skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In anti-vaccine communities, there is a widespread theory, generally considered misinformation/conspiracy, that the Covid vaccines increase the rate of heart attacks and cardiac disease, and that deaths from these causes have spiked in recent months. Is that claim consistent or inconsistent with this dataset?
Stories like this can only happen in the context of tragedies.
The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
They do officially support the Permissive security policy, and it is intended to allow you to boot custom kernels. Running a fully-untrusted operating system kernel is an intended feature, even if they aren't going to give you support if something breaks in the upper layers.

See https://support.apple.com/guide/security/startup-disk-securi...
Why does it matter how reliable it is? What matters is that it's possible. If it breaks with an update, the technique can be pretty easily adapted to work again.
Next time I break something while soldering, I'll start hot-gluing the broken components onto a rock. Then I can have my very own crypto-rock, sans blockchain integrations (though really: how hard is it to get a pet rock fully connected?)
Ford has a debt of $160B, so they have a valuation of $210B.
> Google mission statement is to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Its vision statement is to “provide an important service to the world-instantly delivering relevant information on virtually any topic.”

Failed ...
Conversation at dinner with a group of your friends and their friends is going to function a lot more smoothly than one at a table of atheists, christian fundamentalists, Jews, Sunni and Shia Muslims, Americans, Russians, Chinese, Tibetans, Israelis, Pakistanis, Indians, liberals, conservatives, socialists, capitalists, libertarians, fascists, anarchists, environmentalists, trans people, cis people, homophobes, racists, sexists, “the woke”, narcissists, sociopaths, frauds, manipulators, trolls, geniuses, average people, and imbeciles.

The Internet might have seemed “better” back then and like it didn’t need moderation. From many people’s perspective it probably was. But that was likely a function of the reality that most people on the Internet at the time had a lot in common with one another.

We don’t get the benefit of that luxury today.
Doesn't Canada have one of the best healthcare systems in the world? If that how "collapsing" looks like to you, you might need to adjust your worldview.
One of the data sets from the UK show excess deaths of heart attack and stroke in people under 50.

Granted overdoses can cause cardiac arrest.
> Shadow banning and shadow moderation may make one's job easier but it has a disastrous effect on the forum or community by injecting a definite level of deceit into the moderator/poster relationship.

You say that as if it's fact, but I'm not sure it is. HN has a method of shadow banning that is reversible if you are noticed as posting stuff that contributes and follows the guidelines, and even when you are shadow banned, people can opt into seeing your contributions (I've had showdead on from day one, I think).

There are places in the internet you can go to make sure you are heard and you can say whatever you want. If you prefer to post here instead of there, then some examination on why that is might be warranted, and specifically whether the thing you are complaining about helps or hinders making this place somewhere you feel worth spending time.
> I used to live in a poor area and got daily notifications of catalytic converters being stolen

I mean, the catalytic converter is going to be like 800° and there's not exactly a big integrated lidar aftermarket yet, so maybe not a great imagined reason to preemptively redline anyone.
I don't know what you'd find compelling, then. You quoted two articles about jails. Jails are different from prisons.
It’s also not solely about the lab design. The people and the processes matter. In fact that’s one of the key issues with WIV - they performed GoF with SARS like coronaviruses at a lab with undertrained staff that didn’t understand safety protocols. This was documented by the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin before lab leak theory became a political football, and was known to the US state department a few years ago: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin...
They flipped the revenue switch too early.
> Hate to break the news to you but the Canadian healthcare system collapsed a long time before Corona. Just ask anyone who has been to a hospital in Toronto before Corona.

And the solution for an already collapsed health system is to overload it even more with a pandemic, right?
It's my understanding that's what they did. ABC was allowed to embed on the condition they didn't release the reporting until it was done.
As someone who just started learning Elixir, this comment makes me anxious. I don't think I am going to write some exotic web application or some unique functionality, but at the same time I also don't want to be constantly fighting with the limitations of the stack I choose.

Is it a mistake to spend time learning Elixir?
Not a new idea - invented by Mt Xinu
Bangkok.

I'm planning to visit Sao Paulo either in the next couple months or starting next year (depending on Covid) and might settle there for quite some time; but for the time being I think Bangkok is the real deal except for humidity/heat.
Nicely done. So if the app is deleted and reinstalled the data is recovered from the phone? And I’m assuming unique data would load per device correct?
Youtube does this with comments - your UI makes impression the comment is posted, but it actually is not.

