skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not so sure it matters.

Every human biology can be seen as a gradient of physical shape and material composition but falling within a rough spec.

I don’t see making race a social construct as all that useful. Not to take it away, because I say the same about gender and sexual preferences; so long as people aren’t being fascist and abusive, ethno-scientific objects need not be constrained to appearance.
People jump to conclusions? On the internet? No, I don't think that likely
they probably didnt control for occupation on sleep quality so
This is a case of the CDC either lying or at least being deliberately misleading with their headline: the study in question shows that amongst people previously infected with COVID those who were also vaccinated were less likely to be hospitalized.

“In today’s MMWR, a study of COVID-19 infections in Kentucky among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus.”
> What’s the put “it in the case” equivalent action for an Apple Pencil?

The same as the airpods: stop using it and wait a few minutes for a usable charge.
I don't run a2j or even have it installed so in my case it doesn't seem to be a problem. My audio production setup isn't highly complex FWIW but with the following configuration I have had no issues with audio or MIDI input and output. All of my devices are just plug-and-play for both Bitwig and qjackctl:

- Distro: Arch Linux

- Audio backend: JACK2 and PipeWire

- USB Audio Interface: Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD

- USB controllers: Akai APC 40 mkii, Casio CTK-6200

- Microphone: Zoom H6

I run this exact setup on my Ryzen desktop and a Thinkpad T480 with no problems. I've also tried routing the audio output of various software directly into my DAW using qjackctl, works perfectly fine.
That’s not what I’m claiming. It’s pretty clear from public records that no one was really paying those rates. The people it may have hypothetically applied to probably didn’t take all of their earnings as taxable income and found ways to avoid paying the top rate. The real rate collected under the 90% regime in the 50s on the top 0.01% of income earners was 55%, not terribly higher than today.

Taxable income is highly elastic as taxes and income increase. See Emmanuel Saez’s paper here [1]. (Conclusion on page 60) it’s a good overview of the inefficiency of high marginal rates.

It’s nice to believe we could just scoop up the wealth of the wealthiest in society and make good use of the money, but it becomes very hard to collect in a hurry in the real world. Most OECD nations with generous social benefits fund them with VAT and taxes on middle income earners. They’ve all abandoned things like wealth taxes and soaring marginal rates for practical reasons.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15012/w150...
From my previous HN post:

> Message boards are message boards. You can't take them seriously, including this one.
They haven’t studied these genetic therapies long term to know if what you assert is the case. We already know there are health issues associated now with the mrna shots.

We could see a rash of issues show up in the next couple of years.
Note the point in the essay that statistical significance is meaningless if the model does not correspond to reality — which, in this case as in many, they very much do not.
These are interesting ideas, but really we just think we can predict more of the future than we can.
Could you please link to the source for your claim?

In 2018, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization reported that climate change is one of the leading drivers of global hunger [1].

"Overall, the number of hungry people grew for the third year in row in 2017, reaching a total of 821 million worldwide. The paper warns that this number will continue to rise if countries fail to tackle climate change and to build resilience to its unavoidable impacts."

And just this summer, Madagascar made the news for suffering the world's first climate-induced famine [2].

[1] https://unfccc.int/news/un-warns-climate-change-is-driving-g...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58303792
There's going to be global famines within my lifetime and a refugee crisis measurable in the hundreds of millions of people. I would say the death toll is unfathomable, but the IPCC makes it very clear that countries worth of people will die.

The Hell I see is the Hell the science has determined is all-but certain: the next 80 years will be a series of tragic trending videos, distant, until it directly affects _you_.
I don't see much python code period, in my day to day work, but what I do see often... doesn't seem demonstrably 'better' by any metrics than run of the mill code from any other stack. But it sometimes comes with some sense of smugness about being 'pythonic'. Standard Java I don't get that sense, but do from some Kotlin advocates I know (usually the ones that are new to programming in general who feel they've found some new magic bullet that will overturn all the bad PHP out there).
You could even have mandates. Exclude them from eating at restaurants or fast food places and ensure they don't purchase too much or unhealthy food.

Not only would it be for Their Own Good™, but if it saved just one innocent life due to reducing the load on the healthcare system, it would have been worth it.

/s of course - I'm not a lunatic.
But the setup being described doesn't involve any sound modules, and for general ease of use and extensibility, I would say that at this point USB MIDI probably wins. If you want to go to a sound module of some sort, there are some cheap and reliable USB->DIN MIDI cables available (along with some cheap and totally unreliable ones).
>Because hospitals are imposing those costs on themselves by firing nurses that are not complying. To the point where some hospitals in NYC are now unable to deliver children.

