skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can dump covid patients with low odds of a positive outcome off support equipment (vents and ECMOs) when healthier patients come in for treatment and equipment supply is constrained. This is already occurring (crisis standard of care).

Get vaccinated.
Not so fast. If you win your first jackpot on the first ticket. You'll require 500,000 failures (at $1 per ticket) in order to fail to reject the null hypothesis at p < 0.05. Assuming you're just doing a t test (which isn't really appropriate tbh).

If you bought just ten tickets you would have a p value below 0.0000001

And that makes sense, because a p value of 0.01 says the probability of getting a sample this far from the null hypothesis is less than 1 in a million by random chance... which is what happened when you got the extremely unlikely but highly profitable answer.

edit: post was edited making this seem out of context...
He has likely done major damage to his body through the use of steroids. He was a professional bodybuilder who admitted to using. This is definitely not a good anecdote.
If you are naive and not vaccinated then when you get covid you'll likely notice it, isolate and not spread it (if it is particularly severe you may be bed ridden and unable to be social). If vaccinated and getting a less severe infection you may not need to isolate and likely be more social and prone to spread it.

Yearly flu shots if they went out to the entire population would most likely create a similar problem. But with only 40% of the uptake and usually to the more vulnerable they haven't had this effect.

Mass vaccinations to a virus like polio make perfect sense because this virus is not able to mutate and still successfully infect the host. You can confer long lasting immunity with vacinations on this. The spike protein on Sars can mutate many ways to Sunday and still break through the cell wall. So your constantly reformulating and boosting and trying to keep ahead of a changing target that if left to its own devices would just peter out due to it becoming less and less severe (too severe and it dies due to less transmission, less severe get more transmission and win and the virus becomes more benign over time).

With a leaky vacccine you can be a happy chicken with a severe variant and be totally fine until your immunity wanes and the next designed booster is off the mark. See this: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-m...
95% social engineering/phishing, maybe 5% exploits.

Using exploits is complicated, expensive, and risky. In most cases - to quote XKCD - it's cheaper and easier to just hit the victim on the head w/ a proverbial $5 wrench until they cough up their password, e.g.: have them download your "secure messaging app" which is actually just your implant.

From the article:

> To get close to Donaghy, a Raven operative should attempt to “ingratiate himself to the target by espousing similar beliefs,” the cyber-mercenaries wrote. Donaghy would be “unable to resist an overture of this nature,” they believed. Posing as a single human rights activist, Raven operatives emailed Donaghy asking for his help to “bring hope to those who are long suffering,” the email message said. The operative convinced Donaghy to download software he claimed would make messages “difficult to trace.” In reality, the malware allowed the Emiratis to continuously monitor Donaghy’s email account and Internet browsing.
You mean in terms of the leaders of the military asserting their right to be involved in decisions like when to activate the football?

No precedents were set here, what the general did is just leadership. he explained what the rules were explicitly to his followers, to ensure that trump didn't collar one of his followers and somehow ram a nuclear strike through without proper approval.

See "Operation of the Nuclear Football": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football#Operation
involves informing the SoD and JCS.

naturally, it's far more complicated than that,
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-06/features/nuclear-lau...
and no precedents were set in this situation.
Currently playing a game to minimize pollution to try to totally avoid biter attention. Surrounded by trees, now almost entirely solar with efficiency modules.
Just like Norm to make that line the literal truth for his fans.

RIP.
If the bar bouncer can see a card that says you have been vaccinated then they can see a card that says you have covid antibodies or that you have had a positive covid test at some point in the past. I don't think this is too burdensome for our hypothetical bouncer.
There are more RCTs about vaccination – because of the taboo against human challenge trials, even among the vaccinated.

But there's more evidence for natural immunity, from the 1B+ people worldwide who've had COVID & recovered.
This series was great. Had me from the opening with the shuttle and screw.
> You clearly have limits on the freedoms you claim

We aren't talking about how things are, we are talking about how things should be, specifically, whether there should be vaccine mandates or not. Other existing violations of rights are wrong also.

So it is fundamentally about philosophy of governance. You believe society should come first, individuals can be compelled to benefit society even potentially at great cost to themselves, and that a person is morally wrong for not wanting to go along with that. I believe that it is morally wrong to expect a person to value anyone over themselves that they have not chosen to, or to be compelled to do anything on behalf of someone else.
At least let people pay to get the Antibody Test, and if positive then they get a one year vaccine holiday.

