skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a big difference between lying and saying "most people want very simple answers, so let's boil all of this down to something that fits in a 30-second PSA". And honestly, 30-seconds is pretty long these days in terms of attention span.

I agree they should also have more information at various levels so people who want to know more can dig in. But people don't make most choices on anything like a purely rational basis. Asking doctors and public health experts to pretend otherwise when designing their general-audience comms guarantees a higher death toll for no appreciable gain.

As an example, take a look at how we've tackled drunk driving over the last 40 years. Groups like MADD definitely can make rational, data driven appeals. But the reason they were so successful is that they were extremely good at making emotional appeals. Take MADD itself, Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The founder, Cindi Lightner lost her 13-year-old daughter to drunk driving. The driver, who drove off and left her body behind, recently had been arrested for DUI. Lightner's personal story, which is heartbreaking, is central to their effectiveness. The result: drunk driving, which was laughed off previously, is now taken very seriously, and deaths are down 40% despite VMT doubling.
Time for a history lesson:

1. Teens had their stupid magazines and MTV before this smart phone crap.

2. The media hyped potential problems of "negative self image blah blah blah" exactly as much as now.

3. Nothing happened. It was all concern hype.
I am an avid lover of comedy, and Norm Macdonald was by far my favorite comedian. I am younger, and the first live show of his I was going to attend at the San Jose Improv was cancelled because of COVID last year. I am gutted.

Norm really embodied what comedy is truly about. No one likes the smartest guy in the room. Nothing is off limits. Always speak Truth to Power. His style and ability to write jokes, as opposed to the popular story telling methods of today, is still one of a kind. I loved hearing his "meta musings" about comedy and joke writing, where he said the "perfect joke" is one where the set up and punchline are the same. (https://youtu.be/9GKKnlsZvQA?t=231)

My all time favorite performance of any comedian will always be Norm's white house correspondence dinner performance during the Clinton administration. His ability to understand his audience, and write and perform real jokes (unlike the pandering we see in the decades since) is truly the mark of a master. The truest of comedians play the role of the philosopher and jester: through their performances we ought to recognize the things we refuse to see in ourselves and our societies. Norm has a library of noteworthy clips, but this will always be my top. This is art. I implore you to watch.

RIP Norm. You old chunk of coal.

https://youtu.be/3U7AZIdalzM
What Fauci doesn't mention is that there isn't just one paper from Israel.

There are 15 large-scale studies.

Every single one demonstrates that natural immunity is at least as protective as the jab.

And depending on when the study was done protection is shown for over 10 months (basically however long as whatever data was available). Many of the papers logically extend the protection to lifetime in their conclusions.

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-15-studies-that-indi...
You cannot purchase a home in one of the most competitive areas in the entire country. To me, the solution is obvious.
This is super cool! I started toying around with pretty much the exact same concept at the same time as this (2019 - https://github.com/rckoepke/dog_training_NN/blob/master/DogT...) but realized I needed significantly more skills in embedded and mechanical areas to realize my vision.

I completely agree with targeting use at shelters and dayboarding...if this works at all for untrained dogs it will probably only work for under-stimulated dogs. Shelters are a rich environment for finding under-stimulated dogs.

I wish I could say the concept won't work in people's homes but honestly so many pets are probably also lacking sufficient meaningful interaction with their owners.
Genius work. There are real UX gems here, very intuitive.
yeah that guy is the one I was talking about. The virus is like playing russian roulette without a vaccine in you.
He did the narration on the audiobook version. It's an excellent listen.
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> How many avoided death because they had good health care?

If you are going play that game, you also need to ask how many died between March - June 2020 because of panicked doctors intubating everyone left and right with no one around to advocate for the patients.
I did not make any claims here, bub. Source: scroll up.
Non-paywalled article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

Link to (as yet not peer-reviewed) study:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...
> Cognitive load does not justify imposing potentially involuntary medical treatments on people,

FYI: The current legislation requires weekly testing or proof of vaccination, but it doesn't actually impose the vaccine on anyone who doesn't want it.
Is the minheap-maxheap approach faster than sorting the data? The obvious approach (process each element, one by one, into the appropriate heap, and rebalance the heaps so they are of equal size) takes n log n time and linear space. You can use the same resources to just produce a sorted copy of the input, which is a much better thing to have than two heaps that center on the median.
I would agree with you if I was questioning water fluoridation or if vaccines gave people autism.

A request to support a claim about the "long term" effects of a virus/disease discovered less than 2 years ago, in a rapidly changing environment, for which it seems pretty improbable for there to have already been robust, repeated, falsifiable studies done, is different.
Epik is owned by Rob Monster, who is a open and proud Neo Nazi and antisemite. You chose to do business with him despite of who he was and what he enables. That you didn't understand these facts before hand was your failure.

