skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I understand the science is that we can say with some certainty that…

- we know vaccines work and they’re safe

- we know natural immunity works

- we have a good estimate on how well/long the vaccines work over time (probably 9-12 months with potential boosters) given a plethora of studies

- we don’t know how long natural immunity lasts, but we can (safely) assume it’s going to be 6+ months? Maybe 12, maybe 18, who knows. Does it matter?

- everyone wants to be safe, but the goal cannot be 100% safety/certainty, but severely reducing the spread and impact of covid without giving up our freedom, liberties as well as our economy

Rather than calling it a vaccine passport, call it something else that is less controversial, such as a covid protection status

- if you have been vaccinated/ bolstered using authorized vaccines in the last x months, you’re protected

- if you have an authorized lab based positive results in the last y months, you’re protected

- if you have neither, but can show antibodies from an authorized lab, you’re protected for z months

Let’s set best guesstimates on x, y and z and then call it a day? E.g. Make it 12 months for x and y, 3 or 6 months for z.

I feel like 90% of people could work within this framework. The other 10% is probably too far gone…
Wait, is Azure not patching this on customer systems? They're leaving it up to customers to patch a hole they themselves introduced?
The Goal (A Novel)
If my daughter in law and mother of my grandchild was on trial that could lead to prison I wouldn’t be above doing things that were legal but unethical to try to tilt the scales to prevent my grandchild from losing their mother.
I know its anecdotal, but i do revisit these photos. Not all of them, not crazy often, but occasionally. Maybe its because my parents did this that i do it.

I can't find them now, but ive seen research that says taking a picture helps you remember an event. Idk if its true, but if true, maybe forgive the people for accidentally interrupting trying to take a picture - its how they remember.
This article puts the liabilities of Evergrande at 300b as about 1.5x the national debt of countries like Turkey or Iran who have debts in the 200b range.

Pretty staggering
Internalizing negative externalities through taxation is literally Economics 101. That's not to say that that makes a carbon tax inherently a good idea (though I think it is), but there's nothing economically unsound about it and there's a reason lots of economists support it.
You can get an example project from GitHub and learn to write the smart contract code on a test net. Google for example walkthroughs where people have blogged about their example and the steps. I think most of the L1 Blockchains (eg. eth, dot, ada, algo, sol) have some starter projects, or others have made frameworks that make it easier (eg. truffle suite)
More than 50 people just died from flooding of hurricane remnant in the Northeast just a few days ago. And Sandy really did put lower Manhattan under water causing huge damage. More of that is coming.
Tim Draper is a major SV personality and an early investor in Theranos lending it legitimacy.
Who are the enablers in your view? I know there were many noteworthy investors and names attached to Theranos as a strategy to give it credibility and momentum. But in the end wasn’t it enabled by just us, the everyday people? Everyone ate up the Fortune cover story and every outlet from news media to Facebook to LinkedIn leveraged Elizabeth Holmes as a beacon for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. The author of that cover story also may have been a victim, or so he claimed in a follow up article (https://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizab...). I see Holmes and other key associates as those primarily at fault in this saga, but hold the public secondarily responsible for eating it all up so uncritically.
A population of 1b would be devastating setback. There’s a reason why some of us view environmentalists as misanthropes.
This is why you create lines using the zone of control feature to stop units killing your champion.

Then when it's your turn. Move in a way that you can attack with your champions without leaving them exposed.
Maybe they worry about all the wind turbine blades we are burying so that governments can shovel money from one group to another's pockets.
Why is it okay to have less people? We have serious long term problems to solve aside form climate change, like how to become an interplanetary species and how to cure cancer. More people means (can mean) more brainpower working on things that benefit us all.
The book 'Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters' by Steven Koonin is worth a read if you get interested in learning more from a knowledgeable source that tries to cut through the hype. Of course, given the publicity of the issue it is often sensationalized, misconstrued, etc.
I'm curious in how you interpret my comment here - in what way am I portraying this issue? What I mean to show is that forest fires have gotten immensely better, likely because of technology over the years. Which is exactly what I hear many climate change skeptics suggest - that technology will solve the problems, like we appear to be seeing here.
The near-term collapse of technological civilization has the silver lining that wild things will have a chance to recolonize the planet. The alternative—a world of ever increasing control and declining standard of living for almost everybody on behalf of a tiny few—is far more terrifying to me.
This man is obviously Holmes' admirer. He likely sees nothing wrong with telling people half-truths.
Someone who doesn't know the precise identities of everyone in the group following her around, or someone describing a diverse group of associates.