There is little point getting knickers twisted over small percentage wins when a large population (children) are unvaccinated.
Honest question: why are people keen on fingerprint sensors? I see this regularly. Is it privacy concerns with FaceID or convenience with a mask on, or...?
You could go pretty far with lakes and islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes#Is...
You can only get away with being a Class A asshole if you are at least a Class A programmer.

Even then, there aren't many shops anymore which afford the closet & bucket o' fish heads approach. Maybe government contractors or smaller crypto projects.

Everywhere else, you need to at least get along with other people. Most shops have realized the 'rockstars' only look good on paper. https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/a-biologists-study-of-superc...
That suggests that lockdowns and vaccination together work better than vaccination alone, which is not particularly surprising. It seems, though, like you're suggesting that that means the vaccinations did nothing, which doesn't follow. It might well be that the case counts would have been twice as high if nobody had been vaccinated (or, who knows, ten times), and maybe some percentage of those additionally infected people would have died, or suffered long-term health outcomes. There's no way to know what the appropriate counterfactual is from this data alone.
You're living in a bubble. People get reliable stuff done in the real world with it. And fast.
Your last paragraph makes little sense. We have no idea what kind of immune response any given person might get with a vaccine (any vaccine) either. What kind of test this is? And infections after covid vaccines are sadly also a thing.
Nobody has a full system of vaccination status cards and databases. There are just too many people who will avoid vaccination at the slightest excuse. We're in a war and every day of delay costs thousands, or tens of thousands of lives.

We need simple rules that we can apply on a massive scale quickly. The US is a country where more than half of people can't work out if a 1/3 pound burger is bigger or smaller than a 1/4 pound burger.
What do you mean by this? I use Google photos on my iphone and it seems to work perfectly fine. I'm assuming you are talking about background sync but I just checked via the web version and my photos from yesterday are all there so it seems that background activity is allowed while plugged in since I have not opened the g photos app in a while.
Stanford appears to still use a technique I like to use on the LANs I control, too.

Putting different sites on different ports, using port numbers instead of hostnames.

Even on the internet, ports over 49151 are not protocol-specific; they are not assigned by IANA^1

For example, on port 8090

http://171.64.75.19:8090/view/year/

and on port 8091

http://171.64.75.19:8091

http is noticeably faster than https.

Stanford is still providing http in addition to https.

Here, the http url has been submitted to HN, not the https one.

1. https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
> When I checked, it seemed that Yukihiro Matsumoto moved to San Francisco to work for Heroku but that's after developing Ruby while in Japan.

I didn't actually know that, so fair enough. Still, I think DHH probably had a larger impact in popularising Ruby in the US (and, by extension, other parts of the world).

> Ruby definitely is a niche language. I have never seen used outside of the web

That's only if you consider the web to be "niche" and if you do that, then JavaScript is "niche" too.

It's true that Ruby outside of Ruby on Rails is somewhat rare, but several other successful technologies are other written in Ruby, for example:

- Homebrew (macOS package manager)

- Chef (server provisioning software)

- Vagrant (VM provisioning software)

- Cocoapods (iOS package manager)

> It failed in the sense that it has little momentum and didn't gain much traction if you compare it to something like Python. In a way, it's somewhat comparable to Ocaml [...]

I think you're way off base.

Yes, Python is extremely popular and Ruby can't compare overall - although I have a feeling that Ruby still overtakes Python when it comes to web dev, but obviously Python is huge in other areas and is also not exactly niche in web either.

But Ruby is #13 on TIOBE, while OCaml doesn't even feature in the top 50. Github and Discourse are only examples, we could also mention Airbnb, Shopify, Kickstarter, Travis CI and many others. I've personally worked at several Ruby companies, in fact I maintain a small Ruby codebase even now at my current company (although it's not our main language), etc.

Ruby had huge momentum in the 2000s and even early 2010s. It didn't catch on in the enterprises much, true, but it was the cool thing back when everyone was annoyed at the complexity of Java EE or the mess that was PHP back then. Ruby was also the language Twitter was originally written in before they migrated to Scala. It lost a significant amount of momentum since then and basically all of the hype (people migrated to Node, then later to Elixir, Clojure and co. and some like me jumped back to statically typed languages once they became more ergonomic), but it's still maintained by quite a sizeable number of companies.