This should be a lesson in exercising moral and ethical restraint, and being conscious of who you do business with. Guilt by association sucks, but I am very skeptical about anyone who says that they run a website on Epik, simply because it is the go-to webhost for extremist and violent content.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
There is a huge variance in vaccination rates of European countries. The US is behind most western European countries but ahead of most eastern European countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer
> Researchers found that the risk of heart complications for boys aged 12-15 following the vaccine was 162.2 per million, which was the highest out of all the groups they looked at.

> Meanwhile, the risk of a healthy boy needing hospital treatment owing to Covid-19 in the next 120 days is 26.7 per million. This means the risk they face from heart complications is 6.1 times higher than that of hospitalisation.

It would seem more "apples to apples" to compare rates of hospitalization due to myo/pericarditis to hospitalization due to COVID, or rates of diagnosis of each condition.

The only case of vaccine-associated "heart problems" that I've seen required an NSAID with no further treatment. Unfortunate regardless.
I don't run SDs for anything important. I've had a dozen RPis in my home rack alongside the "serious" hardware so I've killed my fair share if microSDs.

I'm not very familiar with OpenBSD, have run FreeBSD for a while, would certainly be fun to play around with a router based on a standard OS and not have to worry about proprietary updates like with the EdgeRouter any more.
Billions of Code Name Permutations in 32 bits
To provide additional protection (especially since given that timing it almost certainly wasn't the delta variant that you got). Maybe you are protected by your previous infection and maybe you aren't.
> If the R Naught is more than 1 then you don't get any benefit to vaccinating a population that isn't vulnerable.

That's not how R values work at all. Firstly, an R value of 1.5 and an R value of 5 have wildly different outcomes in terms of controlling spread, and vaccines that can reduce R values can reduce spread even if the R value remains above 1. More to the point, though, "transmission is happening in vaccinated people" doesn't imply that the R value is above 1, and it doesn't look like you've provided any evidence that that's the case, nor does the fact that infections sometimes occur, in and of itself, suggest it.
Parent suggested that Sweden would not need fossil fuels when using nuclear power to stabilize their grid. And I pointed out that not even France is doing that. You are right, there are some days where they vary the plants output up to 50% of the daily change in demand. Still, even in the days you picked, they are running 5% on gas. Even though, as I understand it, they have enough nuclear plants available to reach 100% at all times. Why is France praised in this forum while the parent criticizes Swedens green party for wanting to do the same: using fossil energy as a backup?
How is that any different than a well lauded service like nearlyfreespeach.net? Just because you believe in the first amendment doesn't mean you should be the target of harassment.
> Nobody likes being in the control group of the first working anti-aging serum...

You only know whether it works when the study has been completed. You also only know whether the drug has (potentially) disastrous consequences when the study has been completed. Thus, I am not completely sure whether your claim holds.
Nothing gets me more horny in the but than some good old covid numbers.
> This could be that the death was not at all due to covid, but the cadaver tested positive. They were in a car accident, for example.

That's not how "covid involved" is defined, no.
Lying and partisanship got us to where we are now. The skepticism that resulted from the lies has been re-targetted to the vaccine itself. I'm not sure how the policy makers didn't see this coming beforehand.
Your note that the world is sexist and many things make women, teens and girls continously negatively evaluate themselves is something I agree.

The rest I would truly contest.

Prom is not an every single morning, universe commenting event no matter how the teenage brain may attempt to blow it up.

Cosmo and Vogue do not have the same continuous feedback loop and clearly have 100x (1000x? 1mnx?) less content being created, repeated, refreshed, etc. Its a magazine. If you want to invoke their IG handles honestly I could find 100s of influencers with more reach and engagement
Who specifically should be tried?
It frustrates and disappoints me to see hacks like this happen out of some sense of moral superiority.

For whatever "fascists" this harms, it will harm significantly more innocent people.

Two wrongs do not make a right.
> COVID response of lockdowns, etc. was at best breakeven in terms of cost effectiveness

Can you share some of those any metrics? Legitimately asking.
They accept responsibility by paying for medical care, paying insurance, or paying taxes into a socialized healthcare system, depending on which country you live. Refusing to treat sick people is not forcing them to take responsibility for their decisions, it is coercing them into making a decision they don't want to make, and I think k you know that.
For those interested, there is a Darknet Diaries episode about this. [1] Really quite interesting, interview is with someone who worked for Project Raven, like Lori.
[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/
“Unskilled labor” is labor that almost anyone can do, therefore it is worth less.
With titles like this, I always think it must either be trivial nonsense, or (more likely!) the journalist just really missed the point.
Providing liquidity via loans does not mean private banks are creating money!
> Getting a serum test rather than getting the vaccine is not going to be cheaper, easier, or better studied.

