenty of those who need help. So if going to jail for 2 years means I will get a more help and opportunity then I otherwise would get, maybe it is a good tradeoff.
> And it's worth knowing that governments should not attack those survivors further for "not getting vaccinated" when they already have antibodies.

Does delta change that ? Is natural immunity from a previous variant as effective against delta ?
And yet, you provided none. Curious.

(I've been attacked by dogs multiple times, and indeed, they warn before attacking.)
Well you have two options. Either

1) You force everyone to get tested for Covid. Then vaccinate everyone who tests negative.

2) Or you just vaccinate everyone knowing those that had it will just end up with stronger immunity.

Seems like 2 is the cheapest most straightforward option.
Then you haven’t heard of Hedera Hashgraph. Concensus with finality. No mining.

https://www.hedera.com/learning/what-is-hashgraph-consensus
At this point the Delta variant is so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect to protect unvaccinated individuals. They're going to get exposed and infected eventually no matter what we do.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
That is a sick philosophy. It means taking abundantly from the public good, but not paying back into it. It is a mindset that is directly opposed to the functioning of a modern society.
The story talks about the study finding not only reduced risk of hospitalization but also increased risk of breakthrough infection (i.e., getting it a second time). It doesn't mention death or mortality at all as far as I can see.

What's the basis for your claim that it's about death rates?
the editor for ij released his edited version of a book dfw left, or remnants of a manuscript called pale king. have you read it?
The point of SALT2 was better models for calculating the brightness of SN, so their distance could be calculated. This is necessary for detecting subtle changes in the expansion rate of the universe.

Killing tired light doesn't require any of this. What the paper I cited did was plot the redshift vs. the rise and fall times of the light curves. This doesn't depend at all on the overall brightness of the SN. There is no need to estimate this brightness. In tired light, the result curve will be flat; in the standard cosmology it will not be. And the observations were inconsistent with tired light at 10 standard deviations, killing the theory. The SALT2 stuff you're pointing to is indeed a total red herring.

I get the feeling you're just pretending to understand all this stuff you're pointing to, for some reason.
Non-hardware person here. How does the D1 compare to Cerebras WSE-2 wafer chip with 2.6 trillion transistors?

The WSE2 is much larger obviously, but I would also think it can result in a large performance boost given everything is on a single chip.
The crowd clapping and cheering approvingly at his example of how not to think is a great moment.
Are there any cases or instances of secrets leaking from a zoom meeting through hacking ? Specifically from audio and video, not chat ?
The data was posted as a preprint article on medRxiv, and hasn’t yet been reviewed by other researchers. Would take it with a grain of salt.
You cannot conclude anything about the 16x difference (TFA says 13x, by the way) from the number of dead patients.

As a made up example to illustrate this point, assume that people are either "lucky" or "unlucky". Unlucky people die when they get the virus. Lucky people never die. Assume that one person per million is unlucky, and assume that the vaccine does absolutely nothing. Then this experiment on one million people would find one death in the vaccinated and zero deaths in the control group, inferring that natural immunity is infinitely better.
Note that this is a syndicated article from The Federalist a political opinion outlet, not a medical journal.

The submitted link is from "ThinkCivics", a partisan news aggregator.

The source is https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/israeli-study-natural-i...

Both sources are highly partisan and not especially given to an unbiased and facts-based interpretation or presentation of issues.
What I Wish I Knew Before Starting in the AI Industry
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. But if I asked you: “What is it exactly?” could you answer confidently?
There's Strike: https://strike.me

And of course anyone can use just standard Bitcoin & Lightning Network, no startups needed.
I know this is a controversial take, but it should be in our national interest to get young children exposed and gain natural immunity, and avoid giving them the vaccine we have so little long-term data on.

According to the CDC, 450 kids (0-18yo) died from Covid-19 since Jan 2020. A total of 4.6M kids tested positive since then. In the much shorter 2017-2018 Flu season, ~650 kids (0-17) died. We really have to keep things in perspective.
I'm curious, couldn't we just get a shot of virus after the 2 Pfizer shots to benefit from this stronger immunity?
They should at least offer users the possibility to get true privacy if they so wish. Blaming the existence of this backdoor on the behavior of the average user is not correct. What's next, selling my data to the highest bidder because the average user doesn't care?

Also, calling this "E2EE" is against the unwritten rules of the profession.