(Sometimes the comment can also dissapear from your UI as well - I've tried editing a comment, but it fails saving and after page refreh the comment dissapeared. Reproduced that multiple times.)
Gotta admire the foresight of the NRC post Three-Mile Island. I haven’t been in the industry in almost a decade, but damn they do a great job catching stuff. Now if we could only solve the waste storage problem, or permit waste recycling. Alas until these problems are solved, nuclear is still DOA.
Assuming it's some kind of active censorship and not a bug, how would this be possible with Signal for instance?
Comirnaty (Pfizer Covid19 vaccine) EPAR public assessment report [pdf]
Japan in quite affordable outside of Tokyo. But getting a permanent residency is a bit tricky.
It isn't a strict subset. Vaccine risk includes cellular expression of spike protein in a scattershot way throughout your circulatory system (mRNA vaccine). Viral infection expresses whole virus, not just sprotein, and isn't targeted at or tramitted through the circulatory system, but instead the respiratory system.

There are differences, and s-protein expression may trigger mild autoimmune disorders.
The necessity of separation between of church and state was also a key piece of Bolshevik propaganda.

Is it okay to say that it's unjust that a countries must be governed an absolute autocrat appointed by God?
Would be great if someone reverse engineered the Messenger protocol and wrapped it with a better messenger.
Wet bulb temp is the latest wank in what has been the biggest propaganda exercise of all time.
You have been misled. You are being deliberately turned against the human race.
This is not the dataset you’d need to prove or disprove that.

That said, the various covid vaccines currently have research and record-keeping attention directed at them that few other things in the history of humanity can claim. If there was such a correlation I would expect somebody reputable to have shown it by now.
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It's well supported that the combination of lock down isolation[1] in addition to the free CERB money resulted in the spike of drug abuse / suicide deaths[2].

[1] https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-coronavirus-is-killing-thousa...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-pandemic-opioid-addict...

...

And I don't believe we have even begun to see the psychological / developmental effects of isolation and distance learning on young kids.
Ground-effect vehicle
TIL you can't think of something as a vaccine unless it has 100% effectiveness.
Twitter’s own post announcing Trump’s ban, which you linked to, doesn’t contain any specific evidence showing he incited trespassing or rioting at the Capitol. It literally has zero real evidence and instead points at unrelated random points like Trump’s choice to not attend Biden’s inauguration as evidence. It literally suggests that his use of the phrase “American patriots” is inciting violence. That is absolutely not evidence of anything except Twitter’s far left bias. Your comment is unambiguously, misinformation, and only strengthens my point about politically biased tech companies influencing political campaigns. If any foreign actor did this, we would be labeling it “propaganda”.
reminds me of those cheap atom netbooks years ago entry level was around that price though they could not handle much browsing and word proccessing in a small portable form(video was a issue though). most today do a lot better in that form but are usually in the 250$ or so range for entry level.
> For society as a whole I see negative utility in time wasted.

Personally I find that a bizarre take. I imagine plenty of people could feel the same way about a comment you recently made:

> Your phone could have one app...a web browser and maybe a few utilities like a calculator, calendar, clock. Even these could be implemented as web apps running in the browser.

Also:

> I was looking at a resume and one kid put "Helped maintain netbsd/NeXT 2018-2021" and another put "Set up and maintained PostgreSQL based system for small business CRM," I would probably take the latter more seriously.

The former could almost certainly do the latter in a heartbeat, but the reverse is almost certainly not true in most cases.
But does it boot in 4 seconds?
If it was so common why not provide documented evidence? It would seem like a pretty important thing to document, assuming it actually happened.
Agreed. If you move far enough up the supply chain, you'll find the same components being used in many different types of devices.
Very true. But at some point the public discourse and public health policy must consider tradeoffs.

A. Lockdowns have costs. Deficits that will take decades to pay off. Lives lost to alcohol and depression. Economic hardship. A lost education year. Etc.

B. The pandemic has vastly different risk profiles for different age groups. At an extreme, under 20s have 1/1000 fatality risk compared to over 70s. It is fundamentally faulty to design a blanket one size fits all policy under such circumstances.
It's not a public square for being successful, don't use Facebook if you don't like it. I don't either.
Sure, Usenet had its antisocial users, and quite a few seedy groups, too. My point is that it's worse today... much worse. In the early 90s the net was mostly students, profs, tech workers and professionals.

Think of the scariest person you've ever met (really, take a moment and actually do it) and ask if he or she would have been online in 1995; the chances are they would not. But they are now.
potential health care collapse and also more deaths due to covid in that population and more long covid symptoms that further tax the health care system not to mention quality of life moving forward. there is no way to know for sure since by nature you can't control for it and test it but I'd suspect that there was a net benefit to the lockdowns.
No need to fear everyone: I'm sure Tesla will let us all know shortly that it was the drivers fault. And the cop probably could have pulled over more safely, too. Nothing to see here.
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Yep, it was censoring messages containing specific words and links alike. Silently.
Okay, go to jail for two years. Please let me know how you fare after.
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Interesting Twitter thread from a few days ago about the provenance of Ethereum rocks:

https://twitter.com/whatdotcd/status/1429969801624031236
I have been to Toronto hospitals. My only complaint is with the admissions clerks who take your info and are very slow about doing it.
FWIW since I started referring to this as poisonings (instead of overdoses) I've found folks to be much more amenable to conversation. Nobody likes the idea of the wicked poisoning the vulnerable.
By "literally any means necessary," including sending them back to stone age technology. Your comments give me no reason to expect you'd shy away from any expenditure of Iranian life.
I mean, yes, size_t will stay at 64bits for at least a while, 2^64 bytes is 16 exabytes. Once this is insufficient then it will be slowly switched to 128bits. Some systems already use 128 bits for storage-related arithmetics.
This has happened a few times before.

