skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My LASIK experience could not have been more opposite. I remember walking in, then putting some type of clamp to keep my eyelids from closing, you look at a red dot or a couple dots, the doctor even says you can move your eyeballs around and the laser will follow it so don’t worry about it messing up the procedure.

Then the laser activates for 10 seconds or so, you smell your burning eyeball, laser does it again to your other eye. Whole procedure is done within a couple minutes.

You get half a Xanax, go home, go to sleep, and wake up with crystal clear vision like you have never seen before.

But I also watched myself get a vasectomy, so I might not be able to relate to what an anxious person might go through.

Edit: I forgot part of the procedure. The clamp that keeps your eyelids open also slices the top layer of your eyeball and flips it open for the laser to shape your cornea. The Xanax is prob to ensure you sleep and let it heal.
Using Pinephone as my daily driver right now. It depends on your needs.
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Your comment is pretty interesting, because i've had the intimate suspicion that the debate around public health measure to fight covid have been rendered impossible because of the trump / biden US election. The Dem vs Rep political fight seems to be ruining every single scientific debate it gets a hold on.

FYI: i'm french, so i have absolutely no interest in that Dem vs Rep debate, and people here i know that are the most reluctant about vaccination with mRNA vaccines are the ones that are the closest to being ecologist activists.

EDIT: as for other compulsory vaccines, that's why i mentioned "new product" / technology. We're not even talking about a new vaccine, we're talking about a completely new technology to produce an immunity response.
I didn't mind the colour changing background. However I did find the raindrops in the "At a glance" section to be very jarring and stopped me actually reading the key features - not what you want from a promotional page.
It's the accommodation reflex [0] at work here - pupillary constriction goes hand in hand with a shortening of the focal length of the lens, and the eyes also converge together. This is a brainstem level response, so I doubt there'd be any easy way to dissociate these movements consciously.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation_reflex
> Interestingly, whether it works or not is completely unrelated to whether it's documented or not.

I disagree. Writing up your design gives others the opportunity to provide feedback and improve the design (and possibly catch major flaws) before you build it.

If you never write up your design there's a higher chance that you have built something that doesn't correctly fulfill the product requirements / won't scale / will fail under some race condition you didn't anticipate / is not compatible with the plans an adjacent team has to touch the same area in the next 6 months / etc.
not just economics, he has a wide repertoire of knowledge about many things . Eric Wienstein is similar in this regard.
In this case, why? If I'm looking for failed vectorization in particular, I usually start at the bottom and walk upwards.
I hope that a bigger size and AMD version is in works as well
Is there any actual development here? It's definitely not a given that we can do this.
pfizer and moderna have essentially filed for rolling submissions. the biggest impediment to vaccines stopping the virus is morons not getting the vaccine.
Given that's the only thing Brexit actually changed, you should probably believe people when they say that's what they wanted (if they voted for it). You seem to be assuming that if you talked to some people who aren't articulate enough they didn't have real reasons?

The desire for this is reasonable. There are lots of cases where dumb decisions were taken outside the UK against the will of the local government, many of which led to long-lasting resentment:

1. Most obviously, the total refusal by the EU to let the UK control immigration, which basically crushed all wage growth out of existence for nearly two decades. Also see: Germany's brilliant decision to let a million migrants in (at which point they can freely move elsewhere). Also: inability to prioritize immigrants from other English speaking countries like Australia, Canada, USA.

2. Transcription of vague "human rights" principles into actual law, which led to a lot of notorious high profile cases where the government tried to deport e.g. radical Islamists and the EU courts rejected it, or where criminals ended up basically playing the government by making mendacious arguments under these laws. This was especially nasty because the UK and Poland saw this problem coming and got confirmation in the treaties that EU human rights law wouldn't apply to the UK, in writing, as clearly as possible, and then the ECJ overturned it anyway in a pretty flagrant bit of judicial activism.

3. EU cookie laws. 100% stupid, never supported by the UK government, now being rolled back.

4. Fishing quotas that allocated most UK fish to other countries. Hence why fish is such an electric issue post-leaving.

5. CAP, which is basically a way to force Brits to subsidize French farmers. See also: the extremely high level of EU controlled subsidies and spending that create large amounts of waste, fraud and general weakness in the business sector.

There are a whole lot of others people might bring up, that's just some examples.
It is hard though, I personally stopped following Linux podcast or subreddits , so I will try here in this thread to stop some fanboy reactions and provide a balanced response but I am not sure there is too much a regular person with no fame can do.

Apple community is as toxic too, if you mention a hardware issue(like the keyboards) you get accused you did not used ir correctly or you are paid to do bad publicity. Then you have fanboys claming how Apple does good thing X but misslead you by not mentioning that Apple only does X because a judge forced them to do X (ex Apple was forced to replace bad hardware by judges after lawsuits or inform you that you phone is crippled)... for this people Apple is perfect. My point is that there is always a very loud number of fanboys that is hard to shut them up(Apple,Linux, Tesla, Rust).

