skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Somewhere along the way we seem to have lost sight of what constitutes a normal disease burden.

Having relatives in the healthcare sector and hearing stories during bad flu waves (2020 was not the first year in recent memory where people needed to be treated in makeshift tents[1]) we do indeed have lost sight of the disease burden, but probably not in the way you imagine.

I was lucky to spent the first few months of the covid-19 pandemic in Japan, and I can tell you I did not see overrun hospitals at any point because people by and large take hygiene and avoiding the spread of infectious disease seriously.

[1]https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
The fourth largest coal plant is in Taiwan.
And what does "be conservative, if anyone finds out you don't have a job anymore" amount to? That seems to be pretty much okay nowadays.

The fundamental thing with politics is that there will be disagreement, and things will be voted on, and positions on those will be campaigned on.

As far as I know Eich didn't publicize those stances, someone dug them up. That is, there was a job, and there was personal politics, as is professional.
I lived in cities all my life, until two years ago when I moved to the very green suburbs of Budapest.

Now, Whenever we go to the city, I notice how much it stinks.

It's so weird because I never noticed that before. My nose for used to "clean" hair now. And I don't even live away from the road.

I'd like to move even more into the woods.
I didn’t say it would be a good thing. I’m just questioning the math.
Since this is a private company, you can always report that to your local authority.

Here's a list of emails/sites for contacting your local authority and take action.

https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en
Except I guarantee if choosing the "allow all cookies" option took 50 seconds that the very first thing that product would prioritize is getting that down to sub-second.

Granted, it could still be some sort of a polling situation vs. just a deliberate fake "make this take a really long time", but it still doesn't matter - it's still a dark pattern because the site owner is deliberately OK with the "opt out" solution being so onerous that hardly anyone would wait that long.
Sorry, I might not be understanding where you're going with this. I initially thought you meant "you can know you're at risk of spreading COVID, because everyone is at risk of spreading COVID."

Certainly, anyone who receives a positive PCR test for COVID should quarantine ASAP. But if you're incubating COVID, but not infectious yet, the tests will return negative. A test only tells you whether you were infectious at the time of the test, so by the time you've seen the results, the information is already outdated.
What’s the context here? Not familiar with these names.
If kids truly needed a vaccine, they’d be approved by now. The fact is kids are not at all even close to being at risk of covid. This is something that all these public health “experts” should be cheering about but I good news hasn’t been allowed since March of 2020. Good news around covid has always been met with outrage and mockery.
Thanks for your concern.

Our lockdowns might be the most restrictive, but that makes them the most effective. So I'm not too worried about that. I'd prefer a short sharp lockdown and then total freedom (within the borders) over the lingering fear that appears to be happening overseas.

Personally I'm happy to be winning another few months or a year free of Delta by staying at home for a while. If there was no official lockdown I would still want to stay at home.
Honestly if I was starting again I’d set up a single Oragono[0] instance and be done with it.

Other software might be excellent (inspircd), but it’s a hard sell to bring a new type of server unless it solves a specific problem.

EDIT: Oragono has been renamed and is now this.

Leaving here because the world should bask in my foolishness
The horsemen of the privacy Apocalypse. Its always kiddie porn, terrorists or drugs.
They obviously just do whatever they want and then make excuses later. That's how they navigate it.
The Internet in general is a very broad thing with lots of valuable, legitimate use cases. There are definitely other specific things on the Internet which I think should be shut down because they tend to keep people trapped: infinite scroll, for example.
Freenode takeover stuff.

It’s a long and drawn out drama.
Yeah it's bad enough to deal with all that when flying. If this would come to the metro I'd never use it again. All we really have in terms of crime is pickpockets. Adding security will just make them operate more on the streets.

We don't have a totalitarian state here like China. That's a good thing.
Here is a map of all coal-fired power plants in the United States: https://coal.sierraclub.org/coal-plant-map
I advise a talk from
Chandler Carruth where he proves longer code can achieve higher performance due to the way computer architectures work.

Unfortunately I no longer remember in which conference he did it, maybe someone else can link it.
Right, Neo-nazi was too specific a word to use. I was generally referring to far-right (or often the mix of far-right and some psychological condition) attacks. A recentish example is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Finsbury_Park_attack
Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)
Was going to comment the same. What kind of city would need that?

I'm always amazed at how people think their little part of the world is an accurate representation of reality.
While I agree with you on overpopulation, I would guess that the 17B number comes from 8B * 2.something years.

Back of the envelope, it's odd that air pollution is around 100x as bad as cigarettes (which admittedly not everyone smokes).
I quote at length: "Infants in the U.S. are considerably more likely to die in the poorest counties than in the richest counties, and this is true for both Black and white babies. Black teenagers in the poorest U.S. areas are roughly twice as likely to die before they turn 20, compared with those in the richest U.S. counties. In Europe, by contrast, the mortality rate for teenagers in the richest and poorest areas is exactly the same—12 deaths per 100,000. In America, the problem is not just that poverty is higher; it’s that the effect of poverty on longevity is greater too."