More than that, RoR had an outsized influence on the state of current backend frameworks to the point where I claim that even one of the most heavily used frameworks today, Spring Boot, takes a lot of inspiration from it (while, of course, being also very different in many areas). I would also argue that Ruby inspired Groovy, which in turn inspired Kotlin, and that internal DSLs such as RSpec also were emulated by a number other languages later.
You could make that claim, but I disagree that it is generally accepted that companies destroying products is a morally good thing.

I don't know anyone in western society who thinks things like planned obsolenscence are to be admired.
In many cases this was exactly Facebook's aim and they subsidized internet access to enable this.

e.g Burma https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55929654
Are you seriously gatekeeping the whistleblower? Like they did the right thing, but you can maybe imagine they weren't pure enough for you and therefore shitty?

OK let me do that to you:

You are commenting some good things, but i suspect you aren't doing it because you believe it, but rather you want some sweet karma. Therefore you are shitty human being. Feel shame person I've never interacted with before and have no other knowledge of.

(Maybe check out the Darknet Diaries episode linked in the comments here and learn about the situation a bit before declaring the motives of a person you admit having no knowledge of.)
>that respectable journalists printed without any effort to check the facts.

Journalists from the same publication (Rolling Stone) were responsible for the whole fabricated "A Rape On Campus" article as well. I would not give them the respectable journalist moniker anymore except in jest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus
I suppose people who accept donations are under no obligation to send a thank you email, or anything if it is not specifically specified. However I can say with certainty if one is sent, and they go the extra mile, it is much more likely they will either get another donation, or a recommendation for someone else to donate.
It was my understanding that you basically just punch these mRNA sequences into a computer and you could have a new formulation ready for manufacture over the weekend. If it's a regulatory issue, maybe the regulations should be adjusted. Why have a booster of the original stuff that's not working as well?
when you say mass times velocity, I take it you mean relativistic mass?
I assume you know all the following, and I'm just saying it to explain my reasoning for the above / to elaborate for other readers.
One can certainly pick a frame of reference such that the total momentum of the electron and positron afterwards is non-zero, and therefore the total momentum of the photons beforehand (in that reference frame) will also be non-zero , despite photons having (or, believed to have, but I believe it also) 0 rest mass.
I don’t know what your digital artist coworkers produce, but unless it is pure l'art pour l'art they can think about ways how to streamline processes outside of their art. How do they receive their “brief”? How is the work batched? Does it ever happen that they are asked to produce something which then gets thrown away and wasted for reasons the company could better control? Are there any missunderstandings? If the artist see themselves as simple “brief -> bitmap” converters then this is of course beyond their pigeonhole, but if they are smart and creative people, as I belive they are, they might already have ideas how to improve things. And the boss basically encouraged that those with ideas come forward, so he might believe the same!

Also this “the only way to improve is slowly gaining experience and mastery” is not true. (I was paraphrasing your words) I watch many videos of great artist sharing tips. Again I don’t know what medium they work in, but in 3d work one can improve a lot by better organizing their asset library. In digital painting work I have seen people use posable human models to start sketching from. Ian Hubert shares great “lazy tutorials” on how he learned to cheat and animate complex looking things in super simple way. Just spending an hour a week reading up on tricks from others can improve ones “craft”.

And what is the worst? You goof around an hour and can’t think of anything. You tell the boss that when he asks, what is he going to do? Fire you for not trying hard enough? If he does, he wanted to fire you anyway and was just fishing for an excuse.
If you think Soros and his foundation are leftist, i might have something to sell you.
If you want to say COVID and myocarditis are equally bad, you should compare the rates of both of them. You are saying myocarditis (often mild) should be compared to COVID (but only the cases that require hospitalization.)

By that logic, my investment strategy of invest in index funds (goes up over time) is inferior to yours of invest in lottery tickets (but we only consider tickets that won.)
That "data point" is that that group is 6x more likely to be affected by myocarditis after receiving a vaccine than to be hospitalized due to COVID. I would like to see an actually useful comparison, like, say, the likelihood of being affected by myocarditis after receiving a vaccine versus the likelihood of being affected by myocarditis after a COVID infection.
> > Firstly the original claim isn’t “regardless of any level of harm”

> Yes it is. Here is the full statement copypasted without modifications:

> > America has two radically different concepts of freedom that travel under the same name. Both start with "I should be free to do as I want". One ends with "as long as I don't harm others". The other ends with "regardless of harm to others". You were dealing with the latter.

No it isn't. "Regardless of harm to others" is not the same as "regardless of any level of harm". Just bloody look at them: Is there any mention of levels in the first? No, there isn't.