I think people tried to make fun of "I use Arch" and "rewrite it on Rust" crowd that some people calm down but I think those are few and most of them are just a bit less loud.

If some Linux user that still reads linux related reddit please downvote and try if possible to respond to fanboys , espeically if they are of-topic,
It is true. There's an Oxford Covid risk calculator, and for an average 20 something person, the risk of hospitalization is ~0.002%.

https://qcovid.org/
Such an effort to let these 10mln+ enterprise save money, i wish there was no free (as in beer) software
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Yes, I have that book! It's excellent and one of the ones I use as a source. A few others that I've found to be really good:

* A History of Astronomy by Pannekoek

* Aristarchus of Samos by Heath (this is actually a much broader history of Greek astronomy than its title suggests)

* Episodes in the Early History of Astronomy by Aaboe

* Exploring Ancient Skies by Kelly & Milone (much more technical, but also broader and more up to date than the other books)
Right: if PR and kudos for yourself is the point, you don't want to test it.

But if you want to do this sort of thing for some sort of "making the world a better place" reason... or want to actually truly select the best... you gotta test it!
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I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not
> As an aside, the virus is actively changing over time, and delta variant is putting a lot more young people in the hospital.

If this is the case, this is not hugely more than the previous variants as we can't see it on hospitalizations charts

> Why wear your seatbelt if you can still die in a collision?

Why not wear a helmet in a car I'm sure it would help in some cases ?
This country badly needs a national ID system.
I've never felt weird after a flu shot other than slight pain in my arm. Each shot of moderna knocked me the f out in horrible ways. My pfizerwife was fine.
I highly recommend his blog/newsletter “Marginal Revolution”.
> Look at the states with the highest amount of unvaccinated individuals in the US. They are running out of hospital beds [1]. This is not about taking our freedoms, this is about getting this under control.

> [1] https://fortune.com/2021/08/25/states-icu-beds-covid-cases-d...

I can't see the article due to paywall, but based on how you're presenting I have to say: Due to the phrasing it isn't a straight lie, but it's definitely not true either and is meant to be misleading. Hospitals are not being overrun by covid patients, most of the capacity is being used by things from last year that people were putting off.

For example in the least vaccinated state, Idaho [0], most hospitals are running at around 50% capacity [1], and even then only around 10% of beds are covid-19 cases.

On top of this you have to remember that hospitals are for-profit institutions, and beds are counted not just by physical beds but by having nurses to attend to them. Empty beds cost the hospital money, so they try to run fairly full anyway. I remember reading 80-90% in the past, but have found a source [2] that says 60-70% is the average across all hospitals, and another that gets into the 80-90% range for only large hospitals [3].

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-07-27/...

[1] https://data.commercialappeal.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/185904/hospital-occupanc...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191350/
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That may be true, but my point was that this is not a good example of UBI. This is a global pandemic, and a bunch of actions around it.

Though since we're talking about it, I think UBI might work if we also outlawed fractional reserve banking.

Currently, new money is created when banks lend out more than they have, I think they like to call it "leverage." This creates a type of inflation, but the only ones benefiting are the banks and the people/businesses they choose to loan money to.

Instead of allowing leveraged bank loans, we could create the same inflation by blatantly printing new money every year and distributing it equally. This would give the benefits of inflation to everyone. If you wanted to start a business, instead of getting a cheap loan you would have to crowd fund it, because all the money(power) that was in the hands of banks is now everywhere. If we needed to control inflation, we could have taxes and remove the money collected from the pool instead of using it.

It would be a bit of a balancing act to make sure enough people keep working, and that prices don't get too high, but I think it's doable.
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A lot of early cyberpunk also works because the authors were explicitly following noir/hardboiled styles, which are pretty straightforward and easy to "hang a story" on to. Some of the weaker sci-fi I've read fails to have any coherent structure and is instead just a jumble of random (but interesting) ideas.
That's quite a promising solution! Thanks for the great work guys!
I wouldn't exactly call a comparison between gene therapy "isn't quite the same".

Flu shots contain inactivated/weakened flu virus (depending on the version), to the presence of which/antigens the body reacts by creating antibodies.

RNA vaccines are a different technology, which transfect (reprogram in IT speak) your own cells to produce spike proteins similar to the ones sars-cov-2 does (the consensus seems to be that this spike variant is, unlike the real one, harmless and is not free floating) which are then detected by the the body and antibodies are created.

The result is esentially the same, but the way you get there contains an extra step and it is this extra step that is the source of the vast majority of (rare) adverse reactions. Blood clots etc.

The ironic thing is that most people who are very strongly opinionated on this (both sides) have no idea what the actual difference is and blindly trust whatever either the government or a local anti-vax facebook group tells them.
No ... my mind says the dress is white and gold but the white has that shadow look.
Agree 100% - just focused on economics as probably a bit more relevant in this context as an investor.

I actually think the curiosity and risk taking bias are key here.
> it quite sad to see reactions on HN regarding the introduction of Docker Desktop subscription model.