This is completely normal langauge.
If the goal is minimum standard of living, then the minimum wage is a stupid way to achieve this. Just give people money if their income is below a threshold. Why introduce this bizarre distortion in labor markets by setting a price floor on labor?

I’m not going to cite anything so feel free to ignore this statement, but I’ve encountered a substantial body of evidence indicating that the minimum wage hits teen unemployment the hardest. Teens are not trying to raise families on a minimum wage, they just want some extra cash. The minimum wage kills this opportunity, and the entire justification for it has absolutely nothing to do with the teen’s situation.
Every medical researcher I've worked with had a biostatistician on hand to handle the stats. As a aerospace engineer, I always had interesting discussions with them on the meaningfulness of a clinical study with 15 people, but have come to appreciate the massive difficulty in progressing medical research if everybody were to wait for a clinical trial with a 1000 patients.
Someone clearly gets it. Variability viz and spread detracts from that clear message.
Seems there's an extra GPU core only enabled in some models and new video encoder/decoder (to support ProRes?), but beside that most of the work this year went into lowering power consumption. They made a big deal of the additional battery life (particularly useful for the Mini buyers).

Which is fine, I don't ever feel like raw CPU speed is an issue these days: I can't really tell any the difference between my A12Z iPad and the A14 phone in day-to-day tasks.
I never dove too deep but always liked him a lot, and I have to agree his delivery was exceptional. I knew about 10% of the way in this was a shaggy dog joke, but he kept me second guessing that the whole time. And he had such a dopey style of speaking, like he was just as surprised and amused by what he was saying as if he was out of body listening to himself. Which is totally disarming when done well.
> I'm sure people are frustrated, but I wonder what the consensus, if you could fine one, would be.

Probably despair that they've been failed by my generation, my parent's generation and (since they're to a large extent the ones still in power, at least in the US), my grandparent's generation. Since, as you point out, change takes time in democracies, and even longer internationally, it was our collective jobs to avoid even being in this situation, and we sort of screwed the pooch.
I downvoted you because you complained about being downvoted :)
I am sick of younger generations being derided and given no credit. It was students who protested the Vietnam war, climate change and brought the piece movement. It was older voters that supported Tump, Brexit and Iraq war. It was the young people that were drafted into the army to die half a world away.

Can you point to a single issue where young people were the problem?

Older voters are more likely to be partisan, closed minded and (yes, ghasp) sexist or racist. We have older folks that voted for the same party their entire life. If you grow old, senile and longer function mentally, you can still vote. We teach 17 year olds general relativity and differential equations but don't trust them to vote, when they will have to live with the consequences.

PS. I am, myself, bordering on the 3rd decade now, but I can see this toxic attitude for what it is. Like classism and other ism's, ageism persists.
Peak Chinese coal consumption was 2013, it's still substantial but total usage has been falling along with percentage of total output for a while now.
You provide 3 sources, yet don't cite a source for the claim that ~10k have died from the vaccine. Could we have a citation for that one?
Fires specifically is an annoying one. Politicians have huge incentive to point the blame at anything except poor management.

See:

> Approximately 1.8 million ha burned annually in California prehistorically (pre 1800). Our estimate of prehistoric annual area burned in California is 88% of the total annual wildfire area in the entire US during a decade (1994–2004) characterized as ‘‘extreme’’ regarding wildfires. The idea that US wildfire area of approximately two million ha annually is extreme is certainly a 20th or 21st century perspective. Skies were likely smoky much of the summer and fall in California during the prehistoric period.

from: Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California’s forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands (2007)

https://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Conservation/Fi...