I believe record numbers of health care workers are dropping out of the profession from stress & over work, from the pressure of treating those 100m cases. I doubt the number being let go for vaccine refusal is significant in this sense. Nurses in particular already have other vaccine requirements as a part of their job, this shouldn't be a suprise to them.

>For years before covid, the common narrative online was always that health insurance companies are bad. It's been known for YEARS that they make record profits and always pass on costs to the customers anyway. In the form of higher premiums, higher deductibles, and shittier services. So why are some on HN now peddling sympathy for them?

I am not peddling sympathy for insurance companies, I should have written that as premiums will rise - everyone paying for healthcare will shoulder the burden of higher costs.

Are you also against the FDA mandating the fortification of foods with folate and vitamin D as a public health initiative? Is that tyranny against your rights to drink unadulterated milk?
"When customers set up a Linux virtual machine in their cloud"

Yea, make sure to mention Linux in relation to vulnerabilities. Then pretend Microsoft is to the rescue with OMI. A FUD piece for Microsoft masquerding as a technical article.
I see this claim of months to see a GP a lot, but I feels it's doing nothing but mislead non-Americans (and maybe even other Americans) about the state of healthcare in the US. Yes, there are a lot of issues that I could talk about, but I have never in my life had to wait months for a GP visit outside of scheduling a new routine checkup with a new doctor. Any time I have been sick, or people I know who have been sick, a GP appointment has never been more than 2 weeks out. usually within the current week or start of next. Yes, two weeks is seriously not good if you potentially getting really sick but not sick enough for ER, but it's not months.
The basic structure of a phase 3 vaccine efficacy trial is that you give the vaccine to half of the volunteers and placebo to the other half. Then you you wait for them to naturally be exposed to COVID. When a pre-determined number of infections is reached, the data is unblinded and they compare how many infections happened in the vaccine group vs the placebo group. If less people are infected in the vaccinated group then it shows that the vaccine is effective.
Also not trivial, given the legitimate hunger and compulsion someone with an overeating problem may have after suffering with it for years.

So yes, not an explicit time dedication, but you’re being pedantic at that point and the practical reality that a vaccine is a minimal inconvenience is reasonably unavoidable.

Obviously exceptions exist, which is what medical exceptions are for etc etc.
This is semi exciting; note that keytruda by itself is very effective in melanoma patients (not sure about the exact subtypes) a fraction of the time - it either works or it doesn’t, based on if there are enough antigens in your cancer that are different for the immune system to tack on to. There is no control arm. So it’s not clear what “therapeutic” effect uv1 is having.

In theory at least Uv1 (which primes the immune system against a cancer “antigen”) should pare well with keytruda which reduces T cell suppression by the cancer. This might increase the fraction of patients in which keytruda works.

But I like the approach, Always felt that targeting three or more immune pathways in a tumor agnostic way is our best bet to find a fairly universal cancer therapy. This would go against the regular cancer researcher spiel about why “each cancer is different”, when in reality I don’t think they are, not that much. Asking an existing cancer researcher about this is like asking Ford about it’s opinion on electric cars a few years back.
> First, solar and wind are not more environmentally destructive, at least in any appreciable way.

There's many reasons that these forms of energy are arguably worse than nuclear environmentally: such as the substantial amount of prime land they must occupy to generate the same amount of electricity to the second order effects of their limited nature in necessitating batteries to store power when the sun/wind isn't working.

> Second, solar and wind can sustain modern human civilization.
> Sixth, all of wind, solar, and nuclear are just electric sources and we face a storage density problem not a generation problem.

I've written about this many times, but this energy storage problem is precisely why wind and solar cannot work to drive human activity. When the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow, you just can't realistically store enough energy to drive refrigeration, industry, and all of the other features of modern life on a mass scale with our current technology level. Nuclear energy doesn't have this constraint.

> Third, clean energy has de facto not been solved because only a small percentage of generation is currently nuclear.
> Fourth, even what you describe were possible, construction lead time on known scalable reactor designs is many years.

I'm not concerned. If it's a problem and necessary for humanity, it will eventually happen, and very quickly. I think economics dictates this.

> Fifth, even what you describe were possible, the fuel supply chain is underdeveloped and would take many years to develop.

Not worried. Uranium prices are currently spiking and will continue to spike. And this is a good thing as it incentivizes increased production. Experts more informed than me have said when the spot price of uranium hits around 60-65, many more mines and sources become economically viable and will start scaling up.

> Seventh, the nature of the climate problem is one that has already happened and will continue for decades even if every human ceased to exist immediately.

I have no doubt that climate change fear mongering will exist eternally. Whenever a politician messes up forest management or flood mitigation, it's easier to blame "climate change" than their own competence.

I'm less convinced that it's a real threat to life on Earth. We'll adapt to any challenges, as we always have.