The difference is that the serum test is risk free. If I knew I was already immune, I would not have gotten the vaccine to be completely honest, no matter how small the risk is. For the same reason I don't get other safe and effective treatments for diseases I do not have.
The laborer isn't having 95% of the value they're creating taken though. As you said, the labor went from 50% of the value created to 5%. The machine is producing most of the value.

Now factor in the laborer being easily replaced by any other unskilled laborer.

> it was really only a matter of time before the guy actually digging all the post holes your selling might ask how this arrangement is fair.

No one said it's "fair" as in all outcomes being equal. But it is "fair" in the sense that the laborer is being paid in proportion to the value they are creating vs the cost to find a replacement. If the laborer wants to improve their situation, they need to figure something out besides mindlessly digging holes someone else tells them to.
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One start would be to disable smartphones from operating when linked to a car system, massively increase enforcement of smartphone use while driving, and increase penalties.

None of that would be popular, but it would be effective.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...

> ... roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease ... this study suggests that COVID hospitalization tallies can’t be taken as a simple measure of the prevalence of severe or even moderate disease, because they might inflate the true numbers by a factor of two ... referring to decisions about school closures, business restrictions, mask requirements, and so on, “we should refine the definition of hospitalization. Those patients who are there with rather than from COVID don’t belong in the metric.”
I'd agree with you that vaccine passports definitely represent a sacrifice of individual liberty for safety - but what makes you say that that they're "completely unnecessary"? If we accept that a vaccinated person has a lowered, but not eliminated, chance of contracting and transmitting COVID, wouldn't it make sense to avoid contact with people that are at a much higher risk of infection?

If you feel that the tradeoff between liberty and safety here is too high, that makes sense - but do you really think vaccination passports don't reduce the transmission of the virus?
Source?

EDIT: please post a url or something.
The part of the JCVI decision you omitted is:

"The medium- to long-term effects are unknown and long-term follow-up is being conducted.

Given the very low risk of serious COVID-19 disease in otherwise healthy 12 to 15 year olds, considerations on the potential harms and benefits of vaccination are very finely balanced and a precautionary approach was agreed." [1]

As a concerned parent, this is how I will be approaching vaccination for my sons.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advic...
I wonder why there isn't keyboard flip out phones like the danger hiptop or the first android g1 phone. I guess people don't like to type that much in reality.
Also mine. Here is the video of it (his mannerisms only add to the aesthetic): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vaqxy
The term hospitalization implies an inpatient (or at least observation) stay, as opposed to an outpatient encounter like the emergency department or a clinic. Most diagnoses made in the outpatient setting do not require hospitalization, which could include both COVID and myo/pericarditis.

EDIT: speling
Agreed, and the parent comment hasn't done that. Its identified a shift and a period of time that indicates the (usually) first shift of its kind in a person's social life.
Last I checked, it's unknown how much (if at all) the vaccine reduces spread.
> the randomized nature of our immune response can lead to some less desirable antibodies being present

Exactly! The point of many COVID vaccines is to teach the immune system to destroy a very specific and very important protein, which is the spike protein. Without that the virus can't enter cells. It's not present in our own body.

We have no idea what kind of immune response any given person might get with an actual infection. Reinfections are a thing.
Cognitive load is the mediating resource. It doesn't on its own justify it, yes. The justification comes from saving lives in a global pandemic. As you can see here and elsewhere, people complain endlessly about shifting recommendations; they reduce trust. That's a very strong incentive to pick an approach and stick with it until the benefit of changing things again becomes very large.

And yes, I agree that next time we do this, we should build it into the card. And better, that card should be digital, so that it can adapt as science discovers more as the pandemic goes on. But what we had was a vaccine, slips of paper, and a lot of questions.
If you want someone to send you a nice email, you can hire someone to be your pen pal.
According to the article, it seems like it was heavily based off of Apple iMessage zero-click exploits built into some platform. And even a bit of social engineering.

Past that, who knows where they get exploits from? I imagine if they're renting servers with Bitcoins to perform computer attacks, these operatives are probably familiar with darknet sites for trading secrets as well.
What on earth are you talking about? Epik is not a 'neo-nazi' website (whatever you think a 'neo-nazi' is), it's a domain registrar. So please spare us your oh so righteous indignation.
*Brooker
Why the downvote? Are you homophobic against gay sex?
They either are extremely privacy and freedom oriented and chose Epik with a false belief that they would uphold their privacy and freedom of speech.

Or they run websites that contain content that would get them removed from most mainstream platforms, and likely would earn them an unforgiving response here should they share those sites.

