skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preliminary data from Israel suggests that immunity acquired through natural infection may be more robust to variants like delta, compared to vaccine induced immunity. See this preprint and discussion from a couple weeks ago [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224
The evidence definitely points the other way, see [0]. The vaccines dramatically reduce the rate of severe infection and hospitalization. The vaccines do not prevent infection, they prime your immune system to fight the infection. That is why the endpoint for the clinical trials is not infection, which would have to be determined by testing, but rather symptomatic infection.

[0] https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
>I don't think it has anything to do with wanting to collect money from accidents. That's not very reliable revenue anyways.

It's worked well enough for the entire fitness industry forever. No reason it can't work here as well, and at scale I'm sure it's pretty profitable. You're right, too, that we'd use it, but I think this is a situation where we can both be right.
Email and Mastodon are existing decentralized social networks. If you want to call something Web3, it's going to need to be more than just "decentralized".
That doesn’t seem coherent.
There are people with severe immune deficiencies that any disease they catch could kill them.

Why aren't you wearing a full body haz mat suit to protect them?

Do you think people with immune deficiencies lives are worth less and its okay to kill them?

Where do you draw the line where it's okay to kill some people with your bodily diseases but not others?
Reflexive and thoughtless media critiques really aren't very useful. "The media" is not a singular entity, this sort of critique suggests a false hypocrisy:

- Multiple entities are amalgamated into one single entity. (ie, "the media.")

- Two conflicting statements are put side by side and meant to suggest a hypocrisy. In reality, it's not a hypocrisy when two unrelated entities make statements which are at odds.

- Often, a straw-man version of the argument is used to help foster the hypocrisy claim. In this case, "this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated." This is not a good faith argument because vaccinated individuals are much less likely to spread the virus, and to become seriously ill. It is an equivocation of meaning: "can the vaccinated be involved whatsoever" vs. "is this primarily affecting the unvaccinated?"
The blockade did not predate Soviet involvement in Cuba.
Boosters are given to improve immune response so the idea is that you improve the immune response so vaccinated people generate more antibodies against an active infection and you get less breakthrough cases.
Then we can be stuck with the same low-res <200ppi screen for many years to come!

(My personal pet peeve is the stagnation of pixel density in displays outside of Apple hardware and phones.)

What's wrong with replacing the display and keyboard? They're the cheapest parts of the computer.

(I think the compute module includes the chipset, too, given that it includes the ram and wifi. It probably exposes pci to the laptop which is at that point just a bunch of peripherals.)
“We run the store, we collect the revenue” Apple on Microsoft request
That's my point exactly. Do you think Galileo thought there was room for dissent about whether the earth moved? Did he famously say "Eppur si muove, forse"?

There's no room for dissent. There's room for argument, and by all means we should argue about it and not ban one side of the conversation. But only one of the sides can be right.
Okay, but in fairness, I don't think Coinbase is disputing that,

a) "You can make a plausible legal argument for why Lend is a security."

Their frustration, rather, is that:

b) "The SEC is not doing the same thing for near-identical offerings like Gemini Earn." and

c) "The SEC won't actually tell us what basis they're appealing to or how this relevantly differs from the others."
> Dumb people are going to want to go to covid parties

When I was a child, parents would inform other parents when a child had chickenpox; so they could have a sleepover. That was normal practice in the portion of the USA I grew up in. As a result, nearly everyone my age has natural immunity to chickenpox.

I share that anecdote to point out that the idea of an "infection party" is a really old idea that was practiced at scale. It's not unreasonable to assume people will treat this the same way based on that type of past behavior. Whether it's "dumb" or not remains to be seen.

Edit: I wanted to add for younger persons a blurb about WHY you want to get chickenpox as a kid. Children experience mild symptoms from chickenpox - it's a non-event other than missing some school and having a few sores. Adult cases of chicken pox however are fatal by a large majority.
Well, they had reproducible scientific tests to provide their theories didn’t they? Seems like a slam dunk in todays world that they would be taken seriously.

At least by the majority of rational people.

Though I get the point you were trying to make, the fact that you gave two scientists as examples is deliciously ironic.
This looks great but warning, the posts are still by redditors, the shrillest most irritating and juvenile group of people on the internet besides Twitter.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN, regardless of how badly someone else is behaving or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. They include:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The field isn't bogus just because you don't like it.

I'm a mathematician by training, and if you're going to dismiss an entire field just because Boghossian managed to get some obviously-fake papers published, I'm afraid you'll have to dismiss mine as well due to, for example, things like this : https://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102

(As an aside, I don't know if Eldredge sought IRB approval for this, but he absolutely should have and if he hadn't it's probably not too late for Northern Colorado to investigate).
this isnt the case. The virus spreads within your body and the mutations will spread within the body as well. A virus can mutate and improve within the host.