And:

> Many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem [...] however, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends.

from: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...
Looks like China is bringing online 40GW coal per year. Around the same amount the US/EU are retiring. According to figure 1 [1]

[1] https://globalenergymonitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/C...
Low cost variable for modulating medical treatment? It's often used in such scenarios.
There may have been non-family members also in that group but not in the photo.
In Search for Wealth Irrelevance
Can you provide a citation?
> without sorting it... have a fixed size sorted buffer

(that you sort yourself)
Speech Synthesis Is No More a Villain Than Photoshop Was 10 Years Ago
Does your family travel with you everywhere you go for work, play, any appearance? Was Johnny Drama part of Vince's entourage? It would be easy to consider someone's relative as part of the entourage while other relatives just a relative.
Except the food you eat to get fat is often much cheaper than the food to stay healthy. Produce is expensive per calorie, lean meat is expensive per calorie, cooking takes time and effort, and a gym membership is expensive. This is one of the reasons why obesity is so prevalent, it's much easier than staying healthy. It's not just 20% more of what healthy people eat.
Makes me think of a quote from the Berezovsky trial a while back:

The judge concurred, concluding, “I found Mr Berezovsky an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes.” Berezovsky lost.

(From Guardian profile of Jonathan Sumption, https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/aug/06/jonathan-sumptio... . That quote has always stuck with me since it describes so many of the different dweebs who we all run into).
Totally agree with all of this except "unstable current due to the way car alternator work"... as an electronics designer, if this is an issue then it's a really poorly designed car charger.

CarPlay alleviates a lot of these issues fortunately.
I hear the term "gaslighting" used a lot nowadays. Its textbook definition is a specific form of interpersonal manipulation that occurred in a movie.

But I've never been able to connect the dots between the term's textbook definition, and the way that people actually use it. The effective definition seems to be: "expressing a different perspective."
> Government might not be the solution here. I look at electric cars...

Governments took quite a few measures in the last few decades to subsidize and encourage the electric car market.
You can often get past a paywall by plugging the URL to the paywalled article into the wayback machine. In fact, the top comment (at least in my HN reader) is just an archive link to the article.
Are you essentially saying that wet bulb is fake news because of your personal experience in which you didn't deal with wet bulb, especially on an extended timeframe?

Do you believe that billions of people with poor infrastructure and no air conditioning are magically going to have infrastructure and air conditioning appear?

There is a lot of strange posting going on in this thread for HN...
I believe we're soon reaching the point where the world population will actually start to shrink - I'm not sure that running out of land would be a problem (at least not in the US)
Exactly this. The very policy we need that would be best is untenable because society has been built around cheap, dirty energy.
No it's not. It's saying that we tolerate huge social costs elsewhere, so why is this one too large to bear?
From wikipedia:

> Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (130 °F). The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is 35 °C (95 °F)
Mass. allows employee non-competes and Calif. doesn't, so no comparison at all.
This is what I'm referring to:

edit - a better link since someone didn't appreciate my google-fu: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo...

Stop moving goalposts. The media has a problem with peddling misinformation and shitty climate predictions.
And the boosted battery life is a big deal for you Mini owners yeah?

(I'm a Max guy myself, but totally get ppl who want the smallest phone.)
Sounds like another dev who doesn’t know about LLN tbqh.
I think it's irresponsible to act as though the climate crisis is just a matter of weather, and not how also we will respond to it. Resource shortages caused by the climate crisis could cause resource wars, and if weapons of mass destruction are deployed during those wars, that could easily finish off homo sapiens.

The mere collapse of civilization and mass death should be bad enough that we take drastic action to prevent it, but I do also think it would be foolish to dismiss the possibility of human extinction.
> The insides are literally the same.

To be fair, is there anything particularly revolutionary that could be done with a microwave (short of "smart" features)? They all function the same: shoot specific frequency energy into the (possibly rotating) chamber. It would make sense that the guts are just a rebadged OEM part.
Valhalla plugins are restricted to Windows or macOS, unless you are willing to use a Windows VST bridge such as yabridge.

No reason to get 5 pin DIN MIDI at this point; almost all devices offer USB MIDI and its as good as DIN MIDI in almost all scenarios.

[ EDIT: VCV Rack ] 2.0 will be out "soonish" which will offer an "official" VST (and if we're lucky, LV2 also) plugin, though at a price.

People's mileage will vary when it comes to the DAW. As the author of another (libre & open source) DAW, I get emails that vary from "Oh my god, I've used X and Y and Z and yours is so much easier to use and incredibly fast and reliable" to "how can you look at yourself in a mirror when you make such shit software". Reaper works for a bunch of people, but not for another bunch, as is the case for most DAWs.
I paid $20 or $25 in cash. No insurance accepted. And they did the finger prick blood test. For the time and materials, this seemed reasonable.
My long term plan is to accept that covid will be endemic and will kill a certain number of people each year, just as we already do with regular flu. (I'm all for more anti-death measures in the long term, but in QALY terms there are much higher priorities e.g. tougher licensing and stricter penalties for drivers who kill people). I believe that that's the inevitable endgame, and the only remaining question is how long we prolong the economic damage and human suffering of the restrictions out of some hair-shirt sense of virtue in doing so.
> more than half said climate change made them feel "afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and/or guilty."