Are you suggesting that obesity makes a difference in the US but not in Europe? Or perhaps that obesity varies in the US but is uniform in Europe?
You’ll have a hard time finding IRC related projects not touched by andrew in some way.
Back then I was fond of saying that if George W Bush were president during Pearl Harbor we would have declared "War on Aerial Bombing" and invaded Korea.
The JVM doesn't look for classes in jars unless you explicitly specify the jar on the classpath. It really is just like PATH if you imagine that a jar is simply a compressed folder (which it is).
> now that I and 90% of adults around me are fully vaccinated

I'm curious, where did that 90% figure come from?

Around here, of the eligible population, about 1 of every 3 has no shot at all, one 1 out of 4 with just a single shot. If you look at the full population, including minors and other ineligible groups, the numbers are even worse.

That means if I go to the grocery store, I'm absolutely gonna be in proximity to someone unvaccinated at some point along the way.
They scraped other sites for content and created fake users to create the first wave of activity.
A question I thought today at the grocery store, which I intend to look into: is there anything I can do at home to deal with plastic, a la composting organic materials? Can I do something on my own to break it down?
And then there’s this gem: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/software-engineering-d...
The ISI has also been implicated in giving harbor to Al Qaeda (like with bin Laden) and the Taliban (helping them rebuild and take over Afghanistan again). Between these and near constant state supported terrorism against India, how is it that Pakistan has escaped all accountability and public scrutiny? I would love to learn more about the foreign policy or diplomatic dynamics that may be involved here.
Gitlab Service Disruption - Increased error rates across all GitLab services
Re: measles, this isn’t necessarily the case. Breakthrough infections have been known and discussed before.[0] The measles vaccine efficacy is estimated at 97% implying 3% chance of a breakthrough.

However, Covid-19 vaccine efficacy against infection was originally 93-95% but has dropped to 60% or less against the Delta variant. A lot of discussion seems to ignore this. To get back to the 90% plus efficacy we’ll need the vaccine to be re-tuned against delta, which no one seems in a rush to do for some reason…

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31039835/ “In an outbreak of measles in Gothenburg, Sweden, breakthrough infections (i.e. infections in individuals with a history of vaccination) were common. [. . .] Sixteen of 28 confirmed cases of measles in this outbreak were breakthrough infections.”
The ones from government officials certainly was. You seriously think governments don't spy on each other? As if any politician in the world can poop without it being recorded.
> You're shifting goalposts now. All my comment was for was to correct your statement that "no other journalistic outlet" reported on this. True or not (and, again, I make no assertion either way in regards to those articles), it has been reported on in other outlets.

Fair enough, however let’s note that you haven’t pointed to any journalism that you trust on this matter, so it doesn’t change the credibility implications.

> if that's your logic then everyone offering any kind of advice/input, giving a speech, training, whathaveyou, etc. related to the area in which they work should be ignored and/or assumed to be giving incorrect information to you if they're not doing so with the full endorsement of their employer or some higher authority.

No, this is also obviously not true.

There are plenty of other ways credibility is established in different fields which are independent of a particular authority.

Even without that, most of what people giving trainings or speeches on can be verified by the receiver independently.

We have none of that in this case.
Shut the fuck up, ninny.
This article is not risk analysis. It’s just a bunch of narrative stories.
It's too bad what governments, big corporations, did to a great technology.

I don't even go close to a torrent site anymore.

It's just not worth being accused of something.

And to the Copyright Net Nannies--what's the outcome?

Musicians are paid less than before the crackdown.

Books are selling at an all time low.
There might be better bang for the buck by starting with the more highly polluting things. Other than CO2, things like leaf blowers are _vastly_ worse than cars. Also, excellent electric leaf blowers are widely available and appear (at least at my local Home Depot) to be _less_ expensive than their gas equivalents. I see no reason for a 5-year phaseout — one year ought to be plenty.
I am available for UI/UX work full or part time. I can code too. rwoodall dot com
Does anyone know how to get a hold of him? He seems like he’s having a public breakdown :(
> How he and GWB never were indicted is beyond me.

Same reason nothing will ever happen to Trump for January 6th (and many other things). Same reason Nixon was pardoned. Same reason Clinton got away with lying to Congress, nothing happened to Reagan or Bush Sr. over Iran Contra, and so on...

Once you reach a certain level, laws no longer apply.

This is a more likely explanation than more complex conspiracy theories for Saudi and Pakistani ISI involvement with the 9/11 hijackers. These people were never brought to justice because they are powerful, rich, or "valuable" in some other way. They're not subject to the law.
American regulators to Wells Fargo: This is unacceptable
"the central issue" is a bit in the eye of the beholder. Some people are interested in how this all happened.

