skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they are not the cause. The vaccinated still spread the virus and could cause it to mutate all the same as the unvaccinated.

Also, over 100 million Americans have past covid. [0] And we know that past covid gives antibodies which are superior. [1][2] And the hospitalization situation is overblown. [3]

[0] - https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

A new study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020.

[1] - https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label.

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...

[3] - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...

In other words, the study suggests that 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.

It's entirely possible that media-induced panic is sending people to hospitals over a sniffle, being that half of those hospitalized in 2021 so far may have been admitted for non-covid related reasons or only have mild / asymptomatic covid and still been included in the count.

So stop being so interested in finding a scapegoat to blame, because as you can see from other commentary here it'll lead to dehumanization and the creation of a two-tiered society. Which is dangerous.
I agree. There was speculation a long time ago that she would use a pregnancy for sympathy. The woman is a sociopath. I doubt she cares about the child as anything other than a tool to get out of trouble.
Agreed on the last point.

The pursuit of wealth taints the things you enjoy. All of a sudden all your ideas are qualified and restricted to what can make money. Now instead of building the things you love and enjoy you are building things you think can make a quick buck.
Yes, but with a big asterisk:

> The TNMT chart isn’t a scientific study and doesn’t claim to be. But their chart tracks with academic research on the total carbon impact of dockless electric scooters, those tiny little pick-up-and-go transportation options that have lately been littering (literally) many American cities. Those, it turns out, are not actually a very good approach to reducing emissions in cities; because they replace more walking and transit trips than they do automobile trips, they need constant repair and replacement, and large, gasoline-powered vehicles have to go around collecting and moving them all the time.

So the estimate includes costs of vandalism and repositioning, which are moot for ownership.

With that said, no amount of handwaviness is going to make the math work out in favor of e-scooters if we compare to good ol' bycicles.
I appreciate the interest, but see it as pure fantasy. Essence of supply is energy, and we can ALWAYS use however much energy we can get our hands on. Think of the casual interplanetary/interstellar travel depicted in sci-fi: huge energy use for petty purposes. Think of the huge energy use of median western lifestyle, relative to historical norm sustenance living.

Hate to pop the bubble. You are promoting me to further analyze/quantify modern vs sustenance living, in terms of sheer energy consumption.
While "no" social mobility is a bit extreme, social mobility has drastically reduced in america. Here is a pretty famous paper showing so:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w19843

Personal responsibility can only take you so far if getting hold or keeping hold of such opportunities are hard in the first place
> If you remove the incentive to do the right thing, people will simply not do the right thing

Morality based on external pressures alone is never sufficient.
Ok. But why? And can Ms. Vlasova complain if that's what she's interested in?
One of the reasons I like donating to local charities is that I get a letter from somebody saying thank you. It is small, but it warms my heart. Even at $10,000 donations, I have never got anything from a national charity other than more requests for donations.

Those thank-you notes matter, even if fundamentally the reason for giving is completely based on the actual work.
as someone who has written a lot of python but doesn't really work in the backend/services world, async itself felt like a huge mess to figure out when I was exposed to it while mucking around in FastAPI internals to prove out an idea. This was mainly because of the infectious nature of async and the fact that the callback function I was passing up had to be synchronous while also calling async functions while the entire thing was running in an async loop. That meant I had to add a dependency just to call a damn function https://pypi.org/project/nest-asyncio/.

Rant over. `for await` and `async for` to me seem like a fairly natural extension once you understand async. I think the problem comes in where once you run into async the first time you are forced to fully grasp it (and potentially rewrite a ton of your code) to move forward which is really counter to the rest of the Python learning experience.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Sovereign nations can default if the debt is nominated in a different currency (which was the case of Russia, but is not the case for US)
Python Anti-Pattern
>You could argue that overweight folks are also paying disproportionately more simply by buying more food than someone who weighs 20% less.

No one ever likes my proposed tax on slower metabolism
Well, "easy" is a relative term, but I would say with good certainty that it is going to be a barrier for a lot of people, because it forms an inner platform with the host language: https://infogalactic.com/info/Inner-platform_effect

That is, there's the way to run one statement, then the next in the synchronously-colored portion of the language:

oneStatement()
thenTheNext()

then there's the way to run one statement, then the next in the inner-platform asynchronously-colored portion of the language:

await oneStatement().andThen(theNext)

Or whatever spelling you locally like. One way to write the synchronously-colored for loop, one way to write the asynchronously-colored for loop, different ways to branch on error, different ways to handle exceptions, etc.

