skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm understanding correctly, no. These things can both be true:

- Being previously infected with COVID-19 confers greater immunity than the COVID-19 vaccines

- Being previously infected with COVID-19 and being vaccinated confers >2x the immunity than being previously infected alone

The posted article seems to agree as well, but it's unfortunate many folks seem to just be taking the headline at face value:

"The researchers also found that people who had SARS-CoV-2 previously and then received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine were more highly protected against reinfection than those who once had the virus and were still unvaccinated."
Netflix has show about some stuff like that and one episode is about Ayahuasca. My TL;DR from that episode: it helped for at least one person, but some people do to get anything from that.
I think it's the amount of prefix that gets me with forty. Plus fifth / fourth versus fifty / forty
Accessibility seems like the kind of thing that would need to be baked-in from the start right? Bolting on accessibility after everything else has already been built seems like a recipe for a half-assed solution.
Windy makes a compelling visualization of data that is often totally wrong and misleading. Their presentation of PM2.5 concentrations in California right now is very pretty and also off by about an order of magnitude versus actual sensor readings. I will continue to prefer the much uglier but correct presentations from NOAA themselves, or the incredibly slow but rich and accurate data from wunderground.
I thought this was an interesting take on the situation:

https://annebonnypirate.org/2021/08/17/afghanistan-the-end-o...
Yup. You can even choose different models for it to visualize!
We tried a couple of different approaches: tableau reports, emailing static data to providers, sending spreadsheets of patient-level data, and building a Facebook or Twitter style feed. And then had different variations on each, and would run trials comparing different approaches.

We pretty quickly found that sending data ("push") was way more effective at engagement than just having a tableau report they could go to ("pull"), even when that dashboard was linked directly within the EHR, didn't require a login, and was contextualized for the provider (basically as low friction as you could get-- they would actually venture into it 1-2 times per year).

We ran a trial where we changed how we presented data: either in terms of number of patients ("screen 20 people for depression this week") or in terms of quality rates ("your depression screening rate is 40% and going up"). Keeping the data in terms of patients led to ~20% improved screening, and in the surveys led to providers expressing more trust in the data (although, they also were more likely to say they "didn't have enough data to do [their] job", despite actually doing their job better than the other group).

So then we took that idea for depression screening and extended it from depression screening to chronic disease management (where the specific task for the provider is much more variable). So we had one arm where we gave them access to data marts and trained them on how to "slice and dice" the data, and then compared that against a newsfeed that had the data pre-"sliced and diced". The engagement was higher in the newsfeed group. Interestingly, the only thing the "slice and dice" group seemed to do was look for patients without a primary care doc designed in the EHR and just assign them-- in evaluating the outcomes for this, that was the single least effective intervention they could do to improve chronic disease care (and this was validated in a follow-up study looking explicitly at the impact of PCP-assignment on patient care). So, our "newsfeed" arm ended up with, on average, around 60% better outcomes than the "slice and dice" arm.

What's funny is that through all of this, some of the leaders would also say "we need more data!!" But when we'd build a tableau report for them, they'd use it once or twice and then never again. Or, in one case, the leader would actually use it for ineffective purposes ("we have to assign them all PCPs!!") or for things that are easily automated ("we're going to email each of our uncontrolled hypertensive patients"). I firmly believe that for doctors and data, you need to have clearly defined objectives: the goal should never be "give them access to data", but rather should be something like "make providers feel like they have the data necessary to do their job" and "improve quality rates through targeted provider intervention." Start from those first principles, and validate your assumptions at each step. I'm confident your solution won't end up with tableau.
Yeah that relief only works in the long term with actively changing how you think and feel about “all this”, I imagine that’s why it’s applied in the context of therapy rather than a one-and-done panacea that I feel is being pushed popularly. Don’t get me wrong, regardless of the tool used therapy takes a lot of work, and for me personally it took a lot of years and requires constant vigilance for me to keep it together. Eating some caps on its own isn’t going to fix anything.
Depends on how their brains process the colors. Basically what parent commenter is saying, is the color systems we use do not cover the entire gamut of visible light.

Visualization of this: https://imgr.search.brave.com/OsaL9Hps1NYNjbK4zhGnStZmlMNT3t...
Yes, for sure.

As another abstract example that's completely disconnected from the real world: if we're running the world's capacity to make n95 masks at high utilization, it may take a while to be able to handle a sudden spike in demand.
now that I have 1,386 less friends

You never had 1,386 friends. You had 1,386 friends, acquaintances, colleagues, contacts, associates, and people who you know.

Facebook has bastardized the word "friend" to make people believe they need to collect other people.
I love these threads about the virus. Where else can you get the thrill of considering your own and your loved ones' mortality, and pump the illusion that what you say matters in the big picture?
Ayahuasca is a much longer, heavier application (drink vs smoke) of DMT + MAOI, so you have had a taste. I have also had everything in your list too.