That seems like a bad survey. Why does 'guilty' get 'and/or' while the others do not? Guilty does not belong in the same question with the others. Maybe surveys like this one find what they are looking for because of the way the questions are asked.
The record for "Highest jump on a pogo stick" is 3.4 metres [1] and interestingly for "Most consecutive cars jumped over on a pogo stick", it is 4 [2]

[1] https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-j...
[2] https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/472412-mo...
Then they should get antibody tests, and if their level of antibodies is high enough, we should let them do all the same things that vaccinated people can do.

Nope. The default position is for people to all be able to do everything the same. I'm okay with mask mandates when case numbers are above N. Since we already have 100 million Americans with superior antibodies from natural immunity, and vaccines freely available, why mandate and build systems around that? To give someone control?

But that's not what I hear. I just hear people ignorantly claiming they are immune because they got COVID (some even never confirmed, just they "think" they had it),

That's not your problem. See about your own vaccination and wear a mask. It's on them to be straight forward with their health. If they work in a NICU or want to dorm in a college that requires vaccinations already, then by all means use existing protocols to expect a report proving they have antibodies. That's fine. But it's not your problem or my problem whether or not smoeone just "thinks" they had it.

Here's an example of how you can see why I have a problem with your approach. You know how we're going to spend federal dollars to make take-home test kits available at-cost at retailers? Are you okay with people getting those test kits and seeing the results entirely privately in their own home, with no one knowing? If not, then the problem is on you. If you are, then what's the need for anyone to gate-keep access to society by demanding proof at the door? If you can't trust your fellow citizens when you're shopping, why trust them to build and run a system of enslavement like one where you have to use a covid passport to go to school or the bar or a theater or the gym or anywhere else?

So... go get antibody tests, and lobby health authorities to recognize post-infection immunity as valid, assuming it's been tested by a lab.

This is progress, but yeah, still a no. Limit the scope of these authorities now before they decide everything for you.
Not everyone can medically safely take the vaccine.
Yes and no. Debian's repos provide binaries for multiple version though. Since 11 has been about, Debian testing has always had OpenJDK11 and then of course binaries for newer versions. So they do ship the LTS, you just need to specify the version number, openjdk-11-jdk. They don't tag it as LTS in the package name, but someone who is using java professionally probably knows openjdk-11 is the LTS implementation.
> Over 100 million Americans have superior antibodies from past covid.

Are you absolutely certain of this? Is it true for all individuals? Even if their infection was 12 months ago? Or 18 months ago?
lots of shilling from techrat in this thread
Yikes...

But no seriously, you oppose social security and the minimum wage? We should let corporations exploit workers as much as they please and provide no care for the ones who can't work?

What the conservative libertarian says:

>Personal responsibility! The free market will fix everything if only it was truly free! Charity will provide for the miserables! Real capitalism was never tried, we just need less government intervention. Freedom > everything else.

What the conservative libertarian probably believe:

>** them, I only care about my interests. Why should I care about dumb people loosing at the game? Not my problem. I'm smart. I deserve to win.

The video is as bad as PragerU videos. They misrepresent statistics and historical events to push an agenda backed by multi-millionaires magnates. They use the biases the viewer have to gently confirm beliefs that were never really challenged in their education and work life. Most viewer won't check the sources and take at face value what is presented because they trust that the professor is a good guy acting in good faith and that he did the research and knows what he's talking about.

>Good rebuttal to all the points, you have convinced me that everything is terrible and we all should embrace socialism as our one true economic model /s

Maybe one day you will come around and say the exact same sentence but without the /s.
The article didn't say how profitable they are. If they're brining in $1B of revenue per year, and have a profit margin of 30%, then that's 300M in profit, yielding a P/E ratio of 133. If they're growing at over 100% YoY (which seems insane at this scale), then they're down to a very reasonable P/E ration of 33 after 2 years.