This does not, on its own, mean "async" is bad. It is a complicated decision with many pieces. But this particular aspect of it means that there will always be a barrier to a programmer encountering this for the first time, simply by virtue of adding a new dimension they have to constantly account for to constructs that they're still getting a handle on.

(Having languages that don't color this code different has its own tradeoffs, and its own challenges. One of which is precisely because there isn't the separate color in the language itself, it's much easier to blunder into problems without even realizing it! People posting "why is this code broken?" to /r/golang, getting the answer "it's a race condition", and then the poster replies back with basically "what's a race condition?" is at least an every-couple-of-months sort of thing. I don't think there's an easy way to introduce concurrency to new programmers, honestly.)
Journalists mislead and lie as a matter of course during investigations and in their stories.

This guy needn't have been doing anything "wrong" to want to mislead them or lie to them.

It might have been hamfisted, but I admire the chutzpah. Definitely an amusing news story, it's like something out of a Seinfeld episode.
Thanks! One of the creators here. Our main idea with Lavastone is that you just write “plain” c++ code that doesn’t call any special query interface. It’s transparently making your code run by performing some interactions with the database on your behalf. In this sense the query interface looks just like the standard language features of C++.

As you point out, there are definitely trade offs with choosing Lavastone instead of a SQL database. For instance you can’t easily share concurrent read/write access to the same Lavastone data with multiple processes. However, you can copy a fixed Lavastone data store (ie the underlying LevelDB store) and distribute it to multiple server nodes. That’s how we used it anyways!
Why? There are already tests for antibodies. And we already know over 100 million Americans had covid already.

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

A new study published in the journal Nature estimates that 103 million Americans, or 31 percent of the U.S. population, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 by the end of 2020.

And we know that those antibodies from past covid are excellent, I call them superior.

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...
I can't say that it has dropped much.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265491/chinese-coal-cons...
Underlying every such discussion is an assumption that with age peope become better voters, but there is no reason to believe that and no data to support this notion.

We know that IQ peaks at 21 and for most folks, unfortunately, their education ends when they complete university. For the next 60 years they don't become better informed, they just suffer through life, forget what they learnt and get ossified in their beliefs and become ever more out of touch as the world changes around them while they can't keep up.

The folks in power are in their 9th decade, and they aren't scientists either - they have no idea how a lot of critical modern things work.

I think there should be no minimal voting age, if someone is old enough enough to be interested in casting a vote, they should be democratically represented. If we are going to introduce reatrictions, they should be objective, not age discriminatory.
Carbohydrates are not inherently unhealthy.
There is also a manga and anime, called Planetes, which is about salvaging and removing debris:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
The moderator's question was "If the Trump administration approves a vaccine, before or after the election, should Americans take it and would you take it?"

Harris's answer was the right one, and the same one I would have given. An unqualified "yes" would be saying you'd take a vaccine approved by the administration even if the medical community wasn't confident in it, and the phrasing of the question was designed to elicit that clarification.

And let's not pretend it's surprising that her qualification was even needed; We're talking about the same president who used the presidential soap box to urge people to try curing and preventing COVID using Hydroxychloroquine despite no such recommendation from health officials or the medical community at large.
What about economic tyranny? Shouldn't we be fixing that first?
> Government debt does not exist in a vacuum: it comes into existence because the government spent more money than it took in.

No, it exists because government issued commitments to pay people money in the future. A government that creates its own currency has no need to do this to spend more than it takes in in revenue, and even a government that doesn't create its own currency is free to issue such commitments without a deficit.
I vote we bring back the Thylacine (AKA Tasmanian Tiger). Such a wondrously unique animal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
> Because if you announce it on date Y, but it doesn't go into effect until formally passed on date X, people will import a whole lot of extra widgets quickly to get around the new tax.

So? I mean, my answer to that is, "tough shit". Doesn't matter when it is "announced", there are a million things that are announced that never make it into actual law. And there have been many tax laws in the past that have not been ex post facto laws, and yes, people take advantage of the current situation before the law changes. That's literally exactly how a fair legal system should work.