What doesnt necessarily get selected for within the host is improved survival rates outside the body, ability to penetrate the body in the first place, etc. But bacteria are under the same evolutionary pressures.
John Ringo's Live Free or Die starts with a nice explanation:

“It is said that in science the greatest changes come about when some researcher says "Hmmm. That's odd." The same can be said for relationships: "That's not my shade of lipstick . . ."—warfare: "That's an odd dust cloud . . ." Etc.”
"Megacomet" is exaggeration. Chiron, which is anomalous in its own way, is of similar size.
Agreed. The Easter Rising, and the cause of Irish nationalism generally, weren't anywhere near as linked to Catholicism as this article makes out. It's much more correct to see it as a class struggle or a revolution against a colonial power, depending on your view (the ruling class were closely linked to Britain).

Prominent 1916-era nationalists like Childers and Markievicz were Protestants. Connolly was a hardcore socialist who would have embraced Marxist atheism. The Church didn't generally support the Rising, partly because it feared socialism. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic doesn't mention the Church, or even, remarkably for the era, God. Most importantly, perhaps, the Penal laws suppressing the practice of Catholicism were just a memory at that stage. Irish people were oppressed because they were Irish, not because they were Catholic.

I don't want to completely discount the link between Catholic and Irish identity - fostered by Pearse and then de Valera among others. But to emphasize it here smacks of an understanding of Ireland that comes mainly from late-20th-century international news and conflict in the North 'between Catholics and Protestants'.

Edit: I'm less familiar with the Russian revolutions, but my layman's understanding is that the class struggle was more important there too than imposing atheism. In Russia, the Church was part of the dominant power structure that had to be deposed: in Ireland it wasn't. It's not so hard then to align the movements.
No, I agree completely. That's not what all the petty revolutionaries are espousing though. Their rhetoric is pretty clear that they are demanding a complete replacement with something better, usually some flavor of collectivism.

I am arguing that's not possible. Improvement will be incremental and evolutionary, by necessity, and will most closely resemble capitalism for a long time
Reading about Galileo, Newton, and others when I was young, I felt that they came from means or had the means to do 'deep' work. Until you have the means, the Bullshit Industrial Complex seems like the rational path to follow. It gets attention which gets you paid.

I wish all programmers with a healthy bank account and vested stock quit their FAANG jobs and did research or worked on personal projects. But there is greater external validation in saying you work at FAANG vs. I'm working on some highly technical topic only .01% of people will ever care about.

Edit: I 'ass'umed why people don't do quiet research/building when they have the money but would love to hear first hand reasons.
Wait, wtf is a pre-wash detergent? And why I have never heard of it?
The assertion is not correct, viruses do not need to spread to new hosts to experience meaningful mutation.
Agreed with all these observations, especially gas oven or stove usage! Our former third floor ~1200 sq ft condo would spike CO2 up well over 1400 ppm when we’d run it, and almost instantly.

Even just with two people working from home, much of the space would quickly get up to 800 or 900 ppm. I’d usually open windows as I saw it creeping up, which would quickly reduce CO2 to under 600, and then it would slowly creep up over the day.
This is a private company's communication, not official Swiss usage. Nor is he being afforded privileges or rights arising from his title, beyond the use of 'Sir'. The 'proper' usage also would have added his titles after his name - OM KBE (Order of Merit & Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
> Remember when authority thought the earth was at the center of the solar system

Authority? Oh, you mean a church who espoused having a divine mandate and a monopoly on truth and therefore the only path to a good afterlife? The Catholic Church's fortunates were literally derived from common people and nobles giving them money and resources.

The Church's persecution of Galileo was about maintaining its monopoly position, it didn't actually concern itself with truthfulness. Maybe at some levels there were the extremely pious that actually believed Galileo was professing literal heresy but the actions of the Church were entirely about defense of their monopoly position.

But yes, other than all the details of the situation, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers, COVID deniers, and all the other Dunning-Kruger conspiracy theorists are just like Galileo using detailed and falsifiable experiments to bolster their claims. They're being persecuted for their science and unflinching devotion fo truth!
thanks for the feedback :)
Why do you suppose that people don't enjoy working 70 hours a week?
My dad regularly worked 70 hour weeks - had multiple careers doctor/businessman/public figure.
But he had a ton of help - manager, personal assistant, chauffeur. Everything on the home front was outsourced.
He loved it. But he had a lot of control.

Most people, I observe who burn out, do because of other reasons - work politics, poor health and ultimately not feeling in control of their lives.
Not everyone is built to work like that, but some are. And they can sustain it for long periods of time.
The shutdown of '96 was remembered as a key issue that drove voters to the polls and cost the Republicans a chance to unseat Clinton for a second term. After that, they lost their taste for it during the remainder of his Presidency.