I'll give you the "three people who fell sick" doesn't prove much. The release of the funding documents is a small step towards figuring what went on.
>When we were misled about mask efficacy with a number of circular lies (you don't need masks, you do need masks, double mask!, cloth masks are as effective as N9ts, N95 is overkill, it is not aerosolized, etc) a good number of those were well-known lies of varying proportion, and not the scientific method in progress.

The original consensus is that there was no need for widespread mask wearing, and a supply shock would have been dangerous. We only know now (or rather a couple months later), that advice was wrong. Again, I'm not sure how you can feel misled about the advice with regards to a novel virus. It just sounds like you are frustrated because the data wasn't 100% accurate on day one.

>At the same time as the hyperbole was spreading about covid taking over ERs and News coverage was emphasizing this fact, my surgeon wife was telling me how empty all of the hospitals were, and the on-call cases dropped to nothingness because people were isolating and not going outside. But still, the drumbeat of 24/7 news cycle kept putting out bogus info about saturation of ERs and ICUs chock full of intubated covid patients.

Your anecdote is not a good replacement data. Maybe your wife's hospital or experience was different but that may not reflect the hundreds of thousands of other hospitals. If you don't believe ICU reports, it could help to look at how salaries for traveling nurses have grown in the same time period. If hospitals are empty why are their salaries rising? Did hospital administrators suddenly get charitable?

[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/nursing/going-back-to-...
> In my case, it was worse than expected, but, in the parlance of public health, it was "mild," meaning I didn't end up in the hospital or require oxygen.

> ...

> It was a miserable five days. My legs and arms ached, my fever crept up to 103 and every few hours of sleep would leave my sheets drenched in sweat. I'd drop into bed exhausted after a quick trip down to the kitchen. To sum it up, I'd put my breakthrough case of COVID-19 right up there with my worst bouts of flu. Even after my fever cleared up, I spent the next few weeks feeling low.

"Mild" can mean different things to different people. I doubt this description of "mild" fits most people's concept of the word, as it sounds like a severe case of the flu. The fact that these infections are happening against a backdrop of normalization efforts should give anyone who thinks we're out of the woods pause.

As the rate of infection increases, so does the risk to the vaccinated. It's another demonstration, once again, of how our public health system (and the CDC in particular) has failed us:

> ... "quantifying that [chance of symptomatic case in an unvaccinated person] in the U.S. is very challenging" because our "data is so shoddy."

Some time ago, the CDC stopped counting/sequencing "mild" breakthrough cases, so we're flying blind mostly. Maybe it's delta the reporter caught. Maybe something else. Who knows?

https://www.newsweek.com/why-did-cdc-stop-counting-mild-asym...

What's clear is that COVID-19 isn't going away any time soon. What's also clear is that it shares the tendency that all RNA viruses have to mutate at an extremely rapid rate. It has shown that it can change much faster than we can adapt.
I just assume that any population level that can't be maintained on pre-20C. technology is probably dangerous. You'll either see a crack-up in terms of society and/or resource depletion at some point.
Read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It basically lays out the idea that there are groups with legislation like this already prepared just waiting for an opportunity to get it pushed through. It's pretty shitty behaviour but doesn't require a conspiracy to explain it.
I’m guessing the answer is along “if you have a good enough dataset to train with, yeah”
Huh, I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.
Is it just me, or is it ironic that this article from NASA gushing about SpaceX Starship is hosted on amazonaws.com?
Maybe Jeff just hasn't noticed it yet.
Sigh. Some day I hope I can get this project funded: https://github.com/WOTvision/wot1

"This is a repository containing an implementation of a blockchain which supports an unique feature set: asserting trust of information organised in JSON documents.

The goal is to have a global public notary service, for people and corporations to issue signed statements which are globally recognized and verifyable, which are identified by a QR code, which the media and news channels can reproduce and which can be verified by the consumers of information (i.e. ordinary people). The vision is to combat fake news by using a thing blockchains are very good at: distributing reliable data, and by providing a low-tech user-centric interface to it, which everyone can use to verify random junk they hear on the media."
They need not be mutually exclusive - we can do both, and we should.
You missed the part where she's criminally underpaid for the work she does.
One more reason not to let it breed in the human population - That's the easiest way to avoid creating new variants and spreading it to the local ecosystem.
That sounds like a super shitty way to live. A step short of dystopia. I’ll pass.
Your link does not seem to support that Covid-19 is 10x more deadly than influenza in a vaccinated person, like the poster you are replying to. It’s 10x more deadly if you haven’t been vaccinated but the vaccines are showing 10-20x decrease in hospitalization and death, bringing the risk more into flu range.
That is unfortunately not trying to see the problem from the future hindsight. Which is the exercise that GP is suggesting.
>If you want fewer people, then you want to improve the material well-being of as many people as possible.