At some point people will want new widgets again, and they will have to import them after date X, and that's when the government should fairly be able to get their extra pound of flesh.
Balena (formerly resin) publishes a list of supported devices for their OS. It’s been a good list to work from.

https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/hardware/devices/
If a 70 HP champion (which you spawned for 20 gold) cannot hold the zone of control, why do you think a 33 HP Elvish Fighter can hold that zone of control for 14 gold?

https://units.wesnoth.org/1.10/mainline/en_US/Elvish%20Champ...

https://units.wesnoth.org/1.10/mainline/en_US/Elvish%20Fight...

The fact of the matter is: you have to put the Champion in risk. Its the best unit to do so, from any reasonable gold analysis into the scenario.

Any scenario where you're talking "multiple Tier 1 units holding the line" is simply less gold efficient than the use of a retained Tier3 Champion.

There are T2 units (ie: the Lancer) who can one-shot your champion. That's just how the game is played. You recognize the risk, you put the Champion into 60% evasion zones and hope for the best. If you need to "sac" a unit, the Champion with 70 HP is the best unit, because it survives most hits, and then your Druids heal them next turn.

A 33 HP Fighter will simply fold and die. They can't hold a line in any late stage Wesnoth campaign.
This person has the feck of 20 people, lol.
That's a good point. I suspect that being vaccinated reduces the likelihood of spreading it to other people somewhat, but I don't know if the data supports that.
Couple says a hacker demanded over $40k after taking control of their account
How is a difference be determined between between vaccine enhanced immune response, normal immune response and not exposed?
> what could I do if I were to start with nearly nothing?

I would point out that you'd also have to start, prior to a background in CS and software engineering, with an environment that is stress-free enough to learn/do programming. We know that stress reduces the ability to learn and think rationally, and also that poverty is extremely stressful.
Germany is nearly halfway to replacing fossil fuels and nuclear power, other countries are even further along (though they are smaller). Pretty sure they qualify as a modern human civilizations.

I've heard nonsense claims against renewable energy my entire life, but it's all over except for the shouting. Nuclear is going away because wind and solar are already cheaper and easier to deploy and better for the environment. Maybe it's a good option on Mars where there isn't a biosphere.

If you were on a spaceship and every year the CO2 => oxygen recycling systems grew increasingly unpredictable as well as the average temperature of all systems onboard, would it be alarmist to figure out what was going on? The climate is changing, very slowly on our individual lifespan timescale, but very quickly on the timescale of the last twenty thousand years of weather patterns that can support our current population.
Singapore is (primarily) an English speaking country.
You are absolutely right about seeing the rise of civilization. Being a witness to the development of personal computers and the internet has been an incomparable privilege. But no, I am not at all excited about seeing it come to an end. I'm a big fan of civilization. I'm quite certain that watching it wind down is not going to be fun at all.
The article is definitely Eurocentric and skips South-East Asia and India. Milk, Butter, Ghee and Yogurt have been part of Indian culture from the start. E.g. references in the Vedas central to various rituals, Lord Krishna loving butter as a child, etc..

What I found really interesting is the premise that the article makes about spoilage. If dairy spoils in the warmer Mediterranean causing the inhabitants to find it unappealing, then why is it that the people living in hotter climate of India found dairy to be integral to their diet? Is it because because of Ghee which has a longer shelf life?

And Yogurt too - even today - integral to any number of Indian households.
That's a little over the top.

Kids get vaccinated to go to schools. We aren't in chains.
Sure, at scale there might be better options. But it's probably easier to develop a prototype on something like a Pi, than on an ESP32 or other development board. Because you can plug a keyboard, mouse and monitor into the Pi.
LG's 325-inch Direct View LED TV is an answer to Samsung's The Wall
JACK2? Sorry my ignorance, it's been a while I abandoned Linux audio for Ableton on Windows with a focusrite Scarlet. Did they solve that JACK/alsa problem? Without running a2j in the background?
> Aside from DUI risk and passive smoking, most of these risks are specific to the person. I can't catch obesity from being in the same room as...

That's not entirely accurate. Human behavior is effectively viral (per any of the Jonah Berger books among others). What we see becomes the norm, a behavioral norm.