It may have continued from 2001 onward, but September 11 caused massive realignment in political strategy for years; anyone seen as causing the government's basic functions to stumble while terrorists threatened America would have suffered a colossal political black-eye.

I couldn't guess off the top of my head why 2013 became the year Congressional leadership decided this was a game worth playing again.
The blackout lockdown. A million people were prosecuted in WW2. It's a myth that everyone was cool with it and compliant back then.
Okay? What's your point? So was slavery.

The point is it violates rights now.

SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS!

(you guys are the nazis)
Good read, and touches on a lot of the pain points from that era. As someone who was lurking on HN at the time during the containerization boom, I think that the key failing of dotCloud/Docker was not capitalising on Docker Swarm almost immediately. Docker Swarm was touted almost from the start but the repeated delays gave it a reputation of smoke and mirrors left people scrambling for solutions.

I also clearly remember the multiple high profile spats that 'shykes had on HN which burned a lot of bridges. At the time he had a reputation for answering lots of questions on HN which helped a lot with community building. After those bridges were burned there was no one to speak for Docker as the developer mindsets shifted slowly towards Kubernetes. IIRC the Github PRs were also a source of contention as dotCloud corporatised.

To be fair, Kubernetes was a real slog to understand at the start and had a lot of competition; it was definitely not the same level of simple, direct technical solution that Docker was.

Interesting trip down memory lane and what a pivotal technology! Regardless of the rest Docker is a true cultural phenomenon and a testament to the insight of the creators working outside of the myopia of big tech.
>his cupidity may at some point be satiated

Will it, though?
Like covid, the actions of invisible terrorists would be largely out of our control. It's unfortunate so many of us are unwilling to accept that.
In the 18-39 age group, COVID-19 has caused 4x as many US deaths as deaths in all age groups on 9/11.
There’s not a lot of room for all that stuff.
Serious questions:

Does Google record "(for their own internal use) all meetings? Do they transcribe all voices to text/keep video/identify the participants by facial recognition?
As a westerner, I feel that way too since everything is USA-centric.
No split control of Congress.
Use a plugin in claws mail and another in FF. Linux. I maintain Tidings for sfos.
This is the problem here. What kind of lay people care about this at all? I'm having a hard time being convinced myself, and I could not imagine trying to get 90% of the population remotely excited about this. There's nothing new for them, like you said, no killer app.
In threads like this one, I sometimes mention the parable of the Chinese Farmer as told by Alan Watts.[1] It's easily found on YouTube.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0OARBqBp0
It sounds like you're both saying the same thing "Don't incorrectly assume most people share your purpose or values". They never prescribed everyone must have these values rather they pointed out the article does not consider some may.
I'm surprised they haven't already.

Imgur has really fallen over the years. It was first created by a redditor who was frustrated by how terrible free image hosts were at the time, like ImageShack and Photobucket. If an image hit the front page of reddit, it would very quickly turn into a "This image has reached its bandwidth limit", not to mention you usually couldn't directly link an image, and the image view page was riddled with ads.

Over time, though, Imgur has tried to become a social network, and is trying to stop being the go-to place when you just want to host an image.

But, to be fair, I don't really blame them. Image hosting gets expensive quickly, especially when everyone on reddit uses you. Of course, now reddit lets you post images directly to them, which on one hand, leads less traffic to Imgur, but on the other hand, the traffic going to Imgur is now more likely to see ads and browse the gallery, rather than just directly download an image.
I'm generally a blockchain skeptic but I would count this article as evidence _for_ web3 being important.

Everything that matters goes through a phase of the idea being great and inspiring and powerful, but the tooling being utter garbage. The latter is fixable.
The fact that humans are social is not relevant to whether a leftist political ideology should impose its preferred social structures by force.

Capitalism allows people to organize collectively too. Proponents would claim that it enables more freedom to do so than ‘leftism’.
Clinton left office with federal budget surplus.
Bush 2.0 started decades long global conflicts.

On top of that, Republicans controlled the House and Senate for almost the entire period from 1997 to 2013. There wasn't a split congress.

The next shutdown to occur was a show of Republican chest beating in protest of ACA funding.
Pre-rinse is useful, and particularly for older dish washers, while the pre-rinse mode on dish washers themselves is EXTREMELY useful - probably necessary to be actually water and energy efficient while still cleaning. Pre-rinse is generally ALWAYS done anyway but using detergent during it is a good idea.

