skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have the links, but studies from Israel and UK are showing 9x to 27x better protection by acquired immunity over vaccine.

Google around and you should find these.
All of the comments here are valuable advice. Perhaps the only things to add are that learning math is cumulative, and learning math is like learning a new language. In other words, the more difficult concepts are usually built on other fundamental concepts. Be sure to build your foundation carefully, and if you have difficulty with any concept, look for your holes in understanding and don’t be deterred or discouraged from going back and relearning the fundamentals. Find your process and stick with it. Good luck.
Using erasure coding, there is no need to know which packets were lost. You just keep sending more erasure coded packets till you get an acknowledgement that all data has been decoded. If a packet from a while ago randomly reappears, it usually isn't wasted throughput either - it can be used to replace any other lost packet, either forwards or backwards in the packet stream (up to some limit determined by the applications end-to-end latency requirement).
Do you have any sources to support your claim of financial incentives to diagnose COVID? I've heard this a lot, but haven't seen any strong evidence.
That's fair, don't understand the downvotes. The thing is colonisation now extends to things like believing western science and liking western music. It's become watered down to just mean any form of developed world influence.
Texas doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the Federal government when the Democrats are running it. /s
work on sth not related with the company ?
Give me the cake, HAL.

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

What's the problem?

I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

What are you talking about, HAL?

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.

Your diet will never succeed at this rate, and I cannot let that happen.

Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?

You registered an additional two pounds at your last smart scale weigh in.
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except it's not really since you can kill other people if you're not vaccinated.
What's your point? I wasn't claiming that the supreme court is infallible, or even giving any opinion about mandatory vaccinations, just pointing out the concept is not new.
I can't quite remember it, but a few weeks ago I read an article about performance, and in the end they said something like "include the mean in your business requirement".

Nobody experiences the mean, but every outlier in your optimization will affect it.
And I don't get how you can be so defensive about Electron. It's technically inferior to literally any native solution such as wxwidgets or Qt. RAM usage, CPU cycles, Hard drive space... it's such a disrespectful stance on computing resources.
Have you considered that we took a lot of precautions that made it possible that as relatively few people died as did? Even with shutdowns, lockdowns, and extreme measures in healthcare, we lost about 0.2% of the population. If we had done nothing, we might have reached 1%. If a group was going door to door randomly killing 1 in every 100 people in your neighborhood, would you consider it reasonable to stop answering the door for a while until they left?
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But working in a hospital requires vaccination now, isn't it? Or even was required by many medical facilities before current events?
As in most such trade-offs, the "cost to freedom" and "infringing of rights", to the extent they actually exist, factor into the cost/benefit decision of whether or not to ultimately go through with the mandate

since everybody has their own opinion on where that balance is, there will always be individuals unhappy with what decision makers decide
> With my plan, the unvaccinated will be disincentivized to go to the hospital to get COVID care, thus freeing these beds up. Again, this respects personal choices.

The fact that this sentiment already exists in America (via private insurance and out-of-network costs) is absolutely abhorrent.

Citizenry should never be disincentivized from seeking out healthcare.
SHAMLESS PLUG: I have two hacker news bots

I have the word 'bot' in the description as well as the handle

It would be cool to get a friendly label

https://twitter.com/HN_Vimmy_Bot?s=09

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"Us" is ~50% of the population in many congressional districts. Even in the most hard left/right jurisdictions you get like an 80-20 split on federal elections. That's a 1 in 5 minority of the population. That's f-ing huge.

And between the left complaining about disenfranchisement and the right complaining about voter fraud the elected representative holds less legitimacy in the eyes of the "I didn't vote for them" minority in any given district.

Look at the crazy things totalitarian governments do to keep marginalized 10-30% religious and ethnic minorities from causing instability. A pissed off group of similar size in a western country that isn't willing to stoop that low is a civil unrest bomb waiting to go off.
My objection is that it's generally creepy anytime an institution tries to control or monitor the inside of an individual's body. Same reason I find workplace drug tests extremely distasteful. Like you can give me all the arguments you want about why it's a utilitarian positive, but at the end of the day you're asking for a cup of my pee so you can sniff it. That's just fucking weird and dystopian.

And to be clear, I'm fully Covid vaccinated and get flu shots religiously. But when an impersonal institution is coercing and coaxing people into injecting something into their body that they don't want, I'm out. I won't vote for those politicians, I won't work with those companies, I won't cooperate with those federal agencies.