> Eighth, nuclear is still not renewable.

It doesn't matter as we have enough uranium to last many, many, many lifetimes, and far more if sea-water extraction can be done safely. By that point, we'll have other options.

> I could go on but I hope you appreciate that I disagree with you and think you are underinformed about nuclear power.

I'd agree with you that despite trying to stay informed, I don't know nearly enough about nuclear energy. And for that I blame the media who is fixated on trying to clickbait fear rather than informing us about the solutions.
That article is not about saying it's a solution. It's about saying it merits research, in case it's needed as a result of all of these other efforts being insufficient or poorly managed. Because for all we know, we'll need it and it won't work.
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The issue is that metrics are always imperfect, and so optimising for a metric always ends up damaging the thing you actually wanted to improve.
Aw, thank you. Best wishes for you and your son.
I don't think it's an ad hominem attack. What I've said is true. Just because someone is passionate and interested in medicine in their free time doesn't qualify them as a physician and the same is true in this case. It is possible that Scott Adams will end up being correct, but there are other people that have devoted a lot more time and energy in their lives learning and researching this subject than him, and I would prefer to spend my limited time listening to them instead. I think they are much more likely to be correct.
Overweight people put disproportionate strain on the healthcare system.
Is killing an aid worker registered as working with a US NGO as he was surrounded by 7 kids really just shy of perfection?

That was 1000% preventable. You don't get to kill people based on circumstantial evidence without even counting the number of bystanders, without verifying their identity, without doing any level of human intelligence, all easily accomplished tasks, and then claim that you did everything you could.

It's absolutely clear the US did not give a single shit about civilians. Many US and coalition soldiers were even happy to kill civilians. You don't authorize a policy of systematically killing first responders ("double tap strikes") and then claim you were trying to minimize civilians casualties. It wasn't a mistake, it was knowingly just not giving a shit.
People in the US are moving to states where housing in successful cities is cheap.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Texas-population-g...

Texas grew by 15.9% between 2010 to 2020. Florida by 14.6% , Georgia by 10.6% and North Carolina by 9.5% .

Average house price in Houston is 285K according to Redfin.

Either Zoning will change in CA, NY and other places or they will fade in importance.
> The real rate collected under the 90% regime in the 50s on the top 0.01% of income earners was 55%, not terribly higher than today.

Its a time and a half the top marginal nominal rate, which is significantly above the real rate collected on the top 0.01%.

So, yeah, its much higher.
Two doses of the measles vaccine (MMR or MMRV) are highly sterilizing and 97% effective. That's far better than any COVID-19 vaccine, so measles isn't a valid comparison.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/vaccination.html

Your other numbers are just made up and not worth discussing.
No, but if everyone was vaccinated we’d be a lot less concerned about spread in the first place.
> I'm suggesting exactly what I said. Would you like me to repeat it?

You're being aggressive and condescending for no reason. To quote you, "I thought HN was better than this."

> When beef has the 30x the environmental impact of plant based food per calorie, it would be hard to make the statement that fat people are automatically to blame for climate change.

This isn't what anybody suggested. As obesity rises, people eat more, creating the food to sustain those people causes a greater environmental impact. If more people drive cars, we need more gas, right?

> The whole argument is just completely ignorant on its face.

You're angry for no reason.

> Dispute what I said instead of making glib replies.

Done.

> Do you think every calorie has the same environmental impact? No? Because OF COURSE NOT. So what are you even disagreeing with?

More net calories is more net carbon. Basic math, friend.
Because we shut down the economy. This isn't difficult to understand. No economy = no hospital staffing.
Dupe story. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523566
Oh man, I actually used KXML Editor back in the day. Those screenshots give me The Feels. :)
I agree we don't have a perfect definition of species, but I'm wondering if we have literally any definition of race. Has anybody even tried? Is there any criteria more specific than "if two people look very different then they are different races"?
all laws are enforced with threat of violence. dont beleive me try not filing your taxes. first you will get nasty letters from the IRS, fallowed by a court summons where you may end up evicted from you home by the sheriff/police try to resist and see what happens ultimately all laws are enforced with the threat of violence its only a matter of how polite the system is to you first
Activision Blizzard accused of union busting, intimidating staff in complaint
It wasn't really a misinterpretation.

Merging plugins "with the DAW" is entirely feasible in the open source world where I live and work, and we do that sort of thing when appropriate.

But the reliability issues do not come from the fact that plugins are dynamically loaded shared objects (mostly); they come from the vastly different levels of skill AND very different interpretations of subtle aspects of plugins APIs (notably threading, GUI<->DSP communication and more). These are hard to get rid of if you've really got a diverse, distributed and largely independent "team" of developers working on something.
Cloning humans at scale. For parts, research, and life extension.

