skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it is easy to work it out yourself. Israelis >12 years are 78/22 vaccinated/not vaccinated. Among the hospitalised 59/41 are vaccinated/not vaccinated. So you have 59/78 = 0.756 and 41/22 = 1.864. Therefore the ratio of risks is 0.756/1.864 = 0.41. Which gives you 0.59 as I mentioned. I believe that is the same way the original efficacy of the vaccine was calculated in the first place. Admittedly I have a PhD in Physics not statistics, so I might be missing something :).
When people talk about good reliable Brother printers they're always talking about their cheap laser line.

Inkjet printers exist in two forms: Quality photo printers and complete garbage.

They are not for documents or other normal printing, that's what laser printers are for. Your primary printer should not be an inkjet unless you only ever print color photos.
> but they will likely only take weeks in the future, not months.

We need just one Jesse Gelsinger to shut the whole thing down.
Counter-counterpoint: Culture, art and science only exist if its accessible. It not much point to a discussion about such topics if the participants does not have access to the material.

High quality comments on HN get undermined if only a small selection of people has access to the topic of discussion. Comments based only on the title is usually a sign of low quality.
That's for sure. Indeed lots of things a year ago assumed as crazy conspiracies like covid-passes, mandatory vaccination, regular mandatory shots, masks mandates, etc. are now a crazy reality. So, what's next to expect?
Mobile OSes are not restaurants. Believe it or not, but people are pretty happy with their mobile OSes. We've seen phone usage increase and stay very high. And people dish out up to $2k for new devices. People continue to spend a lot on phones and replace them often.

You can not like certain practices of Google or Apple or aspects of their privacy policy, but don't gaslight yourself by saying that somehow the average device consumer is terribly concerned or hurt in any meaningful direct way. Most people like their phones and when you get a well funded competitor like Blackberry or Amazon or even Google hardware, people shrug and go back to Samsung/Apple
Tell me about it. I feel bad for even sharing this forum drama here. If you hadn't responded, I would have just deleted my comment.
Because pharma companies don’t work for the public, but for the shareholders.
> Unless you ban EU citizens visiting your website and your website doesn't make business with other businesses in EU.

You can simply break the law and ignore the EU. The cookie popup sanctions are not criminal and unless you are very high profile business, nobody cares about you. Nobody is going to come after you.

The only regulator that international developers need to worry is the SEC from United States, because they pursue for US victims cross border. But the get on the bad side of the SEC you need to do something really stupid.
This tells you that a lot of what could be gotten away with before won't fly with Delta spreading.

Also only the last 2-3 months have required being indoors in most of Texas and Florida.
It's not mask mandates that matter. It's mask wearing.
Do you have anything to back this statement up? It now uses a non-traditional license, however the source code is still visible on GitHub.
I think the big thing is that Google would have to acknowledge publicly what happened with all those failed chat applications and then explain carefully what changes they have made to prevent it from happening again, essentially doing a public postmortem on the corporate structure. If they actually did that, I could see even myself deciding to give them a shot, and I have hated on Google for at least fifteen years now.
reddit died when they removed /r/reddit.com

that marked the demise of reddit (in terms of quality, not in terms of revenue)
Like for all languages there are a bunch of dependency managers. And everyone you ask will praise the one they use.

In my opinion, setup.py is best approach. I don't want to be forced to use some specific dependency manager. I just want to run setup.py and expect it to take care of dependencies.
Debians's view of the package source being a fork of the original source is definitely a bit odd. Most other packaging format see the original tarball as its own thing and then provide a recipe to build that tarball.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Dutchman
>Looks like UK wants to break away from dealing with EU at all?

Anything to do with the EU has become toxic to the governing party.
Of course there are other motives. For most Free Software the motive is "Make something that is good for me." Still not optimal for other users but closer aligned.
From the Wikipedia article about that disease [1] it seams the disease isn't prevent in the US, so it wouldn't make sense to get vaccinated against it there (like European people who aren't vaccinated against yellow fever by default).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis
They should just have a separate platform mode.

Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.
I think that lumber storage is much more expensive compared to chips
We started using Teams at work and its UI is awful compared to Discord. The worst thing is notifications -- by default you get a popup for every single message that somebody sends. So then you change the settings to only pop up when somebody @s you. Good luck getting all your coworkers to do that; 90% of the time you will get a message and then just not see it for an hour because Teams didn't prompt you.