Pre-rinse mode in the dishwasher involves a first water and soap wash before the water recycling main wash occurs. Most grease can be removed with the pre-rinse cycle when detergent is used. This prevents having grease "re-applied" to the dishes during the main cycle and its repeated water recycles upon the dishes.

Pre-rinse can always be done with or without detergent - some dishwashers do not have a dedicated holder for the detergent but only an indented space next to the normal cycle detergent holder. Use this for a detergent pre-rinse.

Pre-rinsing in the sink before loading is still often necessary - no dishwasher is as effective at cleaning as hand washing. And especially when a dishwasher gets old, that already lesser effectiveness gets worse.

Honestly this article sounds like a dishwasher PR story planted in the normal news. This IS HOW MOST NEWS SOURCES OPERATOR now: a PR firm/group at a corporation will write a bunch of pro-Firm/pro-Product articles FOR use by magazines, newspapers, syndication, etc. This started to happen in the 1990s and now is pretty much all stories because 1) news organizations no longer have reporters at all or have no reporters "in the field" at all, and 2) the pay isn't good enough to do "real journalism" any more.

I worked for a Fortune 25 company that was on the vanguard of this kind of PR-to-News system. It worked really well because editors are LAZY as are far too many journalists!
Did we ever resolve the flame war over /dev/random vs /dev/urandom? I recall puzzling over endless threads of no-you're-wrong
No, but I am happy to make that argument if you'd like. Because strictly speaking... yes! I shouldn't value my interpretation over the consensus of domain experts, when I'm not a domain expert. Full stop.

But my argument was, much closer to raw data isn't as valuable as interpreted data. Humans instinctively weight loss with more value than gain. The vaccine will prevent 95% of all clinical infections. But has a 10% negative side effect rate. Which is the more important value in that hypothetical? If you get this vaccine you have a 1 in 10% chance to have a negative side effect... that sounds scary. The negative side effect might much more likely to be flu like symptoms, but that's not what you're gonna remember reading VARES. Where if no one gets the vaccine; IIRC the current case mortality rate is 1% you have a 1% chance to die if you get infected? VS flu like symptoms? That's what I mean. If you're not careful, it's very easy to be tricked by what you read because most people are not gonna hear 10% develop side effects, think flu symptoms. They're gonna thing thrombocytopenia, pericarditis, and anaphylaxis.
If zig.build can alleviate the pain of building C/C++ projects, then it will surely to replace C in the future. So, IMHO, it's more important to get zig.build right than zig itself
You did more than anyone to perpetuate this flamewar. That's seriously not cool, regardless of how badly someone else's comments were or you feel they were.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
In my opinion the problem is simply terminology. Critical Race Theory is a niche law school topic. Just because a teacher wants to teach something approaching the reality of slavery or the treatment of indigenous peoples is not teaching CRT.
Whilst this seems cool - I'm struggling to understand the real world use cases.

> Machine Learning (ML): Pedalboard makes the process of data augmentation for audio dramatically faster and produces more realistic results ... Pedalboard has been thoroughly tested in high-performance and high-reliability ML use cases at Spotify, and is used heavily with TensorFlow.

What are the actual use cases internally at Spotify and for the public here?

> Applying a VST3® or Audio Unit plugin no longer requires launching your DAW, importing audio, and exporting it; a couple of lines of code can do it all in one command, or as part of a larger workflow.

I wonder how many content creators are more comfortable with Python than with a DAW or Audacity?

> Artists, musicians, and producers with a bit of Python knowledge can use Pedalboard to produce new creative effects that would be extremely time consuming and difficult to produce in a DAW.

Googling "how to add reverb" yields Audacity as the first option. A free, open source tool available on Linux+Win+Mac. In what world is it easier to do this in Python for Artists, musicians and producers?

As a music producer that's well versed in Python myself (even if I hadn't switched to producing almost entirely out-of-the-box and on modular/hardware synths) I'd much rather just apply basic effects like these in a DAW/Audacity, where accessing and patching a live audio stream is much easier than figuring out how to do that in Python and only being able to apply effects to .wav files rather than live audio.
Sorry. Forever. We had an incident once, and we now have to follow guidelines to that incident forever. Wearing masks now is appropriate.
Yet not as many as car accidents in 2019.

What is sensational comparison you present.
zenity also does this. It can be useful to gather user data for scripts you don't run from the terminal (say a hotkey)
> I’d argue that the web, more specifically http, offered up the last truly new paradigm in computing. It is a single, elegant standard for distributed systems. We should all take the time every now and then to think about the beauty, power, and simplicity of this standard.

What is really funny about that sentence is that the word "http" links to the wikipedia article through href.li, in order to hide the referer, a built-in feature of HTTP 1.1 and the web. So much for elegance and simplicity when I am staring at a workaround using an external system for something as simple as a link.