D is one of the few drugs I deeply deeply fear/respect, and folks should not take this lightly. The spirit molecule is nothing to be trifled with.
Except two of the largest, richest conglomerates also provide value outside of the said degenerate activities.
I've had relative success with keeping it open + on all desktops. I don't fullscreen anything, so it's always visible - since I started doing that, I'm MUCH more consistent about updating it.

Prior to that, I had this small script that'd open textedit to a daily-note every time I made a terminal session, which served much the same purpose: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22279802 . Obsidian makes it a lot easier to jump between days though :)

(as a semi-aside: I very much like Obsidian. It's one of the only "just let me use my pile of normal markdown/commonmark files like I want" apps I've found, after trying dozens. it's very very very unintrusive / doesn't impose any structure. highly recommended!)
You shouldn't rely on a person estimating meal size and figuring out proper portions or looking up calories.

That's not our ancestors eat, and that's not how I eat either. Though I did quit drinking half and half after realizing that it's supposed to be a food item rather than something to drink.
This is very Spanish. I remember reading something years ago about how there weren't good laws or consequences in Spain to force people to pay debts. So in response, a company sprang up to follow debtors all day with people dressed in hideous costumes, until they basically shamed them into paying up.
I do not have a good understanding of what specifically was going on at the time. The behavior that I have observed was that there was automatic and very fast rotation around some axis while the viewport was quickly shaking but remained roughly the same. And Blender consumed all of the CPU resources.
Samsung 970 EVOish
Samsung 970 EVOesque
I suppose then that those of us living in Canada are beyond saving.
Customers so often fall for it though. I've been taken in by Black Friday deals many times.

It hurts you with rigorous buyers, but most are not that.
I do. I have four journaling system.

1. Small Whiteboard - Daily Todo & quick notes for me to remember later. Easily erasable and save paper when it is not need. It is always on my right-side corner of my desk for easy access and quick jot note. And I take a picture of the small whiteboard at the EOB for archival reason in case if I need to go back.

2. Legal Pad - For weeklong Todo, project notes (for developing forms and contracts), clients, etc. I have two pads: the normal pad and the small pad (5x8). I have more than 10 small pads for various functions since they are small and don't take much desk space. They are easily accessible when I can grab the pad quickly and write it down.

3. Obsidian - For documentations and information for long term storage, including development planning and various stuff.

4. Google Docs - For collaboration Todo, agenda for the meeting, conversation notes, minutes, etc. to share with my boss. I could use Obsidian for collaboration but my boss is not knowledgeable with Obsidian or any journaling software and it will be pain for him to set it up. I rather to make it simpler for my boss and easy access for him to look into.

I strongly used 1 and 2 because I found that jotting it down via handwriting is quicker and ready to use than doing it electronically. Doing it electronically can take some time to get into typing mode when time is critical like in the middle of the phone call. Pens, papers & highlighters are always available and ready to use within a second.

I have a ‘check spindle holder’ for my small legal pad paper when I am done with it. I just “whamp” the paper on it and get the satisfaction and stress relieving from it.
I certainly don't want the App Store to become the more or less anything goes Google Play Store which is still riddled with malware and shovelware.

One of the reasons why I enthusiastically continue to choose the Apple platform is that Apple has standards and gives an actual damn about the end user and having actual platform-wide standards and conventions instead of letting devs do whatever the hell they feel like à la Windows or Android.
I think it's very telling that so few from the medical community have made noise on this point.

Doctors made an insane amount of cash doing these shots; and I can't help but think that's a factor. €2,500 a day in Ireland; 35 euro per jab - https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/gps-set-make-2500...

€2,500 a day, for context, is over $750k / year US.

By contrast, doctors that have spoken up against COVID groupthink have been ostracized, vilified, smeared in the media and even hit with death threats.
If you leave your stuff on my land, why shouldn't I destroy it?
I've tried mushrooms (both dried and natural) and LSD. In my case, "epiphanies" were basically the same as what you get when you smoke a lot of pot or drink a lot of beer: "the world is in 3d", "time is only a construct", "everything in the universe is connected", "our bodies can't physically touch due to the space between atoms", etc. I've written them down in journals, but it's all "gobbledygook" as you mention.
Your last line really resonates with me. I was born and raised in a country with a very high obesity rate these days. I am currently living in Amsterdam.

The Dutch attitude towards walking, cycling, food and sports makes it extremely easy to manage one's weight, if you buy into it. When I visit my home country, no one in my family / friends circle enjoys walking. Most don't enjoy exercise, but they are truly fond of barbecues, beer, soft drinks and other such hyper palatable foods.