Smoking has decreased because it has become "less fashionable." And so on. So while you might not catch obesity in the strict virus sense, if you're exposed enough, that exposure can and often does influence your behavior.
> The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study...

And the CDC has a study saying the opposite:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

So, maybe we need a few more studies before jumping to conclusions.
The argument is that we're not saving those other lives because we don't think we, as a society, have the right to make those people's choices for them. If your argument is that we do and we'll get to the overweight after we get to the antivaxxers just say it.
And now that we have PipeWire, getting low latency audio is extremely easy too.
Doesn’t matter if the CCP has a fixation on Taiwan. It will still have to take public opinion into consideration. People who are at risk of getting nuked aren’t going to take the CCP’s reckless behaviour sitting down. The CCP will have quite a mess on its hands.

P.S. Their military might not even be willing to invade if Taiwan is going to be lobbing nukes left and right, and possibly right into the invading force. Look at how China had to redrawn from their skirmish with India after they lose a few people to weather - and simply because the troops wanted to head home for Chinese New Year.
Great Grandad why did you fight in World War 2? "I didn't grasp the concept of personal liberty."
> You don't have to look very far to see our supply chain impacted by nature.

Why would that be a problem? Everything is impacted by nature, always has been.

> Pandemics such as COVID were and are predicted to become more frequent.

Key word is "predicted". Most of the alarmist predictions tend to be exaggerating either the effect itself, or its impact on us.

> My local supermarket doesn't just have higher prices, the selection has gone down in many categories

I think this is your local supermarket's problem. The supermarket I go to has better selection than ever, and prices are not any higher.
> whether it is now or nearer to the heat death of the universe

That makes a huge difference. Even having it wind down over a period of a few thousand years, or even a few hundred, would be a hell of a lot better than what is looking like the increasingly likely prospect of having it wind down in a few decades. That is going to cause an incalculable amount of pain.
My guess is, based on what we think of mammoth, it is a proof of concept that doesn't involve an animal that invokes ideas of Jurassic Park.
In the US, we could have built cities and suburbs which did not necessitate owning an ICE vehicle (at least for the majority of residents). We could have pushed the development of electric cars, which were certainly plausible in the 90s. We (the US gov't) could've stopped subsidizing fossil fuels. Heck, with the end of the cold war, the US could've substantially cut military spending, which accounts for a rather non-trivial portion of the nation's carbon emissions. More generally, we could've taxed carbon emissions to correctly account for the externalities they generated (which it was certainly possible to compute in the 70s: the energy companies themselves were doing it!), which would've likely shifted land use away from cattle, energy generation away from coal, &c.

These are things which are, quite clearly, at least an order of magnitude less than what we need to accomplish today, but since climate change is caused by the area under the emissions curve, perhaps that 50 year head start would've been enough. With the benefit of hindsight, it certainly would've been worthwhile to give it more of a try than what we actually did.
Wealth is very important, especially at the level. I was trying to avoid that scenario with "nearly nothing" instead of "nothing" but I failed. Do you have recommendations to better phrase it? I was thinking more like freshmen in college, or people in some minimal wage job seeing to get out and trying to get things done but seeing like huge fees like Bootcamps and AWS and feel discouraged but still able to afford look at goals in a different light besides getting rent in and ensuring they have enough to eat, it's entire different beast at the level I'm not familiar with talking about.
>Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name.

Only for the "bad guys"™
The big difference is that it's very cheap to get something in the ocean, and quite expensive to get something up in orbit. For a mast on a boat, 99% of the cost is in the mast and 1% in getting it where it is; For a solar panel in orbit, the panel itself was cheap but the majority of cost was spent in pushing it to orbit.
If you truly believe in freedom of speech, it makes sense to support companies who enable those ideals. I'm not familiar enough with the company/drama/story here, but if Epik does not do anything "problematic" other than allow "problematic" speech, then I would consider them. A certain quote often mis-attributed to Voltaire comes to mind [0]. It appears they do have some lines drawn in the sand for free speech, they cancelled service for 8chan.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall
It is definitely considered [0]. However, natural immunity has a lot of unknowns -- length of time, etc.

[0]https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.21.0288
This is written wonderfuly, thanks for the hint.