I'd genuinely like to see that model applied to sub Saharan Africa.
The official symptoms list of Long Covid, according to Mayo Clinic, includes “depression” and “headache and muscle pain” and “confusion.” This is lockdown-driven depression. If the virus had lingering physical effects, there would be tens of millions of sufferers seeking treatment, and there arent.
It's in a weird space. It's kinda a pure electric.
Bingo.

The people with all the political power, and the people with all the economic power, are always the same people. In every civilization in history.
In many Western European areas that language is not necessarily impulsive flaming, but pondered qualifying with selected, honest terms.

The «playful» part is in your «light» unstirred pacified soul as you hammer out those heavy descriptive judgements.
> even body image issues from touched up photos,

Body image issues from advertising was an issue that existed way before the advent of Instagram, though - even before the first line of Photoshop was coded. Ultra-thin, half starved and sometimes drugged models were the norm for way, way too many years.
This might depend on which city you refer to. For example, I wouldn't say that Stockholm has any discernable smell to it.
She has no assistants and never has (I just asked her). Occasionally a student teacher but not for years, now. Some students, such as ESL or special ed, are pulled out of class for about 30 minutes from 2–4 times a week but, the recent district policy is called "push in" where the specialist comes in to class to assist a particular student or two.
Provision of services is usually corrupt and high cost in less developed countries regardless of who’s providing it: public or private sector. That is my personal experience.
I've got music during my gaming sessions on Ubuntu. Never seen this happen. Will keep an eye.

I'll probably get downvoted again but what hardware?
You are welcome, great project :)
TEL before combustion does have lubricative qualities, much in the way phosphorus does in oil or sulfur does in diesel fuel.

After combustion, its like any heavy metal being burned, it turns into an oxide, which has a variety of characteristics.
All the big nation's pull this, unfortunately. Just some take longer to be reported on.

We need to demand accountability for the countries that supply, and use these tools of terror.
I get this after I spend a few days at my parents' house and go back to Paris, and they live only 50 km away.

I feel this quite strongly since I get around by motorcycle, so I don't have the benefit of filters and whatnot that cars have.

Whenever I do this, I keep wondering what the lungs of people commuting every day look like, since I get a dry cough even when traffic isn't all that dense.
> Somewhere along the line we went from “flatten the curve” to “no one can ever get sick again”.

Oh please, no public health official has ever said that, and you know it.

The problem is the curve isn't flat, thanks to 1) Delta, and 2) vaccine hesitancy. There's a reason ICUs in the American south are at or over capacity.
> The Marines have this number set to 3.

For firefighters in Germany this is, more or less, defined to be 5.

A group (which is one of the pre-defined tactial units) consists of 9 people: The leader, three troops of two, one machinist, one "Melder" (kind of the guy/girl for "special tasks", helping with whatever is necessary).

The leader commands the troop leaders, machinist and "Melder".

This is expected and taught as the amount of people you can actively manage and take care of in stressful situations like deployments.

edit: for larger deployments you'll have platoon leaders which will command a number of group leaders. for even larger deployments there'll be another layer of command so each platoon leader will only have to lead a set number of group leaders, too.
Given most Android phone and definitely bMS Windows regularly have third party bundled software I fail to see the difference here.

While there is malware distributed outside of Google Play, unless you can point to an actually malicious thing this software did, I have give it a pass.

Remember, the world has already decided that nonconsensual updates, ads, tracking, etc is normal if bundled with the OS and therefore not malware.
> And after all of that, you all recently had one of the highest rates of infection since the pandemic started.

I think you need to check the stats again, NZ is finding about 20 covid cases per day. They have had fewer than 4,000 cases of covid since March 2020. It’s one of the lowest rates of infection in the world and appear on track to eliminate the delta variant from their country for now. (I suspect it’s only a matter of time till it escapes their quarantine system though, but they’re successfully buying time to finish a vaccination campaign.)

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
The difference in pollution between electric and ICE cars might be small, since most pollution is so-called "Non-exhaust emissions", like road surface wear, tyres and brakes:

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...
>It is not currently run in a sustainable way.

which creates something of a tautology. Ability to maintain a population in the long run implies 'sustainable'. I guess that given nutrient vats and fusion power we could have a sustainable population of one trillion.

It's worth considering what the point of having so many people is....
Live reload gets you most of the way for UI programming, yes.

REPL is the secret sauce for writing any time of program, not only UI. It lets you explore, play, test, inspect and break things very quickly and without losing context before you find the final shape of your code.

I can’t live without it, but it’s hard to explain the benefits to the people who have never experienced it. You have to try it to really be convinced

Here is a tiny demo of how I usually use it to build a program https://tonsky.me/blog/interactive-development/