Had I remained in my home country, I would just be one more data point toward the obesity statistic, just by virtue of putting some effort to fit in.
Great job on losing 30 pounds!

CICO still applies to Keto, the macronutrient breakdown is just more satiating for many people. It's important for people doing keto to understand this as

1) Keto has a dramatic water weight effect, so people can overindex on their early results "I lost 10 pounds in 5 days!"

2) If you go off track with carbs it becomes a terrible diet, you fall out of ketosis for multiple days and need equivalent carbs to feel ok, boosting your total calories very high.
We may have the time, but we may not have the skills. It's also work to cook food.

People also don't know tricks like meal preps, sous vide, and slow cooking.
> Why is "natural infections and recovery produce a better immune response than a vaccine" so controversial?

Why would that be your default assumption? Is it because ""natural infections" are natural and natural "should" be better? That is straight-up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

Have you considered the counternarrative that "vaccines are engineered to produce a strongest possible response" and you should therefore expect them to perform as designed, unlike haphazard nature.

Or perhaps consider that either might be true, and discard any prior assumptions about "natural = better".

> Has it been this controversial for any other disease

It's "controversial" because politics this time. It's not the default assumption in this or previous diseases, because it's often not true.

The last time this was raised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107854

Not to claim now that those links are the whole story, but they do represent a whole lot of prior knowledge.

So it seems that there is some debate and nuance on this topic. My (simplistic) understanding is that vaccines produce a different and in some ways stronger response than the disease that they mimic, as they are literally designed to do. The COVID vaccines mostly contain Spike protein and therefor produce a very strong response ... but only to spike protein. recovery from infection produces response to that and other parts of the virus.
SSTs are 30-32°C (86-90°F) in the GoM right now:

https://ocean.weather.gov/Loops/SST_GMex_SST/image_202108270...
High end restaurants don't use casino-style tricks (random rewards or non-rewards) to get you hooked.
Agreed, lots of comments here saying that people don't want to learn SQL, I don't buy that argument. I think most people already know SQL because at some point it's inevitable, and it's also not that hard.

The value of the ORM is what the name implies: mapping your data from rows into something convenient to use in your language.

What people are really complaining about is ORMs that needlessly try to re-invent SQL, but they don't all do this. Someone else brought up Ecto, it's a brilliant ORM because the resulting SQL is always obvious.
It can be useful just to remember that it is possible to feel those profound experiences. That you have access to them, and that your normal, depressed experience is subjective too.
COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 12–17 Years – United States
Not answering your question directly, but I think there are 3 possible workaround:

- use less the mouse, train for it if necessary. I find myself not even needing a mouse (I'm using a laptop, using trackpad when necessary, but I guess it's not your case)

- switch right/left hand with it, to release stress on hands, no need to be ambidextrous at all at the beginning

- have a different posture so that the efforts are not only on the hand/wrist, could be a posture with a more active back
It get worse. Apparently, your body adjust its basal metabolism over the long term in response to daily physical activity.
> How else are we supposed to read it?

You're assuming everyone read it the same as you, and now can't imagine differently.

There have been several mentions in this thread alone about how people have been using studies like this to recommend "Covid parties" (like chickenpox parties), or generally use it as further fuel to stay away from the vaccine, because they believe catching Covid is safer.
Same, but on the other hand memers do seem to take their craft seriously. While I wouldn't want to pay monthly for this app as I would use it a few times a year (I'll just fire up photoshop), I guess its not too much cash for users serious about creating. Apparently you can make some good cash focusing on a niche user market.
We are getting lots of claims that apple has "destroyed" it's reputation. Other comments say that apple has "destroyed" is brand.

This is a very significant set of claims, because apple's brand is KEY to what apple offers, what they charge, and what they sell.

In other words - $X in parts cost $Y with the apple brand on it - because of users trust in apple.

This is why brand surveys are done. You can see that brands (alone) make a huge difference in pricing / sales power vs basic functionality (sometimes ridiculously so in things like handbags).

You are making my point for me. It is possible - very possible - that despite the outrage on HN at these efforts around child porn, the demands that govt criminally prosecute apple etc, that in actual fact users may not care or may LIKE these types of features, and that similarly, govt may not prosecute apple for the supposedly felonies they are committing but will LIKE what they are doing here and thank them for it.

In the end apple may not have "destroyed" users trust so that they are seen as worse than facebook (!!) but may continue to be trusted (at least as much as facebook - which is NOT AT ALL), and be able to sell products at a premium etc.

When you say Apple is worse than facebook - that is a VERY strong claim. Do folks on HN not understand this? When folks claim apple is committing felonies those are strong claims. So you need some strong evidence.