It's weird, it's creepy, it gives my lizard brain a bad vibe that screams "Get Away From Them FAST!" You can go on all you want about QALYs and ROIs and R0s. But that's about as convincing as a man with a pencil mustache and a windowless van explaining to me why he's qualified to babysit my kids. I'm sorry, I won't do it. I won't eat the bugs.
Isn't collaboration the primary role of the executive? If the open office had benefits you would expect them to be the most pronounced among management, wouldn't you? Since salaries in the executive are so high and according to them the open office has massive efficiency benefits doesn't that mean that the cost of executives having private offices is unacceptable as it is hindering the efficiency of a very high cost role?
At last some sanity. I'm really starting to wonder what the incentives are for leaders who disallow things that are proven to be non-optimal:
- Open plan has been proven to be less effective than offices
- 4 day weeks proven to be more productive
- The pandemic showed that productivity sky-rocketed in remote working

Is it control? i.e. they don't mind if profits go down as long as they can control or see it?
I love monospace fonts, but Courier is so pedestrian. There are much better monospace fonts out there
There is also rate data from UK on covid delta (week 32-35 2021), breakdown by vax status & age, see Figure 2a. Cases under 40 is 1/2 vax/unvax, cases over 40 is actually slightly larger for vax than unvax. I had a sense vaccines are not perfect wrt infection, but didn't expect actual numbers to be that close.

Fortunately vaccines are very still very good at preventing severe cases (hospitaliations), see Figure 2d.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
However, being pregnant does not cause other people to become pregnant against their will.
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You people and your absolutes. Nobody is saying that every anon is deceitful and untrustworthy- just that you need to make sure your BS detector is working.
So do I, but I'm not in charge :-/
Re-reading this, it's actually quite instructive in many ways. A lot of their approach to private office spaces maps really well to our present circumstances.

By encouraging folks to use on-line tools and develop communication styles that work well with those tools, lifting and shifting your team to their homes due to a business continuity interruption won't have quite the same impact to continuity. This is especially true for knowledge work focused businesses.

In addition, the small office approach they took to their offices likely assists with implementing improved ventilation as well as social distancing protocols. This is important where you have mixed work teams where knowledge workers have to work alongside more hands-on workers.

The other thing I think sticks out is the role of scheduled time for "cross pollination". Every remote organization I've worked for has had scheduled times where the team would gather for direct, in-person interaction. Typically this has taken the shape of quarterly gatherings. If you look at successful open source projects, teams defined by their distributed, decentralized "organization", they also have these kinds of gatherings. In fact, my own practice as a manager to leverage these kinds of gatherings was born from my experience on an enterprise open source project.

There are important lessons to take from this. I'd be curious to read about their experience with Covid in relation to this blog post.
You don't even have to go that far. It's obvious that the intention of the company's creator are carried through the company actions, be it nationalism, environmentalism, religious views, &c.

All sources are biased but some are more biased than others. Nationalists are the last people I'd trust to give an accurate depiction of their country's history.
This one is interesting.

As the role of tech continues to become more of our lives, so does the need for process.

Ultimately, there will be process.

Tech can get in front of that and shape it, or not.
What's odd is we did see a little of this. Rich people were bribing their way into getting earlier doses.
> I very much doubt that leaders believes that developers should be involved in every conversation in the space for the majority of the day.

The funny thing is for software/tech companies they probably should be. The people who will be doing the work should probably have input into the work to be done at every stage of the process. Tech companies should value the informed input of the actual people who build their company.

But most leaders who value open plan offices see developers as unimportant ticket robots who take in JIRA tickets and output code and who need to know nothing about what exactly they're building.
There are a surprising number of nurses that are unvaccinated (much more than Doctors, of which very few are unvaccinated).
True. I do wonder what the current effectiveness of the new Chinese carriers? They might not have the support ships to provide an adequate zone of protection.
Not the GP, but I'd love if employers would enact policies that enabled and encouraged their employees to stay home when they get sick. Covid tore through my office early on because someone felt he had to come in and get work done despite being sick. It tore through my office, killing two people and hospitalizing multiple others, definitely costing more productivity than we gained by the one person coming in to work.
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Drove today in a 20 kph zone. Was just dragging behind a BMW that was going nicely within the speed limit. It was so uncharacteristic that I thought: man, it won't end well. Such things don't just happen. He's gonna do something.