Why does Autopilot not detect parked patrol vehicles? Are other parked vehicles also being hit?
Yeah I don’t see what the hype was about this guy. He was physically abusive towards his girlfriend, was creepy with her son, and he killed himself. Seems like a loser.
I don’t think you can ever get anything definitive. But if you compare Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. All in the same region, with very similar cultures, similar diets, similar language, etc etc

You can see the difference clear enough to make inferences.

There were a lot of people in the scientific community, Perhaps the majority, suggested Sweden’s method was superior to what many other countries were doing.

The fact is, people are effectively believing what they want. There wouldn’t be a need for censorship if the truth was clear.
HN would be a useless trove of violence and hate if all [dead] comments were automatically unhid. Folks who are into 8chan might be into a community like that, but I personally much prefer the moderated approach taken today.
I think you mean steganography (hiding secret message in plain sight), not stenography (techniques for writing/typing less).
Why Facebook Is Suddenly Afraid of the FTC
The situation makes a case for a return to back room politics.

Where as long as you voted for your constituents' priority issues, you were free to strike deals on everything else.

Sunlight and transparency carry responsibility with them... and I'm not sure what we, the public, have done with the additional information (to wit, being outraged about everything, all the time) has been for the best of the entire system.

We don't look kindly on managers who micromanage their employees' work, and yet we're essentially doing the same thing to our politicians. Especially at the local level.
It's not a criticism, like I said I'm glad they were able to let it rip. It's just that most intentional flight terminations I've seen are on somewhat of a hair trigger.
We aren’t talking about the state department’s list, we are talking about Amazon. The Taliban are technically a terrorist organization because they commit violence in pursuit of political goals, which is the literal dictionary definition. Big tech companies, if they had ethics or even the barest level of consistency, should not be hosting them irrespective of what any state organization thinks.
>BC's health officer, who everyone has listened to during this pandemic, has begged the Federal government (the Province and City of Vancouver also begging) to decriminalize drugs to help with this issue, but the Feds have done nothing.

Alright, I'm going to poke the bear. How would decriminalization help? I'm assuming that by decriminialization, you mean legalizing the consumption, but not sale of drugs. If so, that doesn't solve the problem of the production of drugs, which IMO won't result in the changes that you want to see (drug users dying).
I am continually angered at Microsoft's decisions to remove the older content from its site --- especially content that has been linked from elsewhere and would otherwise be invaluable in solving a problem or providing historical context.

It doesn't cost much at all to host this information, especially for a company of MS' size; I bet their Windows Updates servers consume far more bandwidth and storage than all of the KB articles they have ever published.

I have a file "knowledgebase16.7z", which appears to still be available online, that contains around 220K of the KB articles starting from Q10000, including Q12230 and Q46369 that this article's author tried to find. It is 1.1GB uncompressed and 134MB compressed.
Me too and I want to support them. Please give them a good review on google - they currently sit at 2.3 stars.
Ask HN: Do you know any good kanban board for Linux?
The problem here is mostly the lack of available nurses and doctors, who have to pull insane shifts to compensate. Hospitals are also very concentrated in urban areas. Canada has 30% less nurses per capita than the US.
I would guess that people who are socially isolated and unemployed are more likely to engage in drug abuse.
The Anti-vax people are nuts, so everything is kinda mixed up to serve their personal agendas and those that are "of like mind" to some extent.

This dataset speaks nothing to an existing concern.
You want to look at studies like these:

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/covid-19-cardiac-manifesta...

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sees-probab...

COVID vaccines have triggered carditis or (possibly underlying) heart failure in people under 30 which has been expanded to all adults. I am in stage 2 heart failure (medication controlled perm afib, have to sleep on my right side or everything goes numb AND I probably have to get cardioverted, etc). I have not had a vaccine and my cardiologists have suggested I don't yet. I've had 3 open heart surgeries and my heart won't suffer another surgical insult, so although I'm super cautious, I always do what my cardiologists tell me.

The rest of my family (brother, dad, sister, etc) have been vaccinated.
Because the Tesla object detector is too unreliable and fires too often for parked vehicles that aren't there. So they tune it to have more false negatives (to miss objects) because most of the time you're passing by a row of parked vehicles and nothing is sticking out.