Discord solved this. Small red icon on the dock icon indicating that there are messages in a server you haven't muted. The icon changes to a number if you got a ping or DM.
I blame Javascript and the "hipster" devs that fueled its rise unnaturally.
Without the degree, you will need 10 years to through all the material you'd go through in a typical CS program!
Having something is better than having nothing. At least now there is some hammer for security/etc. people to use to get something sane how data is stored and handled.
> It is not "needs of developers" the problem, but the "needs of product manager, marketing, c-level asshole".

Not entirely. Developers still make choices to use slow and bloated software stacks to save themselves time, which definitely negatively affects the user experience.
Expanding on a sibling comment's reference to Simpson's paradox is the following analysis of the data:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

Basically, Israel is doing quite well even still. Yes, there's a reduction in efficacy, and yes there's breakthrough infections, but your risk of serious outcomes is still reduced by ~80%+, even in older populations _when correctly compared to unvaccinated older populations_.
I agree with removing the cookie requests. 99% of people just click the big green "AGREE ALL" button because they're too busy to go on a box-ticking exercise. I hope other aspects of GDPR remain in place though, and have to agree that we should be cherry picking the rules that make sense to UK businesses and users.
1080 GTXes bough and resold on ebays for tens of times are still going strong.
smart TV is a brand (silly because it’s a generic term). But eg roku Xbox and fire tv are not smart TVs.
That’s actually not the reason for hesitancy in giving advice in most cases. Lawyers hesitate to give advice online because:

(1) It’s easy to form an seemingly-inadvertent attorney-client relationship.

(2) Once you have an attorney-client relationship, you have many duties to the client under the ethics rules.

(3) Once you form an attorney-client relationship, you can potentially be subject to a malpractice suit (justified or not) if things go sideways.

In general, lawyers tend to be open to discussing legal issues in ways that don’t involve advice to specific people about their specific situations. They are many (many, many many) legal publications where lawyers give away their knowledge for free or the cost of the issue/article/book/etc. They just don’t usually want to form attorney-client relationships lightly.
Why not just purchase a used one on eBay?
Only if you cleverly conflate social privacy with data privacy and conflate security with privacy.

Ask someone how much they care that their bank details are known to the machines at Intuit when they setup their Mint account, or how much they care that random bank employees can see & manage their entire financial life when they call customer support or visit a teller.

Ask them how much they care that some machine somewhere in a Google datacenter is running an algorithm on every email they get.

In my experience, most people just want to keep parts of their lives private from people they know. They will upload nudes to iCloud and make jokes about FBI agents finding them.
I don't necessarily agree with that take, but I do appreciate you sharing it.

Companies are about change - much of the state of a company is a result of decisions that were made years prior, based on assumptions that aren't true anymore, or as you noted were reprioritized. The best run 100 person company will struggle as a 1000 person company with their old policies (and likewise, the best run 1000 person company's policies would crush a 100 person company).
As it should be. Without competition, and with demand outstripping supply, TSMC is free to find the price the market will bear.
Out of curiosity, if you're onboard with previous typical vaccination, but hesitant to jump on board with mRNA treatments, what are you? Does that now fall under "anti-vax" in internet lingo? Is wise to group everyone under one umbrella term?
...If people will want to pay for that model. Not everybody will - this is absolutely certain. So, there is still some space for physical media being around for the rest.
How big chunk chips are of the median consumer's basket? Sure, everyone and their dog has smartphones, but not everyone has to buy the next-gen high-end ones. (Where the price increase happens.)
No. This is because inflation has a very specific meaning in economics. Inflation is not a synonym for “higher prices”.
At the moment, we'd pay several X over price versus not being able to find needed ICs at all and having to redesign our satellite for ones that are available.
I wonder if this might be effective as a treatment for chronic Lyme sufferers as well as a preventative measure.
That is genuinely a very interesting paper - thanks for sharing
I think I’m missing something. It sounds like you configured Fastmail to send via your work SMTP server, and then it did that. And this was surprising?
Can’t wait to try this out.

It’s interesting to see people building improved UX workflows on top of AWS.
They also cycle through 'box art' on Netflix originals so you can't scroll past them if you recognize art from a title you're not interest in.
Trials of the Delta vaccine have started https://fortune.com/2021/08/09/covid-vaccines-delta-variant-...

IIRC these trials should last 3 months
The interesting concern for me is always "i won't go see anyone about medical issue X because the copay/deductible structure dissuades me from checking". Even if you have a spare $800 for [insert tests here] you're going to be reluctant to spend it unless you're pretty confident it's necessary.