I am inclined to believe it is the latter, as that is literally the selling point of Epik's services: That your violent or extremist rhetoric won't get your terminated from the service.
Whatever the details are, I am interested if it set a precedent or not.
The CDC documentation for the data they publish.
You’re totally ignoring the data from the study (that you probably didn’t even read) because it doesn’t fit your narrative. How beneficial.
I currently have OPNSense running on a small x86 box, it's sitting inside my network though and providing a secondary network for access to some buddies for "SaaS" I run from home for our projects.

I really want a PCEngines APU specifically for my edge router though, mainly for coreboot and potentially failover to cellular, and it fits nicely in 1u too.
> Old ladies in multi-million dollar homes is largely a myth.

Oh they are real - it's just that 90% of them reside in Zürich, Switzerland.
> Wikipedia, Github and Stackoverflow don't really have a "feed"

All three have various feed mechanisms. They all have various ranking systems. Every one of them have people employed (even if mere 'volunteers') to 'maximize engagement.' And every one of these systems have people obsessed with their profile. Every. Single. One.

They're just mostly not 'teen girls' and so the 'problem' makes for poor headline material.

"especially wikipedia"

Wikipedia is rife with obsessed 'editors' climbing the rungs of the interweb status ladder. They're easy to find. Look at their profile pages; filled with achievement badges (gamification) and vast profiles of their lives. Does Facebook have 'campaigns' for 'elections' that grant power on the platform? I honestly don't know because I spend no time there, but I know Wikipedia does, and we can only imagine the anxiety involved for these 'candidates.' Thankfully though, they're mostly not 'teen girls' so we're not going to worry about them.
> So my medical decisions will be made for me because its too hard to do a proper test

In short, yes, this is called good public health policy. It's not merely a simple blood test and it's not something just any lab could do. Anti-body testing is finicky, expensive, time-consuming, and not as reliable as has_vaccine (boolean). So in other words, we are going to make your medical decision for you because not doing so puts the health of many others at risk and you don't have the right to put countless others at risk. A simple utilitarian analysis yields this as the obvious solution. It is worth sacrificing your personal preference at no risk to yourself to save potentially many lives.

Even the vaccinated are at risk when a large percentage of the population runs around unvaccinated, because each transmission increases the risk of a mutation that gives rise to a vaccine-resistant strain with a higher death rate. Then we'd be back at square one. In the worst case scenario it could kill off the majority of the population.

This situation is exactly analogous to someone in the food industry saying they should have a religious exemption for hand-washing. The bad effects of allowing such an exemption (people dying from food poisoning and catching diseases from food) aren't worth the small sacrifice of simply having to wash your hands before preparing food. With good reason, we ignore people who say "there are microchips in the soap" and still make them wash their hands or seek employment elsewhere.
> No plug-in or DAW has a CLI

You might be interested in MrsWatson. Even though the development on it has been discontinued, there is still a lot of potential for its use:

http://teragonaudio.com/MrsWatson
I’ve seen plenty of places suddenly offering $15 an hour or more, so clearly the market is responding somewhat. I’m sure most businesses were waiting to see the unemployment benefits end first though.
> we only just found that teenage boys are at 6x more risk from heart problems from the vaccine than any risk from covid itself:

That's not what the study says. They compared all reports of possible cardiac events in the days following vaccination, including suspected transient myocarditis, to only one risk of COVID: Hospitalization. Notably, they didn't look at post-COVID myocarditis, just post-vaccine myocarditis.

This is the conclusion from the study:

> Post-vaccination CAE rate was highest in young boys aged 12-15 following dose two. For boys 12-17 without medical comorbidities, the likelihood of post vaccination dose two CAE is 162.2 and 94.0/million respectively. This incidence exceeds their expected 120-day COVID-19 hospitalization rate at both moderate (August 21, 2021 rates) and high COVID-19 hospitalization incidence.

Full text: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... )

They're comparing apples and oranges. It would have made more sense to compare post-vaccine CAEs to post-COVID CAEs, but instead they chose to compare CAEs against COVID hospitalizations, which is a number known to be very low in teenagers.
> However, "f(g(h(x)))" is not very readable (at least for English speakers) since while we read left to right, the invocation order is right to left. "x | h | g | f" is arguably more readable since the evaluation order follows reading order (plus you don't have to deal with so many parenthesis).

There's also a "hierarchy" thing at play. With "f(g(h(x)))", x is "inside" h which is "inside" g which is "inside" f. With "x | h | g | f" all are on the same level. For me at least, it's easier to imagine your data "flow" through functions when they are on the same level. It sound a bit weird when I put it that way, but I don't think I'm alone in feeling that. Fluent interfaces are considered easy to read, and help flatten the code. Same thing with promise chaining compared to the callback > of doom.
I must’ve misread. My apologies.