Once we get comfortable with the ethics of cloning, we can create decephalized humans for widespread tissue/organ transplant and unprecedented biological research on actual human systems.

Grow headless humans in artificial wombs. Or pig wombs until the tech catches up.

Surgically remove the brains. Or deactivate certain genes during development. Artificial innervation, hormone/metabolome, and muscle stimulus.

Whole-head transplants from live humans to new bodies could double human lifespans. Suddenly cancer and heart disease are no longer issues.

Cloned humans can have universally compatible HLA histocompatibility. No tissue rejects. No life altering immunosuppressants.

We could rejuvenate immune systems from depleted thymuses. Perform negative selection of the host.

It'd be game changing.

Maybe 300 year lifespans.

If we can reverse the clock on neurons by fixing the metabolome and immune system, we might end death to anything but accidents and suicide. Then AGI and brain uploads...

Immortality. It's within reach.
I like mine for sleep monitoring and heart rate monitoring, but that's my main usage.

My watch did save me when my phone fell down an elevator shaft. I didn't have a phone for about 4 days, so I was able to use my watch to make phone calls with Apple to get a replacement.
I would instead say COVID is physically contagious, while obesity is psychologically and socially contagious.
Apartments and townhouses don’t take kindly to woodworking, music, working on sports cars and motorcycles, etc. At least not in the bay. Personally, I’m not ever going back to sharing walls or floors ever again.

And for the cost - you really don’t get much for your dollar.
I’m wondering if you’ve contacted them with your feedback? It could make a difference for the better
Low skill myself at installing Linux, but I found installing a Guix to disk relatively straightforward. Managed to easily add available builds. Apparently-good support for virtual machines as well.

http://guix.gnu.org/
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stopped reading.
It does because you place disproportionate strain on the healthcare system, which limits its accessibility to others.

There also is a 100% successful method for losing weight, it's just that people can't or choose not to follow it, but we could mandate it and force them to. For their own good and the good of the healthcare system.

(We probably should not mandate that or any other drug or medical treatment)
There are a lot more variety of startups than there are big companies. If you're thinking of late-stage VC-driven companies who work hard to maintain the label of "startup" to perpetrate the mythology of rocket-ship riches that their ivy league hiring funnel relies on, then yeah, it's gonna be stressful. On the other hand, if you're willing to take less money for the ability to work with tighter constraints, less resources and more creativity then it's not too hard to find a company willing to accommodate you, especially if your talent level is validated by a big tech name brand on your resume (not saying it's the best signal, but hiring manager psychology is what it is).
Nope. Doesn’t work that way. When you eat less, your body goes into starvation mode and burns fewer calories. And some bodies are extremely resistant to losing weight under any circumstances.

Try doing the German prisoner of war diet for a year, and accurately track on a daily basis how many calories you eat, and how much weight you lose.

Then you can come back and tell us your anecdote of how you personally respond to reduction of calories in your diet. And we can put that drop into the ocean of knowledge.
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.001 percent would be 3.3k, so yes?
>NOTORIOUS "HACKERS ON ESTRADIOL" PRESENT GRAND REVEAL

I love how this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "hackers on steroids" piece from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
Why would people who can sell (or at least pitch) their plugin(s) to the users of 12-20 excellent DAWs decide to go work for just one of those DAWs ?
>what is the tolerance to social costs that society is willing to bear? Also why would one segment of society have to do something that it doesn't want e.g. not bear risk if they want to?

Vaccines are already required to attend schools, daycare, college, to immigrate to the US, for many existing federal jobs, to join the military, most jobs in the medical field. These requirements have existed for 20+ years, society has tolerated these costs and benefited greatly.

I could see OSHA having a vaccine mandate that covers TDAP, MMR, polio and Hep B similar to the proposed covid mandate for large employers. But all of these are required to attend school and in other situations, so it isn't needed.

>What about drinking and smoking?

Drunk driving is a crime. Society doesn't tolerate it. We generally limit second hand smoke, banning smoking in restaurants and many other indoor buildings. Requiring vaccination to prevent the spread of infectious disease is analogous.
The upvotes I am getting tell me all I need to know, even if you yourself are not convinced. Nothing will convince some people even if it's staring them in the face, because they are uncomfortable. And we have been taught to be too comfortable.

It's the frog in the pot. We have never had the capabilities for mass surveillance and complete control over who participates in society, to the extent that we do now because of technology. Stalin would be salivating if he was still alive right now.

The data is on my side. The pandemic, while very serious, has touched over 100 million Americans directly (in the form of past covid) and I would still bet that the majority of those people would recoil in horror at what's going on in Australia or move away from NYC's "papers please" model if they had a choice.