Docker Desktop for Mac simply sucks. It starts slowly, has slow UX, burns CPU all the time even when not active and no container instance is running. They recently added that "you have to upgrade now" popup and it feels updates are more frequent. I might be biased here due to poor UX with the popups, updates were smoother before. If I'm to pay for it, I really would like to have better experience using it. I can run VSCode, IntelliJ and Firefox with dozen of tabs open and my mac isn't as hot as when running docker desktop.
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> They are running out of hospital beds

I find that hard to believe, considering that these states didn't run out of hospital beds in any of the previous waves that also had higher incidence and far higher mortality.

I quote:

> "Another nine states have less than 20% of their ICU beds available."

This is still on the high end, by international standards. Optimal occupancy rate is estimated at 70-75%:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24373914/

Running near capacity doesn't mean there isn't emergency capacity that can be made available, otherwise ICUs wouldn't be able to run above 100% capacity.
ML systems are biased when data is biased. This face upsampling system makes everyone look white because the network was pretrained on FlickFaceHQ, which mainly contains white people pics. Train the exact same system on a dataset from Senegal, and everyone will look African.
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Thanks for the toilet link... That looks really interesting. What do you think of it? Other than that website,I cannot find anything about that toilet anywhere. I'm confused about where the waste goes and how it can have no smell... Is it only for peeing?
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I think I know the one you're talking about, and he wasn't bankrolling it -- it was just one of his projects through Mercatus. And they had a bunch of course content on the Great Stagnation, which was definitely relevant.
I am not sure how ground breaking this is.

Pupils accommodate. Focusing on something far will make your pupil get larger and focusing on something near will make it get smaller.

Basically every normal person’s pupil does this. My guess is that person in the article is actually just changing focus without really thinking about it. Given that changing focus activates muscles in the eyes, you might be convinced that you are actively controlling the muscles in the eyes directly, and not through changing focus. In addition, the “finding” of this article is based entirely on the persons subjective experience.

Thus I think the professor found someone who accomodates as normal, but has a subjective sensation of controlling his pupils when he changes his focus.
Oh, all those subscriptions. Office space, cleaning, drinks, coffee, electricity, heating, water, ...

Dealing with expenses is part of running a business. Sure there's a lot, but that's part of it.
You're not wrong - the cornea (front of the eye) has about 3x the refractive power of the lens. Both function as converging lenses, and the only difference is that the refractive power of the lens can be changed.
This could help, but only if those little reactors were bunched up together so they can share operating infrastructure, including staff. NuScale plans to put a half dozen reactors in the same shared structure, for example.
Was it Greendale Community College?
So ignoring holidays, $250k/yr works out to $120/hr.

How long does it really take to set up the VM and port forwarding to have most of what people care for from docker desktop locally. A couple of hours. Let's say 3. So cost $360.

How long does it take to go through your average large company requisition process? Probably 2 hours over multiple weeks. So that's $84 for the license at the $7 tier, and $240 for the time spent dealing with the corporations self inflicted tedium. But hey, $324, still technically cheaper.

But then there's the opportunity cost of waiting two weeks to install fucking docker. I think we can all agree that's worth more than $36.

So I'll be looking at alternative solutions rather than deal with the corporate purchasing bureaucracy. Even if the purchasing manager was reacting in real time I'd probably consider it worth $36 not to deal with the process.
To nitpick, it is not as grand as mind-over-matter, but rather conscious control of things that are normally under the control of the sympathetic or parasympathetic system. IIRC the sympathetic system is more likely to be consciously influenced. Both are vital subsystems that control things like heart rate, blood pressure, etc. that you'd rather not play too much with (although it is said that you can with deep meditation).

Your question are about different things than that, and the first one is about a different thing than the second one.

Learning to move a particular muscle you don't normally use consciously (like moving your ears or your nostrils) is indeed a matter of practice. Sometimes all it takes is getting conscious that there is a muscle there, and then you improve your feedback loop between sending a command and feeling it move.

But a muscle that uncontrollably twitches is a whole different process. For instance some muscle cramps are related to dehydration or lack of certain minerals. So the cause can be more chemical than nervous system (ie coming from the nervous system).

PS: I have no particular expertise in this area.
Such an idiotic extension! January, really? Don't these overpaid execs recall what it was like last January? On what basis do they expect things to be better this coming January? Do they know we're in the Northern Hemisphere and it's not summer, but winter in January?!
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>> It's also worth noting that the mRNA does not interact with a person's actual DNA.

> Like this gem. This is false. RNA can burn back into DNA via reverse transcriptase(sp)

Irrelevant. The vaccine mRNA cannot interact with your DNA, because it doesn't enter the nucleus at all. It is used to produce spike proteins within the cell, outside of the nucleus.

The mRNA vaccine is not as exotic or unnatural as people seem to think. Cells have ribosomes. Ribosomes process mRNA instructions to build proteins. All the time.