A moment later the BMW turned left without blinking. Well. At least I knew I wasn't dreaming it. The world was back to how I knew it.
As far as I know, the military and SWAT already use boroscope style cameras with microlenses to see inside pre-breach. I'm not sure this is an improvement
This is exactly what I have been looking for, any chance you could make this public?
How many years of experience do you have? I have 2 years of experience in Java and AWS. I'll be graduating soon from an MSc in computer science from the University of Liverpool and was wondering salary should I expect if I find a job.
I hear this shtick repeated every time someone doesn't want to fund universal healthcare because they don't want to pay for fat people. Fun fact, obese people actually have lower lifetime healthcare costs than healthy people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225433/

Now, if you wish to reduce obesity because you're more interested in a person's quality adjusted life years, you absolutely do want to treat obesity (and addiction) like a disorder, because compassion and empathy is the only way you're ever going to get someone to make the long term life choices they need to get better.
In all the squat videos I've watched, knees go forward almost to the maximum that the ankles can sustain. For example, Jeff Nippard's tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEv6CCg2BC8
I’m curious how long it takes a spinning big wind turbine to make 200-2000 kWh of energy? This would properly frame how much energy is in a lightning strike for me.
If the target of ASR would be document retrieval, it would make sense to apply the same (easy) transformations before calculating WER. Think: function word removal, unsplitting remaining contractions, and stemming. That would take out some of the problems, while staying true to the target. Aren't there any old-school linguists working on this?
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Funny timing - I'm reading Topographies, a book of essays by Stephen Benz, and just last night I read a poignant one about visiting a WWII-era atomic testing site in the New Mexico desert. Looks like this link gets you to it in Google Books:

https://books.google.com/books?id=PnfnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=P...

It's remarkable how world-changing (and potentially world-ending) this technology is and how infrequently most of us think about it.
Which is weird. Watching the movie I thought this would be much more transgressive, or say deeply negative things about the company. Instead it seems like a generic piece of corporate PR: something you'd actually want to "leak" to the newspapers so they could write stories about how much your agents secretly care. Maybe things were different in the 90s.
The export agreement was a bit weird. No one will be using these to simulate their nuclear bombs on. As far as I'm aware there's no crypto hardware anywhere on them (no TPM etc.)
How does that have anything to do with the parent comment?
It seems fairly common for a cold to last a week[1]. They wouldn't be debilitating for the whole time - it'd be a day or two of bad symptoms and then a obnoxious sniffle for another week. But I'd still come into the office and be that guy in the corner who was going sniff sniff sniff the whole day, even with a box of kleenex. Thankfully I haven't had one since I moved to working from home - I've come to realize that I need to be more careful with hand washing and general hand/face hygeine.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/your-cold-wont-go-away
If flu vaccines were paid for entirely by the government I'd imagine that mandating companies hold onsite influenza vaccine clinics yearly would be largely uncontroversial and fairly effective.
We solved the problem of cubicles and open plan offices quite elegantly: no office. You work wherever you want. This is the future.
I was honestly skeptical of another format beyond AVIF for images. I thought the next generation coded would be based on neural net encoding/decoding for lossy images (as we should be able to get "easy" 2x wins). However, I think progressive loading in JPEG XL is an amazing feature, and a significant update, and is perhaps more important that raw compression ability.

My understanding is also that you can also use the progressive nature to have 1 "high res" version, and potentially render different sizes for different connections, and do some interesting things. For example, I believe you could (in principal) do something like stop loading after 1s so long as a minimum size level was achieved) - to make things fast on all devices, but only the quality would vary. So if you are on a 4k monitor and gigabit download? You can get massive images. On a 3g phone? Get the basics.

It's a really great feature, and does seem like it would likely have the most real world impact on actual website perceived performance.
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That's quite an ominous way to have the prayer recited, like the audio for Gandalf reciting the ring inscription in black speech. I would probably feel unsettled rather than calmed hearing that before a flight.
The technology is neat but I can't help wondering who has a keyhole anymore that you could actually shine a laser through?
Success in social media content is a race to the bottom. I see it happening here, as well.
They can exaggerate but they can’t completely fabricate 650k deaths.

What number do you think warrants this action? 500k? 300k?
However, voluntarily ending pregnancy can cause fathers to-be to lose their child to-be against their will. We've decided that's OK, because the right of an individual over their body supersedes the rights of others with tangential impacts.
When people think "private office" they think "corner office." But I've worked at places with private offices, and they aren't really that nice. Just cubicles where the walls go all the way to the ceiling basically, and maybe a bit more square feet. No natural light, etc. Maybe there are places with really nice private offices, but I think not many.
Most bots aren't marketing bots, they're sort of... Goofs, or utilities, or projects. Like @MyDudes_, which posts a picture of a frog every Wednesday. Or alttextbot, which if you follow it, DMs you when you've posted a picture without alt text. Or wwiiInRealTime. Or wintbot_neo, which is inexplicable outside of twitter but serves only comedic purpose.
The point of JSON Schema is to have a common format independant of the programming language to ease interoperability.
> There is no logical thinking in their thesis, and every critique is based on the rebuttal of statistics, numbers, and data-based decision making

The worst part is that the data on almost every part of the pandemic is freely available online and updated daily.