Is this the source of significant delay in diagnosis? Does it increase or decrease overall costs of treatment? Does it meaningfully alter expected prognosis of the middle income US patients etc
Supply shortage is another way of saying demand excess. I don’t see much evidence that TSMC ever really slowed production, at least for their most advanced processes that are in high demand.

This is yet another way we’re all forced to pay the price for cryptocurrency. As long as GPUs are profitable for mining, they will be purchased and put to work. The saddest part is that each additional GPU added to the mining networks only makes the overall system less efficient. Mining difficulty is automatically adjusted upward to cancel out the additional computing power. The networks processed just as many transactions last year as they do now, but countless new GPUs have been added to the mining network due to the incentive structure of mining. It’s a race to the bottom, consuming ever more GPUs and energy until equilibrium is reached.

It’s frustrating to watch so much of the output of our most advanced chip manufacturing be diverted straight into making arbitrary proof-of-work systems less efficient so someone can capture incrementally more coins. And now we must all pay higher prices for everything.
But do you know if alpine does official docker images namespaced as e.g. alpine/?

Is "alpine-glibc" an official project and someone just helpfully made the image (or an image including an official glibc package)? Or is this a prerelease?

Without a deep knowledge of alpine (or now reading this post) I couldn't answer any of these questions and I'm not sure I wouldn't try to go to alpine for bug reports. I think there's a reasonable potential for confusion, even with the namespace. (but granted, I don't use docker either, so maybe this is a common thing)

And I assume the alpine people (like the author) know that they get bug reports for it and that the issues with it cause bad publicity, and that that's the context for the post and the proposal to block the package.
i do not use poggers emojis or anime girl reactions in my conversations, or chat on platforms where mods have the arbitrary power to destroy your chat history. if you want to, that's fine, but it does not feel like a platform meant for people like me -- it feels like a platform for children and gamers
This might be the start of the end of high-end PC gaming, unless prices get back to a more reasonable level. Consoles (and phones) are very competitive and cost significantly less.

Or perhaps it just causes the games to have lower performance requirements. Is integrated graphics the future of PC gaming?
Do you mean storing already made chips? I imagine that's (often) expensive from a depreciation perspective.
Goodbye dreams of owning an Nvidia GPU in 2022 - I ain't paying cutthroat prices on ebay/amazon.
Guess we're buying Intel!

Sidenote: Intel manufacturers their own stuff, and so is Apple right? Their new cool chips are all in-house or are they through TSMC?
My current GPU is a used 980, it's mostly ok but it makes noises when doing certain tasks for some reason (like scrolling a browser window), I'm really not sure what causes it but it's put me off buying second hand cards, if it fails there's not much you can do to fix it
That adage is more useful when looking at individual
companies, or maybe new businesses.

For long established, highly regulated operations, I would expect consistent profit margin figures across pretty much all companies in the business to represent a pretty accurate view of the situation, and to show if they are earning extra profit due to COVID.
Silicon OPEC. I flouted the idea 10 years ago, and people were laughing.
I successfully transformed my company from MacOS to Arch on Apple hardware. There are two computers left with Catalina for some specific workflows, in isolation from outside world.

System 76 are cool, but when the time comes we will build custom PCs for work. The "aura" and "coolness" of Apple is gone.

I admit that my decision to use only Apple computers in the office was irrational and tainted by emotional perception from the past. I almost puled the trigger for M1 Air and was planning to upgrade office Macbook Pro's to M1X.
Not anymore.
To use this service you either have to pay Hippobase or AWS (excluding the 3-month free trial which would not be much use for production).
Don't miss Dave Chinner's interesting comment comparing btrfs, bcachefs and others: https://lwn.net/Articles/867427/
One month of TabNine AI Pro for free (new users only)
(I'm the poster but I'm not affiliated with the company)
Do we really think Apple will launch its own privacy protecting search engine if the opportunity cost is 15B and counting?
I'm sorry you can't follow the trail of thought. Your rambling ad-hominem don't make you seem to be the rational type though, despite your assertions.
What stacks? I've yet to encounter a popular stack claiming itself as slow and bloated. React? Angular? Electron? There are very slim and fast apps built with those stacks.

And if someone built slow Electron app, I'm sure that he would build slow Qt app (not sure if Qt considered slim nowadays). It comes either from lack of experience or lack of focus on performance. And that does not depend on stack.
1. This is specifically mainstream node, or everything except leading edge 3nm / 5nm.