Apple is a business - they may decide they want to take an anti-child porn stance. Is this bad for business? We will see. They will make the argument I'm sure that they will continue to do privacy as well - but the balance there is different than what HN wants, but may be fine by users.

It just gets a bit tiring hearing that apple is destroyed (which comes up in lots of ways) when my own read is they are long way from being destroyed.
Interesting. It generates some odd looking JS with a boatload of global vars. https://forum.nim-lang.org/js/forum.js?t=2020-08-2420%3A22%3...
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What are you doing during these experiences?
What are your moments leading up to them?
What are your weeks after it?

Are you doing them for fun or are you intentionally doing them to improve and analyze your life?

Psychedelics have had an incredibly positive impact on my life and have led to prolonged and drastic changes.

I've healed relationships, changed life long habits and truly feel as though I am on the continual path of self improvement and being a better person. Those were all seeds that were sewn during a psychedelic experience.

These compounds may change your life overnight (but only for a week or so) what they mainly do is plant seeds in very fertile soil. It is on you to recognize the seeds and water them in your normal, daily life.
I think if sql is your data model, then it’s a good case for a query builder.

But at my company, our in house app is written using django but treats the django model asan interface to elasticsearch, Postgres, and redis.

The django model is sub optimal for sql, but it’s a good base for interacting with the system as a whole.
> I'd imagine it would be easier to just call a method on whatever we want to update, instead of lowering all our methods into enums. Why wouldn't we do that instead?

Easier how? The difference in lines of code is minimal. It's not going to make any meaningful difference in how much time you spend on crafting a solution.

> Also, serializing usually isn't enough to get the benefits you describe. You need true determinism for that, and that's very difficult to achieve. If you ever e.g. query the current date without recording it you've just introduced nondeterminism.

It requires some thought, but it isn't terribly difficult. Most user interactions with a gui doesn't require a side effect, and those that do can usually be written in a way that it gets represented in the enum. Even when nondeterminism creeps in, it rarely cancels out all of the benefits of having a history of user interaction. Perfect nedn't be the enemy of good.
Discourse doesn't load the whole thread, it's loaded on demand (which is a reasonable choice for many enormous threads), so "quickly" would instead be "not at all".
You’re making a healthy revenue, any reason you don’t want to just contract out a few updates? I work full time but I've also run a small contracting business for years, happy to do it at a reasonable cost.
> Agency scientists say management silences and harasses them to appease chemical industry
> 'Managers seem to think their job is to get as many new chemicals on the market as fast as possible,’ Kyla Bennett said.
> It’s money, it’s greed, but it doesn’t make sense. Don’t these people have any children or grandchildren? Don’t they care?

You get what you pay for. If you pay your regulators to approve as many things as possible, you end with planes crashing into the ground. EPA is not different. Give them the right incentives and you will solve the problem.
How does this compare to SendWave?

Also, what's your strategy around combating fraud?
I never understood this, do black holes have poles from any distance?

I know if you're too close, everything gets distorted, but I would have thought they look the same from any direction or angle, never managed to grasp the concept.

Maybe there is some 3d sim to explain this?
I guess the adblock usage percentage for mobile is much lower due to the hassle required :)
Its is used like alcohol or drugs as a misguided coping mechanism. But the difference is alcohol and drugs are not free.
I can't help but wonder what kind of world we exist in, if people are driven to drugs (not specifically ayahuasca, but also prescribed ones) just to live.

The spike in mental health diagnoses and drug use ... it feels like there's something seriously wrong with the world and environment in which these people exist. The system is broken, as it were.
I have considered this, I don't see anywhere near the same purchase conversion on android that I do on iOS. But that could also be due to build quality. Do you have any insight on how successful pay models are on android apps?
I like to make sure all the apps on my phone are setup the way I like. Ban most from running in background, disallow from accessing services especially in the background. Adblocking services, etc. I use my phone alot for work, so rocking some custom OS in not an option.

Firewall rules, use of many networks & vlans, and different ssids for different type of wifi traffic. Make for a secure home.
Tesla applies to sell electricity to Texas residents
Imagine doing this study months into vaccinating some people, enough time for mutations to have increased escape possibility.
That lengthy blog post is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with C++. Using modules should be a trivial part of the language. Instead, we have to take a detour via historical Objective-C (a language already superseded) and there are enough caveats to make a lawyer blush.
Taiwan is an incredibly different place to the countries you listed. It's a very modern society with a homogeneous population.

Most importantly to this discussion, Taiwan has mandatory military service for the express purpose of defending the island against Chinese attack. Taiwan is a country that should be assisted in it's independence, if it comes down to it.
Even worse than misspelled is when it’s inverted polarity! Like uninitialized=true means that it IS initialized. I’ve seen something similar to that in multiple jobs.