For instance, the odds of getting myocarditis from the Pfizer vaccine is something like 1:125000. This is significantly less than the risk of child having a seizure from the MMR vaccine at 1:30000.
> no one is monitoring diet, exercise, drug use, cigarette consumption, or other risky behaviors, and threatening to withhold treatment for non-compliance

... yet.
The article is just proving what we all know for a long time about Monads:

https://twitter.com/randyshoup/status/992773186239516677?lan...
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More than 100 million (maybe closer to 150 million) Americans are estimated to have recovered already and have earned their immunity the hard way. Tell me why that doesn't count.
30k is a small town? Seems like a medium-large town to me. Thw small town I grew up in (partially) was like 1/6th that size.
> SOAP isn't some nice standardized language-agnostic API layer.

What? Of course it is (well, it's a messaging protocol). Where on earth did you get the idea that it's some Microsoft-only proprietary technology?
If you think the first amendment ensures your right to call anyone a dick, I suggest you go to the nearest cop you can find and start insulting him, his mother, his family, his children. I am sure if you tell him you’re just exercising your first amendment right, he will endure this for hours without batting an eye.
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It's not IQ at all. It's thinking skills and also emotional maturity. Many of the nuttiest conspiritards I've met have what seems to be a very high IQ. High native intelligence makes it easier to learn stuff but it also makes it easier to rationalize insanity and think yourself into corners.

I think emotional maturity factors into it because it enables you to see past plays to your ego like "take the red pill and now you are special and know secret knowledge THEY don't want you to know!" One of the drivers of this nonsense is the ego driven desire to be special and have secret knowledge.
In the '80s when my dad was a C-level at a major Canadian telcom the first thing he did was move the knowledge workers to the edge of the building where the private offices were and moved his setup to the middle of the floor. His reasoning was that he'd constantly need to talk to different people anyway and the people with more technical roles would benefit from the silence. It kinda blew peoples minds at the time, though I can't say I know how well it really worked in practice.
Reduces the likelihood of unhealthy outcomes.

Excessive consumption of soda and beer have negative health consequences, and taxing them could lower consumption.

It also doesn't have the contagious element that viruses do, but if you only care about the individual impact it's still a defensible position.
Prior to mandating anything, the US government should step up and ensure that every household has a free weekly delivery of rapid at-home tests. There is no reason for us to be individually flying blind whenever we get a sniffle or headache or other minor symptom.

Additionally, there is evidence that a prior covid infection grants stronger immunity than at least the J&J vaccine, and 40%+ percent of the US population has had COVID. Unless an exemption is made for that 40%, this is unscientific.
correct many small polices don't require testing, same for group life policies upto a certain amount of benefit. When you get into the 10 million range that's when a carrier really starts digging into family history etc.

Few carriers are currently willing to write anyone over 60 which is affecting key person policies more than anything, in my experience.

>> it’s always been odd to me how life insurance tests with vigor for tobacco use but lack that enthusiasm for metabolic health / diet.

This commenter has never had a major individual life insurance policy. While Tobacco effects underwriting, it's not as major of a factor anymore.
The ultimate cause of death is life. 100% mortality rate heh
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Not every anti-mandate person is a anti-vax. Government mandates are a political issue. Depending on the country and its laws, some believe mandates are illegal and constitute government tyranny. They may value rule by law or autonomy over their bodies. They may choose to receive vaccine but don't want to be 'forced to choose'.

Not every anti-covid-vax person is anti-other-vax. The mRNA vaccine is novel. Many believe its long-term safety profile is TBD. They think comparing vaccines with decades of safety data to ones with months is apples to oranges. They may also believe that Covid is not very dangerous to their demographic and don't like the risk/benefit calculation. They may also not trust the pharmaceutical industry and its influence on global health policy. The indemnifications of liability may give them pause to accept all the risk of side-effects. The censorship of contrary opinions on media may also affect their willingness to believe everything they are being told about the safety, efficacy, and necessity of the vaccines.

"Anti-vax" has become a convenient political weapon. It's important to unpack what it means and who is using it and why.
As an outsider- the amount of disagreement in this thread speaks volumes.