2. Those price has been like that for sometime since the chip shortage. They just make it official now.

3. The mainstream and social media will and always have been blaming it on TSMC.

4. Everyone wants all the capacity they need, while not paying a cent more. This announcement will "somehow" made it fair for everyone in the industry.

5. The current component price has very little to do with wafer pricing. As with all commodity pricing, they will only swing back once supply catches up.

6. In general I think this is a good, TSMC has been leaving far too much money on the table and benefiting GF and SMIC.
Platforms to Find Influencers
Exactly what I was trying to say.
They did it with Google and replaced it with Bing awhile back.
This is an excellent point. Consider the nature of decay - is it of the artifact itself? What about printed books, for example? Or language, or culture? Do those things decay in any sense?
J.G. is a famous case and his death definitely delayed development for a decade or more, but it should be noted that when he died, the technology was extremely untested in humans.

We now have a few hundred million people who got mRNA vaccine and had no trouble. I don't think that even after a death, mRNA would be completely toast. It has already proven its merit.
Deals with content companies aside, why not?

Storage and delivery wise its much chaper than YouTube (which is 100000 times bigger in storage needs due to user generated content), and makes all this available for $9 without ads...
> What they want, first and foremost, is to not be a generic hardware manufacturer.

Every once in a while I day dream about starting a company[0] called something like "Generic Products" where all we do is make the most basic bog-standard things with no extra garbage or marketing bullshit, striving to have as few different models as possible. Amazon basics and https://xkcd.com/993/ are similar ideas.

[0] Never let me start a company, I am not suited for this job.
My granddad died surrounded by his loved ones, pretty peacefully really (he was jacked up on morphine). I know you mean alone in a kind of existential way, but at the end of the day I've learned that if you have that depressing outlook on things, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy of misery.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/onlyfans-banning-explicit-cont...

https://www.newsweek.com/content-creators-react-new-onlyfans...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/onlyfans-ban-porn-exodus-cry

And other stuff, more related to pornhub: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy4z/petition-shut-down-po...
The FDA has licensed a vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/tickborne-encephalitis

The disease appears to be a problem mainly in Europe and Asia, but if you're planning a camping trip in those areas it looks like you can ask a doctor for the vaccine. You also can get the disease from unpasteurized dairy products.
Ha, I ran into that one at work one time in our custom DNS resolver and had to add TCP upgrade. I was very confused why the tool worked when I shelled out to dig but not when I did the “correct” thing and used a resolver library. I’m very surprised that a project as big as musl would not have support for this.
I use 980Ti too - i'm lighting 6 candles on the cake this year...It keeps me warm at night and during the winter.
I am surprised it's still working after 6 years of daily use with that TDP and heat released.
Maybe you are. Modern Linux desktops are nothing like they have been not to long ago. Personally I can't even imagine more productivity win than gnome shell.
That was my assumption - I managed to pick up a 3080 TI FE at MSRP in the UK a couple of weeks back. I would have gone for the 3080, better price/perf, but since the only ones available are AIB for the same price, or more, than the 3080 TI FE that made the decision for me.
That's my big problem with the healthcare debate. People think that its because of "profit", but if you look at the profit margins of all participants, they're all reasonable. Even if you could shift that profit over to consumer surplus, you're still looking at crazy high health care spending.

Something deeper is wrong with America's healthcare system. I think the third-party payer system and onerous regulations distort the market in costly ways. Just as the simplest example, if you want to open up a health care provider you need a "certificate of need" in most states. This means a board of current health care providers in the are determine whether there is a real "need" in the neighborhood for a competitor.

> Certificate of Need (CON) laws are state regulatory mechanisms for establishing or expanding health care facilities and services in a given area. In a state with a CON program, a state health planning agency must approve major capital expenditures for certain health care facilities. CON programs aim to control health care costs by restricting duplicative services and determining whether new capital expenditures meet a community need.

Ah yeah, lets reduce costs by restricting "duplicative services"

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need...
> Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well.

This perception of games is pretty outdated and I assume that is what Discord has come to realize as well. Video games (and gamers) are approaching to be as varied as music (and its listeners) and the only reason they have not achieved parity yet is the difference in how long each has been around as a mass medium.

Games have intrinsic qualities that set them apart from music, movies or other mediums – but being "fun" is certainly not it, and "gamery" would, at best, serve as a tautology.