Now please do us all a favour and stop this -- we're all too excrutiatingly embarrassed on your behalf just from seeing you make such a spectacle of yourself.
This could be a way that systemic pro-vax bias reinforces the statistical outcomes.
And how often you see on HN how people should vet who they do business with... but now are saying they're mad at hackers for going after someone who "happens to host some bad websites and not someone like Youtube instead cause they have [this] video, too!"

Epik is notorious for being a safe haven to the most extreme of right wing sites. There's simply no way you could not know what their business model is.

Guilt by association might suck, but they still willingly associated.
I think it's different when a service offers their services to these groups with open arms, v.s. a company like Google who actively tries to take down that kind of content
Your information is being shared in a torrent because Epik has bad security.
Isn't the science showing that we do know the downstream impact to disease and transmission risk is preferable in the case of natural immunity?
The Explanation for Seemingly Irrational Covid Behavior
Yes, but also no.

Yes, a loan creates both a credit and a debit, and they offset exactly. In that sense, nothing is created.

But the credit spends just like cash. The debit, on the other hand, does not spend like negative cash. So in the sense of the supply of money in circulation, bank loans create money.
Which means that testing is really undependable. Probably better to vaccinate everyone, because our prediction of the immunity of people who have been vaccinated is a lot more reliable.
Can you explain to me how you recognize your mother's voice?
No there are not. They deprecated very useful functionality to appease a design committee. Right to jail
Phase 3 trials won’t be complete for years. There is a revolving door between the leadership at the FDA and Pfizer. Countries with high vaccination rates have not reported the expected reduction in cases or deaths. The non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted by some states appear to have no impact on outcomes when compared to states without them. FDA approval of Comirnaty, which nobody got, is a pretty transparent rhetorical stratagem. The guarantees of safety are testimonials from people who either provided material support in the creation of this virus or inflicted Microsoft on the world (I’m not sure which is worse).

You may not find these (non-exhaustive) reasons compelling, but I don’t think hesitancy is the result of some unnamed cabal of villains casting aspersions on the pure intentions of the American politburo and pharmaceutical industry.
I think the parent is saying "we don't know that natural immunity affords the same protection as vaccination", but I believe he's mistaken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House

"Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute headquartered in London. Its mission is to provide authoritative commentary on world events and offer solutions to global challenges. It is the originator of the Chatham House Rule. Its presidents are Alistair Darling and John Major."
Epik's business model is to specifically cater to fascists.

> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

No need for quotes, bruh.
>The 10nm debacle exposed how far they've fallen behind on fabs to the point that they're outsourcing to TSMC. Like, how humiliating must that be?

Every chip Intel buys from TSMC is a chip not made by its competitors. Doing this is extremely useful for Intel to the point I wonder why TSMC agreed in the first place.

After all, eventually Intel will improve their fabs, and then it's the non-Intel players that will order from TSMC. Why hamper TSMC's future customers? Intel must have offered a lot of money.
I'm not the one saying it, check #92 I believe it is. The bike shedding thread. They don't want to shadow.
Sure, they do make it easy to unsubscribe, but every user of their system seems to sign you up without consent or tricks you in to it somehow because I do not want a single newsletter in my inbox but I am constantly unsubscribing to mailchimp newsletters.
Last October, so likely not Delta variant.

It's been widely reported by authorities on the subject that vaccination after infection with Alpha confers immunity to all currently known variants.

The same is not true for natural immunity from just an Alpha infection AIUI.
Very reasonable, and that's why I phrased it like "if we do this".

A TC39 member on this topic of restraint and priorities: https://erights.medium.com/the-tragedy-of-the-common-lisp-wh...
Preach. The statsmodels implement sucks.
Same with software bugs it's always "careless" programming.

My first mentor immediately took me to task when I called something I had done "a stupid bug." He stopped me and said "All bugs are stupid[1]." The point being that the overwhelming majority of the time, once you are looking at a bug, it looks like carelessness and stupidity, and yet very smart, careful programmers introduce such bugs with surprising regularity.

1: The motto is "All bugs are stupid" but he did admit later that there are such things as "smart bugs" though they be rare enough to be a rounding error.
Actually, smokers and obese actually save Governments money on healthcare and pension costs, because they die earlier:

https://taxfoundation.org/new-study-shows-smokers-and-obese-...

"According to the research, a person of normal weight costs on average £210,000 over their lifetime, a smoker just £165,000 and an obese person £187,000."
Yep my employer has said they will terminate the unvaccinated (limited medical and religious exceptions excluded).