It's a sign of just how bad and dangerous the Tesla autopilot really is. It should never be on the road. Dozens of people have been murdered by it. The engineers involved should all be in jail.
Being on the internet and unmoderated doesn't mean you have to engage with everybody. The idea is that you get to choose what sort of conversation to engage in, and who to /ignore. Hardly different from "real life", except that the internet gives you a larger pool to engage with and better tools to deal with it.
I think that's a misunderstanding -- this affects all Cosmo DB users who had gotten Juniper enabled.

The way to avoid this, wouldn't have been firewalls, but using another database
Cryptokitties is less of a meme.
Works fine for my family, who expect reasonable effort (nothing heroic) and no long-term end-of-life stays.

What are you talking about?
Furthermore, their staff have continually been the most friendly, kind and resourceful folks I've ever encountered as a customer of any business. I worked with them to diagnose a neighborhood DSL issue years ago, and it really felt like working with some colleagues or friends, despite the customer/business relationship.

At one point I was even getting internet for free from all my referrals.
I think you maybe posted this on the wrong thread, there is nothing in this data that correlates vaccinations with cardiovascular disease.
Now let's do smoking.
In Europe you can get a certification only if you had a positive PCR result in the past 180 days.

So if you want to travel right now freely you need to be double dosed unless you have recovered recently.
If the_donald proved anything in 2015 and 2016, the loudest most malicious folks intentionally ram themselves into all communities. The suggestion that bad actors will keep to themselves is the absolute opposite of reality.
That's not what it says at all. This is preliminary and no conclusions have been made. It could be that 4155 COVID deaths were not properly tested and incorrectly categorized.
Retaining information in an organised way that scales is a huge unsolved problem.
Ask HN: Scaling up from 100 iOS app subscriptions
I have a simple accessibility utility for iOS that now has ~100 $0.99 monthly subscriptions, but its growing really slowly.

I have a free 7 day trial, that according to App Store Connect converts at 56% with an 86% retention rate. However these figures are based on 150 free downloads per month, which is really low.

What strategies can I use to increase the number of downloads the app gets in mid-2021?
I don't think this is the case. We aren't seeing as many stories around regular parked vehicles being it, it seems to be mostly patrol vehicles.
I have family in CA. I am concerned about the recall election. As bad as the situation is today, it might get worse if a republican replaces Newsom, which looks like a possibility :(
I just started playing with Dyalog APL after listening to the Array Cast. It’s mind bending stuff even after being familiar with Numpy and R. Makes most languages look clunky and cluttered for array manipulation.

And the idea that a language can be designed around one data structure is elegant. Of course you get that in Lisp and Smalltalk as well. But having all those primitives that work over array structures is incredibly expressive.

I believe the array podcasters when they claim array languages can be several times more productive than other languages, at least for domains that fit well with arrays.
Tens of thousands of people have been murdered by bad drivers. The entirety of the DMV should be in jail.
Saying such things without imaging how it would affect the inhabitants is bloodthirsty even if unintentional. These kinds of actions have consequences for the population.
How frequent is this compared to when humans only control the vehicle?
OSHA is not allowed to publish vaccine side-effect data.
No, but the crazy stuff sure seems to be coming back into play again. There was an article out a few days back about 10? year old who made 400k with a set of pixelated whale NTF's.
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I somehow missed this, would you mind linking it?
What kind of burrs? If it's the usual cheap hand grinder (hario slim) it got a ceramic burrset which is not only slow (3 times as slow as my favourite the 1zpresso), but has a bad distribution.

If you don't need espresso fine grounds buy a timemore c2, normcore or 1zpresso jx.

If you want to brew espresso take the 1zpresso jx pro.

Edit: all those recommendations are best band for the buck. For an equal electric grinder you will pay a hefty extra. For the same quality the cheapest electric grinder I could find was more than double the price. I don't want to pay 150€ for a motor
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Is this recommended? It sounds like a much better alternative than “it’s not too much silver halide down the drain”
You may hate me for this but:

They simply don't care.

History and other such non monetizable things are only preserved by what Taleb calls "soul in the game" people. That is people that accept (even if slightly) negative real world payoffs for what's the right thing to do.
Have a frosty mug of natalie portman!
Just wait until he finds out that most of the software that powers the Internet was originally written as somebody's hobby, from the OS kernel all the up to web frameworks.
Highly recommend http://privateer.sourceforge.net/ Gemini gold
Speaking from the United States, if we had rolled out a more robust testing scheme at the outset, we could have saved lives and accelerated reopening. President Trump publicly ridiculed widespread testing. My local school district is going to randomly test up to 20% of students every week. That's what it takes to control a pandemic. If people could have rolled out that level of testing during past pandemics, I'd like to think they would have.